You must agree to the following terms and
conditions of use before you access or otherwise use or participate in the AmFam Community Connection. Your use of this Web site
constitutes your agreement with American Family to be bound by, and to act in
accordance with, these Terms and Conditions.
Notification of Changes
We may change or revise these Terms and
Conditions from time to time by updating this posting. Please visit the Terms
and Conditions area each time you visit the Web site to keep up to date with
the current terms regarding your use of the Web site. Your use of the Web site
reaffirms your continuing agreement to the then-current Terms and Conditions.
Any future changes to these terms and conditions will be posted on the
community Web site.
Confidentiality
Your invitation to participate in the AmFam Community Connection is personal and non-transferable. You or anyone in
your household or immediate family can not work for
an insurance company, a market research firm or department, or an advertising /
public relations agency. You may
not disclose to others any of the information that we disclose to you or any
ideas or information that are generated in the community. Your community member
name and password are for your use only. You may not disclose your password to
any other person.
Assignment
You irrevocably assign to American
Family all rights in any ideas or expressions of ideas that you provide
to the community. All comments, suggestions, graphics, ideas (including product
and advertising ideas), and other information or materials you submit to American Family through this Web site will
become and remain the exclusive property of American
Family, including any future rights associated with such submissions,
even if these Terms and Conditions are later modified or terminated. This means
that you disclaim any proprietary rights in such submissions, and you
acknowledge American Family unrestricted
right to use them (or materials or ideas similar to them) in any medium, now
and in the future, without notice, compensation or other obligation to you or
any other person. It also means that with the exception of your personal
information, American Family has no
obligation to keep your submissions confidential.
You further release and waive all claims against American Family with respect to any intellectual property or
other proprietary rights, rights of privacy and publicity, rights of
attribution, or any other liability under the applicable laws.
Privacy
To the extent that you also provide us with any of your personally identifiable information, American Family will only use such information in accordance with the privacy policy of American Family a copy of which is available at http://www.amfam.com/company/legal/privacy.asp. Please note that by clicking on the "I Accept" button below, any of your personally identifiable information you submit may be directed to a third party site administered and hosted by a third party vendor retained by American Family provided, that in such event, the third party vendor will have no right to use any such information other than uses necessary to fulfill its services to American Family.
By clicking-accepting these
Terms & Conditions, you accept that American Family collects any personally
identifiable information voluntarily provided by you on this Web site.
When collecting sensitive
personal information (e.g. ethnicity, income, education, etc.), we are doing so
for the purposes of creating a balanced community reflective of American Family’s consumer
population or its segments. Such information is not collected for any
discriminatory purposes. You will always retain the right not to answer any
question regarding personal information with which you do not feel comfortable,
without impacting your consideration for inclusion in the community.
If you do not want your personally
identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have
already submitted this information and would like us to remove it from our
records, please contact the community facilitator at helpdesk@cspace.com. If you want to correct any
personally identifiable information that you already submitted, please contact
the community facilitator at helpdesk@cspace.com.
On a regular
basis, this personally identifiable information will only be used for the
purposes of sending the weekly community
email from your facilitator(s) and for administering electronic or physical
rewards. In addition, community facilitators will be monitoring
community postings for any complaints or problems reported by American Family
policy holders. Such postings will be logged and reported to American Family,
which at its discretion may choose to contact the posting member.*
*NOTE: The AmFam Community Connection is not a customer service channel. There is no guarantee that specific individual customer concerns, complaints, or problems raised in the community will be addressed directly by American Family. Any such issues will be evaluated and addressed on a case-by-case basis.
Personal information collected on the site may be stored or processed in your country of residence or any other country in which American Family or its subcontractors or agents maintain facilities and by using the site, you consent to any transfer of information outside your country of residence. American Family will ensure that if information is transferred outside your country of residence it will be treated in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Your personally identifiable
information may also be used to help us track the way you use our site and our
products. We may also combine the information you provide with information that
we collect separately, including information you have provided to other
organisations (with consent that it can be shared) as well as public
information. All of this information will help us to better understand your
needs and how we can improve our products and services. In order to do
this, we may also share your information with companies who carry out work for
us. These companies have agreed to only use your information in the way we tell
them and to have procedures in place to protect the information.
If we share your information
with American Family, other than as set out above, we will contact you first
and give you the opportunity to remove your information from our database
unless you have already given your consent to this.
Please note that by clicking on the "I Accept" button below,
any of your personally identifiable information you submit may be directed to a
third party site administered and hosted by a third party vendor retained by
American Family provided, that in such event, the third party vendor will have
no right to use any such information other than uses necessary to fulfill its
services to American Family.
Personal information collected
on the site may be stored or processed in your country of residence or any
other country in which C Space or its subcontractors or agents maintain
facilities and by using the site, you consent to any transfer of information
outside your country of residence. C Space is a self-certified
member organization of the
In accordance with the EU Data Directive, we will
retain your personal information securely per the provisions above and will
dispose of this data no later than 2 weeks after the term of the community has
come to an end.
