TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE OF SCOUT INCENTIVES CALCULATOR℠
By accessing and using the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions of Use. In order to use the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ and confirm your agreement, you must check the box labeled “I Agree” below.
Your use of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator ℠:
- You acknowledge that your agreement to these Terms and Conditions is supported by reasonable and valuable consideration. Without limiting the foregoing, you acknowledge that such consideration includes your ability to visit our Website and use the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ , without charge.
- You agree that you have been granted a temporary license to utilize the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ for the sole purpose of analyzing the potential subsidies and other incentive benefits of your contemplated business expansion scenario and that any other use is strictly prohibited.
- You may not use the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ or any results or output in connection with the development or marketing of products or services similar to, or that would compete with, the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠.
- Your right to access and use the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ is personal to you and is not transferable by you to any other person or entity. You are only entitled to access and use the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ for lawful purposes and pursuant to these Terms and Conditions.
- Your access to and use of the Scout Incentives Calculator℠ may be interrupted from time to time for any of several reasons, including, without limitation, the malfunction of equipment, periodic updating, maintenance or repair of our Website or other actions that we, in our sole discretion, may elect to take. We reserve the right to suspend or discontinue the availability of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ and/or any portion or feature at any time in our sole discretion and without prior notice.
- Any action by you that, in our sole discretion: (i) violates these Terms and Conditions ; (ii) restricts, inhibits or prevents any access, use or enjoyment of our Website or the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ by M.R. Press Consulting, LLC or others; (iii) violates applicable law or (iv) through the use of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ defames, abuses, harasses, offends or threatens, shall not be permitted, and may result in your loss of the right to access and use of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠.
Intellectual Property and Confidentiality
- You acknowledge that the SCOUT Incentives Calculator ℠ and its features, functions, integrations, interfaces. graphics, look and feel, content, and software, and the process and methods embodied in the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠, as well as all patent, copyright and other rights associated with the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠, are the wholly-owned, proprietary intellectual property of M. R. Press Consulting, LLC and its affiliates, and your use shall confer no right of ownership or use outside the confines of our Website or these Terms and Conditions.
- An affiliate of M. R. Press Consulting, LLC holds the patent to the “Device and Methods for Providing a User With Business Expansion Options” protecting the content, process and methods embodied in the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠. You acknowledge this disclosure.
- You may not use the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ outside of the website of M. R. Press Consulting LLC. No portion of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ may be reproduced in any form or by any means.
- You may not use the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ except in compliance with these Terms and Conditions of Use.
- You agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ in any manner, and you shall not exploit the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ in any unauthorized way whatsoever, including, but not limited to, by trespass or burdening network capacity. You shall not modify, scrape, embed, or frame the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ without our prior written permission.
- You agree NOT to:
- modify the name of the process;
- remove or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices or notations from the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ or its results or output;
- reproduce, duplicate, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the content, process and methods or the results or output of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ ;
- decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, copy, modify, translate or create a derivative work from the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠, including but not limited to any software, code, application or algorithms accessed via the Website;
- “mirror” the content, process or methods to any other server or storage device through any means, including automated use of spiders, robots, and data mining or extraction methods.
Disclaimer, Limitations, Waiver And Indemnity
The results and calculations produced by the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ are estimates and for illustrative purposes only. You should not rely on them to represent actual future results.
M. R. Press Consulting, LLC does not guarantee, represent, or warrant that your use of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ will be uninterrupted or error-free. You expressly agree that your use of, or inability to use, the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ is at your sole risk. THE SCOUT INCENTIVES CALCULATOR℠ AND ALL ESTIMATES AND OUTPUT FROM IT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" FOR YOUR USE, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, CORRECTNESS OR COMPLETENESS OF CONTENT OR OF NONINFRINGEMENT.
M.R. Press Consulting, LLC makes no representation, warranty or guarantee that the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ and our website content are free of hacking or other security intrusion or infection from any viruses, worms, trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, or other malicious code or computer programming routines that contain contaminating or destructive properties or that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
In no case shall M. R. Press Consulting, LLC, its directors, officers, members, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, principals, or licensors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ or for any other claim related in any way to your use of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content (or product) posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠.
You agree that your submission of any information in connection with the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ is at your sole risk, and M. R. Press Consulting, LLC hereby disclaims any and all liability to you for any loss or liability relating to such information in any way.
You agree, to the extent permitted by law, to indemnify and hold M. R. Press Consulting, LLC, its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, principals, and licensors harmless with respect to any claims arising out of your breach of this agreement, your use of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠, or any action taken by M. R. Press Consulting, LLC as part of its investigation of a suspected violation of this agreement or as a result of its finding or decision that a violation of this agreement has occurred. This means that you cannot sue or recover any damages from M. R. Press Consulting, LLC, its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, principals, and licensors as a result of its decision to remove or refuse to process any information or content, to warn you, to suspend or terminate your access to the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠, or to take any other action during the investigation of a suspected violation or as a result of M. R. Press Consulting, LLC's conclusion that a violation of this agreement has occurred. This waiver and indemnity provision applies to all violations described in or contemplated by this agreement.
Miscellaneous
These Terms and Conditions of Use shall be governed by and construed under the laws of the State of Connecticut. Any legal proceeding brought by you relating to or arising from your use of the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ must be brought in the courts of the State of Connecticut or the federal district court sitting in Connecticut.
If any portion of these Terms and Conditions of Use is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, these Terms and Conditions of Use as a whole shall not be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, but only that portion of these Terms and Conditions of Use that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken from these Terms and Conditions of Use.
The headings contained in these Terms and Conditions of Use are for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of these Terms and Conditions of Use , and shall not limit or otherwise affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made in these Terms and Conditions of Use , as may be amended by us, from time to time, shall survive your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions of Use and their termination.
These Terms and Conditions of Use and our Privacy Policy represent the entire understanding and agreement between you and us regarding the subject matter of the same, and supersede all other previous agreements, understandings and/or representations regarding the same.
Welcome to the SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ powered by M. R. Press Consulting
The SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ provides an instant answer to the question, "How much value could be derived from state and local economic development incentives (subsidies) through up-front dialogue and negotiation with government authorities?" The SCOUT Incentives Calculator℠ determines a range of real cash value for discretionary incentives and subsidies based on 5 simple parameters that are well-known to anyone in your Company with responsibility for planned projecs -- namely, 1) Preferred State; 2) Capital Expenditures (including up to 3 years in the future at the same location); 3) Job Creation (including up to 3 years in the future at the same location); 4) Average Pay (annual cash compensation) of New Jobs; and 5) the Industry (activity) of the business unit.