Terms of Service

Terms and Conditions

Agreement between User and www.23Meadowbrook.org

Welcome to www.meadowbrook.org. The www.23meadowbrook.org website (the "Site") is comprised of various web pages operated by Bethesda EC Church ("Bethesda"). The site is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the "Terms"). Your use of the Site constitutes your agreement to all such terms and conditions. Please read these terms and conditions carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.

The Site is a Non-Profit Site.

Privacy

Your use of the Site is subject to Bethesda's Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices.

Electronic Communications

Visiting the Site or sending emails to Bethesda constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing.

Your Account

If you use this Site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that Bethesda is not responsible for third-party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. Bethesda and its associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.

Children Under Thirteen

This site is not intended for children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services

The Site may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Bethesda and Bethesda is not responsible for aby Linked Site's contents, including any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Bethesda is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Bethesda of the site or any association with its operators.

Certain services made available via the Site are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service, or functionality originating from the Site domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent the Bethesda may share such information and data with any third party with whom Bethesda has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service, or functionality on behalf of the Site's users and customers.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Site strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to Bethesda that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available ot provided for through the Site.

All content included as part of the service, such as text, graphics, logos, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of Bethesda or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends, or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.

You may not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site/ Bethesda content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular, you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of Bethesda and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Bethesda or our licensors except as expressly authorized by there terms.

Use of Communication Services

The Site may contain chat areas, news groups, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, "Communication Services"). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send, and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.

By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not: defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of other; publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information; upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property law (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents' upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software programs that may damage the operation of another's computer; advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose. unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages; conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters; download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner; falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contain in a file that is uploaded; restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services; violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without the consent; violate any applicable laws or regulations.

Bethesda has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Bethesda reserves the right to review to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Bethesda reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

Bethesda reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Bethesda's sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or children in any Communication Service. Bethesda does not control or endorse the content, messages, or information found in any Communication Service and therefore, Bethesda specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in a Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized Bethesda spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Bethesda.

Materials provided to the Site or posted on any Bethesda web page

Bethesda does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to the Site (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input, or submit to and Bethesda Site or our associated services (collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, unputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting Bethesda, our affiliated companies and necessary sublicenses permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet business including without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat you Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Bethesda is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in Bethesda's sole discretion.

By posting, uploading, unputting, providing, or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, or submit the Submissions.

Third Party Accounts

You will be able to connect your Bethesda account to third party accounts. By connecting you Bethesda account to your third party account, you acknowledge and agree that you are consenting to the continuous release of information about you to others (in accordance with you privacy settings on those third party sites). If you do not want information about you to be shared in this manner, do not use this feature.

International Users

The service is controlled, operated and administered by Bethesda from our offices within the USA. If you access the service from a location outside of the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the Bethesda content accessed through the Site in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions, or regulations.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Bethesda, its officers, directors, employees, agents, and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) relating to or riding out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user posting made by you, your violation of any terms of the Agreement or your violation of any rights to a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulation. Bethesda reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event, you will fully cooperate with Bethesda in asserting any available defenses.

Arbitration

In the event that parties are not able to resolve any dispute between them arising out of or concerning these terms and condition, or any provision hereof, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise at law or in equity for damages or any other relied, then such dispute shall be resolved only by final and binding arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, conducted by a single neutral arbitrator and administrated by the American Arbitration Association, or a similar arbitration service selected by the parties, in a location mutually agreed upon by the parties. The arbitrator's award shall be final, and judgement may be entered upon in any court having jurisdiction. In the event that any legal or equitable action, proceeding, or arbitration arises out of or concerns these terms and conditions, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its costs and reasonable attorney's fees/ The parties agree to arbitrate all disputes and claims in regards to these terms and conditions or any disputes arising as a result of these terms and conditions, whether directly or indirectly, including tort claims that are a result of these terms and conditions. The parties agree that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this provision. The entire dispute, including the scope and enforceability of this arbitration provision shall be determined by the arbitrator. This arbitration provision shall serve the termination of these terms and conditions.

Class Action Waiver

Any arbitration under these terms and conditions will take place on an individual basis; class arbitrations and class/representative/collective actions are not permitted. The parties agree that a party may bring claims against the other only in each's individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in a putative class, collective and/or representative proceedings, such as in the form of a private attorney general action against the other. Further, unless both you and Bethesda agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

Liability Disclaimer

The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the Site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors changes are periodically added to the information herein Bethesda EC Church and/or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the Site at any time.

Bethesda EC Church and/or its supplies make no representation about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products, services, and related graphics contained on the Site for any purpose to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. All such information, software, products, services, and related graphics are provided "as is" with warranty or condition of any kind. Bethesda EC Church and/or its suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to the information, software, products, services, and related graphic, including all implies warranties or conditions or merchantability fitness for a particular purpose, title and noninfringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law in no event shall Bethesda EC Church and/or its suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the Site, with the delay or inability to use the Site or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the Site, or other arising out of the use of the site, whether based on contract, tort negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if Bethesda EC Church or any of its supplies has been advised of the possibility of damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, because some states jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or the above limitation may not apply to you. If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the Site, ot with any of these terms of use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Site.

Termination/Access Restrictions

Bethesda reserves the right to, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without prior notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Pennsylvania in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Site. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms, including without limitation, this section.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Bethesda as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. Bethesda's performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Bethesda's right to comply with governmental, court, and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use if the Site or information provided to or gathered by Bethesda with respect to such use. If any part of the agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches that intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.

Unless otherwise specified herein, the agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Bethesda with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral, or written, between the user and Bethesda with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.

Changes to Terms

Bethesda reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the terms under which the Site is offered. The most current version of the terms will supersede all previous versions. Bethesda encourages you to periodically review the terms to stay informed of our updates.

Bethesda welcomes your questions or comments regarding the terms and conditions:

Bethesda EC Church
23 Meadowbrook Drive
Schuylkill Haven, PA 17972

Telephone: 570-739-2241

Email Address: beccwebsite@bethesdaec.org

Effective Date: October 21, 2024