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U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS
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USER MATERIAL
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LINKS
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GENERAL RESTRICTIONS
The Government Relations Association may revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time-to-time to review the then-current Terms because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these Terms may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Site. TERMS AND CONDITIONS The Government Relations Association, at our discretion, may provide you with services including, but not restricted to, news and information services. You agree to comply with the conditions imposed on your use of the services, as set out in these Terms and Conditions of Access and elsewhere on our services. These services may be outside our control or provided by a third party in which case we cannot and do not take responsibility for their content, or for any delays, interruptions or errors in the provisions of these additional services. You are on notice of this fact and use these services at your own risk. Certain data accessible on our services is the intellectual property of the relevant news and information services provider or third parties that provide such data to the relevant service provider, or us. The data is protected by copyright and other intellectual laws and all ownership rights remain with the information service provider or the third party or us, as the case may be. You may only use the data retrieved from our services for your own personal and non-commercial purposes while accessing our services. Such use will be in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of Access and the requirements set out elsewhere on our services. You may not copy, distribute or redistribute the data, including by caching, framing or similar means or sell, resell, re-transmit or otherwise make the data retrieved from our services available in any manner to any third party. The data is provided "as is." We or any third party shall not be liable to you or any third party for any loss or damage, direct, indirect or consequential, arising from (i) any inaccuracy or incompleteness in, or delays, interruptions, errors or omissions in the delivery of the data or any other information supplied to you through our services or (ii) any decision made or action taken by you or any third party in reliance upon the data. Neither any third party nor we shall be liable for loss of business revenues, lost profits or any punitive, indirect, consequential, special or similar damages whatsoever, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages incurred by you or any third party. Where the information consists of pricing or performance data, the data contained therein has been obtained from sources believed reliable. Data computations are not guaranteed by any information service provider, third party or us or any affiliates and may not be complete. Neither any information service provider, third party or us give any warranties, as to the accuracy, adequacy, quality or fitness, timeless, non-infringement, title, of any information for a particular purpose or use and all such warranties are expressly excluded to the fullest extent that such warranties may be excluded by law. You bear all risk from any use or results of using any information. You are responsible for validating the integrity of any information received over the Internet. Transmission may be subject to arbitrary delays beyond our control, which may delay the provision of our services and the execution of your orders. You acknowledge that neither The Government Relations Association Inc., any information service provider nor third party will be liable to you or any third party for any losses arising from such delay. In no event will any information provider, third party or we, be liable for any consequential loss including but not limited to special, incidental, direct or indirect damages resulting from delay or loss of use of our services. We are not responsible for any damage to your computer, software, modem, telephone or other property resulting from your use of our services.
PRIVACY
When you visit The Government Relations Association website, we may collect and store information about your visit on an anonymous, aggregate basis. This information may include the time and length of your visit, the pages you look at on our site, and the site you visited just before coming to ours. We may also record the name of your Internet service provider. We use this information only to measure site activity and to develop ideas for improving our site.
There are also several opportunities on our website for you to provide us with information about you and your interests, such as your name, mailing address and e-mail address. If you choose to share any personal information with us, we may store it and use it for marketing research and other marketing purposes, which may include sharing it with other companies and sponsors in The Government Relations Association family and our business partners. Members are automatically added to our member directory and profile information is visible to other members, however members reserve the right to remove their directory listing.
Some of our website may make use of "cookie" technology to measure site activity and to customize information to your personal tastes. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive. So, when you come back to visit us again, we can tailor information to suit your individual preferences. The goal is to save you time and provide you with a more meaningful visit.
The Government Relations Association reserves the right to alter our privacy principles as business needs require. Any alterations to these principles will be posted on our web site in a timely manner.
REGISTRATION, CANCELLATIONS, REFUNDS
Should you ever need to make a change to an event registration, please e-mail your substitution or cancellation request to info@GRAssociation.org. While substitutions are free, a 10% processing fee will be charged for all event cancellations. Cancellations to GRA’s Know Your Government and Know Your Issues event series must be received in writing five (5) calendar days in advance of the event date. Cancellations to GRA’s Know Your Profession event series must be received in writing three (3) calendar days in advance of the event. Please note there will be NO refunds granted after those dates.
MERCHANDISE: SHIPPING, RETURNS AND REFUNDS
GRA does not presently offer any branded merchandise or products for sale at this time. Should the association open an ongoing, online store in the future, shipping and return policies will be posted here to address procedures relative to shipping, handling, claims, and return period limits.
IMAGE RELEASE
Any person who attends the GRA Annual Conference or other official GRA event grants permission to GRA, its employees and agents (collectively “GRA”) to record his or her visual/audio images, including, but not limited to, photographs, digital images, voices, sound or video recordings, audio clips, or accompanying written description, and without notifying such person, to use his or her name and such images for any purpose of GRA, including advertisements for GRA and its programs.