Terms of Use
By reading, linking to, quoting, printing, or in any way making use of this website's content in any manner, you agree to follow and be bound by the following terms of use.
1. All original content of olympicanimalsanctuary.org (the "site") is copyrighted by the website's legal owner (the "owner"), and is not to be used without permission except as provided herein. "A second chance for a wild life", "Sanctuary for wildlife in peril", "Saving animals in crisis", "Olympic Animal Sanctuary", "Wildlife Emergency", "Olympic Horse Sanctuary", "Olympic Wildlife Center", "Ocean Rescue", "Olympic Canine Rehabilitation Center", "olympicanimalsanctuary.org", "wildlife-emergency.com", "olympicwildlifecenter.org", "olympicwildlifecenter.com", "olympiccanine.org", "olympiccanine.com", "olympicanimalsanctuary.org", "olympicanimalsanctuary.com", "olympicanimals.org", "olympicanimals.com", "olympicsanctuary.org", "olympicsanctuary.com", and "ocean-rescue.org" are all trademarks belonging to the owner. In using the site you recognize that no factual statement on the site should be relied upon without further investigation on your part sufficient to satisfy you in your independent judgment of its accuracy. These terms of use are subject to change, and it is your responsibility to review them regularly. A hyperlink to these terms of use appears at the bottom of the site's homepage.
1a. These Terms of Use extend to any and all websites operated in conjunction with olympicanimalsanctuary.org, including any subdomains, parked domains, add-on domains, or separate web pages under the control of the owner and containing a hyperlink to these Terms.
2. Permission is granted to read, quote, cite, link to, print, or otherwise use site content, so long as you comply with the terms below:
A. All quotations from the site will include credit to Olympic Animal Sanctuary and to the individual author(s), and will include a hyperlink to http://olympicanimalsanctuary.org. Printed materials must include a citation containing "http://olympicanimalsanctuary.org," and the name(s) of the individual author(s).
B. In exchange for the access to the site content described above, you agree not to sue the site or the owner for its content, whether original or linked or quoted from another source, in any court, on any grounds whatsoever in law or equity. Should you violate this agreement by filing such a lawsuit, you agree to pay the owner the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) as liquidated damages, in addition to all attorney's fees, court costs, and other expenses associated with this litigation, and to indemnify and save harmless the site and the owner from any damage award made against them in such an action. Should this agreement not to sue be held unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, you agree to binding arbitration, with all arbitration expenses to be paid by you. The arbitration panel shall be composed of three (3) website operators selected by the owner, or operators from those in the links list on the site. The award in such arbitration shall be limited to (1) a monetary sum not to exceed $10 or the equivalent in goods and/or services, at the discretion of the owner; and (2) the publication of a retraction on the site. Should this arbitration provision be held unenforceable in a court of competent jurisdiction, you agree to accept as liquidated damages in any lawsuit against the site the sum of ten dollars ($10) or the equivalent in goods and/or services, at the discretion of the owner, and you agree that you will be entitled to no other relief of any kind in law or equity. You agree that all disputes concerning these terms of use or the content of the site are to be resolved in the courts of Clallam County, Washington, under the laws of Washington and the United States of America.
C. You agree that efforts to obtain site content in violation or circumvention of these terms of use constitute a violation of the site's copyright and you understand and agree that (1) by virtue of this agreement you are stopped from arguing otherwise: and (2) such violations may lead to civil or criminal penalties.
D. If you are a corporation, you agree to provide, upon the filing of any lawsuit or the mailing of any letter threatening legal action, a bond in the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) as security against the liquidated damages provided for in paragraph 2.B. above. If you are an attorney or law firm representing a party filing such lawsuit or causing such a letter to be sent, you agree to provide a bond in the same amount as security against the liquidated damages provided for in paragraph 2.B. above unless you have never accessed, viewed, read, or otherwise made use of the site's content in any form.
3. This site does not contain instructions for buying, selling, or trading wild animals, or instructions for their captive care or breeding. Captive wild animals should only be in the care of qualified, licensed, and legitimate animal welfare and/or conservation organizations, which may include sanctuaries, veterinary organizations, and species reintroduction programs. Individuals wishing to possess wild animals should not consult this site for advice, nor may any content contained on the site be used by anyone to promote the captivity of wild animals under the care of individuals or of organizations other than those of the type mentioned herein. The following individuals or organizations may not read, link to, quote, print, or in any way make use of this website's content in any manner:
A. Individuals or organizations that promote the buying, selling, or trading of wild animals, with the exception of legitimate endangered species breeding programs intending to release captive-bred animals into their natural habitat at a specified time and location; the legitimacy of such programs is to be determined by the site's owner.
B. Individuals or organizations that promote the breeding of wild animals in captivity, except those breeding programs exempted in item A. above.
C. Individuals or organizations that keep wild animals in captivity, or promote the keeping of wild animals in captivity, not including qualified, licensed, and legitimate animal welfare and/or conservation organizations, determined at the site owner's discretion.
D. Trophy hunters or sport hunting outfitters.
E. Fur farmers, trappers, manufacturers, vendors, or lobbyists.
F. Practitioners of traditional medicine that exploits endangered species.
G. Other individuals or organizations whose activities are not in line with the principles set forth by this website, as determined by the site's owner.
The persons or organizations listed in items A-G above must immediately follow the instructions in Article 4 below in order to avoid possible civil and criminal liability:
4. If you do not agree to these terms of use, exit the site immediately, destroy all copies of site content remaining in any form on your computer, any other computer or network device under your control, in print form, or on any information storage or retrieval device that you possess or control. Then execute the following affidavit and send it by certified mail to Olympic Animal Sanctuary, Legal Department, 1021 Russell Rd., Forks, WA 98331:
Affidavit
I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that I possess no copies of the olympicanimalsanctuary.org website in any form whatsoever; that neither I nor any employee or associate will access that site in the future in any form whatsoever; that I will immediately destroy any copies of olympicanimalsanctuary.org content that happen to come into my possession. I understand that action contrary to these statements constitutes both perjury and a violation of the olympicanimalsanctuary.org Terms of Use, subjecting me to possible civil and criminal liability.
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Signed (include date)
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Witnessed (notary)
Notary Seal:
My commission expires: ______________
