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Terms of Use

Welcome to baltimorebrew.com, a service of Baltimore Brew LLC. You may be visiting us from a computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other mobile device. Regardless the platform, these Terms of Use constitute a binding legal agreement between you and Baltimore Brew. Please read them carefully. By accessing any of our services (including by automated means) you accept its terms. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS

The web is an evolving medium. If we need to change these Terms of Use in the future, we will post the revised Terms of Use and update the “Last Updated” date, above, to reflect the date of the changes.  By continuing to use this service after we post such changes, you agree to these Terms of Use, as modified.

We reserve the right to deny access to this service, or any other service we provide, to anyone who violates this agreement or who, in our judgment, interferes with the ability of others to enjoy this service, or infringes the rights of others.  We may change, restrict access to, suspend, or discontinue this service, or any portion of this service, at any time.

Please bring to our attention any material on our site that you believe to be inaccurate.  Please forward a copy of the material to editors@baltimorebrew.com along with an explanation of your objection.

If you have other comments or questions about our site, please email us at editors@baltimorebrew.com

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

If you are a copyright owner who believes your copyrighted material has been reproduced, posted or distributed on this website in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please inform us by sending written notice by U.S. Mail to:

Baltimore Brew
P.O. Box 5626
Baltimore, MD. 21210

Or email editors@baltimorebrew.com Please include the following information in your written notice: (1) a detailed description of the copyrighted work that is allegedly infringed; (2) a description of the location of the allegedly infringing material on this site; (3) your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and, if available, email address; (4) a statement by you indicating that you have a good-faith belief that the allegedly infringing use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (5) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, affirming that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and (6) an electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized on the owner’s behalf to assert infringement of copyright and to submit the statement.  

HOW YOU MAY USE OUR CONTENT

Baltimore Brew and www.baltimorebrew.com are made available for your personal, noncommercial use only. All content and other material on this website is the property of Baltimore Brew and/or its licensors. Except as explicitly provided in these Terms of Use, you may not distribute, display, reproduce, perform, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any of the content or other material on this site. You may display and occasionally print or store a single copy of an individual page of our website for your personal use provided that you keep intact all credits and copyright and other proprietary notices, but you may not otherwise reproduce, store or distribute copies of any content or other material found on this site, in any form (including electronic form), without prior written permission from the copyright owner.

To request permission to reproduce or distribute our materials, please call (410) 802-4990. 

You are free to establish a hypertext link to our site so long as the link does not state or imply that we sponsor, endorse, or are affiliated with you or your website. However, you may not, without our prior written permission, frame or inline link any of the content of our site, or incorporate into another website or other service any of the content or other material you find on our site.

REGISTRATION

To receive our email newsletters you will be required to provide your email address. To post comments on our site, you’ll need to log in through Disqus. Our use of any information you provide to us or that we gather while you’re visiting our site is governed by this Privacy Policy. 

YOUR CONDUCT WHEN USING OUR SITE

Our site includes features that allow users to interact with each other through Facebook and through comments on stories on the site. These features are intended to create a community where you can share your thoughts on what you’ve read on baltimorebrew.com. While we reserve the right to monitor user postings, it is up to our users to ensure that the discourse on baltimorebrew.com remains polite and informative.

Baltimore Brew is a moderated site that encourages the free and open exchange of ideas in a climate of mutual respect. We reserve the right – but do not assume any obligation – to delete or withhold the publication of comments that violate our standards. Comments that are obscene, libelous or defamatory, or include vicious personal attacks will not be published. Comments or images that are racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise offensive will not be published. Disgusting stuff, blatant commercial self-promotion – you get the idea – if it crosses our line, we’re not going to run it.

First and foremost, we ask that you treat other site users with respect. Language and content should be appropriate for a civil, adult conversation. Please respect the rights of others to their opinions; understand that there may be many other sides to every story.  If you see something on the site that you believe is inaccurate, or about which you hold a different opinion, feel free to post a comment in response.

By participating in discussions or posting to baltimorebrew.com, you agree that you will not:

  • Use the site to impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
  • Use the site to engage in or to instigate or encourage others to engage in illegal activities or to cause injury or damage to any person or entity;
  • Use the site to post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, harassing, abusive, libelous, obscene, or pornographic content;
  • Use the site to post or transmit any information or content that violates or infringes the rights of others, including information or content that invades the privacy or violates the right of publicity of any person or that is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, without permission;
  • Use the site to advertise or solicit to anyone to buy or sell products or services, or to make donations of any kind;
  • Gather for marketing purposes any email address or other personal information that has been posted by other users of the site;
  • Engage in personal attacks, harass or threaten another user, or deliberately disrupt the conversation; or
  • Use any automated mechanism to collect information from our site in any manner that fails to respect the Robots Exclusion Protocol.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION AND CONTENT YOU SUBMIT

You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the text, comments, and other information and content that you post on this website or share with others using this site. By posting information or content to baltimorebrew.com you represent and warrant: (1) that you are 13 years of age or older; (2) that you are the owner of all content you post or are making your posting or submission with the express consent of the owner; (3) that the content you post will not violate or infringe the rights of others; (4) that the information and content you post will not violate the rights of, or cause injury to, any person or entity; and (5) that you will indemnify and hold harmless us and our directors, officers, financial supporters, employees, agents, representatives and licensors, from and against any liability of any nature arising out of any information or content that is displayed on or submitted via the site by you or by others using your Facebook or Disqus account.

You alone are responsible for the information and content you post on to baltimorebrew.com. We do not control the information or content that you or others may post on or otherwise transmit through the site. You are responsible for creating backup copies of any information or content you post to our site.  We will not be responsible for the deletion of, or the failure to store, display or transmit, any information or content submitted by you.

You understand that we have no obligation to monitor any areas of the site through which users can supply information or content. However, we reserve the right, in our discretion, to screen user submissions and to edit, move, delete, and/or refuse to accept any submissions that in our judgment violate these Terms of Use or otherwise are unacceptable or inappropriate, whether for legal or other reasons.

OUR RIGHTS TO USE CONTENT YOU SUBMIT

When you submit any material to our site, you are not giving up any ownership rights you otherwise have in such content. However, you grant us, and anyone authorized by us, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide right and license to use, copy, modify, transmit, sell, exploit, create derivative works from, distribute, and/or publicly perform or display such material, in whole or in part, in any manner or medium (whether now known or hereafter developed), for any purpose that we choose. The foregoing grant includes the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such submission, including, but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark or patent laws that exist in any relevant jurisdiction.  Also, in connection with the exercise of these rights, you grant us, and anyone authorized by us, the right to identify you by your Disqus or Facebook username as the author of any of your submissions. You understand that technical processing of the site, including content you submit, may involve transmission over various networks, and may involve changes to the content to conform and adapt it to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.  You will not receive any compensation of any kind for our use of any materials you submit.

We may preserve content you submit, and may disclose such content if required to do so by law or if, in our judgment, such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary: (a) to comply with legal process; (b) to enforce these Terms of Use; (c) to respond to claims that any content you submit violates the rights of third parties; or (d) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our site, us, our affiliates, our officers, directors, employees, agents, or representatives, our licensors, other users, and/or the public.

DISCLAIMERS

Throughout our site, we have provided links and pointers to websites maintained by third parties. Our linking to such third-party sites does not imply that we endorse or sponsor such sites, or the information, products or services offered on or through the sites. Neither we nor any of our affiliates operate or control any information, products or services that third parties may provide on or through our site or on websites to which we link.

The information, products and services offered on or through this site are provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim 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 the site or any of its functions will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that any part of this site, or the servers that make the site available, are free of viruses or other harmful components.

If you are dissatisfied with the site, or any materials, products, or services on the site, or with any of the site’s terms and conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the site.

LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, will we be liable for any damages arising out of your use of this website or any information, content, products, or services made available on or through this site, including indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary or consequential damages, even if we are advised beforehand of the possibility of such damages. Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain categories of damages, the above limitation may not apply to you.  In such states, our liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by state law.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless us, our affiliates, our financial supporters, and each of our and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, licensors, successors and assigns from and against any and all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that arise out of your use of the site, violation of these Terms of Use by you or any other person using your account, or your violation of any rights of another.  We reserve the right to control the defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification under this section.  In such event, you agree to provide us with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by us.  We will make reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of any such claim, but our failure to provide such notice will not relieve you of these obligations.

MISCELLANEOUS

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between us and you with respect to the subject matter of this agreement and supersedes all previous and contemporaneous agreements, proposals and communications on this subject, whether written or oral. This agreement is personal to you, is not intended to benefit any third party, and does not create any third party beneficiaries. You may not assign this agreement to anyone.

This agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Maryland, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. By using this site, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts in Maryland in all disputes arising out of or relating to this agreement or use of this website. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action that you may have arising out of or related to use of the site or these Terms of Use must be filed by you within one year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.