Terms And Conditions

Legal Terms and Conditions

1. Privacy

Please review our Privacy Statement, which also governs your visit to the website, so that you may understand our privacy practices.

2. Intellectual Property

All content available on the website, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, data compilations, and software, and the compilation thereof (the “Content”) is the property of The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC or thefirmweb.com, our affiliates, our partners or our licensors, and is protected by United States and international copyright laws.

The trademarks, logos, and service marks displayed on the website (collectively, the “Trademarks”) are the registered and unregistered marks of The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC , our affiliates, our licensors or our partners, in the United States and other countries, and are protected by United States and international trademark laws. All other Trademarks not owned by us, our affiliates, our partners or our licensors that appear on the website are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, or sponsored by us.

Except as set forth in the limited license in Section 3 below, or as required under applicable law, neither the Content, the Trademarks, nor any other portion of the website may be used, reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, accessed, modified, or otherwise exploited, in full or in part, for any purpose without our prior written consent.

3. Limited License

We grant you a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive license to access and make personal use of the website. Please note that you may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose the website or any portion thereof without our prior written consent.

The limited license set forth in this Section 3 does not include the right to: (i) modify or download the website or its contents (except caching or as necessary to view content); (ii) make any use of the website or its Content other than for personal use; (iii) create any derivative work based upon either the website or its Content; (iv) collect account information for the benefit of another party; (v) use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing our name or the Trademarks without our express written consent; or (vi) use software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or take any other action that may impose an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure.

You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of the website for personal, non-commercial use only. A website that links to the website (i) may link to, but not replicate, our Content; (ii) may not imply that we are endorsing such website or its services or products; (iii) may not misrepresent its relationship with us; (iv) may not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, obscene, offensive or controversial, and may contain only content appropriate for all ages; (v) may not portray us or our products or services, in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive or objectionable manner, or associate us with undesirable products, services, or opinions; (vi) may not use any Trademark without express written permission; (vii) may not link to any page of the website other than the home page. We may, in our sole discretion, request that you remove any link to the website, and upon receipt of such request, you shall immediately remove such link.

Any unauthorized use by you of the website terminates the limited license set forth in this Section 3 without prejudice to any other remedy provided by applicable law.

4. Third Party Links

We are not responsible for the content of any off-website pages or any other websites linked to or from the website. Links appearing on the website are for convenience only and are not an endorsement by us, our affiliates or our partners of the referenced content, product, service, or supplier. Your linking to or from any off-website pages or other websites is at your own risk. We are in no way responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, off-website pages or any other websites linked to or from the website, nor do we assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, content, products, or services of such pages and websites, including, without limitation, their privacy statements and terms and conditions. You should carefully review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of all off-website pages and other websites that you visit.

5. Submissions

We welcome inquiries or feedback on our service however, it is our policy to decline unsolicited suggestions and ideas. Notwithstanding our policy with regard to unsolicited ideas, any inquiries, feedback, suggestions, ideas or other information you provide us (collectively, “Feedback”) will be treated as non-proprietary and non-confidential. Subject to the terms of our Privacy Statement, by transmitting or posting any Submission, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, sell, assign, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display any Feedback or submissions in any form, media, or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, alone or as part of other works. You also acknowledge that your submission may not be returned and we may use your feedback and submission, and any ideas, concepts or know how contained therein, for any purpose including, without limitation, developing, manufacturing, distributing, and marketing products.

If you make a comment or submission, you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control the rights to your materials submitted. You further represent and warrant that such Feedback and submission does not constitute or contain software viruses, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.” You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead us as to the origin of any Submission. You agree to indemnify us for all claims arising from your claims to any rights in any submission.

6. Representations and Warranties; Limitation of Liability

THE WEBSITE IS PRESENTED “AS IS.” WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OR THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, UNLESS SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES ARE NOT LEGALLY EXCLUDABLE.

