Terms of Use of the Website-Please Read Carefully

The site "Valley Dive" & "Valley Dive Club", "VALLEYDIVE.COM", herein VALLEYDIVE, provides its services to its visitors by accepting the following Terms of Use on their behalf. Please read them carefully.

1. Preamble

1.1. The present terms (hereinafter “Terms of Use”) govern the operation of the website available through the electronic address http://www.valleydive.com (hereinafter “Website”) the use of the website by its users (hereinafter “User”), (in accordance with the provisions of articles 741 et seq. of the Civil Code), under the name “Valley Dive" and "Valley Dive Club”and the distinctive title ”ValleyDive.com“.

1.2. Valley Dive (et al) is based in Los Angeles, CA USA, serving the greater Northern Los Angeles Area, and Eastern Ventura County.

email address: valleydiveclub@gmail.com

contact phone: (213) 855-6333  under the direct ownership umbrella of Givnet.org of which the Website has been obtained and operates.

1.3. Valley Dive is a water sports club where the athlete can be taught and trained in the sport of springboard and platform diving activities under the instructions and supervision of an experienced staff.

2. Use of the Website

2.1.The Website has been created by Valley Dive with a view to promote and communicate its offered watersports, leisure activities, lessons and training, and to furnish its equipment to further lesson training and safety.

2.2. For promoting purposes, Valley Dive may take any necessary and appropriate means and carry out any activity if it is not contrary to its statutes and to the applicable law. All participants have to understand that they may be photographed while participating in any activity. With their participation they accept that their photo, video, or film is likely to be used for any legitimate purpose by the activity holders, producers, sponsors, organizers, and assigns. 

2.3. Any use of the Website and its content, such as texts, photographs, graphics, pictures etc. (hereinafter collectively “Content”), as well as access to the opportunities offered via the Website, printing, copying and downloading of its Content by the User is permitted to the extent that it is in line with the above purpose or it is curried out for information purposes and thus performed as provided in articles 5 and 6 below. Any other use is prohibited.

2.4. Any/All use of the Website implies that the User has read, fully and unconditionally understood and accepted the present Terms of Use and is bound by the entirety of Terms, both express and implied. In case any User does not agree with one or more terms, he/she has the obligation to abstain from using the Website and/or Services and, therefore, shall voluntarily cease to participate in the Valley Dive programs.

2.5. Electronic Communications: When User enters the Website or Mobile Site, or sends emails, or otherwise communicates with Valley Dive, User is communicating electronically with Valley Dive. Therefore, you accept the right of Valley Dive personnel, accordingly, to contact you electronically. You agree in advance that such electronic communications and the information exchanged through them, satisfy the applicable legal requirements and rules regarding the exchange of such communications in written form.

3. Alterations – Shutdown

3.1. Valley Dive reserves the right to alter the Terms of Use, within the framework of the current legislation, and upload the latest text on its Website. Use of the Website by the User after any modification of the Terms of Use implies the acceptance of them.

3.2. Valley Dive reserves the right to alter the Content of the Website, to add or remove information and data contained therein and to interrupt temporarily or permanently its function, when Valley Dive considers it necessary or prudent.

3.3. The User can be informed of any alteration, temporal or permanent interruption of the Website’s function via the relevant sections of the Website.

4. User Charges

Access and navigation of the User in the Website and the use of its Content is free of charge. The User bears all costs for the internet connection, and or communication.

5. Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights

5.1. Use of the Website and its Content by the User does not confer any rights on them regarding the designs of the Products, the work, the elements and the materials in which the intellectual and industrial property rights of Valley Dive and/or third parties are incorporated, and which are accessible through the Website.

5.2. Any use whatsoever of the Website or its Content by the User or third parties with the aim to derive profit is forbidden, such as indicatively:

a) Broadcasting, publication, adaptation, placing on market, presentation to the public, deletion, printing, copy and download of the Content.

b) The reproduction of the Website for commercial reasons.

5.3. Imitation or misrepresentation of the Website or its Content, in any way whatsoever, partially or otherwise, in any form and by any means is prohibited. In particular User is prohibited from:

a) Exporting or reusing of the whole or substantial part of the Website’s database. The data User is prohibited from performing actions that are contrary to the regular operation of the said database or unreasonably infringing legal rights of the beneficiary’s database by provoking damage to the beneficiaries of the intellectual property rights or other related rights regarding the works contained in the database.

b) Performing any action whatsoever, with the view to reverse engineering or reconstructing the source software of the Website or gaining unauthorised access in any software, system, individual computer or network of computers and/or Valley Dive’s archive or hacking its Website and in general its systems by any means, such as, indicatively, by using mechanical means or automated procedures.

c) Defeating any technical firewalls for the purpose of preventing actions prohibited by Valley Dive, which is knowingly performed by the User, with or without valid reasons for considering that the User acknowledges effects of said actions.

d) Any attempt by a User to misrepresent or imitating the trademark, trade name and other distinctive features of Valley dive or of any third party that may be electronically published. The appearance of a distinctive feature in the Website cannot be implied as transfer, license allocation or right assignment of the distinctive feature to the User.

e) Removing or modifying the Terms of Use or any other text available online, published at the Website and especially when it is related to the protection, the use or the beneficiary of intellectual and industrial property rights either when the User presents in public part of or the entire Website or not.

5.4. In any case of infringement or threat of infringement of the intellectual or industrial property rights or other related rights, including the specific nature rights of the database constructor, Valley Dive and of third parties, the aforementioned subjects can, where applicable, claim the application of civil, administrative and penal penalties against the person who had infringed or is about to infringe the said rights in accordance with all applicable local, state, federal, and international laws.

6. Photographs, Video, Original Renderings:

In particular, the publication by any third party of other media, electronic or printed photographs, is permitted upon approval by Valley Dive, provided that they are not used for profit, are not re-printed, altered, misrepresented and/or modified without express written permission.

7. Link to Information

7.1. Valley Dive may from time to time publish on its Website links leading to websites of third parties and especially to social media. Valley Dive bears no liability for the content of these websites, since as they are not under Valley Dive control and there is no contractual relationship between Valley Dive and the owners of these websites. Valley Dive does not guarantee to the Users the quality or the correctness of the information contained therein.

7.2. The inclusion of Website by the use of links published in the websites of third parties is forbidden without Valley Dive's expression prior written consent.

8. Jurisdiction – Competence

Valley Dive Terms of Use, as stated, are governed by all applicable U.S. Statutes, and International Agreements. Any dispute or infringement or misuse, that may arise, either within the United States, or Internationally, as per above due stated Terms of Use, shall be immediately addressed, to the full extent of permitted applicable statute, in Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles, California, USA.

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