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Legal Information for www.blackstonekennels.com

Blackstone Kennels maintains this Site (the“Site”) for your personal entertainment, education, information and communication. Please be our guest and browse through our Site. You may download only material displayed on the Site specifically identified as available for downloading. Such material is only available for noncommercial, personal use and should also contain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. However, you may not modify, reuse, repost, transmit, distribute or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, audio, video and images without Blackstone Kennels express written permission.

Your access to and use of the Site is also subject to the following Terms and Conditions, as well as, all applicable laws. By browsing and accessing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that any other agreements between you and Blackstone Kennels regarding the Site are superseded and of no force or effect.

Terms and Conditions

1 You should assume that any and all material that you read or see on the Site is copyrighted, unless otherwise noted, and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text of the Site without the express written permission of Blackstone Kennels.
   
2 While Blackstone Kennels uses all reasonable efforts to include accurate and up to date information throughout the Site, Blackstone Kennels makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy, timeliness or completeness and therefore you should not rely upon it. Blackstone Kennels assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of this Site.
   
3 Your use and browsing in the Site are at your own risk. Neither Blackstone Kennels nor any other party involved in the creating, producing or delivering of the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you “as is” without warranty of any kind, either expressed of implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Blackstone Kennels also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or any other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video or audio from the Site. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow for the exclusions of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties
   
4 Any material or communication you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or the like is, and will be treated as, non confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you post or transmit may be used by Blackstone Kennels or its affiliates for any purpose, including, but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.
   
5 Images of animals, people or places displayed on this Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, Blackstone Kennels. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or specific permission provided elsewhere in the Site. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity and communications regulations and statutes.
   
6 The trademarks, logos and service marks (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Site are registered and unregistered trademarks of Blackstone Kennels and others. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark displayed on the Site without the express written permission of the trademark owner. Your misuse of the trademarks displayed on the Site, or any other content on the Site, except as provided in the Terms and Conditions, is strictly prohibited.
   
7 You may not copy, reproduce or redistribute individual elements or components of the Site design without the express written permission of Blackstone Kennels
   
8 Reproduction, copying or redistribution for commercial purposes of any materials or design elements on the Site is strictly prohibited without the express written permission from Blackstone Kennels.
   
9 Blackstone Kennels Site contains links to third-party sites. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk. The linked sites are not under the control of Blackstone Kennels, and Blackstone Kennels is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. Blackstone Kennels is providing these links as a service or convenience, and the inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement of the linked site or its goods and/or services offered or the accuracy of its information. Blackstone Kennels shall not be liable for any damages or costs arising out of your use of any of the goods or services from companies accessed in any way through the Site.
   
10 This Site contains medical information relating to various medical, health and fitness conditions of Flat Coated Retrievers and their treatment.  This is for informational and educational purposes only and is not meant to be a substitute for the advice provided by your own Veterinarian or other medical professional. You should not use the information contained herein for diagnosing a dogs health or fitness problem or disease. You should always consult your own Veterinarian and medical advisors.
   
11 Blackstone Kennels will only collect personal information from our visitors to the Site on a voluntary basis. Personal information may include, but is not limited to, name, address, phone numbers, email and website addresses and animal information. The personal information you volunteer to us is used to complete our database, fulfill your request, provide you with information or to market products, events, and/or services which may be of interest to you. These offers may come directly from us, our affiliates or from other reputable organizations whose privacy policies are inline with our own. Each offer is carefully examined to make sure that it meets our standards. Additionally, we try to make sure that these offers reach only the individuals most interested in them. If your information is to be used in any fashion other than stated above, this intent will be expressly stated.
   
12 Blackstone Kennels has no intention of collecting any personal information from individuals under eighteen years of age. If a child has provided us with information, a parent or guardian should contact us at info@blackstonekennels.com if they would like this information deleted from our records. We will use reasonable efforts to delete the child’s information from our existing files
   
13 Our web server collects the domain names (not the email addresses) of visitors to the Site. This information is aggregated to measure basic usage data such as the number of visits, average time spent on the Site, pages reviewed, etc. which is used by Blackstone Kennels to improve the content of our website.
   
14 We may use “cookies” on some pages of the Site to help us serve you better each time you return. The data collected helps us to analyze browsing patterns of our visitors in order to improve the content and design of the Site. The information collected from these cookies is for the exclusive use of Blackstone Kennels and its affiliates, and will not be shared with other vendors. The cookies used by Blackstone Kennels contain only the information that you submit. You therefore have control over the information that is stored in the cookie. You can always set your browser to warn you when a cookie is sent to you. This will give you more control over acceptance of them. Remember: you are always able to alter any personal information that you have already submitted by contacting us at info@blackstonekennels.com
   
15 Blackstone Kennels attempts to only link to sites which have similarly high respect for your privacy. However, we are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites. Should you have a problem with privacy on any site we link to, please let us know by contacting us at the address below.
   
16 Blackstone Kennels takes reasonable measures to keep all information about our online visitors secure against unauthorized access and periodically reviews the security measures on our Site. Our Site is served by Hostway. For further information on privacy and security on sites served by Hostway, please review their privacy policies.
   
17 By accessing the Site, you agree that the laws of the state of Washington, without regard to the conflict of laws and principles thereof, will apply to all matters relating to use of the Site. You also submit to the personal jurisdiction of Washington and the venue of the state and federal Courts of Washington.
   
18 Blackstone Kennels will from time to time revise the Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound.