Terms of USE
If you access any Site on behalf of a company, organization, or entity, then: (a) the term “you” as used herein includes you and that company, organization, or entity; (b) you represent and warrant that you are authorized to grant all permissions and licenses provided in these Terms and to bind the company, organization, or entity to these Terms; (c) you agree to these Terms on behalf of the company, organization, or entity; and (d) you represent and warrant that the company, organization, or entity agrees to be responsible to us if you violate, or it violates, these Terms.
1. CHANGES TO SITES
We may modify or take down all or part of any Site, terminate these Terms, or limit or refuse access to any Site to any person for any legal reason at our discretion. If we determine that you have breached these Terms, violated any applicable law, rule, or regulation, or undertaken other inappropriate conduct, or if we otherwise determine that it is advisable for any business reason, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without limiting other remedies, to immediately suspend or terminate your current or future access to or use of the Sites, with or without notice. We reserve the right to take reasonable steps to ensure the security of the Sites.
2. WESTWARD FISHING COMPANY CONTENT; OWNERSHIP AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The Sites and all information, content, and materials offered on or through the Sites other than User Content (collectively, “Westward Content”), is the property of Westward or its licensors. No right, title or interest in any Westward Content is transferred to you by way of these Terms or otherwise and the Westward Content is protected by copyright, trademark, and/or other intellectual property laws.
The Sites may provide you with access to data, information, and content relating to Westward products, including without limitation product descriptions, values, and other related information, materials, and content (collectively “Product Information”). Such Product Information may contain Westward Content, User Content, or a combination of Westward Content and User Content. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Sites and the Product Information solely (i) for your personal, non-commercial use or your legitimate business purposes related to your role as a current or prospective customer of Westward; and (ii) in accordance with these Terms. You may not reproduce, publish, transmit, distribute, display, modify, create derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, any Site or any of the Westward Content without our express prior written consent.
All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved by us.
While we strive to ensure that Westward Content is accurate, complete, and current, Westward Content may occasionally contain errors, inaccuracies, or be out of date. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION AS TO THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR CURRENCY OF ANY Westward CONTENT.
3. GENERAL USER TERMS
You must comply with all laws and regulations that apply to your use of the Sites. You agree that you are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Sites, and you agree to treat other users in a courteous and respectful manner. You understand that Westward is not responsible for the conduct of any user, whether on or off of the Sites. Westward does not review and is not responsible for User Content, and does not make any representations or warranties regarding any User Content.
4. USER CONTENT AND LICENSING
Some sections of the Sites allow users to leave reviews of our products, contact us, or otherwise transmit text, images, and other materials (“User Content”) to or through the Sites. When you transmit any User Content to or through a Site, you grant to Westward a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display, in whole or in part, such User Content, including, but not limited to, throughout the world in any media, as necessary (1) to display your User Content; (2) provide, maintain and improve the Sites and Westward products or services; (3) to prevent or address service, security, support or technical issues; (4) as required by law; and/or (5) as authorized by you.
You represent and warrant that you: (a) own or have obtained all necessary rights and/or licenses to User Content that you transmit; (b) are compliant with all terms and obligations applicable to your use of such User Content; (c) have the right to grant the license granted to us by you with respect to User Content that you transmit; and (d) our use of such User Content as authorized under these Terms will not violate or infringe upon the rights of any person or entity. Westward will not be responsible for any loss, destruction, damage, or alteration of any User Content you transmit or for any disclosure of your User Content caused by any third party.
5. RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF SITES
You are prohibited from using a Site if you are not able to form legally binding contracts in the applicable jurisdiction (for example, if you are under 18 years old), or are temporarily or indefinitely suspended from using any Site.
You are also not permitted to do any of the following in connection with your access to or use of any Site:
recording, copying or storing any Product Information in any manner or for any purpose whatsoever, other than for the permitted uses specified in these Terms;
directly or indirectly publishing, transmitting or distributing any Product Information, or any derivative works thereof, in any manner for any form of monetary or other valuable consideration;
using any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of a Site or any activity being conducted on or through a Site, or accessing data not intended for you or logging onto a server which you are not authorized to access;
access, aggregate or index data or content on any Site through the use of robots, spiders, scrapers, crawlers, data mining tools, or other similar tools, engines, software, agents, devices, or mechanisms without our written permission; provided that we grant public search engine operators permission to use automatic means (such as robots or spiders) to copy content from publicly accessible portions of any Site for the sole purpose of creating (and only to the extent necessary to create) a searchable index of content that is available to the public; and further provided that we reserve the right to revoke this authorization (generally or specifically) at any time in our sole discretion;
attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our systems or network or to breach security or authentication measures;
attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to any Site, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mailbombing” or “crashing”;
copying, modifying, adapting, reproducing, reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or preparing derivative works of Westward Content, or any content that is not your own;
violating or circumventing any applicable laws or regulations, or any technical measures, security measures or policies of any Site; or
violating, infringing, or breaching the rights of Westward or a third party, including, but not limited to, any copyrights, trademark rights, patent rights, trade secret rights, rights of publicity or personality, moral rights, or any other proprietary rights.
6. COPYRIGHT REMOVAL REQUESTS
If for any reason you believe an image you reserve rights to has been used on this site, please notify us by completing the form on the contact page by clicking here.