Terms

Leading Women in Technology’s Website Terms of Use

​(Effective as of November 10, 2014)

This website (“Site”) and any programs featured herein are made available by Leading Women in Technology (“us,” “we,” or “LWT”) a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. The following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”) govern access to and use of our website. Please review the following terms carefully. By accessing and using the Site, you (“you” or the “User”) agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and all policies and guidelines incorporated by reference in these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you should not access or use the Site.

These Terms of Use include a release by you of all claims for damage against us that may arise out of your use of the Site and continued use of the Site is your agreement to this release.

PRIVACY POLICY

LWT respects the privacy of its Users. Please refer to LWT’s Privacy Policy which explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that pertains to your privacy. When you access or use the Site, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy.

REGISTRATION; RULES FOR USER CONDUCT AND USE OF THE SITE

You need to be at least 18 years old to register for programs and events made available through LWT. By registering, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older.

​USE RESTRICTIONS

Your permission to use the Site is conditioned upon the following Use Restrictions: You agree that you will not under any circumstances:

  • post any information that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libelous, or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise objectionable and offensive;

  • attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group;

  • provide false or inaccurate information when registering an account;

  • interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Site;

  • make any automated use of the Site, or take any action that we deem to impose or to potentially impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our servers or network infrastructure;

  • bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Site or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Site or harvest or manipulate data; or

  • publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another User’s browser or computer.

 

ONLINE CONTENT DISCLAIMER

Opinions, advice, statements, offers, programs or other information or content made available through the Site but not by LWT are those of their respective authors, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content. LWT does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information accessed on the Site and neither does LWT adopt nor endorse, nor is LWT responsible for, the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made by parties other than LWT. LWT takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any third party content or promotions made available through the Site. Under no circumstances will LWT be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone’s reliance on information or other third party content posted on the Site.

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LINKS TO OTHER SITES AND/OR MATERIALS

LWT may run advertisements and promotions or provide you with convenient links to third party website(s) (“Third Party Sites”), as well as articles, videos, webinars, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, and other materials, content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (the “Third Party Content”). The content and links are provided as a courtesy to Users. LWT has no control over Third Party Sites and Third Party Content or the promotions, materials, information, goods or services available on these Third Party Sites or Third Party Content. Such Third Party Sites and Third Party Content are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by LWT, and LWT is not responsible for any Third Party Sites accessed through the Site or any Third Party Content posted on, available through or installed from the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices or other policies of or contained in the Third Party Sites or the Third Party Content. Inclusion of, linking to or permitting the use or installation of any Third Party Site or any Third Party Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by LWT. If you decide to leave the Site and access the Third Party Sites or to use or install any Third Party Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any site to which you navigate from the Site or relating to any applications you use or install from the site

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY​

You acknowledge and agree that we and our licensors retain ownership of all intellectual property rights of any kind related to the Site, including applicable copyrights, trademarks, and other proprietary rights. “Leading Women in Technology,” “LWT,” and other LWT graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts and service names are the trademarks or trade dress of LWT in the U.S. You may not use LWT’s trademarks and trade dress, including as part of trademarks and/or as part of domain names, in connection with any product or service in any manner that is likely to cause confusion or create the impression that LWT endorses any product or service. You may not reproduce or use LWT’s trademarks or trade dress without the prior written permission of LWT. Other product and company names that are mentioned on the Site may be trademarks of their respective owners. We reserve all rights that are not expressly granted to you under these Terms of Use.

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EMAIL MAY NOT BE USED TO PROVIDE NOTICE TO LWT

Communications made through the Site will not constitute legal notice to LWT or any of its officers, employees, agents or representatives in any situation where notice to LWT is required by contract or any law or regulation.

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USER CONSENT TO RECEIVE COMMUNICATIONS IN ELECTRONIC FORM

For contractual purposes, you (a) consent to receive communications from LWT in an electronic form via the email address you have provided; and (b) agree that all Terms of Use, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that LWT provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were in writing. The foregoing does not affect your non-waivable rights.

We may also use your email address, to send you other messages including information about LWT and special offers. You may opt out of such email by changing your account settings or Contacting Us or sending mail to the following postal address:

Leading Women in Technology
P.O. Box 583
Mountain View, CA 94042

Opting out may prevent you from receiving messages regarding LWT or special offers.

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER

THE SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, LWT EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, REGARDING THE SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, LWT MAKES NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT ACCESS TO OR OPERATION OF THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK OF LOSS RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF INFORMATION, CONTENT OR OTHER MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM THE SITE. SOME JURISDICTIONS LIMIT OR DO NOT PERMIT DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTY, SO THIS PROVISION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

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MODIFICATION OF TERMS OF USE

We can amend these Terms of Use at any time and will update these Terms of Use in the event of any such amendments. It is your sole responsibility to check the Site from time to time to view any such changes in the Agreement. If you continue to use the Site, you signify your agreement to our revisions to these Terms of Use. However, we will notify you of material changes to the terms by posting a notice on our homepage and/or sending an email to the email address you provided to us upon registration. For this additional reason, you should keep your contact and profile information current.

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GENERAL TERMS

If any part of this Terms of Use is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion of the Terms of Use will be construed consistent with applicable law. The remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. Any failure on the part of LWT to enforce any provision of these Terms of Use will not be considered a waiver of our right to enforce such provision. Our rights under this Terms of Use will survive termination.​

You agree that any cause of action related to or arising out of your relationship with LWT must commence within ONE year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred.

​These Terms of Use and your use of the Site are governed by the federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the state of California, without regard to conflict of law provisions.

YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE, UNDERSTAND THE TERMS OF USE, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE. YOU FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THESE TERMS OF USE TOGETHER WITH THE PRIVACY POLICY REPRESENT THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN US AND THAT IT SUPERSEDES ANY PROPOSAL OR PRIOR AGREEMENT ORAL OR WRITTEN, AND ANY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN US RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREIN.