Terms of Use

Your use of the Atlas (“Atlas”) site indicates your ongoing agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this disclaimer. Atlas reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time, so please check back often to review the most recent version. Please carefully review the following rules that govern your use of our Site and also read our Privacy Policy regarding the information that you provide to us.

Use of Website

Contents included on this Site are solely for the personal use of website users. You many not copy, modify, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, transfer, resell, or republish any of the contents of this website without the prior written consent of Atlas.

Forbidden activities

You may not use the site for illegal, unlawful or malicious activities, or for activities we deem improper for any reason whatsoever in our sole judgment. We reserve the right to take preventative or corrective actions to protect ourselves and our users. Your use of the site and service is conditioned in part on your compliance with the rules of conduct provided herein, and your failure to comply may result in termination of your access to and use of the site and service.

Privacy

Please review our Privacy Policy to understand our practices including the collection and use of your information.

Proprietary Rights

All materials in or accessible through our Site, including images, text, graphics, illustrations, logo, patents, trademarks, copyrights, photographs, and all related intellectual property rights in Atlas and numo content, are the exclusive property of numo. Nothing in this agreement grants you a license or under any of our intellectual property rights, and you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publish, or create derivative works from any Atlas or numo content.

Amazon Web Services, the “Powered by AWS” logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries.

Minors

This Site is intended solely for users who are eighteen years of age or older. By using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older.

User Responsibility and Privacy

From time to time Atlas may invite people to share content either on its web site or its social media pages. Please know that content shared will be reviewed by institution staff and may be reproduced by the Institution in all media. Atlas reserves the right, in its own discretion, to refuse to post shared or submitted content. 

Atlas is committed to protecting the privacy of its web site visitors in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. All information gathered from users in connection with use of the web sites is governed by our Privacy Policy (link). Please note that the website is not specifically dedicated to children and does not actively solicit information from children. Children under the age of thirteen are required to obtain permission from an adult before submitting personally identifiable information or other content to Atlas’s web site.

Submissions

Atlas also welcomes your feedback and comments. Any ideas, suggestions, information, know-how, material, or any other content (collectively, “Submissions”) received through this Site, however, will be deemed to include a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive right and license for Atlas to adopt, publish, reproduce, disseminate, transmit, distribute, copy, use, create derivative works of, display (in whole or part) worldwide, or act on such Submissions without additional approval or consideration, in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such Submissions. You hereby waive any claim to the contrary.

Links to and from Third Party Sites

Atlas does not review all of the sites linked to or from the web site and is not responsible for the content or privacy policies of any off-site pages or other linked sites. These links are provided as a convenience, and linking to any off-site pages or other sites is at the user’s own risk. Atlas also provides links to third parties as a convenience for its visitors, but is not responsible for the content of, or links to and from, the linked sites. Atlas encourages you to read the terms and conditions as well as private policies of the respective sites.

Disclaimer of Warranties

By using this web site in any manner, you represent and warrant that your use will be consistent with these Terms of Use. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Atlas and numo from all claims, causes, costs, expenses, fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), judgments, liabilities, losses, and damages arising from or relating to Your Content or your use of the web site.

Without limiting the foregoing, the Content on the web site is provided “AS IS” WITHOUT A WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OR OTHER THIRD PARTY PROPRIETARY RIGHTS.

Atlas may update, change, or delete content at any time. Atlas makes reasonable, ongoing efforts to revise and update the web site, but does not warrant that the web site will provide continuous, prompt, secure, or error-free service, and assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions, including the inaccuracy of content, or for any damages or losses that users or any third party may incur as a result of the unavailability of the web site.  Atlas assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for any damage to your computer equipment, data, or other property arising from your use of the site, whether due to a computer virus or otherwise.

Limitation of Liability

NEITHER Atlas, ITS AFFILIATES, TRUSTEES, DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, COMPENSATORY, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (EVEN IF  Atlas HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO USE OF THE WEBSITES, CONTENT, AND/OR COMPILATION, NOTWITHSTANDING THE FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY REMEDY.

Entire Agreement; Severance; Waiver

These Terms of Use incorporate by reference any notices on the web site and, together with the Privacy Policy, Community Terms of Use and any end-user license agreements, constitute the entire agreement regarding user access to and use of the web site. If any provision of the Terms of Use, Community Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision will be severable from the remaining provisions and will not affect their validity and enforceability. Markup’s failure to enforce a provision on any occasion shall not be construed as a waiver of such provision.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use and any amendments thereto shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws. Any dispute arising out of, in connection with, or related to this agreement shall be brought in any Federal or State court located in Allegheny County and the State of Pennsylvania, and the parties hereby waive any objection that they may have to personal jurisdiction in these courts.

Infringement Notices

Atlas respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask users of the Institution’s web site or social media pages (collectively the “Site”) to do the same. We may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, take reasonable steps to disable and/or terminate access to the Site of Users who may be repeat infringers of intellectual property rights. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide the following information to Atlas’s Copyright Agent:

• an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright;
• a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
• a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Atlas Site;
• your address, telephone number, and email address;
• a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf.

Atlas’s agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:

By mail:
DMCA Agent 141 S Highland Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15206

By email:
dmca@numo.com

Assumption of Risk

You use the Internet solely at your own risk and subject to all applicable local, state, national, and international laws and regulations. While Atlas has endeavored to create a secure and reliable Site, please be advised that the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to/from this Site over the Internet cannot be guaranteed. Accordingly, Atlas is not responsible for the security of any information transmitted via the Internet, the accuracy of the information contained on the Site, or for the consequences of any reliance on such information. Atlas shall have no liability for interruptions or omissions in Internet, network or hosting services. You assume the sole and complete risk of using this Site.

Nature of Relationship / Severability

No joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Atlas as a result of this Terms of Use or your use of the Site. If a court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction holds any provision of this Agreement unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to affect the intent of the parties, and the remainder of this Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect.