NCRA Terms of Use

Acceptance of Terms

You acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by these terms of use and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation U.S. export and re-export technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside. You further agree to comply with all local laws, regulations, and rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content. You represent you have the legal authority to accept these terms of use on behalf of yourself or any party you represent. If you do not agree to these terms of use, do not use this site in any manner.

Description of Site

"NewCR" encompasses the website and all of its content and policies, any modifications, updates, enhancements, revisions, new features, and/or the addition of any new web properties. We reserve the right to make any changes at any time and without prior notice.

Modifications

We reserve the right to revise, supplement, update, delete and change these Terms of Use at any time at its sole discretion and without notice to you. All Terms of Use changes are effective immediately upon being posted. Your continued use of this NewCR website after any changes to these Terms of Use will mean you accept those changes. We may also change or impose fees for products and services provided through the NewCR website at any time in its sole discretion.

NCRA Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy governs the use of information collected from or provided by you at the NewCR website. For more information, see our full privacy policy for the NewCR website.

Site Ownership

The NewCR website, including all text, logos or graphic images appearing therein, and any and all intellectual property rights associated with NewCR website and its contents are the sole property of the New Civil Rights Alliance, its affiliates, or third parties. The content is protected by copyright and other laws in both the United States and other countries. Elements of the NewCR website are also protected by trade dress, trade secret, unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. All graphics, icons, and other items that appear on the NewCR website are trademarks, service marks, trade dress and/or copyrighted works ("Intellectual Property") of the New Civil Rights Alliance, its affiliates, or other entities that have granted NCRA the right and license to use such Intellectual Property and may not be used or interfered with in any manner without the express written consent of NCRA. Except as expressly provided herein, the New Civil Rights Alliance does not grant you an express or implied right to the NCRA's or any third party's Intellectual Property. The information on the NewCR website is intended to provide corporate, product, or service information only and may not be used for any other purposes.

Site Use Restrictions

THE UNAUTHORIZED COPYING, DISPLAYING OR OTHER USE OF ANY CONTENT FROM THIS NCAAR WEBSITE IS A VIOLATION OF LAW.

The NewCR website is for your personal and non-commercial use only. You will not (i) post on or transmit to the NewCR website any defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic, profane, threatening, or unlawful materials or any materials that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability, whether under statute, common law or equitable principles, or otherwise violate any law; (ii) copy, reproduce, modify, lease, loan, sell, create derivative works from, upload, transmit, or distribute the intellectual property of the NewCR website in any way without the NCRA's or the appropriate third party's prior written permission or (iii) use the NewCR website in any manner that violates any applicable laws, regulations, orders, or other restrictions.

Trademarks and Service Marks

There may be a number of proprietary logos, service marks, trademarks, slogans and product designations found on this NewCR website, including but not limited to: The NCRA name and seal. Other trademarks displayed on this NewCR website through links to other sites are the property of the respective trademark owners. By making these marks available on this NewCR website, NCRA does not confer upon you any of NCRA's or any third party's intellectual property rights. No NCRA trademark may be used as a hyperlink without NCRA's prior written permission.

Copyright Trademark Notices

All content of NCRA's NewCR website is: Copyright © 2016 New Civil Rights Alliance. All Rights Reserved.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the New Civil Rights Alliance harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising from or related to your use of the NewCR website.

Links to Third Party Websites Are Not Endorsements

This NewCR website may provide links to other third-party World Wide Web sites or resources. NCRA makes no representations or warranties whatsoever about any other website which you may access through this NewCR website. Because NCRA has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that NCRA is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. It is your responsibility to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature. References on this NewCR website to any names, marks, products or services of any third parties or hypertext links to third party sites or information are provided solely as a convenience to you, and do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of, or affiliation with the third party or its products and services. NCRA shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such third-party content, products or services available on or through any such site or resource.

Notices and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

NCRA will investigate notices of copyright infringement and take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2) ("DMCA"). Pursuant to the DMCA, written notification of claimed copyright infringement must be submitted to the following Designated Agent for NCRA in accordance with the DMCA:New Asian Civil Rights Alliance, Attention DMCA Designated Agent, NCRA, cliff.li@NewCR.org.

