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Links
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Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 214-620-5360 or via email at Gretchen@GretchenMartens.com.
This privacy notice is based on best practices from the Better Business Bureau. https://www.bbb.org/greater-san-francisco/for-businesses/toolkits1/sample-privacy-policy/
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You must be at least 18 years of age to use this website. By using this website and by agreeing to these terms and conditions you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
License to use website
Unless otherwise stated, Gretchen Martens and/or her licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or download podcasts from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
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Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your family or organisation.
Acceptable use
You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Gretchen Martens’ express written consent.
You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without Gretchen Martens’ express written consent.
Restricted access
Gretchen Martens reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at Gretchen Martens’ discretion.
If Gretchen Martens provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.
User content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to Gretchen Martens a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Gretchen Martens the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Gretchen Martens or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
Gretchen Martens reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Gretchen Martens’ servers, or hosted or published upon this website.
Notwithstanding Gretchen Martens’ rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, Gretchen Martens does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.
No warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Gretchen Martens makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Gretchen Martens does not warrant that:
Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter, you should consult an appropriate professional.
Limitations of Liability
Gretchen Martens will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
These limitations of liability apply even if Gretchen Martens has been expressly advised of the potential loss.
Exceptions
Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit Gretchen Martens’ liability in respect of any:
Reasonableness
By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.
Other Parties
You accept that, as a limited liability entity, Gretchen Martens has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Gretchen Martens’ officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website. Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect Gretchen Martens’ officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as Gretchen Martens.
Unenforceable Provisions
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify Gretchen Martens and undertake to keep Gretchen Martens indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Gretchen Martens to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Gretchen Martens’ legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Gretchen Martens arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions[, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions].
Breaches of These Terms and Conditions
Without prejudice to Gretchen Martens’ other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Gretchen Martens may take such action as Gretchen Martens deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
Variation
Gretchen Martens may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
Assignment
Gretchen Martens may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with Gretchen Martens’ rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
Severability
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Entire Agreement
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Law and Jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with business law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Dallas, Texas.
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The full name of Gretchen Martens is Gretchen Gail Martens.
Gretchen Martens and Associates is registered in the jurisdiction of Dallas, Texas.
You can contact Gretchen Martens by email to Gretchen@GretchenMartens.com
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