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Terms of Service
Last updated on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 (12:01:00 a.m. ET)

Use of AventuraBusinessMonthly.com is purely voluntary. If you are unhappy or dissatisfied with any component herein, your sole remedy is to leave the site immediately. The Company shall at no time be held responsible for the accuracy or recency of any content. If you choose to use the website, or any features herein, including but not limited to chat rooms, posting forums, feature articles, restaurant reviews, (collectively referred to as the "Service"), you will be agreeing to abide by all of these terms and conditions.

We reserve the right to modify, edit, alter, change, add or remove, and update portions of these Terms of Service at any time, and change concurrently the "Last Updated" date that appears atop this page. Such revisions shall become effective immediately upon their posting. It is solely your responsibility to review these Terms of Service prior to each use of this website. By continuing to use this Site, you agree to any and all changes. Your continued and ongoing use of the website, at the present time or after the posting or any revisions to the terms shall indicate complete acceptance by you of such revisions.

AventuraBusinessMonthly.com reserves the right to change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of this website at any time, including the availability of any chat room or posting forum without prior notice. We may also impose restrictions on certain features and services or limit your access to specific areas of content without rendering any prior notice and without incuring any liability.

The content contained herein is intended for your personal, non-commercial use. All material published on this website, including, but not limited to feature stories, photographic or other artistic images and illustrations, audio files, and video clips, is protected by federal copyright, and wholly owned or controlled by AventuraBusinessMonthly.com, unless otherwise explicitly stated. You shall abide by all additional copyright laws, postings, notices, information, or restrictions contained herein.

AventuraBusinessMonthly.com is protected by Title 17 of U.S. copyright law. As such, you may not modify, edit, publish, transmit in part or in whole, participate in the unauthorized transfer or sale of, reproduce, create new works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content contained herein.

It is permissible for you to download one version of any article or file on your personal computer for your private, non-commerical use, provided you maintain all requisite copyright and property ownership notices. Copying or storing any content for any commercial or public use is prohibited. Further, we shall not be held responsible for any errors, omissions, or inaccuracies contained in any content furnished by a third-party provider such as news or wire services.

You may from time to time see content posted on this website by readers, including but not limited to submissions made in our interactive restaurant guide. While we will take every precaution to ensure no content posted therein is libelous or defamatory, we cannot make any guarantee toward that end. If you believe any content on this website to be vulgar, profane, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable, you are encouraged to e-mail us. We will treat seriously every inquiry and address correspondence in a timely manner. By using this website, you agree not to publish or upload any material that would reasonable be construed as libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or illegal.

Additionally, it is incumbent upon all members of our online forums to be respectful and considerate toward others. You agree not to threaten or verbally abuse others, or use any invective or defamatory language, or purposely disrupt discussions with spam. You agree not to use language that abuses or discriminates on the basis of race, gender, religion, nationality, or and especially sexual preference. Use of hate-speech will result in immediate and lifetime suspension from this website.

You may not, under any circumstance, use this website to solicit funds, promote a business, political or religious agenda. All participants herein acknowledge that submissions may be edited for clarity and space, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed herein or in any forum owned by The Company. You waive any rights you may have in having the material revised or edited in a manner you may not find completely acceptable.

By posting content herein, you grant AventuraBusinessMonthly.com a perpetual, nonexclusive, global, royalty free, sub-licensable license to your submissions, which include, without limitation, the right to use, re-use, copy, transmit, excerpt, publish, distribute, publicly display in this or any other format, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, modify and adapt in any form, any submission posted by you. You are solely responsible for the content of your posts. While we cannot review every submission, we reserve the right to edit to delete, move, or edit submissions we deem to be in violation of any aforementioned standard for decency or appropriateness. In the event any links to other destinations on the World Wide Web are made available herein, The Company shall not be responsible for the availability of those third-party resources, or the content contained therein. You represent, warrant and covenant that no materials of any kind submitted through your account will violate, plagiarize, or infringe upon the rights of any third-party (an entity or individual), including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights.

You represent, warrant and covenant that no materials of any kind submitted through your account will not be made by anyone younger than 13 years old. You hereby indemnify, defend and hold harmless AventuraBusinessMonthly.com, including all of its officers, directors, owners, agents, third-party content providers, affiliates, and licensors/licensees from and against any and all liability and costs, including, without limitation, attorneys' fees, incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you or any user of your account of these terms or the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any such claim. We reserve the right, at its our expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.

We shall not now or at any time in the future represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any comment, statement, advice, opinion, or other content displayed herein. You acknowledge that any reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement, memorandum, or information shall be solely yours to make and shall be done at your sole risk. No claim or content on this website shall be made with any warranty or any kind, either express or implied, especially a third-party business's fitness for a particular purpose. Use of this website shall be at the sole risk of each visitor.

The terms contained herein have been crafted in and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida. Any action to enforce them shall be brought in the federal or state courts located in the City of Miami.

You agree to report any copyright violations in an expeditious manner. In the event you believe to have a claim of copyright infringement with respect to material published herein, please e-mail us at:

 
 
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