Terms of use.

Updated: January 18, 2023

Welcome to Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC. Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC enables you to learn more about our services, team, and experience through our website. Prior to use, we require that you read and accept all of the terms and conditions in, and linked to, these Terms of Use (hereafter, the “Terms of Use”)

Your Acceptance of Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC’s Terms of Use

These Terms of Use will govern your use of the Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC valerioconsulting.org website (the “Website”), and all other services provided by Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC (collectively, the “Services”).

These Terms of Use may be modified by Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC in its sole discretion from time to time and such modifications shall automatically become part of the Terms of Use and shall be effective once posted by Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC on the valerioconsulting.org website. Your use of the Services will be subject to any such modifications. You should review the Website and these Terms of Use from time to time for any modifications.

You understand that by using the website, the application, and/or the services, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms of use. If you do not accept these terms of use in their entirety, you may not access or use the website, applications, or services.

Your Use of the Website

You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the Website, or any other systems or networks connected to the Website or to any Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC server, or to any of the services offered on or through the Website, by hacking, password “mining”, or any other illegitimate means.

You may not probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Website or any network connected to the Site, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the Website or any network connected to the Website. You may not reverse look-up, trace, or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to the Website, or any other customer of Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC, including any Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC account not owned by you, to its source, or exploit the Website or any service or information made available or offered by or through the Website, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by the Website.

You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the Website or Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC’s systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to the Website.

You agree not to use any device, software, or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or any transaction being conducted on the Website, or with any other person’s use of the Website.

You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send on or through the Website. You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.

You may not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or other activity which infringes the rights of Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC or any third parties.

Changes to the Website

Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC reserves the right to do any of the following, at any time, without notice: (1) to modify, suspend or terminate operation of or access to the Website, or any portion of the Website, for any reason; (2) to modify or change the Website, or any portion of the Website, and any applicable policies or terms; and (3) to interrupt the operation of the Website, or any portion of the Website, as necessary to perform routine or non-routine maintenance, error correction, or other changes.

Content

All text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, artwork, and computer code (collectively, “Content”), including but not limited to the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, “look and feel”, and arrangement of such Content, contained on the Website is owned, controlled, or licensed by or to Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC, and is protected by trade dress, copyright, patent, and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws.

Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the Site and no Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, or distributed in any way (including “mirroring”) to any other computer, server, Web site, or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC’s express prior written consent.

User-Generated Content

User-Generated Content includes anything you upload to, store on, or transmit through the Website, and other data, documents, photos, and video. Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC does not claim ownership of User-Generated Content. Your content remains your content, and you are responsible for it. We do not control, verify, pay for, or endorse the User-Generated Content that you and others make available on the Services. Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC does not attest to the accuracy of any User-Generated Content available on the Website, and you rely on the information conveyed in such User-Generated Content at your own risk.

Additionally, you will not upload, store, or transmit any User-Generated Content that infringes the copyright, trademark, trade dress, or other intellectual property of a third party on the Website. Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC disclaims liability for any such activity by the user that may infringe third-party intellectual property, and you further agree to indemnify Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC for any and all harm resultant from such activity.

Copyright Complaints

Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of any other intellectual property rights on the Site, and will remove all Content if properly notified that such Content infringes on another's intellectual property rights. Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC reserves the right to remove Content without prior notice.

If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe in good faith that any materials on the Site infringe upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by sending the following information in writing to Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC’s designated copyright agent at lauri [at] valerioconsulting.org.

  • Your name and electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

  • A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed. If this notice covers multiple copyrighted works, you may provide a representative list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed;

  • A description of the material that you claim is infringing (or to be the subject of infringing activity) and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;

  • Information sufficient to contact you, including your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address;

  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

  • A statement that the information provided in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner, or agent thereof, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed; and

  • Your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

If you believe that your content that has been removed from the Site does not infringe or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, you may send a counter-notice to Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC. To do so, send the following information to our copyright agent using the contact information set forth above.

  • A description of the material that has been removed and the location at which the content appeared before it was removed;

  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that the content was removed as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the content;

  • Information sufficient to contact you, including your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address;

  • A statement that you will consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC may be found;

  • A statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the notification of the alleged infringement; and

  • Your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

If a counter-notice is received by Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC’s copyright agent, Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing such person that Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC may reinstate the removed content in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member or user, the removed content may, at Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC’s discretion, be reinstated on the Site in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice.

Application Licensed Solely for Personal Use

You understand and agree that the Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC website content is licensed to you solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Usage of the website content for corporate or commercial purposes without an explicit commercial license from Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC is prohibited and constitutes both copyright and patent infringement.

Payment Processing

Payments are managed on the Website through the use of a third-party payment-processing provider. In accordance with the “DISCLAIMERS” subsection within these Terms of Use, Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC disclaims itself from any and all liability that may ensue from your use of the payment processing services.

Disclaimers

Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC DOES NOT PROMISE THAT THE WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT, APPLICATION, SERVICE, OR FEATURE ACCESSED THROUGH THE SITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE WILL PROVIDE SPECIFIC RESULTS. THE APPLICATION, THE SERVICES, THE WEBSITE, AND ITS CONTENT ARE DELIVERED ON AN “AS-IS” AND “AS-AVAILABLE” BASIS. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE WEBSITE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC CANNOT ENSURE THAT THE APPLICATION, ANY FILES, OR OTHER DATA YOU DOWNLOAD FROM THE WEBSITE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR THE ACTS, OMISSIONS, AND CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, THE APPLICATION, AND/OR ANY Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC SERVICES. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION, THE SERVICES, AND THE WEBSITE AND ANY LINKED SITES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY AGAINST Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE APPLICATION, THE SERVICES, THE WEBSITE, OR ANY CONTENT IS TO STOP USING THE APPLICATION, SERVICES, WEBSITE, OR ANY SUCH CONTENT. THIS LIMITATION OF RELIEF IS A PART OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN THE PARTIES.

The above disclaimer applies to any damages, liability, or injuries caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use, whether for breach of contract, tort, negligence, or any other cause of action.

For Jurisdictions that do not allow us to limit our liability: Notwithstanding any provision of these Terms, if your jurisdiction has provisions specific to waiver or liability that conflict with the above then our liability is limited to the smallest extent possible by law. Specifically, in those jurisdictions not allowed, we do not disclaim liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by its negligence or that of any of its officers, employees, or agents; or (b) fraudulent misrepresentation; or (c) any liability which it is not lawful to exclude either now or in the future.

IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF A JURISDICTION THAT REQUIRES A SPECIFIC STATEMENT REGARDING RELEASE THEN THE FOLLOWING APPLIES. FOR EXAMPLE, CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS MUST, AS A CONDITION OF THIS AGREEMENT, WAIVE THE APPLICABILITY OF CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH STATES, "A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.” YOU HEREBY WAIVE THIS SECTION OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY SIMILAR PROVISION IN LAW, REGULATION, OR CODE THAT HAS THE SAME INTENT OR EFFECT AS THE AFOREMENTIONED RELEASE.

Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold our officers, directors, employees, and agents harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms of Use, your improper use of Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC’s Website, applications, or services, and/or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

No Agency

No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer, or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by these Terms of Use.

Choice of Law

These Terms of Use and our provision of Services to you shall be governed by the laws—state, federal, or otherwise—applicable in the State of California, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles.

Forum of Dispute

Any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms of Use, the Website, or our provision of Services to you must be initiated and resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of California. If you fail to bring a dispute in compliance with these "Forum of Dispute" provisions, we may make a motion to dismiss your claim, which you must consent to, and you will be responsible for all of our reasonable attorneys' fees, costs, and disbursements involved in making such a motion.

Additionally, the successful party in any dispute will be entitled to receive from the unsuccessful party all of its reasonable attorneys' fees, cost, and disbursements.

Severability

In the event that a provision of these Terms of Use is found to be unlawful, conflicting with another provision of the Terms, or otherwise unenforceable, the Terms of Use will remain in force as though they had not originally included the unenforceable provision.

If two or more Terms of Use provisions are deemed to conflict with each other's operation, Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC shall have the sole right to elect which provision remains in force.

Contacting Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC

If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, or about Lauri Valerio Consulting, LLC’s Website or Services, please contact us at: lauri [at] valerioconsulting.org.