TERMS OF USE
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) cover all of the websites owned or operated by Joy of Shooting LLC, including, but not limited to, joyofshooting.org and KirstenJoyWeiss.com, and any associated content including embedded videos, email and RSS/Atom feeds (“Joy of Shooting Websites”). Please read these Terms carefully before using or proceeding to access any of the Joy of Shooting Websites. Your use of the Joy of Shooting Websites indicates your agreement to abide by the Terms in effect.
Joy of Shooting LLC reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change or modify portions of or entire items (e.g., content, features, functionality, product, offers, videos, images, etc.) on the Joy of Shooting Websites, the Terms, and the Privacy Policy at any time and without notice. Changes or modifications will become effective upon the date they are first posted on Joy of Shooting Websites. You agree to review our Terms and Privacy Policy periodically and that your continued use of or access to any of the Joy of Shooting Websites indicates your consent to, understanding of, and agreement to any such change or modification.
General Disclaimer
ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR QUALIFIED FIREARMS INSTRUCTOR BEFORE UNDERTAKING ANY DEMONSTRATION OR PROGRAM DESCRIBED ON JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES. JOY OF SHOOTING LLC DOES NOT RECOMMEND SELF-EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF FIREARMS TRAINING. RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY JOY OF SHOOTING LLC OR VIA JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
BY VISITING JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES YOU AGREE THAT THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR QUALIFIED FIREARMS TRAINING OR ADVICE OF ANY KIND. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN FIREARMS CHOICES AND DECISIONS. YOU AGREE TO SEEK QUALIFIED FIREARMS ADVICE AS DETERMINED BY YOUR OWN JUDGMENT BEFORE USING ANY INFORMATION OR PURCHASING ANY PRODUCTS ON JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES. BY VISITING JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES YOU KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY, AND EXPRESSLY, WAIVE ANY CLAIM FOR INJURY OR DAMAGES YOU MAY SUSTAIN AS A RESULT OF USING ANY INFORMATION ON JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES. YOU RELEASE JOY OF SHOOTING LLC AND ITS AFFILIATES, AND ANY OFFICER, MEMBER, EMPLOYEE, SUBCONTRACTOR, AGENT, SUCCESSOR OR ASSIGN OF JOY OF SHOOTING LLC OR ITS AFFILIATES FROM ALL LIABILITY, DAMAGES, CAUSES OF ACTION, ALLEGATIONS, LAWSUITS, CLAIMS AND DEMANDS IN LAW OR EQUITY, YOU HAVE OR WILL HAVE IN THE FUTURE WHETHER FORESEEABLE OR UNFORESEEABLE ARISING FROM YOUR PAST OR FUTURE VISIT TO, OR OTHERWISE RELATED TO, JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES.
Age Restrictions
ALL PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 ARE DENIED ACCESS TO JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES. IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE, IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR YOU TO VISIT, READ, OR INTERACT WITH JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES OR THEIR CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER. JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES SPECIFICALLY DENY ACCESS TO ANY INDIVIDUAL THAT IS COVERED BY THE CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA) OF 1998.
Intellectual Property Rights
Joy of Shooting Websites and all materials incorporated by Joy of Shooting LLC on Joy of Shooting Websites (“Material”) are maintained to allow you to access information about our products and our services. Content displayed on Joy of Shooting Websites, including, but not limited to, any and all Material, features, text, images, graphics, photos, pictures, animated pictures, animations, sounds, video, audio, and functionality are protected by applicable United States and international laws, including, but not limited to, copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws, and belong to Joy of Shooting LLC and/or its partners, licensors, affiliates, contributors or third parties. Nothing contained in the Terms or on the Joy of Shooting websites may be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any intellectual property, including, but not limited to, trademarks displayed, without the express prior written permission of the owner of the intellectual property. You shall not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, upload, store or transmit any content, material, or intellectual property from the Joy of Shooting Websites. However, your computer or device may automatically, but temporarily, store content from the Joy of Shooting Websites.
You may not alter or modify the Material found on Joy of Shooting Websites.
Your Use of Material
Your right to make use of Joy of Shooting Websites and any Material or other content appearing on it is subject to your compliance with these Terms.
You may access and display Material and all other content displayed Joy of Shooting Websites for non- commercial, personal, entertainment purposes. The Material and all other content on Joy of Shooting Websites may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed, or used in any way unless specifically authorized by Joy of Shooting LLC or unless the posting uses the same Social Media Embed Code which not only plays the video but also links back to the original video on the Joy of Shooting LLC Social channels, subject to such Social Media websites’ Terms of Use as well.
Any authorization to copy Material granted by Joy of Shooting LLC located in any part of Joy of Shooting Websites for any reason is restricted to the specific terms of that authorization only, and is subject to your keeping intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.
External Link Disclaimer
Joy of Shooting Websites may contain links to external, third party web sites.
By providing links to other sites, Joy of Shooting LLC does not guarantee, approve or officially endorse the information or products available at these sites, nor does a link indicate any association with or endorsement by the linked site to the website in question.
Joy of Shooting LLC does not operate or control and has no responsibility for the information, products and/or services found on any external sites. Nor does it represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any information, products and/or services provided on or through any external sites, including, without limitation, warranties of any kind, either express or implied, warranties of title or non- infringement or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Visitors to Joy of Shooting Websites assume complete responsibility and risk in their use of any external sites. Visitors should direct any concerns regarding any external link to the external site administrator or webmaster, not to Joy of Shooting LLC.
Comments Terms of Use
In order to make our Comments interesting and informative for our users, the following guidelines must be adhered to by all users posting and/or viewing comments:
Do not post abusive, obscene, threatening, harassing, defamatory, libelous, offensive or sexually explicit material.
