RiseAboveAddiction.com Legal Disclaimer and Terms of Use

RiseAboveAddiction.com (the Site) and its owners maintain this site to be used for personal use and information, communication, and education. Visitors should feel free to browse through all site content. All content on this site may be downloaded for non-commercial, personal use only provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. It is not permitted, however, to do any of the following: distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, this includes the text, images, as well as any audio, and video content without written permission from RiseAboveAddiction.com and its owners.

Certain terms and conditions govern your access and use of the Site ("Terms and Conditions") as well as all applicable laws. You accept by accessing and browsing the Site without limitation exception or qualification, the Terms and Conditions.

1. The information contained in the Site is not intended to replace in any way or even to suggest the same, and should not be interpreted or relied upon as, professional advice, whether medical or otherwise. The Site and its owners feel strongly about encouraging all affected by addiction in any way to seek professional advice in person from legitimate, licensed, and trained professionals. Accordingly, please consult your own professional for all advice concerning medical, legal or financial matters or the like which may be located in, or transmitted in connection with, the Site. Professional advice should be consulted before acting on any content found on this site no matter the credentials of the original author(s). Likewise, you accept personal responsibility and liability for the use, disuse, or misuse of any content on the Site, including but not limited to acting on any content found on the Site no matter the credentials of the original author(s).The Site and its owners assumes no liability of any kind for the content of any information transmitted to or received by any individual/entity in connection with such individual/entity's use of the Site, and the Site and its owners do not endorse or recommend any such information. By accessing, viewing, or in any other way using this site you release the Site and its owners of all liability pursuant to any such actions and related actions without exception, qualification, preclusion, exclusion, or preamble. The user is personally responsible to clarify with the Site any questions regarding this document including but not limited to the Legal Disclaimer and Terms of Use.

2. You should assume that everything you see or read on the Site is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site without the written permission of the Site and its owners. You are personally responsible to verify the credentials of all authors. The credentials of the authors of all Site content are user/author-submitted and are not verified by, or endorsed by the Site or its owners. Consequently, you are personally liable and responsible for the use, disuse, and misuse of any site content and any consequences pursuant to said use, disuse, or misuse. Furthermore, any use of Site content, including but not limited to acting on any content found on the Site is governed by the principles established in section “1.” : namely, but not limited to: personal responsibility and liability for such actions, the release of all liability to the Site and its owners, and the prior consultation of appropriate legitimate professionals.

3. While the Site uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on the Site, the Site and its owners make no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. The Site and its owners assume no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the site content, in whole or in part.
 
4. Your use of and access to, including but not limited to the browsing of, the Site are at your risk. Neither the Site nor its owners nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing in any way, everything on the Site including all content is provided to you "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties. The Site also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site. The same applies whether or not such actions were/are permitted by the Site, its owners, applicable state laws, local laws, national laws, or international laws.

5. Any message or materials submitted, posted or emailed to the Site including but not limited to all Forum postings and other content, Blog entries, Blog responses or Blog posts of any form, Articles, Stories, Personal Stories, Message Boards, Memorials, Recovery Stories, Tributes, Addiction Resources, Weblogs, Feedback, sections of the Site is public, and the Site  and its owners may use such messages in furtherance of its purposes. In consideration of your posting said messages and communications to the aforementioned sections of the Site, you agree that your messages will not be untruthful, offensive, obscene, defamatory, discriminatory, unlawful, or violative of the intellectual property rights of a third party. At its sole discretion, the Site and its owners reserve the right, to modify and/or remove any message, submitted, posted or emailed to these sections of the Site that the Site deems to be not in the best interests of the Site or the people served by the site including but not limited to all those affected by addiction. Although the Site and its owners desire that all such submitted messages, communications, and content of the Site to be truthful, mild, accurate, benign, and respecting the rights of all, this does not, however, represent an obligation of the Site to screen said messages and communications for untruthful, offensive, obscene, defamatory, discriminatory, unlawful, or violative content.

6. Although the Site and its owners may from time to time monitor or review, postings, transmissions, submissions, and similar content on the Site, the Site and its ownership are under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, omission, defamation, obscenity, libel, slander, falsehood, profanity, pornography, danger, or inaccuracy of any kind contained in any information within such locations and all other locations on the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered unkind in any way, malingered, a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. The Site will gladly and fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Site to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials without any exception or qualification of any kind. All visitors and users of the Site are hereby vehemently encouraged by the Site and its ownership to obey all laws and statutes including all local laws, all state laws, all national laws, and all international laws, treaties, and anything like unto them. Additionally, all visitors and users of the Site are hereby vehemently encouraged by the Site and its ownership to make themselves subject to the law including but not limited to the consequences of any such infractions of law, also including the willing submission of visitors and users of the Site to the law and its penalties for any known and/or revealed infractions of the law, especially as it relates to matters of illegal drug distribution, pornography laws, laws relating to sexual offenses, laws protecting minors, illegal gambling activities, misconduct while under the influence of alcohol or any drug, or any other infraction. Any offenders of such laws or provisions are encouraged by the Site and its ownership to turn themselves over to the appropriate law enforcement personnel willingly. The Site maintains that true addiction recovery and maintaining recovery is only possible when the penalties for the mentioned infractions are fulfilled wherever possible. Furthermore, the Site reserves the right (but is not obligated) to delete, move or edit postings that it, in its sole discretion, deems threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane or in violation of copyright or trademark laws, or otherwise inappropriate.

7. Images of people, places or objects displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, the Site. Many of the images are appropriately used with permission from www.sxc.hu (the stock.xchng free stock photography site) and with permission from (where necessary) the photographers. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.

8. The trademarks, and logos (collectively the "Trademarks") displayed on the Site, including "Rise Above Addiction" and “RiseAboveAddiction.com” are registered and unregistered Trademarks of the Site. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Site without the written permission of the Site or such third party that may own the Trademarks displayed on the Site. Your misuse of the Trademarks displayed on the Site, or any other content on the Site, except as provided in these Terms and Conditions, is strictly prohibited. You are also advised that the Site will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of criminal prosecution.

9. The Site and its ownership have not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Site and are not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. Your linking to or subsequent viewing of any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.

10. The Site may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound.