August 29, 2015

Website terms

Agreement between user and www.floridaleatherbacks.com, and/or www.trackturtles.com

Welcome to www.floridaleatherbacks.com. The www.floridaleatherbacks.com, and www.trackturtles.com websites (the “Sites”) are comprised of various web pages operated by Florida Leatherbacks Inc. (“FLI”). www.floridaleatherbacks.com and www.trackturtles.com are offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Your use of www.floridaleatherbacks.com constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.

Privacy

Your use of the sites is subject to FLI’s Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy (see below), which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices.

Electronic Communications

Visiting www.floridaleatherbacks.com, or www.trackturtles.com or sending emails to FLI constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Your account

If you use these sites, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that FLI is not responsible for third party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. FLI and its associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.

FLI does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may use our sites only with permission of a parent or guardian.

Refund Policy

Our policy lasts 15 days. If 15 days have passed since your donation, unfortunately we can’t offer you a refund.

Upon notification of a refund request, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your request. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund.
If you are approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within a certain amount of days.

Late or missing refunds (if applicable)
  1. If you haven’t received a refund yet, first check your bank account again.
  2. Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted.
  3. Next contact your bank. There is often some processing time before a refund is posted.
  4. If you’ve done all of this and you still have not received your refund yet, please contact us at [email protected].

Links to third party sites/Third party services

www.floridaleatherbacks.com and www.trackturtles.com may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of FLI and FLI is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. FLI is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by FLI of the site or any association with its operators.

Certain services made available via www.floridaleatherbacks.com and www.trackturtles.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the www.floridaleatherbacks.com or www.trackturtles.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that FLI may share such information and data with any third party with whom FLI has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of www.floridaleatherbacks.com users and customers.

No unlawful or prohibited use/Intellectual Property

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use www.floridaleatherbacks.com and www.trackturtles.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to FLI that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.

All content included as part of the Service, such as tracking data, text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of FLI or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.

You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site. FLI’s content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make NO other use of the content without the express written permission of FLI and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of FLI or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

Use of communication services

The Site may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.

By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not: defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information; upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents; upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer; advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages; conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters; download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner; falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded, restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services; violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; violate any applicable laws or regulations.

FLI has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, FLI reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. FLI reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

FLI reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in FLI’s sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. FLI does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, FLI specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized FLI’s spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of FLI.

Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials.

Materials provided to www.floridaleatherbacks.com or www.trackturtles.com or posted on any FLI web page

FLI does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to www.floridaleatherbacks.com or www.trackturtles.com (including comments, feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any FLI Site or our associated services (collectively “Submissions”). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting FLI, our affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. FLI is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in FLI’s sole discretion.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.

International Users

The Service is controlled, operated and administered by FLI from our office within the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the FLI Content accessed through www.floridaleatherbacks.com or www.trackturtles.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless FLI, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. FLI reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with FLI’s in asserting any available defenses.

Liability disclaimer

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. FLORIDA LEATHERBACKS INC. AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME.

FLORIDA LEATHERBACKS INC. AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. FLORIDA LEATHERBACKS INC. AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL FLORIDA LEATHERBACKS INC. AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FLORIDA LEATHERBACKS INC. OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.

Termination/access restriction

FLI reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Florida and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Florida in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Site. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and FLI as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. FLI’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of FLI’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by FLI with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.

Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and FLI with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and FLI with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent an d subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.

Changes to Terms

FLI reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which www.floridaleatherbacks.com or  www.trackturtles.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. FLI encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.

Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to the www.floridaleatherbacks.com and www.trackturtles.com websites and Florida Leatherbacks Inc. (“FLI”) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Florida Leatherbacks Inc. include www.floridaleatherbacks.com and www.trackturtles.com and FLI. The FLI website is a not for profit news and information site. By using the FLI website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

FLI may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name. If you donate to  FLI, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by FLI. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the FLI website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through FLI’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

FLI encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from FLI so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. FLI is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the FLI website.

Use of your Personal Information

FLI collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

FLI may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from FLI and its affiliates. FLI may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

FLI does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

FLI may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to FLI, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

FLI may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within FLI, in order to determine what FLI services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within FLI to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

FLI will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on FLI or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of FLI; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of FLI, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The FLI website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize FLI pages, or register with FLI site or services, a cookie helps FLI to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same FLI website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the FLI features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the FLI services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

FLI secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. FLI currently uses SSL on its entire websites.

Children Under Thirteen

FLI does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Opt-Out & Unsubscribe

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from FLI by contacting us here:
Florida Leatherbacks Inc.
3330 Fairchild Gardens Ave. #31061
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33410
[email protected]

Amazon Alexa Skills

Our skills are made available via Amazon on their site and through their devices and apps.  Our skills are considered to be a “Third Party Service” as that term is used in the Amazon Alexa Terms of Use located here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201809740, and your use of the Service will be further governed as set forth therein.

If you continue to use FLI’s App/Alexa Skill, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern relationship with you in relation to this App/Alexa Skill. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our App/Alexa Skill.

The term ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the App/Alexa Skill. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our App/Alexa Skill.

The use of this App/Alexa Skill is subject to the following terms of use:

The content of the App/Alexa Skill is for general information and entertainment use only. It is subject to change without notice. This App/Alexa Skill doesn’t uses cookies to monitor browsing preferences. Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this App/Alexa Skill for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Your use of any information or materials on this App/Alexa Skill is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this App/Alexa Skill meet your specific requirements. This App/Alexa Skill contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.

All trade marks reproduced in this App/Alexa Skill which are not the property of, or licensed to, the operator are acknowledged on the App/Alexa Skill.

 Changes to this Statement

FLI will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. FLI encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how FLI is protecting your information.

Contact Information

FLI welcomes your questions or comments regarding these policies. If you believe that FLI has not adhered to this Statement, please contact FLI at:

Florida Leatherbacks Inc.
3330 Fairchild Gardens Ave. #31061
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33410

Email Address:
[email protected]

Telephone number:
561-318-3550

Data attribution

Some data presented on this site were collected by Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Inc

Updated April 2019