WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY
Rust Communications, Inc. d/b/a semissourian.com ("RUST COMMUNICATIONS") offers this Website, including all information, software, products, and services available from this Website or offered as part of or in conjunction with this Website (the "Website"), to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all of the terms, conditions, policies, and notices stated here. RUST COMMUNICATIONS reserves the right to make changes to these Terms and Conditions immediately by posting the changed Terms and Conditions in this location. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices and any changes to the Terms and Conditions made by RUST COMMUNICATIONS.
Personal and Noncommercial Use
The Website is for your personal and noncommercial use. As a condition to your continued use of the Website, you warrant to RUST COMMUNICATIONS that you will not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms and conditions of use.
No Warranties
USE THE WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. RUST COMMUNICATIONS MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT ANY CONTENT CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE SATISFIES ANY APPLICABLE GOVERNMENT LAW, REGULATION, OR REQUIREMENT. Neither RUST COMMUNICATIONS nor its employees, agents, third-party information providers, merchants, licensors, or the like warrant that the Website or its operation will be accurate, reliable, uninterrupted, or error-free. No agent or representative has the authority to create any warranty regarding the Website on behalf of RUST COMMUNICATIONS. RUST COMMUNICATIONS reserves the right to change or discontinue at any time any aspect or feature of the Website.
Exclusion of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, SHALL RUST COMMUNICATIONS OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, STORING OR DISTRIBUTING THE WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES AND EXPENSES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS, AND DAMAGES ARISING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH USE OF THE WEBSITE, DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE, WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU SPECIFICALLY AGREE THAT NO LICENSOR, SUPPLIER OR INFORMATION PROVIDER TO RUST COMMUNICATIONS OR ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS, OR ANY OF THEIR SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS, SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY REASON OR UNDER ANY THEORY WHATSOEVER, BASED UPON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE. Because some states do not permit the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, some or all of the above limitation may not apply to you.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold RUST COMMUNICATIONS, its officers, directors, affiliated companies, employees and agents, licensors and suppliers harmless from and against any and all claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of the RUST COMMUNICATIONS site, or any content, product or service offered through the RUST COMMUNICATIONS site, in a manner that violates or is alleged to violate these Terms and Conditions. RUST COMMUNICATIONS shall notify you of any such claim, suit or proceeding and shall reasonably cooperate with you, at your expense, in your defense of any such claim, suit or proceeding.
Featured Links and Advertisements
The Web site may contain hyperlinks to Web sites offered by parties other than RUST COMMUNICATIONS. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only. RUST COMMUNICATIONS does not control such other Websites and is not responsible for their content; nor does RUST COMMUNICATIONS' inclusion of hyperlinks to such Websites imply any endorsement of the material on such Websites or any association with their operators. Unless otherwise specifically stated on this Website, RUST COMMUNICATIONS does not endorse any product or service or make any representation regarding the reliability, quality, or accuracy of any products or services featured in or linked to any advertisement appearing on this Website.
Linking
Unless you are subsequently advised otherwise by RUST COMMUNICATIONS, you are hereby licensed to create hyperlinks to the content on the Web site, provided that the hyperlink accurately describes the content as it appears on the Web site. RUST COMMUNICATIONS reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to use specific links, at any time and may normally break any hyperlink after 14 days. Under no circumstances may you "frame" the Website or any of its content or copy portions of the Website to a server, except as part of an Internet service provider's incidental caching of pages. Each page within the Web site must be displayed in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising and promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border, margin, design, branding, trademark, advertising or promotional materials not originally displayed on the page within the Website.
Software Available on Web Site
Any software available to download from this Website is the copyrighted work of RUST COMMUNICATIONS and/or its suppliers. Your use of the software is governed by the terms of the End User License Agreement, if any, that accompanies or is included with the software. You may not install or use any software without first agreeing to the terms of such End User License Agreement. For any software not accompanied by an End User License Agreement, RUST COMMUNICATIONS hereby grants to you a personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use the software for viewing and other purposes within the scope of use of such software anticipated by RUST COMMUNICATIONS by these terms and conditions, and for no other purpose. Any such software is provided to you subject to the warranty and liability exclusions outlined in these terms and conditions.
Copyright
Except for material in the public domain under United States copyright law, all material on the Website (including all software, HTML code, Javascript code, and other code) is protected by United States and foreign copyright laws. Except as otherwise expressly provided in these terms and conditions, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, modify, rewrite, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any material contained on the Web site without the prior consent of the copyright owner. None of the material contained on the RUST COMMUNICATIONS site may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, decompiled, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photoreproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of RUST COMMUNICATIONS. Violation of this provision may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.
You may make single copies of materials displayed on the Website for your own personal and noncommercial use only, provided any copies include the copyright and other notices displayed with the materials on the Web site. You may not distribute such copies to others, whether or not for a charge or other consideration, without prior written permission from RUST COMMUNICATIONS or the copyright owner of the copied material. Requests to reproduce materials on the Web site for distribution or other purposes should be mailed to:
RUST COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS, INC.
Attn: Webmaster
P.O. Box 699
Cape Girardeau, MO 63702
phone: 573-335-6611
e-mail: webmaster@rustmedia.com
