Effective Date: February 18, 2020 | PDF

Terms of Use

Welcome to The Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC Web sites (“Our Sites”). These Terms of Use (“Agreement”) govern your use of Our Sites, including any digital products such as RSS, software, downloads, mobile applications, and other services (collectively, “Our Services”) located on Our Sites. Please read this Agreement carefully, because by visiting or using Our Sites, you agree to be legally bound by and comply with its terms. If you do not agree to comply with the Agreement, you are not authorized to use Our Sites.

The Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC (“we” or “us”) amended this Agreement as of January 2020. We may modify it again in the future by posting the amended Agreement on Our Sites, so please check this page regularly. Your continued use of Our Sites and Our Services after we have posted an amended Agreement indicates that you agree to the amended terms.

All terms and rules are immediately effective upon posting.  If you fail to follow any rules on Our Sites, whether listed in this Agreement or at other areas on Our Sites, we may terminate your access, without notice or liability, to chat rooms, forums, bulletin boards and other “members only” areas of Our Sites and may pursue other remedies available to us.

Privacy Policy

Please review our Privacy Policy, which is a part of this Agreement and describes how we handle any personally identifying information about our users.

Copyright

All material on Our Sites is protected by United States and international copyright law. You must abide by all copyright notices and restrictions contained in Our Sites.

You may not reproduce, distribute (in any form including over any local area or other network or service), display, perform, create derivative works of, sell, license, extract for use in a database, or otherwise use any materials (including computer programs and other code) on Our Sites (“Site Material”), except that you may download Site Material in the form of one machine readable copy that you will use only for personal, noncommercial purposes only if you do not alter Site Material or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice displayed on the Site Material.  

If you are a subscriber to any of the services offered on Our Sites, you may be permitted to use Site Material, according to the terms of your subscription agreement.

If your employer is a member of The Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC, then for the term of such membership we hereby grant to you a paid-up, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, limited license to download Site Material in the form of one machine readable copy that you will use only for personal, noncommercial purposes on the condition that (a)  you do not alter Site Material or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice displayed on the Site Material; and (b) where applicable, you clearly designates THE OCR as the source as follows “© [YEAR] The Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC, Inc. All rights reserved”. As an employee of a member of The Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC, you may retain copies of Site Materials for internal and archival use after your membership term expires, but such retention must be solely within the scope of this license grant or your membership agreement. 

The Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC reserves all rights not expressly granted in this Agreement.  Any use beyond the scope of this Agreement shall require the permission of, and a separate license grant from, The Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC.

If you believe any Site Material infringes your copyright, you should notify the agent we have designated with the Copyright Office. (For more information, see our section on the procedure for notifying us of copyright infringement, or visit the Copyright Office web site containing a directory of designated agents.)

Trademarks

“THE OBSERVATORY ON CORPORATE REPUTATION” and other logos, indicia and trademarks featured on Our Sites are trademarks owned by The Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC Inc. in the United States and other countries (“Our Trademarks”).

You may not use Our Trademarks in connection with any product or service that does not belong to us nor in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among users about whether we are the source, sponsor, or endorser of the product or service, nor in any manner that disparages or discredits us.

Links, Frames and Metatags

You may link to the public pages of Our Sites, as long as the link does not cast us in a false or misleading light. You may not link to the other pages of Our Sites. You may not frame the content of Our Sites. You may not use metatags or any other “hidden text” that incorporates Our Trademarks or our name without our express written consent.

Links to Other Web Sites

Our Sites contain links to other Web sites that we think may be of interest to you. We have no control over these other sites or their content. Except for information, products or services clearly identified as being supplied by The Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC, we do not in any way review, operate, or control any material, information, products or services on other sites. Be sure to read the terms of use and privacy policies that govern your use of other sites. Because we are not responsible for the availability of these outside resources or their content, you should direct any concerns regarding any other sites to the administrator or webmaster of that site.