User Agreement

By accessing any part(s) of rawsilkliving.com (referred to herein as “the blog,” “the Site,” “we,” “our,” “us,” “brand(s),” or “this Site”), you agree to the below User Agreement. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use this Site.

This User Agreement expresses the terms and conditions of use, which apply to you when you view, access, or otherwise use the Site and/or the blog located at www.rawsilkliving.com.

Disclaimers and Limitations on Liability.
 The Site and all Materials contained on it are transmitted and distributed “as is” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. ECS Learning Systems, Inc. dba Raw Silk Living is, under no circumstances, liable for any special or consequential damages that result from use of the Site. Applicable law may not allow for the limitation or exclusion of liability. In such cases, ECS Learning Systems, Inc. total liability may not exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing the Site.

We reserve the right to update and revise content previously posted on a regular basis and will not explicitly state all corrections made.

This Site author(s) and/or management try to provide accurate and authoritative information regarding the subject matter covered.

This information is given with the understanding that neither the author(s) of the Site content nor this Site is engaged in rendering medical, counseling, legal, consumer, or other professional advice. Neither the author(s) nor the management is engaged in rendering professional advice and cannot be held liable for the accuracy or efficacy of the information.

If the details of this information affect your situation, you should additionally seek the advice of a competent professional.

Raw Silk Living recommends that the reader/user of this Site preview and use his/her own judgment in selecting ideas and activities. The reader should assess the apropriateness of the content and activities according to the age and maturity of the children. If the details of the content require more understanding in your situation, you should additionally seek the advice of a competent professional. The responsibility to adhere to safety standards and best practices is the duty of the parents, teachers, children, and/or others who use the content of this Site. Raw Silk Living and ECS Learning Systems are not responsible for any damage, to property or person, that result from the use of the content on this Site.

Copyright, Trademarks, & Restrictions. 
© 2012 ECS Learning Systems, Inc. dba Raw Silk Living. All rights reserved. Raw Silk Living, rawsilkliving.com (the “Site”), the Raw Silk Living logo, and related marks are trademarks of ECS Learning Systems, Inc.

All materials (“Materials”) on the Site, including, but not limited to, images, illustrations, content, and file downloads, are protected by copyrights owned by ECS Learning Systems, Inc. Reproduction, transmission, distribution, posting, uploading, storing, or republication of Materials from the Site, in whole or in part, in any form or medium (i.e. electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without express written permission of Raw Silk Living and/or ECS Learning Systems, Inc. is strictly prohibited.

Other trademarks and trade names may be used on this Site to refer to entities who claim the marks and names of their products.

Reprint Rights. 
Reproduction of worksheets/handouts and other materials from the Site for use at home, in the classroom, and not for commercial sale is permissible. Reproduction of these materials for an entire school, or for a school system, is strictly prohibited. A user must individually obtain materials by accessing the digital content from the Site. Reproduction, transmission, distribution, posting, uploading, storing, or republication of the materials, in whole or in part, in any form or medium (i.e. electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without prior written permission from Raw Silk Living and/ or ECS Learning Systems, Inc. is strictly prohibited, with exceptions named previously.

Terms of Use Modifications. 
Raw Silk Living, ECS Learning Systems, Inc., and affiliated companies reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to modify the terms of use expressed in this User Agreement at any time. If our User Agreement changes, we will post an updated policy on the Site. You can tell if the policy has changed by checking the revision date that appears at the end of this policy. By continuing to use this Site following the posting of modifications to the policy, you accept those changes.

Use of IP Addresses. 
Your computer is automatically assigned a number when you are browsing the Internet. This number is called an IP address, and it is used by Web servers to identify your computer.

The Site collects IP addresses for audits of site usage. Our server logs a user IP address when you request a page from the Site or when you volunteer information (e.g. survey information). The tracking of IP addresses provides us with aggregate information about our users, such as the most-frequented pages. We use only aggregate information to continue to provide quality online services that meet the needs of our users, and not to track a specific IP address to identify an individual user. However, we may use such information to identify a user if we feel that there are or may be safety and/or security issues or to comply with legal requirements.

IP addresses are not linked to personal information unless the personal information is provided by you through participation in a poll, a catalog request, or other voluntary submission.

Children’s Guidelines. Raw Silk Living is concerned about the privacy and safety of children when they use the Internet. We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information online from anyone under the age of 18 without prior verifiable parental consent. We encourage parent/guardian(s) of children under 18 years of age to supervise time spent online.

Occasionally, we post activities on the Site that children can participate in and enjoy. For those activities that require personally identifiable information, such as contests and surveys, in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Site will not condition a child’s participation in an activity on that child disclosing more personally identifiable information than is reasonably necessary to administer the activity. For certain online activities, we may require verifiable parental consent before children under the age of 18 may submit and/or post any information at rawsilkliving.com. With these activities, we will notify the respective parent of our Privacy Policy and obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting personally identifiable information from the child, unless we collect only the child’s name and online contact information to: (1) obtain parental consent or provide parents with notice; (2) respond directly on a one-time basis to a child’s specific request; (3) respond more than once to a child’s specific request along with providing parental notice of such use; (4) protect the safety of a child; or (5) comply with legal requirements. When we provide parents with notice and/or seek consent, we also give parents the ability to let us know if they do not want any further use made of the personally identifiable information we have collected from their child. Parents can request to review or have deleted their child’s personally identifiable information from our records, and refuse to permit further use of a child’s personally identifiable information.

Unless we indicate otherwise and obtain prior parental consent, personally identifiable information collected from children under the age of 18 will be used solely by Raw Silk Living or agents for internal purposes (such as contest administration and services related to the operation of the Site) and will not be sold or otherwise transferred to third parties. If we become aware that an individual is under the age of 18 and has submitted any information to the Site for any purpose without prior verifiable parental consent, we will delete his or her information from our files.

Information gathered from children under 18 years of age is not collected for marketing or promotional purposes, except when explicitly stated during registration for contests or promotions. Under those exceptions, the information is used solely for the specific contest or promotion. Publication of contest winners’ names requires consent from a parent/guardian for children under 18 years of age. It is our policy never to post on the Site more than a child’s first name, first initial of last name, state, and age or grade.

Links to Other Sites. 
The Site may contain links to other Web sites with which it is not necessarily affiliated. We exercise care when selecting the Web sites to which we link. However, once you leave the Site through a link to another Web site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the linked site. We are not responsible for the content or practices of any linked site. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site that you access through the Site.

Pricing, Warranties, and Special Charges
. Prices, product specifications/descriptions, and availability may change without notice.

ECS cannot be responsible for typographical errors or photography/illustrations.

All warranties are honored by the respective manufacturer.

Taxes and shipping charges are extra, may vary, and cannot be combined with other offers or discounts.

Companies
. Raw Silk Living and rawsilkliving.com brands are owned and represented by the company ECS Learning Systems, Inc.

Last Revised: August 15, 2012