© 2010 Anderson Hardwood Floors, Inc. All rights reserved. Any use, appropriation, reproduction, or linking to the contents of the subject website without express written permission is strictly prohibited.

As further used herein, “Anderson” is intended to encompass Anderson Hardwood Floors, Inc, and any other related entities.

ANDERSON hereby reserves fully and completely any and every
possible kind of Intellectual Property rights applicable to the content within, provided by, or
referred to in the subject website, or linked proprietary sites re names, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, patents, and trade secret information, including as available both nationally and internationally, including as based on, but not limited to, the Lanham Act, the Patent Act, the Copyright Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Paris Convention, the Pan-American Conventions, the Madrid Protocol, and the Berne Convention. Any use, appropriation, reproduction, or linking to ANDERSON Intellectual Property rights applicable to the content within, provided by, or referred to in the subject website, or linked proprietary sites, without express written permission is strictly prohibited.

Any misappropriations and/or infringements of any ANDERSON Intellectual Property rights will be pursued to the fullest extent available under the law, potentially including but not limited to, any damages sustained by ANDERSON, the cost of any civil action, trebling of all actual damages, and award of attorney's fees (15 U.S.C. § 1117), and issuance of preliminary and permanent injunctions (15 U.S.C. § 1116).

False Designations of Origin and False Descriptions Forbidden

Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1125, ANDERSON reserves all rights by which false designations of origin and false descriptions are forbidden; specifically, (1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which— (A) is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with ANDERSON, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by ANDERSON, or (B) in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or ANDERSON’s goods, services, or commercial activities, shall be liable, as appropriate under the law, by such act in a civil action by ANDERSON.

Any external links provided are as a convenience only and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by ANDERSON of any of the products, services or opinions of the corporation or organization or individual. ANDERSON bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links. Contact any external site for answers to questions regarding its content.

Privacy and publicity rights reflect separate and distinct interests from copyright interests. In addition to consideration of copyright interests, anyone desiring to use materials from this website bear the responsibility of making individualized determinations as to whether privacy and publicity rights are implicated by the nature of the materials and how they use such materials.
While copyright protects the copyright holder's property rights in the work or intellectual creation, privacy and publicity rights protect the interests of the person(s) who may be the subject(s) of the work or intellectual creation. Distinctions among privacy rights, publicity rights, and copyright may be illustrated by example: An advertiser wishes to use a photograph for a print advertisement. The advertiser approaches the photographer, who holds the copyright in the photograph, and negotiates a license to use the photograph. The advertiser also is required to determine the relationship between the photographer and the subject of the photograph. If no formal relationship (e.g., a release form signed by the subject) exists that permits the photographer to license the use of the photograph for all uses or otherwise waives the subject's, sitter's or model's rights, then the advertiser must seek permission from the subject of the photograph because the subject has retained both privacy and publicity rights in the use of their likeness. The publicity right of the subject is that their image may not be commercially exploited without his/her consent and potentially compensation.
While copyright is a federally protected right under the United States Copyright Act, with statutorily described fair use defenses against charges of copyright infringement, neither privacy nor publicity rights are the subject of federal law. Note also that while fair use is a defense to copyright infringement, fair use is not a defense to claims of violation of privacy or publicity rights. Privacy and publicity rights are the subject of state laws. What may be permitted in one state may not be permitted in another. Note also that related causes of action may be pursued under the federal Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (a), for example, for unauthorized uses of a person's identity in order to create a false endorsement.

The ANDERSON site may use software programs to create statistics that are used for assessing what information is most or least accessed by users, determining optimal technical design specifications, and identifying system performance issues. To assist such processes, ANDERSON may collect and/or store the following information:

• The name of the domain from which you access the Internet
• The Internet Protocol address of the computer you are using
• The date and time you access the Library’s site
• The pages you visit
• The Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site
• Characteristics of your system configuration including browser type, operating system, monitor resolution, and connection speed.

In addition, such information may be used in the course of enforcing any of ANDERSON’s Intellectual Property rights, as otherwise referenced herein.