Terms of Service

1. Introduction

Welcome to The Real Joan Risch website ("the Website"). The Website is owned and operated by Frank Peter Nattrass and Sherrie Nattrass ("we," "us," or "our"). By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms").

2. Intellectual Property Rights

All content on this Website, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Frank Peter Nattrass and Sherrie Nattrass and is protected by United States and international copyright laws.

The content of the Website includes original literary and artistic works, which are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. The book "The Real Joan Risch: Her True Story" and all related content are protected by copyright.

You may not reproduce, distribute, display, sell, lease, transmit, create derivative works from, translate, modify, reverse-engineer, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise exploit this Website or any portion of it unless expressly permitted by us in writing.

The names, images, and logos identifying Frank Peter Nattrass, Sherrie Nattrass, or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights, and trademarks of Frank Peter Nattrass, Sherrie Nattrass, and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these Terms shall be construed as conferring any license or right to use any trademark, design right, or copyright of Frank Peter Nattrass, Sherrie Nattrass, or any other third party.

3. Restrictions on Use

You are expressly and emphatically restricted from all of the following:

• Publishing any Website material in any media without our express written consent;
• Selling, sublicensing, and/or otherwise commercializing any Website material;
• Publicly performing and/or showing any Website material without our express written consent;
• Using the Website in any way that is, or may be, damaging to the Website or to us;
• Using the Website in any way that impacts user access to the Website;
• Using the Website contrary to applicable laws and regulations, or in a way that causes, or may cause, harm to the Website, to us, or to any person or business entity;
• Engaging in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting, or any other similar activity in relation to the Website, or while using the Website;
• Using the Website to engage in any advertising or marketing without our prior written consent.

4. Limited License

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to access and use the Website strictly in accordance with these Terms. Your license to use the Website is strictly conditioned on your compliance with these Terms. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not:

• Republish material from the Website (including republication on another website);
• Sell, rent, or sub-license material from the Website;
• Reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on the Website for a commercial purpose;
• Redistribute content from the Website (unless content is specifically made for redistribution).

5. User Content

In these Terms, "User Content" means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material, and audio-visual material) that you submit to the Website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute your User Content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your User Content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any User Content to the Website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to the Website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon the Website.

6. No Warranties

The Website is provided "as is" without any representations or warranties, express or implied. We make no representations or warranties in relation to the Website or the information and materials provided on the Website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, we do not warrant that:

• The Website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
• The information on the Website is complete, true, accurate, or non-misleading.

Nothing on the Website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.

7. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from:

• Your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Website;
• Any conduct or content of any third party on the Website;
• Any content obtained from the Website; and
• Unauthorized access, use, or alteration of your transmissions or content.

8. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising out of or in any way connected with your access to or use of the Website or your violation of these Terms.

9. Breaches of These Terms

Without prejudice to our other rights under these Terms, if you breach these Terms in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the Website, prohibiting you from accessing the Website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the Website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the Website, and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

10. Variation

We may revise these Terms from time to time. The revised Terms shall apply to the use of the Website from the date of publication of the revised Terms on the Website.

11. Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these Terms without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these Terms.

12. Severability

If a provision of these Terms is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

13. Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of the Website and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of the Website.

14. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States, and any disputes relating to these Terms will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United States.

15. Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us through the contact form on our website.