Overview
Welcome to ACG’s Website, operated by Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. (collectively with its chapters and any other affiliates, “ACG”, “we” or “us”) at www.acg.org and www.acg.org/[name of chapter] (collectively, the “Website” and/or “Websites”). These Terms of Use govern the use of the Website by any person viewing the Website(s) or using the Website (“User” or “you”). Please read these Terms of Use carefully. By using, accessing or browsing the Website you acknowledge that you understand and agree to and all terms and conditions contained in these Terms of Use. If you object to anything in these Terms of Use or any policy we may post or maintain on the Website from time to time, do not use the Website. The Terms of Use are subject to change at any time, effective upon posting on the Website, and your use of the Website after such changes will constitute acceptance by you of such changes. You are responsible for regularly checking these Terms of Use, determining if there have been any changes and reviewing such changes.
 

Eligibility
The Website is available to ACG members and non-members, and is intended for people 18 or older. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you are over 18 and agree to abide by all provisions of these Terms of Use. Any use of the Website by any person under 13 is not authorized and in violation of these Terms of Use, and we will not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of 13. However, ACG does not assume any responsibility for any misrepresentations regarding the age of any User made in connection with any User’s registration for or use of the Website. We reserve our right to terminate without notice the membership of any User if we believe that the User has provided any false information to us when registering for or using this Website.
 

Registration Data and Account Security
You agree to (a) provide accurate, current and complete information about you as may be prompted or required by the Website (“Registration Data”); (b) maintain the security and confidentiality of your user name and password; (c) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data and any other information you provide to ACG, and to keep it accurate, current and complete; and (d) be fully responsible for all use of your user name and password and for any actions that take place using your account. ACG has no control over the use of any User’s account and expressly disclaims any liability derived there from. ACG is not responsible for any claims relating to any inaccurate, untimely or incomplete information provided to ACG.
 

Use of Membership Directory
The use of the Member Directory is strictly limited to individual, personal and confidential reference purposes only. The Membership Directory may not be reproduced, copied or disseminated, entered into a computer database, used as part of or in conjunction with a mailing list, or otherwise utilized except for your individual, personal and confidential reference. Use of the data in the membership directory to send unsolicited marketing e-mails (“Spam”) is not permitted. Infractions are policed and may result in legal or disciplinary action.
 

License; Website Content
All content on the Website, other than User Content (as defined below), including designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection and arrangement (the “Website Content”), is the proprietary property of ACG or its licensors, and all rights therein are reserved. No Website Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without ACG’s prior written permission.

ACG grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable, revocable license to use and access the Website and the Website Content and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Website Content to which you have properly gained access, provided that you do not (i) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, (ii) modify or attempt to modify the Website in any manner or form, (iii) upload or republish Website Content or incorporate the information in any other database or compilation, or (iv) violate any provision of these Terms of Use.
Such license is subject to these Terms of Use and does not permit use of any data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods. Any other use of the Website Content is strictly prohibited. All trademarks, service marks, logos and/or trade names appearing on the Website are the property of ACG or their respective owners. You may not copy or otherwise use any of these marks, logos or trade names without the prior written permission of the owner or as expressly allowed by these Terms of Use or the terms and conditions of your membership in ACG.

Violation of any of the foregoing conditions may cause ACG to suspend usage privileges of any offending User, in its sole discretion. Such unauthorized use may also violate applicable laws, including but not limited to copyright and trademark laws. Unless explicitly stated herein, nothing in these Terms of Use will be construed as conferring any other license to intellectual property rights. The license granted in these Terms of Use is revocable at any time without notice and with or without cause.
 

User Content Posted on the Website
You represent and warrant that you are the owner or a licensee or otherwise have the right to provide any content, information or materials that you upload, publish, display, post or transmit (hereinafter, “post”) to, on the Website (collectively, the “User Content”). You may not post, transmit, or share User Content on the Website that you did not create or do not have permission to post. ACG may, but is not obligated to, review the Website and may delete or remove (without notice) any Website Content or User Content in its sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, including User Content that in the sole judgment of ACG violates these Terms of Use, the terms of the User’s membership in ACG, or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Users or others. Users are solely responsible at their own sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing any User Content posted or stored on the Website or provided to ACG by such Users. Each User hereby represents and warrants to ACG that the User Content and any other materials of any kind submitted through its account or otherwise posted, transmitted or shared by such User on the Website:

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• (i) is not false, inaccurate or misleading;

• (ii) does not infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights, including rights of publicity or privacy;

• (iii) does not violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation;

• (iv) is not defamatory, libelous, unlawfully threatening, or unlawfully harassing;

• (v) is not obscene, does not contain pornography and is not harmful to minors; and

• (vi) does not contain any viruses, malware, Trojan horses, worms, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.

When you post User Content to the Website, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Website. By posting User Content to any part of the Website, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to ACG an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Website or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

 

You may remove your User Content from the Website at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire; however, you acknowledge that ACG may retain archived copies of your User Content. ACG does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms of Use, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content.
 

Communication Via Email
You will receive essential event specific information for registered attendees electronically at the email address provided during registration. To change ACG Access specific email notification settings, login to your ACG Access account and change your settings in the “profile” tab. ACG Access email settings need to be updated for each event. To unsubscribe or change your preferences for all other event related emails, contact events@acg.org.
 

Prohibited Conduct and Uses
In connection with the use of the Website you agree that you will not:

• Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate any legal rights of any other party;

• Upload any other material that violates the intellectual property rights of any third party;

• Upload post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any material that contains or may contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar item designed to interrupt, destroy

  or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

• Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that ACG deems to be profane, defamatory, infringing, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights,

  obscene unlawful or otherwise objectionable;

• Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content which may create liability under or violate any applicable law or regulation, whether local, state, national or

  international, or that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense;

• Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make publicly available on the Website any private information of any third party, including, addresses, phone numbers, email

  addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers;

• Collect user names and/or e-mail addresses or other contact information of other Users by electronic or other means, for the purposes of sending mass emails or other mass

  unsolicited communications, or use automated scripts to collect such information or otherwise interact with the Website;

• Solicit passwords or personally identifying information for impermissible or unlawful purposes;

• Upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,”

  “pyramid schemes,” or the like;

• Impersonate another person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity, or use or attempt to use another

  User’s account, service or system without authorization;

• Download any file posted by another User that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed through the Website;

• Restrict or inhibit any other registered User from using and enjoying the Website;

• Use the Website in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Website; or

• Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that, in the sole judgment of ACG, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using

  or enjoying the Website, or which may expose ACG or the Users to any harm or liability of any type. ACG reserves the right to revoke or suspend the privilege of any User to use this Website at any time and at its sole discretion for violation of the above prohibitions, for any other reason or no reason at all. ACG further reserves the right to take appropriate legal action against any User, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal and injunctive redress.
   

  User Disputes; Release
  You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Users. ACG reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Users. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other Users, you release ACG, its chapters and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees from all claims, demands or damages (actual or consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.
   

  Privacy
  ACG has adopted a privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), which may be modified by ACG from time to time. The Privacy Policy governs any disclosure or use of Users’ personal information. By using this Website, you represent, understand and agree that you have reviewed and agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy. View the policy:
   

  Privacy Policy