Terms of Use

Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau and its affiliates provide their services to you subject to the following conditions. When you visit MarionCVB.com, you accept these conditions. When you use any current or future MarionCVB.com services, or visit or purchase from any business affiliated with Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau whether or not included in the MarionCVB.com web site, you also will be subject to the guidelines and conditions applicable to such service or business.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

When you visit MarionCVB.com or send emails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on this site. 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 content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau or its software suppliers and is protected by United States and international copyright laws.

SITE ACCESS

This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau and our affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing any Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau names or trademarks without the express written consent of Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of MarionCVB.com so long as the link does not portray Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau, its affiliates, or their services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner. You may not use any Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau logos or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.

REVIEWS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER CONTENT

Visitors may send reviews, comments, and other content; send emails and other communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.” Any material of such nature will be permanently removed from the CVB website. You may not use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of an email or other content. Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content.

If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You present 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 to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau and its affiliates for all claims resulting from content you supply. Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

PRODUCT & SERVICE DESCRIPTIONS

Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau and its affiliates attempt to be as accurate as possible. However, Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau does not warrant that product & service descriptions or other content of this site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.

MarionCVB.com may contain links to other websites over which the Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau has no control. The Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content on, availability of, or services provided by such websites.

VIDEOS

The policy of the Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau regarding publication or usage of video or photo submissions is as follows:

All submissions must be approved prior to publishing. Any content that is considered in poor taste, lewd or otherwise inappropriate will not be approved. After publishing, the videos or photos can be used at the discretion of the Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau for promotional purposes in our tourism efforts. Unless otherwise stipulated by submitter, no person or persons will be publicly recognized as owner or creator of any video or photo content.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY THE MARION COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. MARION COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, MARION COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. MARION COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR EMAIL SENT TO OR FROM MARIONCVB.COM ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. MARION COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

APPLICABLE LAW

By visiting MarionCVB.com, you agree that the laws of the state of West Virginia, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Terms of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau or its affiliates.

SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY

Please review all policies posted on this site. These policies govern your visit to MarionCVB.com. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Terms of Use 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.

Privacy Policy

This notice explains our Privacy Statement. When you visit MarionCVB.com you are accepting the terms and conditions of this policy.

INFORMATION GATHERED

IP Addresses

Information from users’ IP addresses is used to diagnose problems with our servers and to
administer our websites. Your IP address is used to track you anonymously and to gather broad aggregate demographic information. This information itself is not personally identifiable and is not linked to anything that would make such information personally identifiable.

Requested Demographic Information

When you use or register for Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau services, you may be asked to provide information that is essential to the provision of those services. Such information may consist of: name, email address, street address, zip code, and other demographic information. Other than as necessary to contact you as part of the Marion County Convention and Visitors Bureau services in question (for example, to send you an email notification that you have requested), this personally identifiable information is retained in the form of internal databases as well as customary web server logs which are used to monitor and report on aggregate internet traffic patterns. The personally identifiable information collected and retained in this manner is not used or shared with any third party.

Cookies

To enhance your web experience, we use identifiers, often referred to as “cookies,” to collect anonymous preference and user information. The information derived from the use of cookies does not include and is never merged with personally identifiable information (such as name, street address or email address) or any information that is generally considered sensitive or controversial.

WHAT ARE “COOKIES”?

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our system to recognize your browser, and to provide certain other features.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act took effect on April 21, 2000, and imposes certain requirements on websites directed at children under 13 that collect information on those children, and on websites that know they are collecting information on children under 13. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 on our website. No one under the age of 15 should submit any personal information without the consent of a parent or guardian.

CONDITIONS OF USE, TERMS, AND NOTICES

If you choose to visit MarionCVB.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, as well as limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the State of West Virginia.