Terms & Conditions

The plaidandhound.com web site is provided by Plaid and Hound for your personal, enjoyment, subject to these terms and conditions of use. By using this web site, you consent and agree to these terms and conditions as posted by Plaid and Hound. Plaid and Hound may modify all or any aspect of the site at any time, including the availability of any database, feature, or content, without prior notice or liability. Plaid and Hound reserves the right, at its discretion, to modify all or any part of these Terms and Conditions at any time. Please review these Terms and Conditions now and again to ensure that you are aware of any modifications.

Copyright

Plaid + Hound, plaidandhound.com, "Plaid and Hound" the name and site are protected by Copyright as a collective work. All text, graphics, design, appearance and other material ("Content") of the site is copyright © 2008-2009 Plaid and Hound. You may copy the Content only for your own personal use, provided that you maintain all copyrights and other notices that are contained in the Content, but you may not download or store Content. Copying, storage, publication, reproduction, modification, transmitting, or redistribution of any Content is prohibited without the express written permission of Plaid and Hound.

User Conduct

Plaid and Hound reserves the right to use any and all information or correspondence sent to the site via email, phone, or any other means of communication. You acknowledge that any communication with or transmission to Plaid and Hound may be intercepted or read by others and is not confidential. No fiduciary relationship exists between you and Plaid and Hound.

You agree to not use the Plaid and Hound site and services to:

• -Restrict access to the site and services of Plaid and Hound, or inhibit any other user from using or enjoying Plaid and Hound.
• -Transmit any information, data, text, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials, including any contribution, (collectively, "Content"), that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, embarrassing, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, fraudulent, pornographic, profane, or indecent.
• -Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable laws or encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or violate the law.
• -Transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party.
• -Transmit any Content that contains any software viruses or other malicious components that are designed to destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware equipment or any other similarly harmful activity, or surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
• -Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Plaid and Hound official, or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, or transmit any Content that contains false or misleading indications of origin or statements of fact.

Disclaimer of Warranties

While we make every effort to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Plaid and Hound and any of its officers, owners, its agents, and applicable third parties (collectively “Indemnified Person(s)“) harmless from and against any and all third party claims, liability, loss, and expense (including damage awards, settlement amounts, and reasonable legal fees, brought against any Indemnified Person(s), arising out of your use of the site or any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions.

Limitation Of Liability

Plaid and Hound shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the site. While Plaid and Hound takes great strides to keep the website up and running smoothly we take no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to issues beyond our control, including but not limited to previously scheduled maintenance, down time caused by outages to public networks or servers, failures on your computer software or hardware equipment, systems or local access services. Plaid and Hound makes no claims that the site will be uninterrupted, error free, or virus free; nor does Plaid and Hound make any warranty as to the results to be obtained from use of the site or its content. The site and its content are distributed on an "as is, as available" basis. Plaid and Hound makes no warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Some states do not allow exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, in such states, the liability of Plaid and Hound shall be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law. You expressly agree that the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the site and the accuracy or completeness of the content is assumed solely by you.

In no event should Plaid and Hound be held responsible for the availability of, or the content located on or through, any linked site referenced on its site or in its communications. Any concerns about the content of linked sites should be directed to the site administrator of those linked sites. Links to and from Plaid and Hound and its sites do not constitute an endorsement by Plaid and Hound of any third party products or services.