Northern Jaguar Project - A Binational Effort to Save North America's Largest Wild Cats

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The Northern Jaguar Project maintains this site for your personal information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse our site. All materials on our site, including but not limited to artwork, photographs, graphics, audio clips, video clips, text and trademarks, are the sole property of the Northern Jaguar Project or its licensors. The exclusive rights to all materials on this site are protected by U.S. and international laws of copyright, trademark and unfair competition.

Personal and Non-Commercial Use Limitation: It is in keeping with the Northern Jaguar Project's mission to encourage public discourse and activism regarding conservation of the natural environment. Accordingly, unless particular materials are specifically restricted as noted on the web page, it is the Northern Jaguar Project's policy to allow limited reproduction and distribution of the materials posted on our site as follows: You may copy, reproduce and distribute content from this site provided that:

the particular article or section is reproduced in its entirety in its original form; you may not edit or otherwise change the substance of the content, or change or delete any copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices;

all copies include a statement that the material was reproduced from northernjaguarproject.org with permission of the Northern Jaguar Project;
all copies include the following notice "© 2007 Northern Jaguar Project, Inc. All Rights Reserved.";
the copies are distributed only for your personal, non-commercial, educational or public policy use for the purposes of promoting conservation of the natural environment; and
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Provided you comply with all of these conditions, the Northern Jaguar Project grants you a non- exclusive, nontransferable license to use the materials on our site.

Other than as specifically described above, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, prepare derivative works based on, republish, transmit, repost or otherwise use the content of our site, without prior written authorization from the Northern Jaguar Project. In no event may the Northern Jaguar Project trademarks, symbols, artwork or other visual or audio elements be reproduced separately from the textual content associated with them on the site.

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General Provisions

The materials on northernjaguarproject.org are presented solely for promotional purposes in North America. This site is operated under the supervision of the Northern Jaguar Project from its offices within the state of Arizona. Northern Jaguar Project products are available in many parts of the world, however, our site may describe products that are not available worldwide. The Northern Jaguar Project does not warrant or represent that materials on our site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you choose to access our site from other locations, you do so at your own initiative and you are responsible for complying with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. You may not download or otherwise export or re-export software from our site in violation of United States export controls.

These terms shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the state of Arizona, as they are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within Arizona. Any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to these terms shall be barred unless such claim or cause of action is brought within one year after it arises; any such claim or cause of action shall be brought only in the state or federal courts in the Northern District of California, and you consent to jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating such actions.

Whenever possible, each provision of these terms shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision is deemed prohibited or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of these terms.

The Northern Jaguar Project reserves the right to remove for any reason posted materials from our forums, and the right to deny in its sole discretion any user access to our site or our forums, without notice.

This is the entire agreement between us relating to your use of this site. These terms may not be modified by you, in writing or otherwise, unless agreed to in a written document signed by the Northern Jaguar Project.

Use of Materials on this Site

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. However, your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by the Northern Jaguar Project. The Northern Jaguar Project shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as the result of a breach of confidentiality with respect to information you transmitted to the site.

Posted Materials

The information and opinions expressed in materials posted by visitors on the chat areas, bulletin boards, lists or other venues connected with our site (collectively, "forums") are not necessarily those of the Northern Jaguar Project or its affiliates and the Northern Jaguar Project makes no representations or warranties regarding such posted materials.

Users should be aware that our forums are public, not private communications. When you voluntarily disclose personal information on our forums, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people.

You shall not submit, upload or post to our forums any content which (1) libels, defames, invades privacy, or is obscene, pornographic, abusive, or threatening; (2) infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity, including but not limited to, violating anyone's copyrights or trademarks; (3) falsifies or deletes author attributions, legal notices or other proprietary designations; (4) violates any law; (5) advocates illegal activity; (6) contains viruses, corrupted files, or other materials that may cause damage to another's computer, or (7) advertises or otherwise solicits funds or sales of goods or services. By posting any content on our forums, you automatically agree to indemnify the Northern Jaguar Project from and against any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs or expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from your breach of these posting restrictions.

By posting any content on our forums, you automatically grant to the Northern Jaguar Project a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable and unrestricted worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and distribute the posted content or incorporate the posted content into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed for any purpose, including advertising and promotion, and you automatically waive all "moral rights" with respect to the posted content.

Fair Use Notice for News Articles

The news articles appearing on this site contain copyrighted material the use of which may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democractic, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, and in accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond "fair use," you must obtain permission from the original copyright owner.

For additional information, see: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/, or www.copyright.gov/title17/

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use

As a condition of your use of this northernjaguarproject.org website, you will not use the site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use this site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Northern Jaguar Project server, or the network(s) connected to any Northern Jaguar Project server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any Northern Jaguar Project server through cracking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through this site.

Outside Links

The Northern Jaguar Project has not reviewed all of the sites linked to this site and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to this site, whether or not they are affiliated with the Northern Jaguar Project. Such linked sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. The Northern Jaguar Project makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or functioning of any such link. That another web site is linked to our site does not constitute endorsement by the Northern Jaguar Project of the owner of the other site, the content of its site, or its products or services.

Links from Third Party Sites: As a general practice, the Northern Jaguar Project does not object to links made to web sites owned or operated by the Project from other sites. There are certain terms and conditions that should be followed.

As a nonprofit organization, the Northern Jaguar Project is prohibited from endorsing the products, services, or viewpoints of any company or organization. Therefore, a link to this site may not be presented in any way that suggests the Project has a relationship or affiliation with the party's site or endorses, sponsors, or recommends the information, products or services on that site. Without the prior express written permission for a particular use from the Project, none of the Project's names, logos, designs, images, photographs, slogans, product trademarks, or service marks should be used in any advertising, publicity, promotion, or in any other commercial manner.
Without the Project's express written permission for a particular use, no content from this site should be incorporated into the party's site, e.g., by in-lining or framing. In addition, none of the Project's logos, designs, images, photographs, slogans, product trademark or service marks, or any other words or codes identifying the Project's web sites should be used in any META tag or other information used by search engines or other information location tools to identify and select sites.

Links to Third Party Sites: The links in this area will let you leave our site. The linked sites are not under the control of the Northern Jaguar Project and Northern Jaguar Project, Inc. is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. The Northern Jaguar Project is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any linked site. The Northern Jaguar Project is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Northern Jaguar Project of the site.

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Limitations on Liability

The materials on this site are provided solely for educational and promotional purposes. Your use and browsing of this site is at your own risk. The materials could include technical inaccuracies or other errors. They are provided to you "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Northern Jaguar Project does not warrant that the functions contained in northernjaguarproject.org materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that our site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. The Northern Jaguar Project does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials on our site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You (and not the Northern Jaguar Project) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall the Northern Jaguar Project be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or inability to use, the materials on our site, even if the Northern Jaguar Project or a Northern Jaguar Project-authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation may not apply to you. In no event shall the Northern Jaguar Project's total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action, including but not limited to negligence, arising out of our in connection with your use of this site, exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.

Changes to Terms of Use

The terms of use may be changed from time to time by the Northern Jaguar Project, Inc. without prior notification. These terms were last updated on Sunday, September 16, 2007