Terms of Use

Introduction
These Terms of Use of the Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “we”, “our” or “us”) govern the use of this website (inlem.org) by a visitor (hereinafter referred to as “you” and “your”) and by using this website, you accept these terms of use in full and without reservation. You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to use this website and by using this website, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age. If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use this website.

License to Use Website
Unless otherwise stated, we and/or our licensors own the intellectual property rights published on, and materials used, on this website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view, download for caching purposes only and print pages, files or other content from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use.

You must not:

• republish material from this website in neither print nor digital media or documents, including republication on another website;
• sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
• show any material from the website in public;
• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
• edit or otherwise modify any material on the website;
• redistribute material from this website, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution; or
• republish or reproduce any part of this website through the use of iframes or screenscrapers.

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organization.

Acceptable Use
You must not use this website:

• in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of this website or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
• to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of, or is linked to, any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
• to conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities on or in relation to this website without our express written consent that may include scraping, data mining, data extraction, data harvesting, ‘framing’ (iframes) or article ‘Spinning’;
• to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications; or
• for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.

Restricted Access
Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. We reserve the right to restrict access to certain areas of this website, or at our discretion, this entire website and may change or modify this policy without notice.

If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential. You alone are responsible for the securirty of your User ID and password and we may disable your user ID and password at our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User Content
In these terms of use, “your user content” means material, including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material, that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you, us or a third party, in each case under any applicable law. You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, stored on our servers or hosted or published upon this website. Our rights under these terms of use in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

No Warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. We make no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, we do not warrant that (1) this website will be constantly available, or available at all, or (2) the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

Limitations of Liability
We will not be liable to you, whether under the law of contract, the law of torts or otherwise, in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

• to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
• for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
• for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if we have been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions
Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit the liability of us in respect of any:

• death or personal injury caused by the negligence of us or its agents, employees or shareholders/owners;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of us; or
• matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for us to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness
By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other Parties
You accept that, as a limited liability entity, we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website. Without prejudice to the foregoing, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect our officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as us.

Unenforceable Provisions
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Indemnity
You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses, including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers, incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.

Breaches of These Terms of Use
Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation
We may revise these terms of use from time to time. Revised terms of use will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment
We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.

Severability
If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Law and Jurisdiction
These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Indiana.

Entire Agreement
These Terms of Use, together with our Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Use of Our Work

The contents of this website, specifically the contents in each of the officer memorials, are the intellectual property of the Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial Inc. and are protected by copyright laws and other proprietary rights.

Use of any of the protected work from this website is strictly prohibited except as permitted for fair use under the following terms:

• Material may be shared, copied or redistributed only for personal, educational or noncommercial purposes
• User must give appropriate credit for the material used to include a citation such as:  © Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial Inc. – inlem.org
• Material may not be altered or modified in any manner

Written permission must be received from the Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial Inc. for any commercial use or for any purpose other than fair use. If permission is granted, a fee may be assessed for the proposed use of our protected work.

Our work is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Disclaimer for External Links

The inclusion of external links on the Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial Inc. website are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only. Links to third-party websites do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by the Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial Inc. of any of the products, services or opinions contained therein. We bear no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external website or for that of subsequent links.

The Facebook and WhatsApp logos are registered trademarks of Meta Inc. The Twitter logo is a service mark of X Corp. The YouTube logo is a registered trademark of Google LLC. All other trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or require more information about these legal notices, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].

The contents on our Legal Notices were last reviewed and revised on August 26, 2021.

The Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial Inc. is an Indiana nonprofit corporation and recognized as a tax-exempt charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code effective March 25, 2021. As a public charity, donations are tax deductible to the full extent provided by law and are never solicited by telephone. Our EIN is 86-3041639. Pursuant to section 6104(d), an exempt organization must make available for public inspection its application for recognition of exemption, determination letter and annual information returns.
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