Terms of Use
Agreement Between User and USM
USM’s website includes various websites operated by USM.
USM’s website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of USM’s website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
Amendment of These Terms of Use
USM reserves the right to amend, supplement, or modify these legal terms and conditions at any time and without prior notice, including but not limited to fees associated with the use of USM’s website. Therefore, you are advised to regularly review these legal terms for updates and changes.
Links to Third Party Websites
USM’s website may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of USM, and USM is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. USM is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. USM provides these links solely as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by USM.
No Illegal or Prohibited Use
As a condition of your use of USM’s website, you warrant to USM that you will not use the website for any purpose that is illegal or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use USM’s website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through USM’s website.
Use of Communication Services
USM’s website may 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 or 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. For 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 or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.
Intellectual Property Rights
We own or license all intellectual property rights on this website and in the materials published on it, including but not limited to the name of USM and the USM logo.
You may print a copy and download excerpts from our website for your reference purposes. However, you may not modify any materials you have printed or downloaded from this website in any way, and you may not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences, or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
You may not use any part of the materials on our website for commercial purposes without our prior consent.
If you print, copy, or download any part of our website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our website will cease immediately, and you must return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.