Terms of Use

Term of Use

The InSight Web site contains both public areas and password protected secure areas. Members of the general public are welcome to view material in the public areas subject to these Terms and Conditions ("Terms"), which we may amend from time to time. To view materials in the secure areas, you must obtain authorization and a password from InSight.
 

Permission to Use Web Site

The material on our Web site is owned by InSight and its licensors, and is protected from unauthorized copying and dissemination by copyright and other laws. Subject to your full compliance with these Terms, InSight authorizes you to view, copy and print material on the Web site but only for your own lawful personal or internal business purposes.

The information and features included in the Web site have been compiled from a variety of sources and are subject to change at any time without notice. This Web site and all information it contains are provided "AS IS." By using this Web site, you assume the risk that the information on this Web site may be incomplete, inaccurate, out of date or may not meet your needs and requirements.

 

Restrictions on Use of Web Site

Because your permission is limited to personal or internal business uses, you may not distribute or transmit information or other material from insight-net.org (whether in printed or electronic format) to others outside your household or company. For example, you may not use material from insight-net.org to create marketing materials, directories or mailing lists. You many not commercially exploit information or other materials you obtain from insight-net.org such as by resale or by granting others access to such materials on a time-sharing or other basis.

In addition, certain portions of insight-net.org contain information which is considered confidential and proprietary to InSight. This information is not available to the general public and is contained in the password protected areas of insight-net.org. Any attempted unauthorized access of this information is prohibited and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible under the law.

If you are granted permission to access password protected areas of insight-net.org, you agree as a condition of such access to keep the information contained there confidential and not to use or disclose such information except as expressly authorized by InSight.

As a user of insight-net.org, you must abide by our Rules of Conduct. InSight may amend the Rules of Conduct from time-to-time. Your acceptance of these rules is contingent upon your ability to use insight-net.org.

Use material on insight-net.org for personal use only. You agree not to, in any way, make commercial or other unauthorized use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, or otherwise, of material obtained through insight-net.org , except as permitted by the Copyright Act or other law.

You will not violate our intellectual property rights or the rights of others; delete any copyright, patent or trademark notice from materials you obtain from insight-net.org; enter password protected areas without authorization; and link another Web site to insight-net.org without InSight's prior written approval.

Violation of these Rules will result in the immediate revocation of access to the password protected areas of insight-net.org and/or revocation of membership in InSight and may result in liability for damages.
 

Free Use of Content Posted to insight-net.org

By posting any content to insight-net.org ("Postings") you grant InSight and its members the perpetual, royalty free, transferable right, under any patent or copyright that you may own, to use, modify, copy, produce, sell, distribute and transmit the Postings throughout the world and for any purpose. You retain all other rights in your Postings.

You represent and warrant to InSight and its members that the exercise of the foregoing licensed rights by it or them will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party and that you have legal right, power and authority to upload to insight-net.org the Postings that you submit.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the "DMCA") provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law. If you believe in good faith that materials we host infringe your copyright, you (or your agent) may send us a notice requesting that we remove the material or block access to it. If you believe in good faith that someone has wrongly filed a notice of copyright infringement against you, the DMCA permits you to send us a counter-notice. Notices and counter-notices must meet the then-current statutory requirements imposed by the DMCA; see The United States Copyright Office/Library of Congress for details. Notices and counter-notices should be sent to:

Executive Director
InSight
401 N. Michigan Ave. MC: 2200-1
Chicago, IL 60611
 

Rights Reserved

InSight reserves all rights not specifically granted to you under the section titled "Permission" above.

Materials on insight-net.org are provided to you by license only. InSight and its licensors own and continue to own all copies of such materials however made.

InSight may alter, suspend or discontinue insight-net.org at any time for any reason without notice or cause. The site may be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance or malfunction of computer equipment.

InSight may deny or terminate the permission granted under these Terms at any time for any reason by giving you notice, and upon such notice, you agree to return or destroy all copies of materials which you obtained or derived from InSight’s Web site.

Access to insight-net.org is monitored. The requesting URLs, the machine originating the request, and the time of the request are logged for access statistics and security purposes. Use of insight-net.org constitutes consent to such monitoring.
 

InSight not Responsible for User Postings

You hereby release InSight from any liability to you based on any defamatory, infringing or otherwise unlawful or illegal material posted on the InSight Web site by other parties. You acknowledge that InSight is not responsible for accuracy or content of the opinions and information posted by other users of the InSight web site.
 

Disclaimers

Reference to any product, process, publication, service or offering of any third party by trade name, trademark, manufacturer or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement or recommendation by InSight.

InSight is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information posted by users or other third parties to insight-net.org, and views and opinions of users of insight-net.org do not necessarily state or reflect those of InSight. Users are responsible for seeking the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the information, opinion, advice or content available at insight-net.org.

The Internet is inherently unreliable and subject to breaches of security. InSight is not responsible for the performance of any portion of the Internet including other World Wide Web sites to which insight-net.org may be linked or from which insight-net.org may be accessed.

InSight may link its site to other Web sites that may be maintained by third parties. These other sites are not under InSight's control and InSight is not responsible for the contents of such site. InSight provides these links as a convenience to you and the inclusion of a link in the InSight Web site does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by InSight of the company products or services offered or promoted at the linked to site.

InSight’s Web site and all information it contains are provided "AS IS." InSight makes no representation or warranty whatsoever regarding the completeness, accuracy, currency, or adequacy of, or the suitability, functionality, availability or operation of insight-net.org or the information it contains.

INSIGHT SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND THE NONINFRINGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THIS WEB SITE AND THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, SOFTWARE, SERVICES AND OTHER MATERIALS CONTAINED, FEATURED OR OFFERED ON THE WEB SITE.

IN NO EVENT WILL INSIGHT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THIS WEB SITE OR ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, SOFTWARE OF SERVICES CONTAINED, FEATURED OR OFFERED ON THIS WEB SITE, EVEN IF INSIGHT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF SUCH DAMAGES.
 

General Provisions

By using insight-net.org, you agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend InSight from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, all costs and expenses of defense, including but not limited to attorneys' fees, resulting directly or indirectly from a claim by a third party that is based on your use of this Web site in violation of these Terms, including any misrepresentation or breach of warranty by you.

Trademarks contained in insight-net.org are the property of their respective owners.

These Terms shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflicts of law principles.

Nothing in these Terms shall be interpreted as conferring by implication, estoppel, or otherwise any license or right under any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right of InSight or any third party, except as expressly granted herein.