Legal Notice
Please read this before using our services. By continuing to use this website, you agree to abide by these rules. Information on this web site may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. Information may be changed or updated without notice. This web site does not constitute an offer or contract. You must leave this site immediately if you do not agree with the terms of this notice.
Ferola Associates ™ operates sites on the World Wide Web. When you visit our sites, we will give you access to information, services and other people. Our current standard offerings include:
- Internet services.
- Shopping opportunities and various advertisements.
- Web hosting.
- Web development and publishing.
- Information management.
- News Reporting by ferola.com ™ journalists.
- Internet News Syndication
- Opinions, Analysis, Essays, and Articles.
- Links to world wide web sites.
We may change or discontinue certain services from time to time. Pricing and availability subject to change without notice. When we can, we will try to let you know about such changes in advance.
Do not use our services for anything that might be illegal or dangerous. People sometimes have trouble figuring out whether certain activities are illegal. It's usually not too hard: If it's illegal out there, it's illegal in here! Examples include illegal drugs, gambling, pornography, prostitution, robbery, spreading computer viruses, cracking into private computer systems, infringement, stolen credit card codes, violations of the Patriot Act, etc.
If you contribute material to our website, do not post gossip, rumors, lies, falsehoods, defamatory comments, personal attacks, harassing including sexually harassing, discriminatory, menacing, or otherwise inappropriate and offensive content. If you post illegal material, you may be prosecuted by the appropriate governmental authority. We explicitly forbid the posting of material as described above and anyone who violates the applicable laws will assume all legal and financial consequences. ferola.com does not condone, support, encourage, permit, or allow the posting of immoral, illegal, false, or menacing content. If necessary, we will provide law enforcement with the information required to investigate and prosecute any violations of the law.
Respect the security of our sites. Do not try to gain access to system areas private to Ferola Associates, our partners and affiliates, or other clients. Some people try to crack system security just to show it can be done. Please don't do this on our sites.
Payments to Ferola Associates
We are a verified merchant with PayPal and accept credit card payments as well as bank transfers.
Ownership of Materials
We will not gain any property rights in any messages or files you may transmit through our services. Likewise, you must respect the property rights of Ferola Associates and others. You may not copy or reuse any items you receive through our sites, unless you have first obtained full authority to do so from the owner. We own many of the things you will find on this site, such as the "look and feel" of the site, the brand name of our site, the contents of all of the information and services originated by us, and our sets of links to other sites. You cannot copy, reuse or send any of our property to others without our written permission.
Do not violate copyright law. You must secure the permission of the copyright holder before publishing copyrighted material. You will cite sources and link to online references and source material. Copyright violation may result in legal action by the copyright owner.
Do not violate any provisions of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). For more information see The U.S. Copyright Office.
Limitation of Liability and Indemnity.
You agree and acknowledge that you are fully responsible for your own acts on our sites, that if any information or services here injure you it was your choice alone to rely on that information or service. Accordingly: You agree not to hold us responsible for any injuries or losses you may suffer from the use of our sites. Ferola Associates makes no representations whatsoever about other web sites which you may access through our sites. When you access a non-Ferola Associates web site, please understand that it is independent from Ferola Associates, and that Ferola Associates has no control over the content on that web site. In addition, a link to a non-Ferola Associates web site does not mean that Ferola Associates endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, use, or products and services made available through such web site. In no event will Ferola Associates be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages for any use of our web sites, or any other hyperlinked web site, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or other data or otherwise, even if we are expressly advised of the possibility of such damages.
Law and Courts.
Our sites can be reached on the Internet from all fifty states and around the world; with many more laws and rules than we could ever keep up with. You agree that the law of our own state, Massachusetts (but not its choice of law rules) will apply to all matters relating to our sites. You also agree and consent that the courts of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts will have exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any legal actions between you and Ferola Associates.
Homeland Security.
Ferola Associates is based in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States of America and supports efforts to secure the safety of all Americans here and abroad. We also support efforts to secure the safety of all people worldwide. Do not use our site to do anything that would even give the appearance of harming anyone anywhere, especially the innocent people that invariably get hurt as a result of immoral and illegal acts.
For more information visit US Department of Homeland Security, or ready.gov
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This quote was obtained from the Boston National Historical Park website on September 5, 2006.
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