LMA Terms of USE

The Leicester Martial Arts ( other wise know as LMA), Culture and Sports (hereinafter: the LMA) offers the information on this on-line site/internet site (hereinafter: the service) pursuant to the following terms. The term "User" as follows shall mean each person who establishes or accesses a connection to the service.

Copyright

According to the law of copyright in North Carolina, and pursuant to international treaties, copyright in the LMA's publications, including those provided by the service, belong to the State of North Carolina. These rights apply, inter alia, to text. pictures, drawings, maps, audio tracts, video tracts, graphics and program applications (hereinafter: the protected material), unless stated explicitly that the copyright in the protected material belongs to another party.

User may make "fair use" of the protected material as set out under law. Such fair use includes quoting from the protected material in a reasonable manner.



When quoting from the protected material, User must attribute the source of the quotation, whether it be the LMA or a third party. User may not alter, modify or in any other fashion change the protected material, and may not do any other act which might diminish the value of the protected material in a manner which would cast aspersion on the creator of the protected material.



Subject to the law of copyright, User may not copy, redistribute, retransmit or publish protected material, without the prior written consent of the LMA.


Use of Copyright Material

This site includes various copyright material. The use of this material has been approved by Leicester Martial Arts (LMA) and our Members.

Queries

Any questions about this service, or about the activities of the LMA, may be sent directly to the LMA by e-mail, at the following address: Information@leicestermartialarts.info
Answers will be given as soon as possible, but no later than 14 days from receipt of the query.



Liability

The service is provided to the public "as is".


The State of North Carolina shall not be held liable for the suitability of the service to User's needs. Nor shall the State of North Carolina be held liable for any error or mistake found in the material provided by the service.

The State of North Carolina shall not be held liable for any changes made in the material provided by the service if such changes were made by User or by a third party.



User alone shall bear all responsibility for the way in which he/she uses the service.



The State of North Carolina shall not be held liable for any loss or damage caused to User or third parties arising directly or indirectly from the use of the service, including loss or damage due to the use of applications that were downloaded directly through the service or that were activated by using the service, including ActiveX, JavaScript and Java.



For the purposes of the above terms, "The State of North Carolina" includes its employees and agents.


Links

This site contains links to external sites. The following conditions shall apply to the use of these links, without derogating from the other conditions in these "Terms of Use".


The links are solely for the convenience of User.


Unless otherwise stipulated in this site, no legal or commercial relationship exists between the LMA and external sites not maintained by the State of North Carolina (third party sites), and the LMA has no control over the content of said third party sites.



The State of North Carolina is not responsible for the content of third party sites.


Links to third party sites shall not be construed as an endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the State of North Carolina or by the LMA of said third party sites, including documents and other materials to be found therein, of the operators of said sites or of products offered on said sites.
At the time each link was included in this site, it was found that the material in the linked-to site was relevant to the purposes of this service, and that the link itself was functional. However, it is possible that with the passing of time, the contents of the linked-to sites have changed. If User feels that material on a linked-to site is not fitting, or if User finds that a link is no longer operational, he/she is requested to inform the Webmaster of such. In addition, if User feels that there is an additional site relevant to the subject matter of this service, he/she is requested to inform the Webmaster of such.

Confidentiality

Personal information given to the LMA through this service will be kept confidential in accordance with The Privacy Law of 1981.

Official Publications of the State of North Carolina In the event of a discrepancy between the material provided on this service and material published in the official printed publications of the State of North Carolina, only the latter shall be deemed correct.

Use of Cookies

The Site uses local temporary cookies. In other words, they may contain user identification, but it will only be valid for a certain connection, and to that specific server. As soon as the user closes his browser window, or switches to a different server, the cookies will become irrelevant. Users' privacy is not disturbed, since there is no way to follow up on a user's surfing profile by checking previous visits. Also, a user profile for a single connection is something that can be accomplished by using various statistical programs. Please note that most browsers allow a user to ask for no cookies to be left on his computer or to be prompted before a cookie is set.

