Welcome to www.howardliving.com, the Web site of Howard CountyLiving magazine. As used in these Terms of Use, the term "Web site"refers to the Web site located at www.howardliving.com as well as online services that include, but are not limited to, our E-mailnewsletters, archives, online content, events calendar, classified ads, and business listings. Howard County Living does not control, and is not responsible for, any third-party site to which the Web site links.

As the user, you agree that your use of the Web site is subject to the following Terms of Use. These Terms of Use may be modified at any time and from time to time; the date of the most recent changes or revisions will appear on this page. Continued access to the Web site by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Agreement. If you do not agree with the Terms and Conditions, please do not use this Web site.

The materials contained on the Web site are provided by HowardCounty Living as a service to you, for your noncommercial, personal use on an "as is, as available" basis and may be used by you for information purposes only. You acknowledge that you are using the Web site at your own risk. Howard County Living assumes no responsibility for error or omissions in these materials. Howard County Living makes no commitment to update the information contained herein. Howard County Living makes no, and expressly disclaims any and all, representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the Howard County Living Web site, including without limitation the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of text, graphics, links, products and services, and other items accessed from or via the Web site, or that the Website will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of viruses or other harmful components. No advice or information given by Howard County Living or any other party on the Web site shall create any warranty or liability.

Howard County Living does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials at the Web site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, or otherwise. Under no circumstances shall Howard County Living or any of its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, or their respective partners, officers, directors, employees, or agents be held liable for any damages, whether direct, incidental, indirect, special, or consequential, and including, without limitation, lost revenues or lost profits, arising from or in connection with your use, reliance on, or performance of the information on the Web site.

Howard County Living periodically schedules system downtime formaintenance and other purposes. Unplanned outages also may occur. Howard CountyLiving shall have no liability for the resulting unavailability of the Web siteor for any loss of data or transactions caused by planned or unplanned systemoutages, or any outages of webhost providers or the Internet infrastructure andnetwork external to the Web site.

Copyright

All materials published on the Web site are protected by copyright laws, and may not be reproduced, republished, distributed, transmitted, resold, displayed, broadcast, or otherwise exploited in any manner without the express written permission of either Howard County Living or, in the case of content licensed by Howard County Living from third parties, the entity that is credited as the copyright holder of such licensed content. You may download freely accessible material (one copy per page) from this Web site for your personal and noncommercial use only, without altering or removing any trademark, copyright, or other notice from such material; you must pay a fee to access articles from our archives and our premium online content.

In the event you believe that any content posted on the Web site infringes your copyright or other intellectual-property rights, you may notify Howard County Living by providing the information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Action of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512, to Howard County Living’s Copyright Agent:

Howard County Living, PO Box 2874, Columbia, MD 21045

User Generated Content

Howard County Living, through its events calendar, classified ads, and business listings, provides users an opportunity to post content to the Web site. Howard County Living does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, or agree with content posted by users. You shall not post or transmit any unlawful threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate and local, state, national, or international law, or infringe upon another's copyright or trademark. You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, video, messages, or other materials posted or transmitted in a Howard County Living forum, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such content originated. This means that you, and not Howard County Living, are entirely and solely responsible for all content that you upload, post, or otherwise transmit via the Web site. Howard County Living does not and cannot review the content posted by users and is not responsible for such content. However, Howard County Living shall have the right, but not the obligation, to delete, move, or edit any content that violates this agreement or is otherwise objectionable as determined by Howard County Living in its sole discretion and without notice.

If you upload, post, or otherwise transmit content to the Website, you acknowledge that any such submissions may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by Howard County Living in any medium now existing or hereinafter invented, and for any purpose, including commercial uses. You waive any moral rights you may have in having the material edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, or displayed in a manner not agreeable to you.

You agree to indemnify Howard County Living and its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of their respective partners, officers, directors, employees, and agents, against, and to hold each of them harmless from, any and all claims and liabilities (including attorney's fees) that may arise from your submissions, from your unauthorized use of material obtained from the Web site, from your breach of these Terms and Conditions, and from any such acts arising through your use of the Web site.

Date Last Updated: February 22, 2008