YOU AGREE THAT WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, FOR ANY (a) INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS; (b) ACCESS DELAYS OR ACCESS INTERRUPTIONS TO THE WEBSITE; (c) DATA NON-DELIVERY, MISDELIVERY, CORRUPTION, DESTRUCTION OR OTHER MODIFICATION; (d) LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY SORT INCURRED AS A RESULT OF DEALINGS WITH OR THE PRESENCE OF OFF-WEBSITE LINKS ON THE WEBSITE; (e) COMPUTER VIRUSES, SYSTEM FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION WHICH MAY OCCUR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING DURING HYPERLINK TO OR FROM THIRD PARTY WEBSITES; OR (f) EVENTS BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL.

FURTHER, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) RELATED TO THE WEBSITE REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00).

7. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless for any loss, damages or costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any third party claim, action, or demand resulting from your use of the website. You also agree to indemnify us for any loss, damages, or costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from your use of software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or any other action you take that imposes an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure.

8. Disputes

With respect to any dispute regarding the website, your rights and obligations and all actions contemplated by these Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Washington D.C., as if the Terms and Conditions were a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within Washington D.C. Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to the website shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Washington D.C., except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our intellectual property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in Washington D.C., and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this Agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator’s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

9. General

You acknowledge and agree that these Terms and Conditions, together with our Privacy Statement, constitute the complete and exclusive agreement between us concerning your use of the website, and supersede and govern all prior proposals, agreements, or other communications.

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting the changes on the website. Any changes are effective immediately upon posting to the website. Your continued use of the website constitutes your agreement to all such terms and conditions. We may, with or without prior notice, terminate any of the rights granted by these Terms and Conditions. You shall comply immediately with any termination or other notice, including, as applicable, by ceasing all use of the website.

Nothing contained in these Terms and Conditions shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between us. Our failure to require your performance of any provision hereof shall not affect the full right to require such performance at any time thereafter, nor shall our waiver of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself. In the event that any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law or be so held by any applicable court decision, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not render these Terms and Conditions unenforceable or invalid as a whole. We will amend or replace such provision with one that is valid and enforceable and which achieves, to the extent possible, our original objectives and intent as reflected in the original provision.

10. Contacting Us

If you have questions about these Terms and Conditions, please contact us by email at info@thefirmweb.com.

Privacy Statement

1. Purpose

The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC has adopted this Privacy Statement in order to inform you of its policies with respect to information collected from this website. Your use of this website constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Statement and your consent to the practices it describes.

2. Automatic Collection of Anonymous Information

When you visit The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC , like when you visit most other websites, certain anonymous information about your visit is automatically logged, which may include information about the type of browser you use, the server name and IP address through which you access the internet, the date and time you access the site, the pages you access while visiting The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC website, and the internet address of the website, if any, from which you linked directly to thefirmweb.com site. This information is not personally identifiable.

3. Personally Identifiable Information

Personally Identifiable Information is any information that concerns you individually and would permit someone to contact you, for example, your name, address, telephone number, email address or any information you submitted to thefirmweb.com that identifies you individually.

Thefirmweb.com will not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you provide it. Therefore, if you do not want thefirmweb.com to obtain any personally identifiable information about you, do not submit it.

You can visit and browse The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC website without revealing personally identifiable information about yourself. You may also choose to disclose personally identifiable information about yourself, which may be maintained as described below. Thefirmweb.com may collect personally identifiable information about you from its website by methods such as the following:

4. Registration Forms

If you are offered the opportunity to enter a promotion or to become a registered user of The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC website, you must apply by filling out the registration form on the site. This form requires certain personally identifiable information that may include, without limitation, your name, email address, postal address, telephone number and/or a unique individual password.

5. Transactions and Activity

If you become a registered user or if you conduct transactions through thefirmweb.com, it collects information about the transactions you engage in while on the website and your other activity on the site. This information may include, without limitation, areas of the website that you visit, transaction type, content that you view, download or submit, transaction amount and payment information.

