Privacy Policy, Copyright Information, Website and Product Terms and Conditions

C 2010-2011 by All About Boston, Inc., ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Last Updated:  June 1, 2011

Commercial use of our website content without permission is strictly forbidden.  Please contact Info@AllAboutBoston.org if  you are interested in using content for your website or publication.

Although we have made every effort to provide accurate and timely information, we accept no responsibility for loss injury or inconvenience sustained by anyone using this website.

Messages posted on our blog or elsewhere on this website become the property of All About Boston, Inc. and may be edited, published or otherwise used in any way by us.

Copyright and Trademark

All content included on this website, such as text, images, graphics, logos, audio and video content, digital downloads and software, is the property of All About Boston, Inc. and protected by United States and international copyright laws.  This content may not be used in connection with any travel-related information, products or services that are not owned by All About Boston, Inc.

License and Website Access

All About Boston, Inc. grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this website and not to download or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of All About Boston, Inc.  The downloading of audio or video content subsequent to purchase is permissible for purchaser’s personal use only and is not granted for any commercial or derivative purpose whatsoever.  Downloading of any other audio or video content from this website is strictly prohibited. 

This license does not include any commercial or derivative use of this website or its products and contents.  This website or any portion of this website and its content may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited or otherwise exploited for any commercial or non-commercial purpose without express written consent of All About Boston, Inc.

As a visitor to www.AllAboutBoston.org you are granted a limited and revocable right to create a link to our website so long as the link does not portray our website, our products or services in a misleading, derogatory or otherwise offensive manner.  You may not use any content, logo or graphic form from our website as a part of the link without express written permission.  Any unauthorized use terminates any license or permission granted by All About Boston, Inc. 

Privacy Policy

All About Boston, Inc. respects your privacy.  We will never share your name, address, email address or purchase information with any third party.

When you purchase from us, we collect basic information, including your name, address, email address and phone number.  We use this information to confirm your purchase and to respond to any questions you may have.

We gather passive information on our website visitors’ browsing behavior, but not on an individual level.  Because we constantly strive to improve our website, we collect and analyze certain “aggregate information” -- such as demographic information, visitors’ browser access -- in an effort to see how our visitors use our website.  We may collect technical data, such as which website you visited before arriving at our website and the website you link to when you leave our website.  We may also keep a record of which pages of our website you visit and how long you spend on each page. 

Acceptance of cookies is not a requirement to browse the content of our website, but our e-commerce applications require the acceptance of cookies to keep track of the items in your shopping cart and to complete an order.  We do not use cookies to store sensitive customer information such as names, addresses, passwords or credit card numbers. 

Our Website is not directed at children, and we will not accept or request Personal Information from individuals we know to be under 13.  In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"), if we learn that a child under 13 has provided Personal Information, we will either delete this information from our databases or obtain verifiable parental consent in accordance with COPPA.

All About Boston, Inc. takes security seriously.  We strive to make your transactions at www.AllAboutBoston.org secure and safe.  We protect the transfer of sensitive information between your browser and our secure server using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).  SSL is compatible with Netscape, Internet Explorer and AOL’s browser technologies, creating an encrypted data transfer.  We also use firewall technology to secure your data once it is stored on our servers.  This data is encrypted.

If applicable, The Fair Credit Billing Act provides that your bank cannot hold you liable for more than $50 of fraudulent charges.  In the event of unauthorized use of your card, for this security guarantee to be valid, you must notify your credit card provider in accordance with its established reporting rules and procedures under your cardholder agreement. 

Email

When you place an order with All About Boston, Inc., send an email to any address at AllAboutBoston.org or otherwise give us your email address, you consent to receive future email messages from us.  You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.  All About Boston, Inc. will not share your email address with anyone else.

Content Submitted by You

If you post or submit content to our blog or elsewhere on our website, you grant All About Boston, Inc. a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable right to publish, distribute and display such content throughout the world in any media.  You grant us the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content.  You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury. 

All About Boston, Inc. has the right but not the obligation, to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content on our website.  All About Boston, Inc. takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third parties.

Products and Product Descriptions

All About Boston, Inc. tries to be as accurate as possible.  We do not warrant that product descriptions or other content of this website is accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free. We will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of any product, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive and consequential damages.

Transactions

By using our website, you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur in your name and/or with your credit card.  If you are under 18, you may enter into transactions only with the consent of a parent or guardian.  All About Boston, Inc. reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content or cancel orders.

Disclaimers of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

To the full extent permitted by law, All About Boston, Inc. disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.  We do not warrant that this website, its servers or email sent from our locations are free of viruses or other harmful components.  We will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this website, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive and consequential damages.

Applicable Law:

Our website is controlled and operated by us from our location in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  The policies enumerated throughout our website shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to any conflict of law provisions.  Any dispute arising under our policies, enumerated herein or otherwise adopted, shall be resolved exclusively by the state or federal courts sitting in the judicial district that includes Suffolk County, Massachusetts.  Our policies may be translated into languages other than English at your own discretion and responsibility.  Any communications sent by us will be sent to you in English. Dispute resolution procedures arising out of our policies shall be in English, and the English version shall control over any translation.

All About Boston, Inc. reserves the right to make changes to our website, policies and these terms and conditions at any time.  If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed “severable” and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition. 

We will announce any such change by posting the revised draft of these policies on the website.  You can determine when these policies were last revised by referring to the “Last Updated’ legend at the top of this page.  By continuing to use the website following such changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes.  If you do not agree with the terms of these policies do not continue to use this website.

Exceptions

There are two exceptions to our Privacy Policy.  We may release or use personal information in connection with legal proceedings, or contemplated legal proceedings that directly relate to such information or in response to a subpoena or court order specifically requesting such information.  Also, in cases involving threat of imminent harm to you or others, we may release such information to prevent or mitigate the threat.  In any such case, we will seek to limit the scope of the disclosure and restrict such disclosures only to appropriate authorities and will disclose only such personal information as is reasonably required to fulfill the purpose of the disclosure.  Additionally, unless instructed otherwise by a court or other authority with appropriate jurisdiction, we may undertake reasonable efforts to notify you of such a disclosure or request for disclosure and provide you with this notice as far in advance of the disclosure as is reasonably practicable. 

If you have any other questions about our website, please email us, write or call.

Our Address:

All About Boston, Inc.
P.O. Box 6343
Boston, MA  02114
USA
www.AllAboutBoston.org
617-267-3232