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Terms of Use
This website is an online information and communication service provided by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer ("FLC") to provide information and news about the FLC to the general public.
Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using this site. By using this site, you signify your agreement with these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with any of the below Terms of Use, do not use this site. The FLC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update these Terms of Use at any time. Such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting of the modified Terms of Use. By using this service after we have posted notice of such modifications, alterations or updates, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. The FLC retains the right to deny access to anyone at its complete discretion for any reason including for violation of any of these Terms of Use.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this website are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the national Information Infrastructure Protection Act. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains open to all users, the FLC's computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage.
Trademarks, Copyrights and Restrictions
This site is controlled and operated by Universal Technical Resource Services, Inc. 950 N. Kings Highway, Suite 208 Cherry Hill, NJ 08034, the Management Support Office contractor to the FLC. The phone number is (856) 667-6770. All material on this site, including, but not limited to, images, illustrations, audio clips, and video clips, is protected by copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights which are owned and controlled by UTRS or by other parties that have licensed their material to UTRS. More specifically, UTRS is a registered trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and such mark may only be utilized with prior written consent of UTRS. Material on www.utrs.com or any website owned, operated, licensed or controlled by UTRS is solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Such material may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, including by email or other electronic means. Without the prior written consent of UTRS, modification of the materials, use of the materials on any other website or networked computer environment, or use of the materials for any purpose other than personal, non-commercial use is a violation of the copyrights, trademarks, and other proprietary rights, and is prohibited.
Links
This site may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are for your convenience only, and you access them at your own risk. The FLC is not responsible for, and does not endorse, the content of the Linked Sites, whether or not the FLC is affiliated with sponsors of the sites.
The FLC welcomes links to this site. You may establish a hypertext link to this site, provided that the link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your site by The FLC. You may not use on your site any trademarks, service marks or copyrighted materials appearing on the FLC site, including but not limited to any logos or characters, without the express written consent of the owner of the mark or right. You may not frame or otherwise incorporate into another website any of the content or other materials on the FLC site without prior written consent of the FLC.
Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability
The materials on the FLC's website are provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind either express or implied. FLC disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which, under the laws applicable to this agreement, are implied by law and are incapable of exclusion, restriction, or modification. Neither the FLC, nor any person or corporation involved in the creation, production, and distribution of FLC's website warrant that the functions contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the FLC or the server that makes them available are free of viruses or other harmful components.
You expressly agree that use of the FLC site is at your sole risk. You (and not FLC) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. You expressly agree that neither FLC, nor its affiliated or related entities, nor any of their respective employees, or agents, nor any person or entity involved in the creation, production, and distribution of FLC's website are responsible or liable to any person or entity whatsoever for any loss, damage (whether actual, consequential, punitive or otherwise), injury, claim, liability or other cause of any kind or character whatsoever based upon or resulting from the use of this site or any other FLC website. By way of example, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, FLC and related persons and entities shall not be responsible or liable for any claim or damage arising from failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation, computer virus, theft, destruction, unauthorized access to or alteration of personal records, or the reliance upon or use of data, information, opinions or other materials appearing on this site. You expressly acknowledge and agree that FLC is not liable or responsible for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other subscribers or third parties.
Section 508 Compliance
The FLC is committed to Section 508 compliance and accessibility of websites. For information, please visit our section on 508 Compliance.
Privacy
FLC is very respectful about the privacy concerns of the visitors to its site(s) on the Internet. As a general policy, no personal information is automatically collected from visitors to this site. However, certain non-personal information of visitors is recorded by the standard operation of FLC's Internet servers.
This information is primarily used to provide an enhanced online experience for the visitor. Information tracked includes the type of browser being used by the visitor (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), and the domain name of the visitor's Internet service provider (e.g., American Online, Earthlink). By having this information, web pages optimized for a particular visitor's computer are automatically made available to that visitor. Other use of this information may include internal review of the number of visitors to this site but only in an aggregate and non-personally-identifiable form, except in the event of a law enforcement investigation. Email addresses and other personally-identifiable data about visitors to this site are known to FLC only when voluntarily submitted by the user.
