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About this site

This website is administered by Filias Consulting from within the United States. The material provided on this web site is protected by law, including, but not limited to, United States and international intellectual property law. By accessing, browsing or otherwise using this website, you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these terms and you agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Filias Consulting may at any time revise these terms by updating this posting. By using this website, you agree to be bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to determine the then current terms of use to which you are bound. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use this website.

Copyrights

All pictures, logos, names, likenesses, trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property are owned by Filias Consulting and/or their respective companies, agencies, individuals and/or institutions.

Use Restrictions

Permission is granted to display, copy, download or distribute the material on this website for personal use only, provided you do not modify the material and that you retain all copyright notices contained in the material. Use of the material at this website constitutes your acceptance and agreement to provide proper credits wherever such material is reproduced (e.g., Photo or Review courtesy of Filias Consulting). Material identified with "copyright" or "courtesy of" notices other than Filias Consulting must remain in place. Material on this website may not be mirrored on any other server without the express written permission of Filias Consulting.

Furthermore, if you would like to link to our images or videos, you MUST link directly to our pages where the images or videos are contained, and NOT directly to the image or video file. Every day over two thirds of the hits to our images and videos are from outside our pages, which translates into bandwidth theft. We have the ability (and reserve the right) to redirect outside accesses of our images and videos to websites of our choice.

Links to Other Web Sites

Links to third party sites on this website are provided solely as a convenience to you. Furthermore, this site is set up to build a database of links provided by visitors to this site. If you use these links, you may leave this website. Filias Consulting has not reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites or their content. Thus, Filias Consulting does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this website, you do this entirely at your own risk.

Pictures Uploaded to this Web Site

The uploadable photo gallery on this website is provided solely as a convenience to you. Due to the nature of a user-uploadable photo gallery, Filias Consulting cannot guarantee the authenticity of the pictures, nor the content. It should also be understood that Filias Consulting may not have reviewed these photo uploads and does not control and is not responsible for their content. Occasionally, Filias Consulting will go through and review, edit and delete pictures that may be inappropriate, but this is not an automatic process.

Furthermore, it is also understood that uploading pictures to this site releases Filias Consulting from any copyright infringement and/or legal obligations related to the pictures. All copyright liabilities lie with the uploadee, which is why registration to upload is mandatory. In the event of a legal dispute between Filias Consulting and the actual copyright owner of a picture, personal information may be released, including, but not limited to: IP address(es), login information, email address(es), and any other information stored during registration.

Disclaimer of Warranty

In preparing the material on this website, Filias Consulting has attempted to offer the most current, correct and clearly expressed information possible. However, inadvertent errors may occur.

THE MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE PURSUANT TO THE APPLICABLE LAW, Filias Consulting DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR OTHER VIOLATION OF RIGHTS. Filias Consulting DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE, VALIDITY, ACCURACY, OR RELIABILITY OF, OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF, OR OTHERWISE RESPECTING, THE MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE OR ANY SITES LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE.

Limitation of Liability

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL FILIAS CONSULTING BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR PROFIT, ARISING OUT OF THE USE, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF FILIAS CONSULTING HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOUR USE OF MATERIAL FROM THIS WEBSITE RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION OF EQUIPMENT OR DATA, YOU ASSUME ANY COSTS THEREOF.