Email/Feedback Property of the New Civil Rights Alliance

You may choose to use email to communicate with NCRA. If you choose to email NCRA, know that the Internet is not secure or private, unauthorized people may be able to intercept and read the mail you send to NCRA or mail NCRA sends to you. Since email can be used to spread viruses, you should install and maintain virus protection software on your PC. To the extent permitted by applicable law, any comments or materials (collectively "Feedback") sent to NCRA including but not limited to questions, submissions, suggestions, ideas, postings, comments or the like shall become the property of the NCRA upon receipt. NCRA shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such Feedback and shall be free to modify, copy, perform, publish, transmit, reproduce, use, exhibit, disclose, display, transform, copyright, create derivative works, distribute the Feedback to others and otherwise exploit the Feedback without limitation. Further, NCRA shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such Feedback for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products incorporating such information.

Limitation of Liability

NCRA WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE, ITS CONTENT OR LINKS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS OR OTHER DAMAGES CAUSED BY OR RELATED TO ERRORS, OMISSION, INTERRUPTIONS, DEFECTS, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, LINE FAILURE, AND ALL OTHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHETHER UNDER THESE TERMS OF USE, STATUTE, REGULATION, COMMON LAW PRECEDENT OR DOCTRINE, EVEN IF NCRA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR WAS NEGLIGENT. IN JURISDICTIONS THAT PROHIBIT THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, NCRA'S LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, NCRA'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL LOSSES, DAMAGES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THIS SITE, ITS CONTENT OR LINKS, SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO ACCESS THIS SITE.

THE INFORMATION ON THIS SITE, INCLUDING TEXT, IMAGES, AND LINKS, AND THE INFORMATION ON ANY WEBSITES, WHETHER AFFILIATED OR UNAFFILIATED WITH NCRA, WHICH YOU MAY VISIT THROUGH THE SITE, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" BY NCRA AS A CONVENIENCE TO ALL USERS, WITHOUT REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES (I) OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE; (II) OF INFORMATIONAL CONTENT OR ACCURACY; (III) OF NON-INFRINGEMENT; (IV) OF QUIET ENJOYMENT; (V) OF TITLE; (VI) THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE; (VII) THAT ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS IN THE SITE WILL BE CORRECTED; (VIII) THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS OR (IX) THAT THE SITE IS COMPATIBLE WITH ANY PARTICULAR HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE PLATFORM. EFFORTS BY NCRA TO MODIFY THE SITE SHALL NOT BE DEEMED A WAIVER OF THESE LIMITATIONS.

Governing Law

These Terms of Use are entered into and granted in the District of Columbia and shall be governed by and interpreted pursuant to the laws of the District of Columbia, United States of America, excluding any law or conflicts or law principle that would apply the law of another jurisdiction, and excluding the District of Columbia Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use shall be filed only in the federal or state court with competent jurisdiction located in Washington, DC. You consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction by such courts in any such action. If any part of these Terms and Conditions is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Entire Agreement

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and NCRA and govern your use of the NewCR website, superceding any prior agreements between you and NCRA relating to your use of this NewCR website.

Use of Communication Services

NCRA's NewCR website may in the future contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, "Communication Services"). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:

• Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.

• Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.

• Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.

• Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer.

• Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages.

• Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.

• Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.

• Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.

• Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.

• Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.

• Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent.

• Violate any applicable laws or regulations.

NCRA has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, NCRA reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. NCRA reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.

NCRA reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in NCRA's sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or other people in any Communication Service. NCRA does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, NCRA specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your submission to NCRA, you are granting NCRA, its affiliated companies and necessary sub-licensees permission to use your submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your submission; and to publish your name in connection with your submission.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your submission, as provided herein. NCRA is under no obligation to post or use any submission you may provide and may remove any submission at any time in NCRA's sole discretion.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the submissions.

Message Boards

NCRA does not monitor message boards hosted on its NewCR website. The content of message boards is the sole responsibility of the person supplying the content, and NCRA assumes no liability related to the content of such boards. All messages posted on NCRA message boards are non-confidential and will be treated as such.

Termination

NCRA reserves the right to terminate at any time, at its sole discretion, the NewCR website and/or your use of the NewCR website.

Unlawful or Prohibited Use

Possible evidence of use of this NewCR website for illegal purposes will be provided to law enforcement authorities. Please report any violations of these Terms of Use to NCRA at cliff.li@NewCR.org.

Service Contact

cliff.li@NewCR.org