Thank you for visiting Scott W. Gonnello's web site, www.ClimbingTheFoodChain.com. Scott W. Gonnello believes that you will find the Climbing the Food Chain web sites informative and easy to navigate. We hope that you will take advantage of it regularly and use our software to evolve your business.
Your use of the Climbing the Food Chain web sites and our Company Information is subject to these terms and conditions, and by using our web site, you agree to these terms and conditions. Scott W. Gonnello reserves the right to change these terms and conditions without notice.
Ownership of Company Information
Information concerning Scott W. Gonnello and his services, including text, graphics, button icons, audio and video clips, digital downloads, data compilations (including Business Dive Log information), logos, etc. is referred to as "Company Information." Scott W. Gonnello owns all copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names related to the Company Information and the Company Information is proprietary to Scott W. Gonnello.
Use Agreement
Scott W. Gonnello offers his web sites to you conditioned upon your acceptance without modification of all the Use Limitations and Prohibited Activities set forth below (collectively, the "Use Agreement"). By using the Climbing the Food Chain web sites in any manner, you accept and agree to be bound by this Use Agreement. Scott W. Gonnello reserves the right at any time to change or otherwise modify the Use Agreement without notice. Your continued use of this web site is your acceptance of the changed or modified Use Agreement.
Limitations of Use
Climbing the Food Chain's web sites and any Company Information is available to you only for your personal use to determine the availability of goods and services offered on the web sites and to transact business with Scott W. Gonnello. Unless you have written authority from Scott W. Gonnello, you may not use the Climbing the Food Chain web sites for any commercial use or other purpose.
You may not use the Climbing the Food Chain web sites to make any speculative, fraudulent, or false reservation or any reservation in anticipation of demand.
You may not use the Climbing the Food Chain web sites for or in connection with offering any third party product or service not authorized or approved by Scott W. Gonnello.
For any use not specifically listed herein, you may not use the Climbing the Food Chain web sites after Scott W. Gonnello notifies you that your use is not authorized and requests that you cease such use.
Prohibited Activities
Except in connection with your authorized use of the Climbing the Food Chain web sites, you may not copy, modify, display, license, distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, create derivative works from, transfer, or download any information, software, services, copy or provide code/software that copies any material on this site to republish any or all of the contents of this site on a proxy server, cache or other similar form of storage or Company Information from or through the Climbing the Food Chain web sites.
You may not copy, edit, modify, re-render, frame, mirror, truncate, add to, inject, filter or change the order of the information contained on any page of Climbing the Food Chain's web sites, including, without limitation, by any way of reproducing Climbing the Food Chain web pages or Company Information on any other web site.
You may not copy, derive, edit, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, modify, use, or reproduce any code or source code relating to the Climbing the Food Chain web sites, including, without limitation, any service or product Scott W. Gonnello offers.
You may not cause to appear any pop-up, pop-under, exit windows, expanding buttons, banners, advertisement, or anything else which minimizes, covers, or otherwise inhibits the full display of Climbing the Food Chain's web sites.
You may not use any deep-link, page-scrape, robot, crawl, index, spider, click spam, macro programs, Internet agent, or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology which does the same things, to use, access, copy, acquire information, generate impressions or clicks, input information, store information, search, generate searches, or monitor any portion of the Climbing the Food Chain web sites or Company Information.
You many not use the Climbing the Food Chain web sites in any way which depletes web site infrastructural resources, slows the web sites, or interferes with the normal operation of our sites.
You many not upload or transmit to the Climbing the Food Chain web sites any device, software, program, or file that may damage the operation of any computer or Climbing the Food Chain's web sites, including without limitation, viruses or corrupt files.
You may not disguise the origin of information transmitted to, from, or through the Climbing the Food Chain web sites. You may not circumvent any measures by Scott W. Gonnello aimed at preventing violations of the Use Agreement. You may not violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion header.
When you use the Climbing the Food Chain web sites or Company Information for an authorized purpose, you must include all proprietary notices without changing or hiding them.
You may not engage in any conduct that is, or that Scott W. Gonnello deems to be, in violation of this Use Agreement.
Your Privacy
Scott W. Gonnello is concerned about your right to privacy. When you visit the Climbing the Food Chain web sites, you can be assured that any information you share with us will be treated with the utmost confidentiality and will not be disclosed to any entity outside of Climbing the Food Chain, except as outlined in our Privacy Policy.
Security
Climbing the Food Chain uses Network Security Services (NSS) to protect your billing information. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the industry standard tool that encrypts information and keeps the data private and confidential between your machine and Climbing the Food Chain. This technology makes it safe to transmit your credit card number over the Internet.
Network Security Services (NSS) works with most web browsers. (A browser equivalent to Netscape version 6 or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 or higher is recommended.)
Web Browser Compatibility
To view ClimbingTheFoodChain.com, we recommend you use a web browser equivalent to Firefox 1.5, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Opera 9.0, or Safari 2. The browser you use must support Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption and JavaScript. Disabling any of these features or using older non-compatible browsers may reduce site functionality.
To determine which browser you are running, click on Help at the top of the browser and select the About menu item that describes your browser.
Please note that any "Beta" or "Preview" version of a browser may not properly work with these pages.
Contacting Climbing the Food Chain
We love to hear from our Customers and we encourage you to send us your comments and questions by our Contact Us link. We will read all the mail you send to us and if it is warranted we will respond to you within a reasonable time.
Links to Other Sites
The Climbing the Food Chain web sites may have links to Preferred Partner web sites which are not operated, controlled or maintained by Scott W. Gonnello. While we try to only provide links to those web sites which are in good taste and not offensive to visitors of the Climbing the Food Chain web sites, Scott W. Gonnello is not responsible for the content of such web sites and cannot guarantee that such web sites will not change without our knowledge, and inclusion of such links in the Climbing the Food Chain web sites does not imply Scott W. Gonnello's endorsement or approval of the linked sites or their content.
Liability Disclaimer
THE CONTENT AND COMPANY INFORMATION FOUND ON CLIMBING THE FOOD CHAIN'S WEB SITES IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY CONCERNING THE INFORMATION, SERVICES, OR PRODUCTS OFFERED OR PROVIDED THROUGH OR IN CONNECTION WITH CLIMBING THE FOOD CHAIN'S WEB SITES AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL SCOTT W. GONNELLO, OR HIS PREFERRED PARTNERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH, THE USE OF CLIMBING THE FOOD CHAIN'S WEB SITES OR WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE CLIMBING THE FOOD CHAIN'S WEB SITES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION (INCLUDING COMPANY INFORMATION), SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH CLIMBING THE FOOD CHAIN'S WEB SITES, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE CLIMBING THE FOOD CHAIN WEB SITES, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF SCOTT W. GONNELLO OR HIS PREFERRED PARTNERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injuries caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication-line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, negligence, or under any other cause of action.
Scott W. Gonnello would like to thank you for visiting the Climbing the Food Chain web sites for your Business Evolution needs.
Updated: November 2007