User Conduct

You may not republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute Content from the Site to online bulletin boards, message boards, newsgroups, chat rooms, or in other any manner, without our prior written permission. Modification of the Content or use of the content for any purpose other than your own personal, noncommercial use is a violation of our copyright and other proprietary rights, and may subject you to legal liability.

In addition, in connection with your use of the Site, you agree not to:

  • Post, disseminate, or transmit any Content that is or which we consider, in our sole discretion, unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, harmful, tortuous, libelous, racist, violent or otherwise objectionable;
  • Restrict or inhibit any other visitor from using the Site, including, without limitation, by means of “hacking” or defacing any portion of the Site;
  • Use the Site for any unlawful or illegal purpose or in violation of any of the rules herein;
  • Display material that exploits children under 18 years of age;
  • Post or disclose any personally identifying information or private information about children or any third parties without their consent (or their parent's consent in case of a child under 13 years of age);
  • Express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent;
  • Modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Site;
  • “Frame” or “mirror” any part of the Site without our prior written authorization;
  • Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to download, retrieve, index, “data mine,” or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or its contents;
  • Harvest or collect information about visitors to the Site without their express consent.
  • Post, disseminate, or transmit any Content that infringes or violates the copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, or other proprietary right of any other third party, or use or distribute third-party information (whether or not protected as a trade secret) in violation of a duty of confidentiality;
  • Post, disseminate, or transmit any worms, viruses, or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files, code, or programs;
  • Post, disseminate, or transmit any unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, chain letters, spam, junk mail, or any other type of unsolicited mass e-mail to people or entities that have not agreed to be part of such mailings;
  • Impersonate any person or entity; falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity; intentionally omit, delete, forge, or misrepresent transmission information; or otherwise manipulate identifiers to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Site;
  • Post, disseminate, or transmit any Content you do not have the right to post, disseminate, or transmit;
  • Promote, solicit or participate in multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes;
  • Disrupt the normal flow of dialogue or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real-time exchanges;
  • Interfere with, disrupt, or harm in any way the Site or servers or networks connected to the Site;
  • Electronically stalk or otherwise harass another user;
  • Collect or store personal data about other users;
  • Engage in any activities that would violate the personal privacy rights of others, including but not limited to collecting and distributing information about other users without their permission, except as permitted by applicable law;
Trademarks

Leicester Martial Arts , LMA, the LMA Logo, and any other trademarks on the Site are trademarks owned by or licensed to LMA (“LMA Trademarks”). You may not use the LMA Trademarks in connection with any product or service that does not belong to us, nor in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among users about whether we are the source, sponsor, or endorser of the product or service, nor in any manner that disparages or discredits us.

DISCLAIMER

"The Materials on this site are for entertainment purposes only. No one should attempt to try these techniques without being trained and supervised by a qualified Martial Artist."

Please print a copy for you records. Updated on August 1, 2008



Infringement Policy

Please don't steal content. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. Section 512 as amended by Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "Act"), we reserve the right, but not the obligation, to terminate your license to use the Site if we determine in our sole and absolute discretion that you are involved in infringing activity, including alleged acts of first-time or repeat infringement, regardless of whether the material or activity is ultimately determined to be infringing.



We respect the rights of copyright holders. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. Section 512(c), we have implemented procedures for receiving written notification of claimed infringements and for processing such claims in accordance with the Act. All claims of infringement must be submitted to us in a written complaint that complies with the requirements below and is delivered to our designated agent to receive notification of claimed infringement:

By mail:
Leicester Martial Arts
Legal Department
21 Blue Jay Lan
Leicester, NC 28748
Attn: DMCA Agent
By e-mail: abuse@leicestermartilarts.info

In addition, any written notice regarding any defamatory or infringing activity, whether of a copyright, patent, trademark or other proprietary right must include the following information:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of (1) the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed or (2) the person defamed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site. Similarly, for materials that are defamatory or infringe patent, trademark, or other proprietary rights of a third party, please submit a list of such materials.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, to be the subject of infringing activity, or that is claimed to be defamatory and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, and/or electronic mail address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright or other proprietary right owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed or on behalf of the person defamed.


This Infringement Policy is effective August 1, 2008.