Agreement Regarding the Use of This Website

This Internet website is provided as a means of communication, e-commerce, education, entertainment, and information. This site is owned and operated by Ave Maria Press, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, IN 46556.

All of the material on this website, including but not limited to, its content, chapters of books, graphics, photographs, and the computer code and application, is copyrighted by Ave Maria Press, Inc., or by third parties.

You may download material from this site for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copyright and other intellectual property notices associated with the downloaded material are retained. None of this material may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use.

You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, repost, transmit, distribute, frame, or reuse in any way any material from this website, including, but not limited to, code, software, text, images, logos, video and/or audio, through any medium in existence or yet to be invented.

Specific Restrictions on Use of Material

You must respect all trademarks, copyrights, service marks, logos, and patents on all of the intellectual property on this website, whether these trademarks, copyrights, servicemarks, logos, and patents or marks belong to Ave Maria Press, Inc., or are licensed from third parties. You may not use any of these logos, trademarks, servicemarks, patents, or this website's content without the express written consent of Ave Maria Press, Inc.

Rights Granted to Ave Maria Press, Inc.

If you post or input messages, comments, data, and suggestions, or if you upload files or communicate in any way through this website, you are thereby granting all intellectual property rights in that material to Ave Maria Press, Inc. The material will be deemed nonconfidential, and Ave Maria Press, Inc., may use any ideas, comments, and intellectual property in any way it chooses, including, but not limited to reproduction, disclosure, and publication through any medium now in existence or yet to be invented.

The rights that are granted are royalty-free, perpetual, nonexclusive, and unrestricted, and include, but are not limited to, the right to license, sell, copyright, trademark, servicemark, and patent the material.

Privacy and List Policy

If you provide Ave Maria Press, Inc., with your e-mail address, Ave Maria Press, Inc., may use your e-mail address to communicate with you and also to send you any e-mail information you have told us you want to receive. The policy of Ave Maria Press, Inc., is not to provide your e-mail address to any third party.

Disclaimers

Ave Maria Press, Inc., may provide links to third-party websites, or mention Internet websites maintained by third parties. When you use this website or any website linked to or mentioned on this website, you do it at your own risk. Ave Maria Press, Inc., does not operate or control these third-party sites, and therefore makes no warranties, implied or expressed, about any materials found on these third-party sites.

Ave Maria Press, Inc., does not warrant that this website, its components, or its functions will be uninterrupted or error-free. Ave Maria Press, Inc., does not warrant that this website or any website linked to this website or mentioned on this website is free of viruses or other harmful components.

Limitation of Liability

In no case shall the affiliates of Ave Maria Press, Inc., or any third party that has helped create, produce, deliver, or operate this website, be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, Ave Maria Press, Inc.'s, website or its components, for any reason whatsoever, including negligence. By the use of this website you specifically acknowledge and agree that Ave Maria Press, Inc., is not liable for any conduct whatsoever by any user. By the use of this website you acknowledge and agree to all of the terms of this Agreement.

Validity

If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect those provisions that can be given effect without such invalid portion.

Governing Law

This Agreement is to be governed and enforced according to the laws of the State of Indiana, and the venue for any cause of action shall be St. Joseph County, Indiana.