6. Email and other voluntary communications

You may also choose to communicate with The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC through email, via our website, by telephone, in writing, or through other means. We collect the information in these communications, and such information may be personally identifiable.

7. Information Use

The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC may use the personally identifiable information collected through its website primarily for such purposes as:
a) helping to establish and verify the identity of users;
b) opening, maintaining, administering and servicing subscribers’ accounts or memberships;
c) processing, servicing or enforcing transactions and sending related communications;
d) providing services and support to users;
e) improving the website, including tailoring it to users’ preferences;
f) providing users with service updates, promotional notices and offers, and other information about The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC;
g) responding to your questions inquiries, comments and instructions;
h) maintaining the security and integrity of its systems.

The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC uses the anonymous browsing information collected automatically by its servers primarily to help it administer and improve its website. Thefirmweb.com may also use aggregated anonymous information to provide information about its website to potential business partners and other unaffiliated entities. Again, this information is not personally identifiable.

8. Disclosure of Information

The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC does not provide personally identifiable information to unaffiliated third parties for their use in marketing directly to you. The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC may use unaffiliated companies to help it maintain and operate its website or for other reasons related to the operation of its business, and those companies may receive your personally identifiable information for that purpose. The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC may also disclose personally identifiable information about you in connection with legal requirements, such as in response to an authorized subpoena, governmental request or investigation, or as otherwise permitted by law. Finally, as The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC business develops, it may sell or buy corporate assets, and in such transactions customer information may be one of the transferred business assets. If The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC, its internet businesses, or substantially all of its assets, is acquired, customer information may be one of the assets transferred.

9. “Cookies” and Advertisers

Thefirmweb.com website’s server, or the servers of companies that are used to operate this site, may place a “cookie” on your computer in order to allow you to use the website and to personalize your experience.

A “cookie” is a small piece of data that can be sent by a web server to your computer, which then may be stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow thefirmweb.com to recognize your computer while you are on its website and help customize your online experience and make it more convenient for you. Cookies are also useful in allowing more efficient log-in for users, tracking transaction histories and preserving information between sessions. The information collected from cookies may also be used to improve the functionality of the website.

The advertisers and/or other content providers that may appear on this website may also use cookies that are not sent by thefirmweb.com’s website. Such ads or content may contain cookies that help track and target the interests of users of this website in order to present “personalized” advertisements or other messages that the user might find interesting. The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC is not responsible for any such cookies.

Most web browser applications (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer) have features that can notify you when you receive a cookie or prevent cookies from being sent. If you disable cookies, however, you may not be able to use certain personalized functions of this website.

10. Security

The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to help guard personally identifiable information. If transactions are offered on the site, transaction information is transmitted to and from thefirmweb.com in encrypted form using industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections to help protect such information from interception. Thefirmweb.com restricts authorized access to your personal information to those persons who have a legitimate purpose to know that information to provide services to you and those persons you have authorized to have access to such information. Please be aware, however, that any email or other transmission you send through the internet cannot be completely protected against unauthorized interception.

11. Choice/Opt-Out

In order to provide service to you, Thefirmweb.com will send you communications related to your transactions, security or the administration of its website. From time to time, The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC may also wish to send you updates about thefirmweb.com or promotions. If you do not wish to receive non-transaction/security related communications from thefirmweb.com, please send an email containing your request to info@ thefirmweb.com.

12. Data Quality/Access

The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC allows you to change, update, or delete the information you may provide in your optional registration form. If you would like to change, update, or delete your personal information, please send an email containing your request to info@ thefirmweb.com

13. Changes to this Privacy Policy

The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC reserves the right to modify or supplement this policy at any time. If a material change to the terms of this policy is made, thefirmweb.com will post a link to the new policy on its website.

14. Contacting Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Statement or the information practices of The Foundation For Innovative Resource Management, LLC, please contact us by email at info@ thefirmweb.com