Osceola564.org - Website Usage Policy

Order of the Arrow		Boy Scouts of America		Southwest Florida Council

Website Usage Policy

The following page has details about interacting with the Osceola 564 website. Please make sure you are aware of it as you navigate the site.


	Operation This is the Official Website for Osceola Lodge, Southwest Florida Council #88, Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of America. The main goal of this website is to communicate official information to Arrowmen who have web access. The website is produced by the Osceola Lodge Website Committee, a subcommittee of the Osceola Lodge Publications Committee. Osceola564.org also operates under the following top level domain names: Osceola564.com, Osceola564.net. This privacy policy applies to domain names currently owned by, and any future domain names owned by, Lodge Osceola 564. This website follows the Official OA Website Guidelines. Use of material from this website Please contact the Osceola564.org Web Master before using any content on the website. This content includes static and dynamic text, pictures, and videos. Please be specific when describing the material you would like to use, and how you will use it. The Web Master may request that you give credit to the appropriate sources, and may detail proper acknowledgment, such as "Picture courtesy of www.Osceola564.org." Updates The website is updated regularly, as new material becomes available. Frequent updates include changes in the Announcements, Calendar, Committee News, Chief's Corner, Photo Gallery, Resources, and Trading Post pages. Infrequent updates may occur on the remaining pages. Linking to the website All Scouting and related websites are free to link to Osceola564.org. The website is not responsible for maintaining the content to which you link. If you link to a page or picture, we have no responsibility to maintain it on our website. Safeguarded Material To ensure that Scouts and Scouters who may be going through various Order of the Arrow ceremonies in the future do not have their experience lessened or spoiled, some material has been omitted from this website. Questions Any inquiries about the website should be directed to the Web Master. If you contact the Web Master, please do your best to identify yourself and describe your intentions. Definitions A "user" is defined as any entity, human or otherwise, downloading data from the server on which http://www.Osceola564.org exists. A "transmission" is defined as any submission using the fields on the Contact page, http://www.Osceola564.org/contact.php, whether they originate from inside or outside the website. "Subscribing" is defined as the act of attempting to add data, valid or invalid, to a Mailing List, as described on http://www.osceola564.org/mailing_lists.php. The attempt is defined as a "subscription." The act of attempting to alter data on a Mailing List is defined as "unsubscribing." This attempt is defined as an "unsubscription." The code used to manage the Mailing Lists shall be considered part of Osceola564.org. Use of collected data Names and e-mail addresses submitted through the Contact page and e-mail addresses of subscribers will not be sold or distributed to anyone. Names and e-mail addresses are recorded by the website, but transmitted messages are not. Users give permission to be contacted by e-mail regarding their transmission on the Contact page, or subscription or unsubscription to a Mailing List. Transfer of Information Osceola564.org is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, garbled, illegible, or misdirected Contact transmissions or Mailing List subscriptions and unsubscriptions, or for any error: human, technical or otherwise, which may occur in the processing of transmissions, subscriptions, and unsubscriptions. Proof of sending will not be deemed to be proof of receipt. Osceola564.org is not responsible for any problems or other error of any kind whether human, mechanical or electronic; technical malfunction of any transmission medium; computer online systems; servers; access providers; computer hardware; software; failure of any transmission not received due to technical problems; jumbled, scrambled or misdirected transmissions, subscriptions, and unsubscriptions; congestion on the Internet or any website; or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to any entrant's personal computer related to or resulting from use of the website. Osceola564.org expressly disclaims any responsibility and liability for lost transmissions, subscriptions, and unsubscriptions and for injury and loss to any person or property relating to the delivery and use or misuse of any transmission, subscription, or unsubscription. By accepting a transmission, recipients agree that Osceola564.org has no liability whatsoever for, and will be held harmless by recipient against, any injuries, losses or damages of any kind resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of transmission. By subscribing to a Mailing List, subscribers agree that Osceola564.org has no liability whatsoever for, and will be held harmless by recipient against, any injuries, losses or damages of any kind resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of communications resulting from a subscription. Subscribers dissatisfied with a Mailing List service should unsubscribe immediately. General Conditions Osceola564.org reserves the right to modify or cancel this website without any prior notice. Any attempt by anyone to deliberately damage or tamper with this website, or to misrepresent themselves when subscribing or unsubscribing, may be in violation of criminal and civil laws and, should such an attempt be made, Osceola564.org reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Osceola564.org releases itself from any liability related to information accessed or duplicated without proper authority from the website database as a result of a security flaw, a programming error, human intervention, or otherwise. Users who supply information to the website accept the risks of doing so. This website shall be governed by the laws of the State of Florida, and website users hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of Florida courts (state and federal) for any causes or controversies arising from the use of the website. Each user waives any and all objectives to jurisdiction and venue in these courts. Arbitration Except where prohibited, user agrees that any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this website shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by arbitration to be held in the state of Florida under the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. Users hereby waive all rights (i) to claim, or to be awarded, punitive, direct, indirect, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses; and (ii) to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased.