Welcome to the SympathyArt.com web site ("the Site"). Our services and products presented in the Site are provided subject to the following terms and conditions. If you visit the Site, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions as in effect at the time of your visit. Please read them carefully.

Privacy
You should review the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy , by which you also agree to be bound as a condition of visiting the Site or accessing any products or services offered on the Site.

Electronic Communications
You consent to receive communications from us by e-mail. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you by e-mail satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Use of Message Services
You agree not to use this site to submit, transmit, or otherwise make available in any manner, including, but not limited to, sending a message card in conjunction with an order, any content (i) that is unlawful, harmful, obscene, hateful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, harassing, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or is otherwise objectionable, (ii) that infringes the intellectual property rights of any party or (iii) which contains a chain letter or constitutes any form of mass mailing. You may not use a false e-mail address or otherwise provide information that would be misleading as to the origin of such content. Although we do not regularly review content you submit to this site, we reserve the right to edit such content in any way and to refuse to process any orders including content that violates our Content Policy or we find objectionable for any reason. You represent and warrant that you possess all necessary rights to use the content that you submit to this site and that use of such content does not violate our Content Policy. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from and against any and all claims arising out of or relating to any content that you submit to this site. By submitting content to this site, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly granted, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right and license to use the content in any manner that we deem appropriate, in our sole and exclusive discretion.

Use of Certain Services
We offer our users and customers certain services that involve the use of images of our products. The product images provided through these services are protected by United States and international copyright laws and may not be used for any other purpose. Users of these services may not: (a) alter, modify or manipulate any product image; (b) use a product image in any form other than the form provided by us; (c) reproduce a product image other than as intended through the use of this service; (d) remove any code or identifying information from a product image; or (e) inactivate the link associated with any product image or cause the image to ultimately link to a destination other than our Website.

Copyright
All content included on this site, such as, but not limited to, images, text, graphics, logos, and button icons, is the property of SympathyArt.com or its content suppliers and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. The purchase of any product does not provide the purchaser with any copyright interest or other intellectual property right in the product. All content on the Site that is not the property of SympathyArt.com is used with permission. The arrangement and compilation of all content on this site are the exclusive property of SympathyArt.com and are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of SympathyArt.com or its software suppliers and is protected by United States and international copyright laws.

Trademarks
Certain marks used on the Site are registered trademarks or service marks of SympathyArt.com or our affiliated companies, in the United States and other countries. Certain graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are trademarks, service marks, or trade dress of SympathyArt.com or our affiliated companies. Our trademarks and trade dress may not be used for any commercial or other purposes by any party other than SympathyArt.com or our affiliated companies without our prior written consent. All other trademarks and service marks not owned by SympathyArt.com or our affiliated companies that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, and may or may not be used without their prior written consent.

Copyright / Trademark Compliance & Complaints
We honor the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your work has been copied or used on this site in a way that constitutes copyright or trademark infringement, please notify us by following the procedure set forth in the immediately following paragraph. Except in limited instances under authorized agreements, we do not reproduce or manufacture the products offered on our site, but rather we purchase product from various suppliers that claim to have sufficient rights to allow us to display and sell the products on the site. Upon receipt of any bona fide claim of infringement, or upon becoming aware of any actual or alleged infringement by any other means, we will remove such actual or alleged infringing products from the site pending our investigation.

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright / Trademark Infringement
If you believe that your work has been copied, distributed or used by us in a way that constitutes copyright or trademark infringement, please fill out the Notice of Claimed Infringement form, sign the form where indicated and submit it to:

SympathyArt.com
Attention: Legal Department
2001 Kennedy St. NE #175
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Facsimile: (877) 348-0325

Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying us of your belief that your copyrighted material or trademark has been infringed.

License and Site Access
We grant you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access and make personal use of this site as our customer; however, you are not permitted to download (other than page caching) or modify the site or its contents, or any portion thereof, without our prior written consent. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or commercial use of its contents, or any portion thereof; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another party; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site, in whole or in part, may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our prior written consent. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of SympathyArt.com, our affiliated companies or our partners or suppliers without our prior written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing our name or trademarks without our prior written consent. Any use of this site or its contents that is not expressly authorized herein is prohibited and immediately terminates the license granted herein. You may not use any SympathyArt.com logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark design as part of any link without our prior written permission.

Your Account
If you use this site, 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. We reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in our sole discretion.