Code of Conduct
You agree
not to upload, post or transmit to or distribute or otherwise publish through
the Web site any materials which (i) restrict or
inhibit any other user from using the Web site, or contain a virus or other
harmful component, (ii) violate any United States laws or violate or infringe
any rights of third parties (including copyright,
trademark, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right), or
(iii) are not appropriate or pertinent to the purpose of the Web site or are
libelous, defamatory or offensive. You will agree to abide by the copyrights,
trademarks and other intellectual property and proprietary rights of American
Family.
You agree to abide by these rules of conduct:
·
Only those who are members of the community may
access it.
· You or anyone in your household or immediate family can not work for an insurance company, a market research firm or department, or an advertising / public relations agency.
·
Unless specifically told otherwise, you must keep
confidential all information that American
Family, other community members, and you share with the community.
·
American Family has the right to
use the ideas and information that you put forth in the community.
·
You agree not to use behavior that does not
support a safe and comfortable environment for all members, or to engage in any
proselytizing or commercial activity.
·
You agree not to copy or download any material
from the community.
·
You agree to receive emails from the Community
regarding Community Activities.
·
You understand that no personal information that
you post on this site will be sold, traded, shared with other organizations, or
used for any purpose other than consumer research.
·
American Family does not endorse
the information posted in the community.
Links
to Third Party Sites
This Web site may
contain links to other Web sites for informational purposes and are not
intended to suggest any affiliation with American
Family unless expressly stated. The reliability, availability and
performance of these other Web sites is beyond American Family’s control, and American
Family makes no representations or warranties with respect to such Web
sites. American Family provides
these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link to such
Web sites does not imply endorsement by American
Family of those Web sites. American
Family reserves the right to terminate any link or linking program at
any time.
No
Duty To Monitor
American Family is not responsible for content provided by
others and is under no obligation to pre-screen content posted within a
Community. American Family, however,
retains the right to refuse to post, redact or delete any content for any
reason whatsoever. Notwithstanding this right, American Family is not responsible for any failure or delay in
removing material.
Compliance
With DMCA
The AmFam Community Connection complies with the
provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The owner or the
person entitled to enforce a copyright may notify American Family of any violation of copyright on the https://myamericanfamily.cspace.com
site by sending a notice containing the following information:
Send Notice to DMCA@cspace.com.
Please note that
this procedure is solely for notifying American
Family that copyrighted material has been infringed. THIS POLICY IS
INTENDED TO COMPLY FULLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ONLINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
LIABILITY LIMITATION ACT.
Membership
Your membership in and access to the AmFam Community Connection is strictly at the discretion of American Family and may be revoked at any time without cause and without notice. You hereby release American Family from any and all liability that may arise in connection with your use of the AmFam Community Connection.
Warranty
American Family does not represent or endorse the
correctness, accuracy, reliability or any other aspect of advice, opinion,
statement or other information distributed through the AmFam Community Connection, and reserves the right to remove any
content from the community Web site that it deems inappropriate.
American Family and/or its agencies endeavor to maintain
this Web site and its operation, but is not, and
cannot be, responsible for the results of any defects that may exist in the Web
site or its operation. As to the operation of the Web site, American Family expressly disclaims all
warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited
to all implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose, title and non-infringement. American
Family makes no warranty that (i) the
operation of the Web site will meet the user's requirements; (ii) access to the
Web site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, free of viruses, worms, trojan horses or other harmful components, or free of
defects or errors; (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the
Web site will be accurate or reliable; or (iv) defects will be corrected. You
(and not American Family) assume the
entire cost of all servicing, repair, or correction that may be necessary for
your computer equipment and software as a result of any viruses, errors or any
other problems whatsoever you may have as a result of visiting this Web site.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances shall American
Family and/or its agencies be liable for any damages or injury,
including any direct, special, incidental, consequential, punitive or other damages,
that may result from the use of, or the inability to use, the Web site or any
materials in this site, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other
tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of
the Web site or information available in the Web site. American Family shall not be liable even if American Family or an American Family authorized representative
has been advised of the possibility of such damages. These include but are not limited
to damages or injury caused by error, omission, interruption, defect, failure
of performance, delay in operation or transmission, line failure or computer
virus, worm, trojan horse or other harmful component.
You agree to
defend, indemnify and hold American Family and/or
its agencies harmless from any claim or demand made by any third party against American Family due or arising out of your
participation in the AmFam
Community Connection and/or any
breach by you of the provisions of this agreement.
Jurisdiction
These Terms and Conditions and any disputes arising under or related to
these Terms and Conditions (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or
otherwise) will be governed by the laws of the State of
Whom to Contact
If you have submitted personally
identifiable information through this American Family site or interactive advertisement
or other communication, and would like that information deleted from our
records, please contact your community facilitator at helpdesk@cspace.com.