Terms and Conditions

Thank you for visiting the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC) website. In order to make the site useful and safe, we have established certain guidelines, below. The USHBC reserves the right to change these guidelines and disclaimers at any time, and you agree that each visit you make to the USHBC website shall be subject to the current guidelines.

THE US HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY COUNCIL PROVIDES THIS SITE AND RELATED SERVICES SUBJECT TO YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW. YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE RESULTS IN AN AGREEMENT AS FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE SECTION ENTITLED AGREEMENT PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CAREFULLY:

SITE CONTENT COPYRIGHTED
The contents of the USHBC website pages, including, but not limited to text, graphics and icons, are copyrighted materials owned or controlled by the USHBC and contain the USHBC’s name, trademarks, service marks, and trade names. You may download one copy of these materials on any single computer and print a copy of the materials for your use in learning about or evaluating USHBC services. No other permission is granted to you to print, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, upload, download, store, display in public, alter, or modify these materials. No permission is granted to you to use USHBC icons, site address, or other means to hyperlink other Internet sites with any page in the USHBC website, and the USHBC assumes no responsibility for any other party’s site hyperlinked to the USHBC website or in which any part of the USHBC website has been hyperlinked.

WARRANTY
THIS SITE, INCLUDING ALL DATA, SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTATION, AND CONTENT CONTAINED WITHIN IT AND ALL SERVICES AVAILABLE ON IT, ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR THE WARRANT OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE US HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY COUNCIL MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE DATA AND SERVICES AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE DATA OR SERVICES WILL BE EFFECTIVE, ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; OR THE QUALITY OF ANY DATA OR SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS. NEITHER THE US HIGHBUSH BLUEBRRY COUNCIL NOR ANY OF ITS CONTRACTORS AND AGENTS ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY DATA OR INFORMATION DISCLOSED; NOR DO THEY REPRESENT THAT ITS USE WOULD NOT INFRINGE PRIVATELY OWNED RIGHTS.

NONENDORSEMENT
Reference to any specific company, products, processes, or services by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the USHBC.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THE US HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY COUNCIL AND ITS CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, AND AFFILIATES ARE NEITHER RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THE SITE, SITE-RELATED SERVICES AND/OR DATA, CONTENT, OR INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THE SITE. YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SITE AND/OR SITE-RELATED SERVICES, DATA, CONTENT, OR INFORMATION IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE AND/OR THOSE SERVICES, CONTENT, DATA OR INFORMATION.

This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury 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, tortious behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. You specifically acknowledge that the USHBC is not liable for your defamatory, offensive, infringing or illegal materials or conduct, or that of third parties, and the USHBC reserves the right to remove such materials from the USHBC website without liability.

INDEMNITY
Each User shall indemnity, hold harmless and defend USHBC and its officers, directors, employees, agents and affiliates from and against all claims, demands or liability arising out of or related to such users violation of any of the provisions of this agreement.

CURRENTNESS OF INFORMATION
The information published on this website was valid at the time of publication. The USHBC reserves the right to make changes and improvements at any time and without notice, and assumes no liability for damages incurred directly or indirectly as a result of errors, omissions, or discrepancies.

LINKS
The USHBC website contains links to and frames of sites which are not maintained by the USHBC. While we try to include only links to or frames of those sites which are in good taste and safe for our visitors, we are not responsible for the content of those sites and cannot guarantee that sites will not change without our knowledge, and inclusion of such links and frames in the USHBC’s website does not imply the USHBC’s endorsement of the linked or framed sites or their content.

EMAIL AND MESSAGE BOARDS
By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication through the USHBC’s website, you agree to grant the USHBC a royalty free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display any such communication; and sublicense to third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the foregoing right granted with respect to the communication. The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such communication, including, but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark, or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction. You also agree not to use the USHBC’s email service to send spam or to use the website’s domain name when sending email from another destination.

The USHBC website may include message boards which allow feedback to the USHBC and real-time interaction between users of the site. The USHBC does not control the messages, information, or files delivered to the message boards. It is a condition of your use of the message boards and this website that you do not:

  • Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the message boards;
  • Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law;
  • Post or transmit any information, software, or other material which violates or infringes the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder;
  • Post or transmit any information, software or other material which contains a virus or other harmful program; or
  • Post or transmit or in any way exploit any information, software or other material for commercial purposes or which contains advertising.

If you have knowledge that infringing content has been posted on the USHBC’s website, please contact us by filling out the form at: https://blueberry.org/contact/

You understand that the USHBC has no obligation to monitor the message boards. The USHBC reserves the right at all times, however, to disclose any information as necessary or proper to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in the USHBC’s sole discretion are objectionable or in violation of these Terms of Use, or for the purposes of clarity or conciseness.

Violators of this policy may be barred from access to our message boards.