Terms and Conditions
The Site offers special Services & Features which, in order to work properly, need you to share with us certain personal information about yourself. If you submit any personal information to us, you can be assured that Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. will not sell, lease, or share your personal information to anyone else without your approval, except as follows: (1) to our third party service providers, and only so that they may help us provide the services you've requested; (2) on occasion, we may offer a special promotion (such as a sweepstakes, contest, fantasy football or a free subscription to goods and services) on the Website in conjunction with a sponsor or promotional partner, and share your information with that sponsor or promotional partner so that it can send you other special promotions it offers, but only if you give us permission to do so.
Special Offers and Promotions. With your permission, we may also send you e-mails with special offers and promotions. If you don't want to receive these, you may change your preferences.
Cookies. To help us serve you better, we collect information that does not identify you personally, but rather identifies your computer or browser. This is done by using little files called "cookies" and by tracking IP addresses. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a Website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies operate in the background, and you can turn them off if you wish, but doing so will impair your ability to use some of the features on our Website. (See our Terms & Conditions Clause.5). We may use cookies to make our Website work better by, for example, keeping track of your login name and password.
We may also allow other companies that are presenting advertisements or providing services on our pages to set and access cookies on your computer. Those companies' use of cookies will be covered by their own privacy policies, not ours. Specifically, we use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Website. This company may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to our Website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
We may also use IP addresses to analyze trends, help us administer the Website, track the movement of visitors, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Aggregated Demographic Information. We may share aggregated demographic information with third parties, but this information is not linked to any personal information that can identify you or another individual person. Therefore, no personal information is disclosed in this manner without your written approval.
Transfert of Data
In all future cases in which Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. may be sold along with its assets, or other transactions may occur in which customer information is one of the business assets transferred. In such a case, the customer information which we have gathered may be one of the business assets we transfer.
Disclosure for Legal Purposes. The law requires that we may be required to share your personal information and non-personal information (see "Cookies" section above for examples of non-personal information) pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants or orders. If we are required to do so, we will, of course, obey the law. In addition, notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to use and disclose share your personal and non-personal information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of this Website's Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
Terms and Conditions
Use of the Official Website Goal.com (the "Website") is subject to the following terms of use:
1. Website Ownership
The Website is owned by Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. All materials distributed in the Website (the "Materials") are either owned by Goal.com. Except for downloading one copy of the Materials for your personal, non-commercial home use, you must not reproduce, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, perform or display the Materials without first obtaining the written permission of Goal.com Materials must not be used in any unauthorized manner. Text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material (collectively, the "Materials") shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Neither these Materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use.
2. Message Features
2.1 Participation.
The Website may offer opportunities for you to transmit messages in connection with various features including email, message boards & chat rooms ("Message Features"). You must use Message Features in a responsible manner, and are solely responsible for any content you transmit. You must not transmit any message ("Message") in connection with any Message Feature that: (i) imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Website's infrastructure, or otherwise adversely affects, restricts or inhibits any other user from using and enjoying the Website; (ii) is threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, offensive, pornographic, profane, sexually explicit or indecent; (iii) constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law; (iv) violates, plagiarizes or infringes the rights of third parties including, without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right; (v) contains a virus or other harmful component; (vi) contains any information, software or other material of a commercial nature; (vii) contains advertising, promotions or commercial solicitations of any kind; (viii) constitutes or contains false or misleading indications of origin or statements of fact; (ix) contains material irrelevant to the subject matter of the Message Feature; or (x) contains any virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routine. In order to participate in any Message Feature, you will be asked to register by providing certain personal information such as, for example, your name and email address. (The Website's Privacy Policy explains how such information may be collected and used.) You will also be asked to select a user name ("User Name") for identification purposes. You must not use any User Name that violates any term of subsections (i)-(x) above, or any other operating term set forth by Goal.com. 2.2 License.
By transmitting any Message or User Name, you are granting to Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and irrevocable right and license to reproduce, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, perform or display such Message, User Name, in whole or in part, in any form, media or technology known or hereafter developed. 2.3 Message and User Name Review.
Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. act as a passive conduit in connection with your use of Message Features. Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. have the right, but not the obligation, to review, edit or delete any Message or User Name transmitted by you that they believe may create a liability for them, and also to deny access to any Message Feature. Display of any Message or User Name in any Message Feature does not constitute its approval or endorsement by Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. You acknowledge that Messages and Screen Names are not confidential and they may be read, intercepted by others and widely accessible on the World Wide Web. You acknowledge that by submitting Messages to this Website, no confidential, fiduciary, contractually implied or other relationship is created between you and Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement.
3. Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Website at any time, including the availability of any Website feature, database, or content. They may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or the entire Website without notice or liability.
4. Votes; Contests; Sweepstakes.
The Website may offer you opportunities to vote in connection with certain events and also to enter contests and sweepstakes. By participating in any such event, you signify your agreement to all special terms set forth on the Website applicable to the event as well as the terms of this Agreement.
5. Linking.
The Website may contain links and pointers to other World Wide Web sites and resources. Links to and from the Website to other Web sites maintained by third parties, do not constitute an endorsement by Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. or any of its affiliates of any third party Web site or content. Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. are not responsible for the availability of these third party resources or their contents. You should direct any concerns regarding any external link to its Web site administrator or Webmaster.
6. Disclaimer of Warranties.
6.1. USE OF THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICES, TICKETS, AND MERCHANDISE ARE AT YOUR EXCLUSIVE RISK, AND THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS EXCLUSIVELY WITH YOU.
6.2. EXCEPT FOR ANY WARRANTIES THAT MAY BE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED BY THE APPLICABLE VENDOR, THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALL MERCHANDISE, TICKETS AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
6.3. Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. DO NOT WARRANT THAT: (1) THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; (2) DEFECTS OR ERRORS IN THE WEBSITE, MERCHANDISE OR SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED; (3) THE WEBSITE, THE MERCHANDISE OR THE SERVICES WILL BE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; OR (4) ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE WEBSITE, THE MERCHANDISE, OR THE SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE.
7. Limitations on Liability
7.1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY TERM IN THIS AGREEMENT, OTHER OPERATING TERM SET FORTH BY Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc., YOU ARE EXCLUSIVELY LIABLE FOR THE CONTENT OF EVERY MESSAGE AND USER NAME YOU TRANSMIT VIA THE WEBSITE.
7.2. IN NO EVENT MAY Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER BASIS, EVEN IF Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, THE LIABILITY OF Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
8. Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. - and their respective general and limited partners, members, shareholders, directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives - harmless from all claims, liabilities, damages and expenses (including attorneys' fees and expenses) arising out of or relating to: (A) your use of the Website or (B) any alleged breach of this Agreement by you.
9. Termination
This Agreement may be immediately terminated at any time by Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. in their sole discretion. In addition and without prejudice to any other remedy available to Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc., and they may immediately terminate this Agreement if you breach any term of this Agreement or other operating term set forth by Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc.
10. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
Any controversy that may arise from this agreement will be governed by the Italian Law and Court of jurisdiction will be the Court of Milan, also for connection and guarantee.
11. Miscellaneous
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties, and supersedes all prior agreement and communications with respect to the subject matter herein. Sections 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12 of this Agreement will survive any termination or cancellation of this Agreement. The section headings in this Agreement are for convenience only and must not be given any legal import.
12. Acceptance of Terms of Use.
By using the Website, you signify your agreement to the terms of this Agreement. If you do not agree to the terms in this Agreement, you must not use the Website. Goal.com and Ellinton Invest Inc. may change the terms of this Agreement at any time, and your use of the Website after such changes are posted will mean that you accept them.
LAST UPDATED: April 2004