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Thank you for your use of Mission Friend’s website. Your registration and access to the basic content are free. The principles in our Terms of Use are intended to help govern your conduct as a participant on the website and help protect The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) and Concordia Publishing House (CPH) as ministries and businesses.
The entire content you see on this Web site, including, but not limited to, all the headers, images, illustrations, graphics, audio clips, video clips, and text (referred to herein as “Content”) is the exclusive property of the LCMS or CPH, and/or is subject to trademark, service mark, trade dress, copyright and/or other intellectual property rights or licenses held by the LCMS or CPH, or by third parties who have licensed or assigned their rights, interests and/or materials to CPH.
Authorized Uses: The Content of the website and the website as a whole, are intended solely for the personal and non-commercial use of the users of the site without charge, as a convenience, and for your information only. As such a user, you may view, copy, download, print and store selected portions of the Content but only (1) for your own informational, personal and non-commercial purposes, (2) if you do not copy or post the Content on any network computer or broadcast the Content in any medium, form, and/or format, (3) if you do not modify or alter the Content in any way, separate it from any accompanying text, quote materials out of text, or delete or change any copyright or trademark notice, and (4) if you properly credit any intellectual property rights to the LCMS by displaying the above copyright notice on each copy. Neither the LCMS nor any third party has conferred upon you by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right under any patent, trademark, or copyright (except as expressly provided herein).
Copyrights: All Content on the website, and the website as a whole, is copyrighted as a collective work under the US copyright laws, and the LCMS owns the copyright to the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of the Content. In addition, the artwork and illustrations contained throughout the pages of this website are protected by copyright and may not be copied or otherwise reproduced without written permission.
Except as noted above, you may not copy, download, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, display, license, transmit, transfer, create derivative works from, sell or make any other use of any of the Content obtained from this website without prior written permission. No right, title or interest in any downloaded or copied Content is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading or copying. The LCMS and CPH reserve complete title and full intellectual property rights in any Content you download from this website.
Trademarks: Various product names, logos, designs, titles, words or phrases within this website are trademarks, service marks or trade names of the LCMS, CPH, or their other entities, and may be registered in certain jurisdictions and countries. The trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits the LCMS or CPH.
All other trademarks, product names, company names and logos appearing on this website are the property of their respective owners.
Links: This site may contain links to other websites. The LCMS and CPH do not operate or control in any respect, or necessarily endorse, the content found on those sites and you assume sole responsibility for use of those links.
Reminders Regarding Website Content: This website is provided for your information only without any representations or warranties of any kind either expressed or implied. All Content, software, downloads, information regarding products and services, and functions made available on or accessed through this website are provided “as is, where is” and “as available”. (See “Disclaimer” below.) While CPH does its best to ensure the optimal performance of its website, you agree that you assume all risks concerning the suitability and accuracy of the information. The website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. CPH assumes no responsibility for and disclaims all liability for any such inaccuracies, errors, or omissions in this website and in other documents referred to within or linked to this website.
International: This website may be visited internationally and may contain references to CPH products, programs, and services that have not been announced in your country. These references do not imply that CPH intends to announce such products, programs or services in your country. For information on product availability within your country, contact our Customer Service Center.
DISCLAIMER: THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS. CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE, OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS WEBSITE. THIS INCLUDES LOSS OF DATA OR PROFIT ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR THE INBILITY TO USE THE CONTENT OF THIS WEBSITE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION ACCESSED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE, OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE, IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE LUTHERAN CHURCH—MISSOURI SYNOD AND CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL PUNITIVE AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
Privacy: The LCMS and CPH respect your privacy and carefully protect information you provide. A current copy of our Privacy Statement can be found at missionfriends.lcms.org/privacy-policy.
Applicable law: This site is created and controlled by CPH in the State of Missouri, USA. As such, the laws of the State of Missouri will govern these disclaimers, terms, and conditions, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.
Changes: We reserve the right to change this agreement at any time by publishing a revised version of this agreement on the site. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this agreement. Continued use of the site following any such changes means you accept and will abide by these changes.
