Terms of Use

The Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) have created this website to support and facilitate World Usability Day 2006. Your use of our site or any of the products or services offered on this site (collectively, the "Services") is subject to these Terms of Use (these "Terms"). We may modify these Terms at any time without notice to you by posting revised Terms on our site. Your use of our site constitutes your binding acceptance of these Terms, including any modifications that we make.

Some of the Services may be subject to additional posted conditions. Your use of those Services is subject to those conditions, which are incorporated into these Terms by reference. In the event of an inconsistency between these Terms and any additional posted conditions, the provisions of the additional conditions shall control.

We have the right, but not the obligation, to take any of the following actions in our sole discretion at any time and for any reason without giving you any prior notice:

Restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of our Services;
Change, suspend, or discontinue all or any part of our Services;
Refuse, move, or remove any material that you submit to our site for any reason;
Refuse, move, or remove any content that is available on our site;
Deactivate or delete your accounts and all related information and files in your account;
Establish general practices and limits concerning use of our site.

You agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for taking any of these actions.

Liability and Disclaimer

Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) provides this Web site as a service to the public, its members and volunteers, those interested in the development, communication, and advancement of usability engineering practices of, and to the public, in furtherance of UPA's mission as a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation.

The WUD 2006 Team is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to, or reliance on any information contained within the site. While the information contained within the site is periodically updated, no guarantee is given that the information provided in this web site is correct, complete, reliable and up-to-date, and its appearance on the site does not constitute an endorsement by UPA.

Although the World Usability Day (WUD) 2006 website may include links providing direct access to other Internet resources, including websites, UPA has not participated in the development of those other sites and does not exert any editorial or other control over those sites. UPA is not responsible for the accuracy or content of information contained in these sites.

Links from this site to third-party sites do not constitute an endorsement by UPA of the parties or their products and services. The appearance on the website of advertisements and product or service information does not constitute an endorsement by UPA, and UPA has not investigated the claims made by any advertiser. Product information is based solely on material received from suppliers.

Although unlikely to occur, UPA also expressly disclaims all liability for any violations, including but not limited to security breaches or privacy violations, committed by any firm which provides online or management services on behalf of UPA and World Usability Day 2006. Users of the WUD 2006 website agree to hold UPA harmless for and from any liability for any damages arising out of the use of the online or management services.

Opinions

The opinions expressed by contributors to the WUD 2006 website are solely those of the individual contributors and do not reflect the opinions of UPA.

Product endorsements

Reference herein to any specific commercial firm, commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by UPA.