Terms, Conditions and Privacy Policy
IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICES AND TERMS OF SERVICE
Welcome to handbookoffinancinggrowth.com. Your use of this website will be governed by the terms and conditions set forth below. For the purposes of these terms and conditions, if the user is not an individual, then “You” or “you” will include the user’s company, its practitioners, officers, employees, members, agents, successors and assigns. As used below, “Marks & Company” refers to Marks & Company, Inc., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and the authors of the "Handbook of Financing Growth". Marks & Company may amend these terms and conditions at any time by posting the amended terms on the website. The amended terms will take effect thirty (30) days after they are initially published on the website. Statement Regarding Offer and Sale of Securities This website does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of Marks & Company or any other company.
Copyright
This website is Copyright © Marks & Company, Inc. 2005. All rights reserved. You may download, display and print material on this website for your personal, non-commercial use. Any other copying, distribution, re-transmission or publication of any material posted on this website is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of Marks & Company. You agree that you will make no unauthorized uses of the website, including the unauthorized framing of or linking to the website. Links This website may contain links to other sites over which Marks & Company has no control. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Marks & Company of the site or the site’s contents or owner. By using the website to search for or link to another site, you agree and understand that you may not make any claim against Marks & Company for any damages or losses, whatsoever, resulting from your use of the website to obtain search results or to link to another site. No Warranty All materials published on this website or information, advice or other communications with you are provided “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Information on this website or provided to you through your use at this website may be inaccurate or incomplete and may be changed or updated without notice. Marks & Company may also make changes in the products, services, programs or relationships described on this website at any time without notice. Marks & Company shall have no duty, and hereby expressly disclaims any obligation, to update any content included in this website or to respond to any inquiries or comment on any submissions made by you through your use of the website.
Submitted Information
Marks & Company shall be under no restriction with regard to use or distribution of any information provided through this website. User Responsibility to Protect against Viruses Marks & Company has no intention of distributing any electronic materials designed to deliberately cause errors in or disrupt use of any computer system. However, it is your responsibility to take precautions to ensure that whatever you may download from this website is free of such items as viruses and other items of a destructive nature.
Limitation of Liability
In no event shall Marks & Company or its agents be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or damages for loss of profits, revenue, data, down time, or use, incurred by you or any other person, whether in an action in contract or tort, arising from access to, or use of, this website or any linked website or the information they contain, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
Privacy
Marks & Company is firmly committed to protecting your privacy online.
Information We Collect
We collect two types of information from you: (a) information you voluntarily submit; and (b) information our site gathers automatically.
Information You Submit
We welcome everyone to search and use our site for free to locate information about Marks & Company. To access certain offerings on the site, we ask that you fill in and submit our registration forms so that we can provide you with that information. Our registration form uses required and nonrequired fields. You must provide some basic information needed to process your request including contact information. When registering, you also must choose a Username and a Password and enter an email address. There may be optional fields on our registration form that you may use to provide more data about yourself and your organization to help us serve you better. If you email us for any reason, any information in your email will only be used by us to respond to you.
Information We Gather Usage Tracking
In general, you can visit our web site without telling us who you are or providing us with any information. However, we collect the domain names (IP addresses), log files, and other standard tracking data (not the e-mail addresses) of all visitors to our website to measure the number of visits, pages visited, average time spent on the website, etc. It is never associated with individually identifiable information that would reveal anything personal about you. We use such aggregated information to help us evaluate our website, our information provided, products and services, including new items we make available on our website. We also collect the e-mail addresses of those who send us e-mail messages, however, we will never share those addresses with any other company. Cookies A cookie, a bit of data sent by a website to your browser, enables the site to return the results the browser expects. Marks & Company uses temporary, session-specific cookies to ensure visits go smoothly. Such cookies allow Marks & Company to provide your browser with information tailored to your needs and visit. Marks & Company may use permanent or persistent cookies that remain on your computer after your visit to identify you upon a return visit to our site. Our cookies neither reveal nor contain any identifying or personal data. Cookies also cannot read any information on your computer or interact with other cookies on your hard drive. If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can turn off the cookie acceptance option in your browser settings. NOTE: Disabling cookie support will prevent this site from functioning properly and you may not be able to utilize fully all of its features and information. Since Marks & Company only uses temporary cookies, we hope you'll agree the benefit of accepting the cookies outweighs any discomfort about cookie technology.
Uses of Information
We only use your personal information to help us improve our services, and to inform you about additional products, services or developments that may be of interest to you. We reserve the right to selectively share this information with outside parties on a blind basis. We may also email you promotional information. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third-parties, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information. We may also release information when we believe, in good faith that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements or (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of Marks & Company, our users, or others.
Information Sharing
Marks & Company never willfully discloses any individually identifiable information about its users to third parties without a user’s specific permission to do so. We do not sell users’ names or email addresses to other companies to use to send unsolicited ads or junk mail. We may provide individually identifiable information to third parties in any case where it is required by law. We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses. Security To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Links
This site contains external links to other web sites. The inclusion of any link does not imply Marks & Company’ endorsement of any other company, its site, or the products and services it sells. Marks & Company has no control over the content of such third party sites and is not responsible for any information contained on these sites, nor is Marks & Company responsible for the privacy policies of those sites and the information they may gather expressly or automatically. Our Site may include links to the sites of our business partners, vendors and advertisers. We will not provide any of your information to these third parties without your permission.
Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Policy
This Privacy Policy co-exists with our applicable Terms of Use policy, and together both policies govern the general practices of this site. We encourage all of our users to familiarize themselves with both statements. Your use of this website constitutes your consent to the collection and use of the information described in this Privacy Policy by Marks & Company. If we change our Privacy Policy we will update this page of the website so you will always be aware of how we use your information.
Use of handbookoffinancinggrowth.com By Children
Perhaps more important than our concern for your privacy is our concern for the privacy of your children. Since we fully understand your concerns, handbookoffinancinggrowth.com will never: (a) encourage children to use handbookoffinancinggrowth.com; or (b) market our products or services to children.
Termination
Marks & Company may terminate these terms and conditions and your use of the website at any time if you violate any provision of these terms and conditions. Termination of these terms and conditions will not affect any obligations which accrued before the termination.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This website is controlled by Marks & Company, Inc. from its offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States of America. All matters relating to access to, or use of, this website shall be governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina and the United States. Any legal action or proceeding relating to access to, or use of, this website or the information it contains shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts for Wake County, North Carolina. You and Marks & Company agree to submit to the jurisdiction of, and agree that venue is proper in, these courts in any such legal action or proceeding.
