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Midwest Technical Inspections, Inc., and its subsidiaries and
affiliates ("MTI") require that all visitors to our sites on the
World Wide Web (the "Sites") adhere to the following Terms of
Use. Please read the Terms of Use carefully. By accessing our sites, you
indicate that you acknowledge and accept the Terms of Use. These Terms of
Use apply to all sites operated by Midwest Technical Inspections, Inc., including:
MTInspections.com ("MTI website"),
myGISA.com ("myGISA"), and
portal_myGISA.com ("GISA Portal").
MTI Respects Your Privacy Concerns
MTI's privacy and security policies
demonstrate our responsibility to the individuals from and about whom we
receive and report information, and to our customers, who rely on us to
safeguard the information they report. Please review our
Privacy Policy, which
also applies to your visit to this Site.
Copyright
By visiting this site, you understand and
agree that all copyrights and trademarks will be respected. Copyright ® 2012 by
Midwest Technical Inspections, Inc., ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. All information and
content included on this Site, including but not limited to (i) text, graphics,
logos, icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, and product
demonstrations; (ii) data and content compilations; and (iii) software, is the
property of MTI or its content or software suppliers and is protected by United
States and international copyright laws. You may not modify, copy, distribute,
transmit, display, publish, sell, or license any information from this site
without the express written consent of MTI and any applicable third-party owner
or licensor. You may not create derivative works, or use any information,
content, or software available on or through this Site for commercial or public
purposes without the express written consent of MTI and any applicable
third-party owner or licensor. In addition, you may not reproduce, transmit,
transcribe, store in a retrieval system, or translate into any human or
computer language any part of the material and databases on this Site in any
form or by any means whatsoever without the express written consent of MTI,
with the exception of printable output from the Automated Ordering Page or GISA
that is necessary in the normal course of your business, which may be
printed or saved to your computer system for record-keeping purposes. You must
include the following statement on any permissible copies of material made from
our sites: "Copyright, Midwest Technical Inspections, Inc., (year)." Such
consent may be requested by contacting Midwest Technical Inspections at
Trademarks
The trademarks, logos, service marks,
graphics, and trade dress displayed on this Site are the intellectual property
of MTI and other applicable parties that have licensed their property and/or
material to MTI. You should assume that any product or service name is a
registered mark, trademark, or service mark and the intellectual property of
MTI or a third party. You are prohibited from using any MTI or third-party
trademarks or service marks noted on the Site for any purpose, including but
not limited to use as meta-tags on other pages or sites on the World Wide Web,
without the express written permission of MTI or such third parties. If MTI
grants such written permission, you may not use the trademarks and service
marks in any manner that (i) is likely to cause confusion among customers or
the public, or (ii) disparages or discredits MTI.
This is a partial list of MTI trademarks and
service marks. These trademarks and service marks, and their associated logos, are
registered trademarks of Midwest Technical Inspections, Inc. MTI updates this list
periodically. However, MTI may claim additional trademarks and service marks not
listed here. Midwest Technical Inspections®,
MTSC - Midwest Technical Safety Consultants®, Safety Net 800®, GISA -
Global Inspection System Access®, GISA Portal®, GISA WebInspect®,
PATH - Predictive Analytical Trend History®, CUSTOM - Comprehensive Underwriting
Strategy & Options Management®, and associated logos
MTI grants to you, the user, a limited
license to access and make personal use of this Site; but you may not download
(other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with the
express written consent of MTI. However, printable output from the Automated
Ordering Page or GISA, which is necessary in the normal course of your
insurance business, may be printed or saved to your computer system for
record-keeping purposes. You must include the following statement on any
permissible copies of material made from our sites: "Copyright, Midwest
Technical Inspections, Inc., (year)." This license does not include any
right to (i) resell or use this Site or its contents for any commercial
purposes; (ii) collect and use any product listings, descriptions, or prices
found on this Site; (iii) make any derivative use of this Site or its contents;
(iv) download or copy account information found on this Site for the benefit of
any individual or corporation; or (v) use data mining, robots, or similar
data-gathering and extraction tools in connection with this Site or any
information found on this Site. You may not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell,
resell, visit, or otherwise exploit this Site or any
portion of this Site for any commercial purpose without the express written
consent of MTI. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any
trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page
layout, or form) of MTI or any third party without the express written consent
of the applicable proprietary information owner. You may not use any meta-tags
or any other "hidden text" using MTI's name or trademarks without
MTI's express written consent. Any unauthorized use immediately terminates the
limited license granted to you by MTI. MTI grants to commercial web search engines
a limited license to index this site by any manual or automated method and to
display the titles of pages and brief excerpts from those pages as search
results. You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to
create a hyperlink to the home page of this Site so long as the link does not
portray MTI or its products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or
otherwise offensive manner. You may not use the MTI logo or any other
proprietary graphic or trademark of MTI as part of such link without MTI's
express written permission. Nothing in this license shall confer on you or any
third party any rights to or under any patent, copyright, or trademark of MTI
or any third party. MTI controls and operates this Site from its
offices within the Only adults may use this site. We do not
knowingly use this website to solicit data from or market to children under the
age of 13. Our reports are based on information
obtained through fallible human sources and accuracy is not guaranteed. All
