Please Read These Terms And Conditions Of Use Carefully Before Using This Site.
The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) offers the IFMA Online Community and its corresponding pages, to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all of the terms, conditions, policies and notices stated on the Website. By using the Website, you signify your assent to these Terms and Conditions and any subsequent modifications. IFMA may revise these Terms and Conditions from time to time by updating this posting, with the new terms taking effect on the date of posting. You should review these Terms and Conditions every time you use this Website as they are binding upon you.
Personal and Noncommercial Use
IFMA’s Online Community site is for your personal and noncommercial use. As a condition to your continued use of the Website, you warrant to IFMA that you will not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms and Conditions.
Contributing Content to IFMA
All users are encouraged to contribute information and pictures to IFMA. All contributions must adhere to these rules:
- You agree not knowingly submit any false, defamatory, abusive, obscene, threatening, racially offensive, sexually explicit or illegal material to the Website.
- In posting comments on the contributions of others, you agree not to harass other participants.
- You may not submit information that is libelous or defamatory or that discloses private or personal matters concerning any person.
- You may not post information or links that are obscene or pornographic.
- You may not contribute information or pictures that violate the property rights of others, including unauthorized copyrighted text, images or programs, trade secrets or other confidential proprietary information, and trademarks or service marks used in an infringing fashion.
- Content contributions solely focused on the promotion of commercial events or businesses are not permitted.
- You assert that the information and pictures you contribute are your own, are licensed to be uploaded and downloaded by other participants, are in the public domain, or are otherwise free of copyright or other restrictions. You also grant IFMA an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to redistribute or republish the information in any medium or form.
Content Licensing Agreement
Author grants to International Facility Management Association (IFMA) a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license to use author’s work (“work” includes any abstracts, work cited, blog post, podcast, videos, updates, derivative works, new editions, or other materials that are part of or compose the content) for any purpose in any medium that IFMA deems useful, whether such medium is in existence at the time this agreement is signed, or comes into existence after this agreement is signed.
In addition to the Knowledge Library, IFMA may use author’s content in current and future revenue generating endeavors. Author represents and warrants that s/he is the sole author and sole proprietor of all rights in and to all portions of the aforementioned work; that the work is original and not in the public domain; that it has not been previously published; that it does not violate or infringe on any personal or property rights of others, whether common law or statutory; that it contains nothing libelous or otherwise contrary to law; and that s/he has full power to enter into this agreement. Author also represents and warrants that the work contains no material from other works protected by copyright that has been used without the written consent of the copyright owner, and that s/he has provided (or is simultaneously providing) IFMA with copies of all such written consents required by this sentence.
Author agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless IFMA’s officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives against any claims brought by third parties against IFMA which arise out of Author’s breach of this agreement, including, but not limited to, all costs of the proceeding, reasonable attorney’s fees and damages arising from any infringement or alleged infringement of any proprietary rights, including copyrights, committed by Author in his/her works. Nothing in the author’s content, shall disparage or denigrate any person or group based on race, sex, religion, age, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or marital status; and shall not disparage or defame the name, goods, services, or products of others. By submitting content for consideration for publication in IFMA’s Knowledge Library or Websites, I agree to these terms and consider this a formal, binding agreement or contract.
Discussion Forums
IFMA does not endorse and is not responsible for any statement, opinion, advice given or made in discussion forums. Your use of the IFMA discussion forums is at your own risk.
IFMA does not intend to engage in any prior review of notes posted to discussion areas, but it reserves the right in its sole discretion and for any reason to delete or redirect any information or other content posted to the Website (including posts to discussion areas), regardless of whether the information or other content violates the rules for content described in above policies. Further, IFMA reserves the right to limit or terminate service to participants who violate the terms of this Agreement.
In no event will IFMA be liable for any incidental, consequential, or indirect damages (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of programs or information, and the like) arising out of the IFMA discussion forums, or any information or services provided on the Website, even if IFMA has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim attributable to errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies published on the Website.
IFMA is not responsible for censoring or monitoring postings, but it reserves the right to enforce the policies outlined in this document and reserves the right to move or remove notes at its sole discretion and without explanation.
Copyrights
IFMA retains full copyright ownership, rights and protection in all material contained on the online community Website, including but not limited to material submitted by community contributors. Except as otherwise expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, rewrite, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any material contained on the Website without the prior consent of the copyright owner. You agree not to modify any documents, graphics, images, or other material found on this Website.
You may, however, make single copies of materials displayed on the online community Website for your own personal and noncommercial use only, provided any copies include the copyright and other notices displayed with the materials on the Website. You may not distribute such copies to others, whether or not for a charge or other consideration, without prior written permission from IFMA or the copyright owner of the copied material.
None of the material contained on the Website may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, decompiled, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo reproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of IFMA. All content of IFMA is Copyright IFMA. All rights reserved.
Disclaimer of Warranties
Neither IFMA nor its employees, agents, third party information providers, merchants, licensors or the like warrant that the Website or its operation will be accurate, reliable, uninterrupted or error-free. If your use of the IFMA online community Website results in the need for servicing or replacing property, material, equipment or data, IFMA is not responsible for those costs. No agent or representative has the authority to create any warranty regarding the Website on behalf of IFMA. IFMA reserves the right to change or discontinue at any time any aspect or feature of the Website.
IFMA does not assume any liability for the contents of any material provided on the Website. Reliance on any information presented on the Webste, other than that which you provided, is at your own risk. IFMA reserves the right to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the Website at any time.
You acknowledge that, in connection with the Website, information will be transmitted over local exchange, interexchange and Internet backbone carrier lines and through routers, switches and other devices owned, maintained and serviced by third party local exchange and long distance carriers, utilities, Internet service providers and others, all of which are beyond the control and jurisdiction of IFMA. Accordingly, IFMA assumes no liability for or relating to the delay, failure, interruption or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the Website.
WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON IFMA’S ONLINE COMMUNITY WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. IFMA MAKES NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS OR TIMELINESS OF THE WEB SITE CONTENT, SOFTWARE TEXT, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS, OR ABOUT RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USING THE WEBSITE OR IFMA SERVICES.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL IFMA OR ANY THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED AT THE WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY COSTS, DAMAGES AND EXPENSES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, HEALTH PROBLEMS, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE IFMA ONLINE COMMUNITY WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT OF THE WEBSITE WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT IFMA IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IFMA SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU ONLY FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT OF ACTUAL DAMAGES INCURRED BY YOU, NOT TO EXCEED U.S. $100.00 (ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS). BECAUSE SOME STATES AND COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. REMEDIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE EXCLUSIVE AND ARE LIMITED TO THOSE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED FOR IN THIS AGREEMENT.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold IFMA, its officers, directors, employees and agents, content contributors, licensors and suppliers harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of IFMA’s online community Website in a manner that violates or is alleged to violate these Terms and Conditions. IFMA shall provide you with prompt notice of any such claim, suit or proceeding and shall reasonably cooperate with you, at your expense, in your defense of any such claim, suit or proceeding.
Links/Advertisements
IFMA’s online community Website may link to other sites operated by third parties. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by IFMA of the sites, but is for your reference and convenience only. IFMA has not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Website and is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to IFMA. Nor does IFMA recommend or endorse any specific tests, products or procedures that may be mentioned on or represented in advertisements on the Website. Visiting off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk and subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use of any hyper-linked site.
IFMA’s online community Website also contains advertisements by third parties. Unless otherwise specifically stated on the Website, IFMA does not endorse or make any representation regarding the liability, quality, or accuracy of any products or services featured in, or linked to any advertisement that appears on the Website.
Unless otherwise prohibited under these Terms and Conditions, you are hereby licensed to create hyperlinks to the content on IFMA’s online community Website, provided that the hyperlink accurately describes the content as it appears on the Website. IFMA reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to use specific links, at any time. Under no circumstances may you “frame” the Website or any of its content or copy portions of IFMA’s online community Website to a server, except as part of an Internet service provider’s incidental caching of pages. Each page within the Website must be displayed in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising and promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border, margin, design, branding, trademark, advertising or promotional materials not originally displayed on the page within IFMA.
Termination
You agree that IFMA may terminate your use of the Website, if IFMA reasonably believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms and Conditions of Use, or violated the rights of IFMA or any third party, or for any reason with or without notice to you. You agree that IFMA may modify or discontinue IFMA’s online community Website, with or without notice to you. You agree that IFMA will not be liable to you or any third party as a result of such modification or discontinuation.
Survival
The provisions entitled “Your Submissions,” “Disclaimer of Warranties,” “Limitation of Liability,” “Indemnification” and “General Provisions” will survive termination of this agreement.
Notice
IFMA may deliver notice to you under these Terms and Conditions by means of electronic mail, a general notice on IFMA’s online community Website, or by written communication delivered by first class U.S. mail to your address on record in IFMA’s account information. You may give notice to IFMA’s service center of excellence via electronic mail to ifma@ifma.com or by letter delivered by first class postage prepaid U.S. mail or overnight courier to the following address:
Street Address: 800 Gessner, Ste. 725, Houston, Texas, 77024-4257, USA
Phone: +1 (713) 623-4362