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By completing the registration process, clicking the âRegisterâ button, and using Domestic Preparedness.com, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by all of the terms in this Agreement. You may print and keep a copy of this Agreement. The Texas Division of Emergency Management may change the terms in this Agreement without notice. By clicking the âRegisterâ button, you also are agreeing that the Texas Division of Emergency Management will store the information about subscribers and can share this data with advertisers of Domestic Preapredness.com and the DPJ Weekly. The Texas Division of Emergency Management and The Texas A&M University System also may use the information to inform you about other publications, products and services, unless you notify The Texas Division of Emergency Management that you do not wish to receive this information. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site â you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.Â
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The information available through www.domesticprepraredness.com and its associated DPJ Weekly are the property of the Texas Division of Emergency Management and The Texas A&M University System or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. Information received through www.domesticpreparedness.com and its associated DPJ weekly may be displayed, reformatted and printed for your personal, non-commercial use only. You agree not to reproduce, re-transmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate the information received through www.domesticprepraredness.com and DPJ Weekly to anyone, including but not limited to others in the same company or organization, without the expressed prior written consent of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, with these exceptions:
(a) You may, on an occasional and irregular basis, include isolated portions of information from www.domesticprepraredness.com and DPJ Weekly  in official memoranda, unit newsletters, reports, and presentations, but only if such memoranda, reports, and presentations are distributed or otherwise made available in non-electronic form, for a non-commercial purpose to a limited number of individuals. You must include in all such memoranda, reports, and presentation all copyright notices from the Texas Division of Emergency Management and The Texas A&M University System and the information used, original source attribution, and the phrase used with permission from The Texas Division of Emergency Management and The Texas A&M University System. You may not post any content from the Texas Division of Emergency Management and The Texas A&M University System to newsgroups, mail lists, or electronic bulletin boards, without prior written consent of the Texas Division of Emergency Management. The Texas Division of Emergency Management includes facts, views, opinions, and recommendations of individuals and organizations deemed of interest. The Texas Division of Emergency Management does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of, or otherwise endorse, these views, facts, opinions or recommendations.
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(a) transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable Content;
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(c) post, transmit, promote, link, or facilitate the distribution of sexually explicit or other Content which is deemed by the Texas Division of Emergency Management and The Texas A&M University System to be offensive;
(d) disrupt the normal flow of dialogue in a chat room or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other Subscribers, users, individuals, or entities, such as causing the screen to âscrollâ faster than other members or users are able to type to it or any action to a similar disruptive effect;
(e) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to a Texas Division of Emergency Management or The Texas A&M University System official or a chat or forum leader, guide or host, or communicate under a false name or a name that you are not entitled or authorized to use;
(f) post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted chain letters or pyramid schemes;
(g) post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or other forms of solicitation to other Subscribers, individuals, or entities, except in those areas that are expressly designated for such a purpose (e.g. the classified area), or collect or harvest screen names of other Members without permission;
(h) post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted any communication or solicitation designed or intended to obtain password, account, or private financial information from any Member;
(i) violate any operating rule, policy or guideline of any other interactive service, including, but not limited to the operating policies of the International Areas; or
(j) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national, international, or foreign law, including, but not limited to any rules or regulations having the force of law.
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You agree to abide by U.S. and other applicable export control laws and not to transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, any Content subject to restrictions under such laws to a national destination prohibited under such laws, without first obtaining, and then complying with any requisite government authorization. You further agree not to upload to www.domesticpreparedness.com any data or software that cannot be exported without prior written government authorization, including, but not limited to certain types of encryption software. This assurance and commitment shall survive termination of this agreement. Control laws also prohibit nationals of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria from gaining access to certain Content or software of the Texas Division of Emergency Management or The Texas A&M University System.
This Agreement is personal to you, and you may not assign your rights or obligations to anyone. If any provision in this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. This Agreement, your rights and obligations, and all actions contemplated by this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the state of Texas, as if the Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within the state of Texas. This Agreement will not be governed by the Unites Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.