information in our reports is strictly confidential for your own exclusive use
and benefit and shall never be revealed to subjects on whom reported
unless authorized to do so by federal and state laws or other
governing statutes. Midwest Technical Inspections, Inc., any of its affiliates
and subsidiaries, or any of its representatives shall not in any way be liable
because of any violations of these conditions or because of any inaccuracies in
these reports and warranty that your procurement and use of any of our services
are in full compliance with Public Law 91-508 in its entirety and all other
Federal or State laws or other governing statutes. The charge for completion of
the report represents a fee for services only. The charge does not include any
assumption of liability or risk arising from any insurance coverage written by
the requesting company or any entity doing business with said company. By your
acceptance of our reports you specifically agree to these conditions and
further agree to indemnify us for any costs or expenses caused by your
non-compliance with any of these terms. Except as noted above, MTI expressly
prohibits unauthorized hypertext links to the Site and the framing of any
content available through the Site. MTI reserves the right to disable any
unauthorized links or frames and specifically disclaims any responsibility for
the content available on any other Internet sites linked to the Site. Access to
and use of any other Internet sites linked to the Site is at the user's own
risk. Although MTI maintains high standards regarding the protection of your
privacy and personal data and information, linked sites may contain rules and
regulations, privacy provisions, confidentiality provisions, transmissions of personal
data provisions, and other provisions that differ from the provisions provided
on the Site. MTI is not responsible for examining or evaluating these
provisions and expressly disclaims any and all liability related not only to
such provisions, but also to any of the content found on any linked sites. You
should carefully review both the privacy statements and the terms or conditions
of use applying to any linked site. All content, products, and services on this
site, or obtained from a website to which this site is linked, are provided to
you by MTI "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied,
including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and
fitness for a particular purpose. The information, software, products, and
content published on this site or a linked site may contain technical
inaccuracies or errors, including typographical errors. MTI specifically
disclaims any and all liability for such errors and reserves the right to make
improvements or changes to the site at any time without notice. You agree that MTI will not be liable,
whether in contract, tort, strict liability, or otherwise, for any direct,
special, incidental, punitive, consequential, or indirect damages (including
but not limited to lost profits or lost opportunity) arising out of or in
connection with the use of the site or a linked site, or with the delay or
inability to use the site or a linked site. This limitation of liability
includes, but is not limited to, the transmission of any viruses which may
infect a user's equipment, failure of mechanical or electronic equipment or
communication lines, telephone or other connection problems, unauthorized
access, theft, operator errors, strikes or other labor problems, or any force
majeure. MTI cannot and does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted access to
the site. Certain jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties
or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. If these laws apply to you,
some of the above disclaimers and limitations may not apply. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold
harmless MTI, together with its respective employees, agents, directors,
officers, and shareholders, from and against all the liabilities, claims,
damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees and costs) arising
out of your use of this Site; your breach or alleged breach of this Agreement;
or your breach or alleged breach of the copyright, trademark, proprietary, or
other rights of MTI or third parties. MTI may place notices of employment
opportunities on this Site. At MTI, we fully recognize and are sensitive to all
confidentiality issues surrounding the on-line employment application process.
Therefore, in accordance with MTI's privacy guidelines and principles, if you
choose to submit your name, address, contact information, resume, and/or any
other personal information to MTI in response to an employment opportunity, you
can be confident that MTI will use this information only for lawful and
legitimate employment purposes. MTI does reserve the right to distribute the
information you submit among its employees for legitimate business purposes.
Furthermore, nothing in these Terms of Use or contained on this Site shall
constitute a promise by MTI to interview, hire, or employ any individual who
submits information to it, nor shall anything in these Terms of Use or
contained on the Site constitute a promise that MTI will review any or all of
the information that users or applicants submit. MTI is an Equal Opportunity
Employer. MTI reserves the right to revise these
Terms of Use at any time. Users are deemed to be apprised of and bound by
any changes. If any condition is deemed invalid, void, or
for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and
shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining conditions. MTI reserves the right to seek all remedies
available at law and in equity for violations of these Terms of Use,
including the right to block access to this Site. MTI may restrict certain secure areas of
this Site to authorized users and permit access to these secure areas only by
the use of a confidential password. Unauthorized individuals attempting to
access such areas of this Site are in explicit violation of these Terms of
Use and may be subject to prosecution and applicable damages. You acknowledge and agree that the laws of
the State of Illinois without regard to conflict of law principles, and
applicable federal law, will govern these Terms of Use, your use of the
Site, and any dispute of any kind that might arise between you and MTI in
connection with the Site. Any action you, any third party, or MTI brings
arising out of or in any way connected to this Site and/or these Terms of
Use shall be brought exclusively in either the state or federal courts located
in or having jurisdiction over License & Site Use
Children
Hold Harmless
Linked Internet Sites
Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of
Liability
Indemnity
Employment Opportunities
Changes to Terms of Use
Severability
Violations of Terms of Use
Access to Password Secure Areas
Jurisdictional Issues and Applicable Law