Do not offer to sell or buy any product or services.
Do not post material that infringes copyright or other intellectual property rights of any person.
Do not post information that you know to be confidential or sensitive or otherwise in breach of the law.
Joy of Shooting LLC does not accept responsibility for information posted in the Comments or by Guest Authors. The views and opinions expressed in Guest Articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Joy of Shooting LLC.
If Joy of Shooting LLC receives notice that any posting is not in keeping with these terms and conditions or the intended use of the Comments, Joy of Shooting LLC reserves the right to remove that posting and/or any other related postings without notice to its original author.
Agreement to Receive Email Notifications
By signing up to the Joy of Shooting Websites, you agree to receive emails when you post a comment and someone replies to your comment. Joy of Shooting LLC sends out email notifications of such comment replies so that you can come back end respond as well.
You also agree to receive, from time to time, emailed news and promotions from Joy of Shooting LLC for general purposes. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time by clicking on the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of emails that you receive. You agree to not hold Joy of Shooting LLC responsible for any issues that arise from your receipt of these emails.
Disclaimers
YOUR USE OF JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. ALL THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES AND OTHER CONTENT IN JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, JOY OF SHOOTING LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. JOY OF SHOOTING DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES WILL BE AVAILABLE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. JOY OF SHOOTING LLC DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL, EXERCISES, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT IN JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES OR ANY SITES LINKED TO JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. JOY OF SHOOTING LLC MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT YOUR USE OF THE MATERIALS, EXERCISES, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT IN JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES WILL NOT INFINGE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND JOY OF SHOOTING LLC ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN SUCH MATERIALS, EXCERCISES, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT OF JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES. IF APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE IMPLIED WARRANTIES TO APPLY TO YOU, THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS WILL APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Limitation of Liability
JOY OF SHOOTING LLC DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE (DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR OTHERWISE) RESULTING FROM ANY USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES OR THE MATERIAL, EXERCISES, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT ON JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES, REGARDLESS OF THE BASIS UPON WHICH LIABILITY IS CLAIMED AND EVEN IF JOY OF SHOOTING LLC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE. WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOU (AND NOT JOY OF SHOOTING LLC) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION IN THE EVENT OF ANY SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING. IF APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW ALL OR ANY PART OF THE ABOVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY TO APPLY TO YOU, THE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Comments and Engagement with the Online Community
THE MATERIALS, EXERCISES, INFORMATION AND OPINIONS INCLUDED AND/OR EXPRESSED IN THE COMMENTS AND THE ONLINE COMMUNITY ON JOY OF SHOOTING WEBSITES (“COMMENTS AND THE FORUMS”) ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF JOY OF SHOOTING LLC OR ITS AFFILIATED OR RELATED ENTITIES OR CONTENT PROVIDERS. JOY OF SHOOTING LLC DOES NOT UNDERTAKE TO MONITOR OR REVIEW COMMENTS AND THE ONLINE COMMUNITY, AND THE CONTENT OF COMMENTS AND THE ONLINE COMMUNITY IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF JOY OF SHOOTING LLC. JOY OF SHOOTING LLC
MAY REMOVE OR MODIFY ANY CONTENT WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY AT ANY TIME IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION. ANY USE OF THE COMMENTS AND THE ONLINE COMMUNITY WILL BE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY SET OUT ABOVE.
Information Submitted by Users
Joy of Shooting does not own any content posted or uploaded by you to Joy of Shooting Websites or provided through other means of communications (“User Content”). However, by posting, uploading, emailing, or otherwise submitting User Content to Joy of Shooting LLC, you grant to Joy of Shooting LLC and its sublicensees the right and irrevocable, fee and royalty free license to use, in perpetuity and throughout the world, any of the User Content submitted to Joy of Shooting Websites without compensation, notice, or credit to the persons submitting such User Content. Such rights shall include, without limitation, the right and license to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat User Content, and to publish your name in connection with the User Content. In addition, Joy of Shooting LLC shall have the right to make additions to and create derivative works of the User Content. All such derivative works shall be the property of Joy of Shooting LLC. You agree that none of the User Content, however submitted to Joy of Shooting LLC, is confidential in nature and that Joy of Shooting LLC shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such User Content, including any confidentiality obligations.
By submitting User Content, you represent and warrant that: (i) you own all rights, title and interest in such User Content; (ii) User Content is not subject to any obligation, of confidentiality or otherwise, and (iii) Joy of Shooting LLC’s use or disclosure of the User Content, will in no way infringe upon the rights (including, but not limited to, copyrights and trade secrets) of any person or entity. You are solely responsible for any User Content you submit to Joy of Shooting LLC, including the lawfulness, appropriateness, originality, or copyright.
You may not submit any User Content or Comments that: (i) are false, fraudulent, libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, infringing on intellectual property rights, abusive, illegal or otherwise objectionable, or constitute trade secret or confidential information; or (ii) constitute or encourage a criminal offense, or that violate the rights of any party or otherwise give rise to liability or violate any law.
Claims of Infringement
Please contact us if you believe any content appearing on Joy of Shooting Websites infringes on your copyrights.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or notices of violations to these terms and conditions, please contact us here.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
Any and all disputes related to or in connection with the use of the Joy of Shooting Websites are subject to the laws of the state of Tennessee with the exclusion of its choice of law provisions. The parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent state or federal courts sitting in Nashville, Tennessee for any and all disputes arising out of or in connection with the direct or indirect use of Joy of Shooting Websites. In any legal action between the parties related to or in connection with the use of the Joy of Shooting Websites, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Joy of Shooting LLC harmless against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising from, or in any way related to, your use of the Joy of Shooting Websites or breach of the Terms.