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User Guidelines
Restrictions
on Use
This site is owned and operated by the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA),
and is protected by international copyright and trademark laws. All materials
posted on this site are subject to copyrights owned by OSIA and other individuals
or entities. Any reproduction, retransmission, or republication of all or part
of any document found on this site is expressly prohibited, unless OSIA or the
copyright owner of the material has specifically granted its written consent
to do so. OSIA.org users also may not modify, copy, upload, post, transmit or
distribute in any way any material from this site including code and software.
Users are permitted to download material from this site for their personal, non-commercial
use only, provided they keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.
Additionally, the names, trademarks, service marks, and logos of OSIA and its
subsidiaries, the Sons of Italy Foundation (SIF) and the Commission for Social
Justice (CSJ),may not be used in any advertising or publicity, or otherwise to
indicate OSIA's sponsorship or affiliation with any product or service, without
OSIA's prior written permission.
Disclaimer
OSIA has provided links and pointers to Internet sites maintained by third parties.
Neither OSIA, nor its subsidiaries, the SIF and the CSJ, operate or control in
any respect any information, products or services on these third-party sites.
The materials in this site and the third-party sites are provided "as is" and
without warranties of any kind either expressed or implied. To the fullest extent
permissible pursuant to applicable law, OSIA disclaims all warranties, express
or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability
and fitness for a particular purpose. OSIA does not warrant that the functions
contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects
will be corrected, or that this site, including bulletin boards, or the server
that makes it available, are free of viruses or other harmful components. OSIA
does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results
of the use of the materials in this site or in third-party sites in terms of
their correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or otherwise. The user (and
not OSIA) assumes the entire cost of all necessary maintenance, repair or correction.
Members Only Community
This site contains a Members Only "virtual community" available to and accessible
by OSIA members, who are required to abide by certain guidelines of acceptable
behavior. Those who do not agree to these terms should not register for or enter
the Members Only community.
Although portions of the Members Only area are accessible by non-member visitors,
message boards and additional services and discounts from OSIA.org are accessible
only by members who register their information on the Site.
Those registering on the Site are required to provide OSIA with the following
information: name, address, email address, gender, login name (created by member)
and password (created by member). The provision of additional information is
optional and includes, but is not limited to: age, household income, education,
marital status and employment status. Registrants will also have the opportunity
to provide feedback in a survey of their and what they would like to see on the
Site. While it is not necessary to provide any but the required information,
any additional information provided helps OSIAcontinually improve the Site for
its users.
For more information on the privacy of registered members, and how OSIA uses
that information, please go to the section entitled OSIA.org and Privacy, below.
License to OSIA
By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other
form of communication through this service, a user grants OSIA a royalty-free,
perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to:
1. Use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display any such
communication.
2. Sublicense to third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the
foregoing rights granted with respect to the communication.
The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights
in such communication, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark,
servicemark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction. Standards of Conduct
OSIA has developed and set forth the following in order to promote and maintain
the highest standards of personal conduct among its members. Adherence to these
standards is expected of all OSIA members and users of the OSIA.org site, and
serves to additionally assure public confidence in the integrity of Italian Americans
and all OSIA members. By logging onto OSIA.org, users agree to:
- Maintain
the highest standard of personal conduct.
- Actively
promote and encourage the highest level of ethics
and use only legal and ethical means of communication
in all website activities.
- Maintain
the confidentiality of any privileged information
entrusted by vitrue of membership in the community,
including personal information about other members.
- Refuse
to engage in discrimination on the basis of race,
sex, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation,
or disability.
- Not
restrict or inhibit any other user from using and
enjoying the interactive features of the member-only
community including, but not limited to, chats
and forums (aka "bulletin boards," see below).
- 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 any local, state, national
or international law.
- Not
post or transmit any information, software or other
material which violates or infringes upon the rights
of others, including material which is an invasion
of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected
by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right,
or derivative works with respect thereto, without
first obtaining permission from the owner or right
holder.
- Not
post or transmit any information, software or other
material which contains a virus or other harmful
component.
- Not
post, transmit or in any way exploit any information,
software or other material for commercial purposes,
or which contains advertising.
- Cooperate
in every reasonable and proper way with the staff
of OSIA, which maintains the web site.
Bulletin Boards
This service may include bulletin boards ("forums") and chat rooms which allow
feedback to OSIA and real-time interaction between users. OSIA does not control
the messages, information or files delivered to bulletin boards. It it is a condition
of use of the bulletin boards and this Web site that users adhere to the Standards
of Conduct set out above. OSIA has no obligation to monitor the bulletin boards.
OSIA reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary
to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to
post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in
OSIA's sole discretion are objectionable or in violation of these terms and conditions.
Modification of Terms
OSIA may modify these Terms of Service from time to time in its sole discretion.
Each time a user logs on to OSIA.org, s/he will be deemed to have accepted any
such changes.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall OSIA
be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages
that result from the use of, or the inability to use, OSIA materials. Users specifically
acknowledge and agree that OSIA is not liable for any defamatory, offensive or
illegal conduct of any user. The sole and exclusive remedy for user dissatisfaction
with any OSIA material, or with any of OSIA's terms and conditions, is to discontinue
using OSIA.org.
Termination
Users not in compliance with the outlined code of conduct may be temporarily
barred or permanently terminated at any time without notice by OSIA. In the event
of termination, that user is no longer authorized to access the bulletin boards
and the aforementioned restrictions with respect to material downloaded from
bulletin boards, disclaimers and limitations of liabilities set forth in this
agreement, shall survive.
OSIA.org and Privacy
Privacy is important to OSIA, thus we operate by these principles:
Information Collection and Use
OSIA is the owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell,
share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed
in this statement. OSIA collects information from our users at several different
points on our website. Information may be collected from both member and non-member
users alike.
Registration and Member Profile Information
In order to use the Members Only community section of the web site, a user must
first complete the registration form to sign up as a member of OSIA. OSIA requires
that when a user becomes a member on the site, s/he provides the following information:
full name, complete address, email address, gender, login name and password (created
by member), and credit card information (to sign up for membership only. Online
At-Large membership in OSIA costs an annual fee of $35).
Once a user signs up as a member, s/he has the option to reply as much or as
little ad s/he is comfortable to a member survery. Members will have complete
access to their personal profile and will be able to change any personal information
after they sign up. A member may opt here to provide additional information on
their professional background, education, hobbies, etc. Unless a member chooses
to opt out (by checking the "No" box where is asks "Profile is visible?" in their
personal profile), the following information will be made available to other
registered members of the community: first name, last name, city, state, email
address, employment information (current employer and position), and years of
membership in OSIA.
This information provided by users in their profiles may be used by OSIA to determine
the demographic and psychographic preferences of its members for the purpose
of improving the site for their use. User profile information may additionally
be used to display appropriate individualized advertisements. OSIA has the capacity
to serve up services based on member preferences. It is optional for the user
to provide additional demographic information (such as income level and gender)
or indicate preferences, but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized
experience on our site.
OSIA will not disclose member profile information unless acting under good faith
belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or
comply with legal process; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of OSIA;
(3) enforce the OSIA terms of service; or (4) act to protect the interests of
its members or others.
Newsletters
If a member wishes to subscribe to a publication within the member community,
we ask for contact information such as name and email address, so that this service
may be rendered properly.
Surveys, Polls & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys, quick
polls or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary
and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use
and satisfaction of this site and OSIA in general.
Referrals
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our
site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. The friend will automatically
be sent a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. OSIA stores this information
for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
Log Files
OSIA may use IP addresses of all site users to analyze trends, administer the
site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
E-Commerce
The e-commerce segment of the website is maintained in partnership with Vizual,
Inc. Vizual, Inc. will not represent OSIA.org user data to merchants at the level
it defines them as individuals.
OSIA will request information from users on order forms. Here a user must provide
contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information
(like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing
purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we have trouble processing an order,
this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.
OSIA reserves the right to share aggregated demographic information with our
partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that
can identify any individual person. OSIA may partner with another party to provide
specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names,
or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide
these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable
information except for the purpose of providing these services.
For all ecommerce that is external to OSIA (i.e., that does not relate directly
to goods or services produced by OSIA itself), OSIA, through Vizual, Inc., will
utilize an outside shipping company to ship orders, and, in almost all cases,
a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These
companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information
for any secondary purposes.
Cookies
OSIA may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of a user's
computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to your
computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more
useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. The
use of cookies is an industry standard, and many major Web sites use them to
provide useful features for their customers. Cookies in and of themselves do
not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Most
browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set
yours to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage
of a Web site if you do so. Additionally, some of our business partners use cookies
on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control
over these cookies.
Links
As previously stated in the Terms and Conditions, this web site contains links
to other sites. Please be aware that we OSIA is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to
information collected by this Web site.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users
submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both
online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such
as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted
and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also
do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users'
information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted
in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific
job (for example, our office manager, membership assistant, or a customer service
representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
The OSIA.org website is maintained on a highly secure e-commerce server maintained
by Vizual, Inc. This server, on which personally
identifiable information is stored, is kept in a secure environment.
Content and Technical Responsibility
Content appearing on the OSIA website is maintained by the Order Sons of Italy
in America, 219 E Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002, 202-547-2900. For
questions concerning OSIA's privacy and marketing policies, or for questions
dealing with the functionality of the site and the information and donation forms
appearing on the site, send email to nationaloffice@osia.org.
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