Terms of Use

1. By visiting, using or linking to this Website, you enter into an agreement with the Consumer Energy Council of America (CECA) and are bound by the current Terms and Conditions as well as by other applicable laws. CECA reserves the right to revise these Terms and Conditions at any time.

2. The content of this Website is provided on an "as is" basis without warranties or representations of any kind, express or implied. CECA, to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, disclaims any and all warranties and representations, expressed or implied, relating to such content, including but not limited to any warranties and representations of non-infringement of third party intellectual property rights, title, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Although CECA strives to ensure the content of this Website is accurate, complete and current, CECA does not warrant or represent that any of the content of this Website is error-free, complete or current, that use of such content will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected or that this Website, its content and the servers on which the Website and content are available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Applicable law may not allow exclusion of certain warranties; therefore these exclusions may not apply to you in whole or in part.

3. Neither CECA nor any of its employees, agents, successors, assigns, affiliates, or content or service providers will be liable to any person or business entity for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other damages, injury or losses based on or caused by any use of this Website or any other Website to which this site is linked, the content of such Websites, or any viruses or other harmful components derived from any such Websites, including, without limitation, any lost profits, revenue, or use, business interruption, or loss of computer programs or information or injury even if CECA has been specifically advised of the possibility of such damages, losses or injury. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of certain liabilities, so these exclusions may not apply to you in whole or part.

4. CECA controls and operates this Website from Washington, DC in the United States of America. CECA makes no representation or warranty that the content of this Website is appropriate, lawful or available for use in other geographic locations. If you use this Website from other locations, you are responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws.

5. Links to other Websites or internet locations from this Website are provided for your convenience and informational purposes only. CECA does not endorse, sponsor or approve any of the content of such Websites and internet locations. CECA has no control over any Websites or other internet locations that you may access through this Website and is not responsible for the content or accuracy of the content of any such Websites or internet locations. If you access any other Website or internet location through this Website, you do so at your own risk. CECA shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any injury, damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods, products or services available on other Websites or internet locations.

6. CECA is the owner and or/authorized user of all the data, information, text, images, sounds, icons, and other content contained on this Website (including transmissions to this Website) and the copyrights and other intellectual property rights therein, unless otherwise noted. You may review, download or print one copy of the content of this Website for your personal use or record. Only one copy of such content may be made and you may not modify it in any way, distribute or transmit it to any other person or company, frame or otherwise display any of the content of this Website on your own or any other Website or make any other use of it. Such copying modification, distribution or transmission, display or use would breach this agreement and infringe upon CECA's copyrights, copyrights licensed to CECA, and/or other intellectual property rights owned by or licensed to CECA.

7. CECA reserves the right to change, delete or discontinue at any time, without notice, any materials, equipment, specifications, models, products or services described on this Website, or the availability thereof. Products, methods and processes detailed on this Website may be covered by U.S. or foreign patents and/or other intellectual property rights.

8. When transmitting information of any kind to this Web Site, you represent, warrant and agree that you have the unhindered right to do so, that such information does not infringe the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property or proprietary rights of any other person or company, that such information is not confidential or proprietary to you or any other person or company, that such information does not injure any other person or company and that CECA may copy distribute, modify, display, disclose, obtain intellectual property protection in its own name for, or otherwise use, such information and (and ideas embodied therein) processes made there from without restriction, in any way it chooses, anywhere in the world, free of charge to CECA and without acknowledgement of the source of authorship. CECA will not be liable for any compensation, claims or damages resulting from any use of any such information and you agree to defend and hold CECA harmless with respect to any such compensation, claims or damages.

9. While using this Website, you may not:

• Restrict or inhibit other users from using and enjoying the Website.
• Transmit or post unlawful, fraudulent, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, profane, threatening, abusive, hateful, offensive or otherwise objectionable information, including, without limitations, transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct constituting a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate local, state, national or foreign law, including without limitation the U.S. export control laws and regulations.
• Transmit or post advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, investment opportunities or schemes or any other unsolicited commercial communication (except as expressly permitted by CECA), or engage in spamming or flooding.
• Transmit or post any information or software containing a virus, Trojan horse, worm or other harmful component.
• Transmit, post, publish, reproduce, distribute or in any way exploit information or other material obtained through this Website for commercial purposes (except as expressly permitted by the provider of such information or other material).
• Upload, post, publish, reproduce, distribute in any way, information, or other material obtained through this Website which is protected by copyright, other proprietary right or derivative works with respect thereto, without permission of the copyright owner or right holder.
• Upload, post, publish, reproduce, distribute in any way, any component of the Website itself or derivative works with respect thereto, as the Website is copyrighted by CECA as a collective work under U.S. copyright laws.

10. CECA has the right, but is under no obligation, to review transmissions to this Website electronically from time to time and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy the law, regulation or other law enforcement or governmental request, in order to operate the Web Site properly or to protect itself. CECA disclaims all responsibility for the content of such transmissions and all liability arising from such content. CECA may remove any transmissions to this Website at any time. CECA shall not be liable for any compensation, claims or damages resulting from any transmissions to this Website and you agree to defend and hold CECA harmless with respect to any such compensation, claims or damages, including attorney's fees.

11. You are bound by these Terms and Conditions as long as you access or use this Website or use or maintain any of the content of this Website or copies thereof. You may terminate your obligation at any time by discontinuing your use of this Website and by destroying all content obtained from it and all copies thereof.

12. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the law of the District of Columbia and all applicable federal laws, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles. If any portion of these Terms and Conditions is unlawful, invalid or unenforceable, the such portion of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed severed here from and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of these Terms and Conditions.