Indemnity: You agree to indemnify and hold the LCMS and CPH, and their related parties, harmless from and against, and to reimburse us and our related parties with respect to, any and all losses, damages, liabilities, claims, judgments, settlements, fines, costs, and expenses (including reasonable related expenses, legal fees, and costs of investigation) of every nature whatsoever incurred by the LCMS, CPH or their related parties by reason of or arising out of or in connection with: (1) your failure to comply with or your breach of these Terms of Use; (2) your infringement of any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or any other intellectual propriety right of any third party; (3) any content included by you in the service or claims brought against the LCMS or CPH arising from such content; or (4) your violation of any applicable law or regulation.
NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: CPH will process notices of alleged infringement which it receives and will take appropriate actions as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) and other applicable intellectual property laws. Pursuant to the DMCA, notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to CPH’s Designated Agent.
Service Provider(s): Concordia Publishing House
Name/Contact Information of Designated Agent:
Concordia Publishing House
Contracts, Rights, Permission
3558 S. Jefferson Ave
St. Louis, MO 63118
Telephone: (800) 325-0191
Fax: (314) 268-1243
E-mail: copyrights@cph.org
To be effective, the notification must be in writing and contain the following information (DMCA, 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)):
- Physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online side are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
- A statement that the complaining party has 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 in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Site Use Restrictions. You agree that you will not: (i) use the site for any political or commercial purpose (including, without limitation, for purposes of advertising, soliciting funds, collecting product prices, and selling products); (ii) use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing any LCMS or CPH Trademarks or trade names; (iii) engage in any activities through or in connection with the site that seek to attempt to or do harm any individuals or entities or are unlawful, offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that violate any right of any third party, or are otherwise objectionable to the LCMS and CPH; (iv) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, reverse assemble, or modify any site source or object code or any software or other products, services, or processes accessible through any portion of the site; (v) engage in any activity that interferes with a user’s access to the site or the proper operation of the site, or otherwise causes harm to the site, the LCMS, CPH, or other users of the site; (vi) interfere with or circumvent any security feature of the site or any feature that restricts or enforces limitations on use of or access to the site or the Content; (vii) harvest or otherwise collect or store any information (including personally identifiable information about other users of the site, including email addresses, without the express consent of such users); (viii) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the site, other computer systems or networks connected to the site, through password mining or any other means; or (ix) otherwise violate these Terms or any Additional Terms.
Content Use Restrictions. You also agree that, in using the site: (i) you will not monitor, gather, copy, or distribute the Content (except as may be a result of standard search engine activity or use of a standard browser) on the site by using any robot, rover, “bot”, spider, scraper, crawler, spyware, engine, device, software, extraction tool, or any other automatic device, utility, or manual process of any kind; (ii) you will not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any such Content (including any images, text, or page layout); (iii) you will keep intact all Trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property notices contained in such Content; (iv) you will not use such Content in a manner that suggests an unauthorized association with any of our or our licensors’ products, services, or brands; (v) you will not make any modifications to such Content; (vi) you will not copy, modify, reproduce, archive, sell, lease, rent, exchange, create derivative works from, publish by hard copy or electronic means, publicly perform, display, disseminate, distribute, broadcast, retransmit, circulate or transfer to any third party or on any third-party application or web site, or otherwise use or exploit such Content in any way for any purpose except as specifically permitted by these Terms or any Additional Terms or with the prior written consent of the LCMS, CPH, or, in the case of Content from a licensor, the owner of the Content; and (vii) you will not insert any code or product to manipulate such Content in any way that adversely affects any user experience.
Availability of Site and Content. The LCMS may immediately suspend or terminate the availability of the Site and Content (and any elements and features of them), in whole or in part, for any reason, in the LCMS’s sole discretion, and without advance notice or liability.
Reservation of All Rights Not Granted as to Content and Site. These Terms and any Additional Terms include only narrow, limited grants of rights to Content and to use and access the Site. No right or license may be construed, under any legal theory, by implication, estoppel, industry custom, or otherwise. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by the LCMS, CPH, and its licensors and other third parties. Any unauthorized use of any Content or the Site for any purpose is prohibited.