Terms and Conditions

Terms of Service

Welcome to NationalAssistanceNetwork.org. By using one of our websites (“Site”), you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our Privacy Notice govern the relationship between you and NationalAssistanceNetwork.org, the provider of the Site, in your use of the Site. The terms “Provider” or “us” or “we” refer to the owner of the Site, NationalAssistanceNetwork.org. The term “you” refers to the user or viewer of our Site.

Please note that our Sites are under constant development. This Agreement may therefore be modified and updated on an ongoing basis. Please check back to this page regularly.

Access to the Sites does not create a professional services relationship or any other relationship with NationalAssistanceNetwork. The Sites are provided solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

WE do not warrant or assume any responsibility or liability for the completeness and accuracy of any article(s) on this site. All Information found on this site is for educational and entertainment purposes only. The article on our site does not confer any medical or legal advice nor do they advise any treatment without the advice of a professional. Please note, you are solely responsible for all of your actions should you use any information from the article(s) found on our site. NationalAssistanceNetwork does not accept any responsibility or liability for the use or misuse of the article content on this site or reliance by any person on the site's contents.

The trademarks, logos and service marks (“Marks”) displayed on the Site are the property of Provider and/or other parties. You are prohibited from using any Marks for any purpose including, but not limited to use as metatags on other pages or Sites on the World Wide Web without the written permission of Provider or such third party which may own the Marks.

Links to 3rd party sites

WE are is not responsible for the content and does not warrant or guarantee any product or services from the linked website.

The use of the Site is subject to the following terms of use:

The content of the pages of the Site and information available on the Site is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.

Your use of any information or materials on the Provider Site is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this Site meet your specific requirements.

Additionally, by accessing and using our Site, you agree to be bound by the terms found in our Privacy Notice which can be accessed by the following link.

You may not develop or derive for commercial sale any data in machine-readable or other form that incorporates or uses any substantial part of the Sites nor transfer to or store any data residing or exchanged over the Sites in any electronic network for use unless you obtain prior written permission from us. Specifically, unless explicitly authorized in these Terms & Conditions or by the owner of the materials, you may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, translate, sell, create derivative works, exploit, or distribute in any manner or medium any material from the Sites.

All information and content located on the Site are protected by copyright. You are prohibited from modifying, copying, distributing, transmitting, displaying, publishing, selling, licensing, creating derivative works or using any Content available on or through the Site for commercial or public purposes.

This Site may provide links to other Sites by allowing you to leave this Site to access third-party material or by bringing third-party material into this Site via “inverse” hyperlinks and framing technology (a “Linked Site”). The provider has no discretion to alter, update, or control the content on a Linked Site. The fact that Provider has provided a link to a Site is not an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation with respect to such Site, its owners, or its providers. There are inherent risks in relying upon, using or retrieving any information found on the internet, and Provider urges you to make sure you understand these risks before relying upon, using, or retrieving any such information on a Linked Site.

Unless otherwise specifically stated, all content, products and services on the Site, or obtained from a Site to which the Site is linked (a “Linked Site”) are provided to you “AS IS” without warranty of any kind either express or implied including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, security or accuracy.

Provider does not endorse and is not responsible for (a) the accuracy or reliability of an opinion, advice or statement made through the Site by any party other than Provider, (b) any content provided on linked Sites or (c) the capabilities or reliability of any product or service obtained from a Linked Site. Other than as required under applicable consumer protection law, under no circumstance will Provider be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information obtained through the Site or a Linked Site, or your reliance on any product or service obtained from a Linked Site. It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any opinion, advice or other content available through the Site, or obtained from a Linked Site. Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific opinion, advice, product, service, or other content.

You understand that by using the Sites, you may be exposed to content that may offend you or challenge your beliefs. Your remedy is to avoid such content by discontinuing your access.

The information, software, products and descriptions of services published on the Site or a Linked Site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors, and Provider specifically disclaims any liability for such inaccuracies or errors. Provider does not warrant or represent that the content on the Site is complete or up-to-date. Provider is under no obligation to update the content on the Site. Provider may change the content on the Site at any time without notice. Provider may make improvements or changes to the Site at any time.

You agree that Provider, its affiliates and any of their respective officers, directors, employees, or agents will not be liable, whether in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, for any indirect, punitive, special, consequential, incidental or indirect damages (including without limitation lost profits, cost of procuring substitute service or lost opportunity) arising out of or in connection with the delay or inability to use the Site or a Linked Site, or with the delay or inability to use the Site or a Linked Site, even if Provider is made aware of the possibility of such damages. This limitation on liability includes, but is not limited to, the transmission of any viruses which may infect your equipment, failure of mechanical or electronic equipment or communication lines, telephone or interconnect problems (e.g., you cannot access your internet service provider), unauthorized access, theft, operator errors, strikes or other labor problems or any force majeure. Provider cannot and does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to the Site.

The Provider may contract with other companies or individuals in order to provide you services. You agree that the Provider cannot be held liable for any actions or inactions of any contractor used by the Provider in connection with providing you services.

Information We Collect from Others

We may also collect personal information about you, your online activities, and your interactions with us, our affiliates, or others. We may receive additional information about you, from sources such as advertisers who advertise on our site, our affiliates and vendors, and other commercial sources and third parties. We may also receive information from third parties that identifies your interactions with our Services across multiple devices.

We may combine all of the personal information and non-personal information we collect or receive about you and use or disclose it in the manner described in this Privacy Policy, including to help us better tailor content, advertising, and offers to your interests and needs.

How We Share Your Information

Information you provide may be used and shared in an effort to present you with other special offers and promotions that may become available. The extent to which we use and share your Customer Information depends upon the nature of and purpose for which we use and share it. A summary of how we share Your Customer Information with third parties is set forth as follows:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

To contractors, agents, vendors, suppliers, advertisers, service providers, third-party data providers, second-party consortiums, and other third parties we do business with, or which we use to support our business, to use in performing certain functions or services on our behalf, conducting analyses, sending communications from us, including as a part of a Campaign, or marketing directly to you.

To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information about our Services is among the assets transferred.

To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Services, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.

For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information. With your consent.

We reserve the right, and you hereby expressly authorize us, to disclose your personal information:

To comply with any subpoena, court order, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

To enforce or apply our Terms of Service.

If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect our rights and property or to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity.

To a parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us (in which case we will require such entities to honor this Privacy Policy).

Affiliate Earnings Disclosure

We should be participate in a number of affiliate programs for various products and services recommended on the site.

If there’s a link from here (or email updates), to a site selling commercial products or services it’s safe to assume that we get a commission from any subsequent transactions that take place.

Your use of the Provider Site and any dispute arising out of such use of the Site is subject to US Law and applicable federal law without regard to conflicts of laws principles. You agree that you will first attempt to resolve any concern or issue with the Provider or with the use of this website by communicating fully your concern with the Provider. Should communication with the Provider not resolve your concern or issue, you agree to submit your concern or issue to the Illinois Courts, within one year of the dispute arising. You also agree that the successful party in any court action will be entitled to payment of its reasonable attorney fees involved in reaching a final order.

These Basic Terms of Use and other referenced material are the entire agreement between you and the Provider with respect to the Site, and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals (whether oral, written or electronic) between you and the Provider with respect to the Site and govern the future relationship regarding your use of the Site. You may choose to enter into a contract or proposal for production of goods with the Provider as a result of your use of this Site, and, if so, the terms of that contract or proposal, to the extent they differ from these Basic Terms of Use, will be controlling. If any provision of the Basic Terms of Use is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that the Basic Terms of Use will otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. The failure of either party to exercise in any respect any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder.

Without limitation on any of our other rights or remedies at law, in equity or under these Terms, we may terminate your license to use these Services, in whole or in part, including your right to use any Products, where applicable, if we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have breached or violated any of the provisions of these Terms. This includes, but is not limited to, any rude, harassing or other damaging statements that are made on any of the Provider’s websites directed to any other customers of the Provider.

You shall indemnify and hold harmless Provider against any third party claim arising from or related to your use of Provider’s services.

Provider may assign this agreement without your consent in whole or in part at its sole discretion.

By continuing to use Site, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or over.

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois.

Cookie Privacy

Below is information about how NationalAssistanceNetwork.org Wordpress blog and its affiliates ("us", "we", or "our") understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy ("Cookie Policy") explains how and why cookies ( "Cookies") may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, our "Sites"). Please read this Cookie Policy carefully before using our Site. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

This policy is effective as of April 15, 2022. Please note that this privacy statement will be updated from time to time.

By clicking "Accept" on the Cookie banner, you give us your consent to store and access Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies as described in this Cookie Policy.

We can place cookies and other similar technology on your device, including mobile device, in accordance with your preferences set on your Web Browser. Depending on your settings in your Web Browser on your mobile device, the following information may be collected through cookies or similar technology: your unique device identifier, mobile device IP address, information about your device’s operating system, mobile carrier and your location information (to the extent permissible under applicable law).

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies are very useful and enable an internet site to recognize you, log when you visit a particular page, provide a secure connection to a website and enhance your user experience by: improving your browsing comfort, and/ or adapting the content of a page to your areas of interest.

To find more information, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org if you are located in in the United States. If you are located in Europe, please go to www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Why do we use cookies and similar technologies?

Cookies do a lot of different jobs, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. In addition, cookies can help us to analyze the use of our websites and online content (analytics cookies) and they can also facilitate/track the interaction on our websites and online content with social media (e.g. links to social media sites, like buttons, etc.).

All information about you that we collect or receive, whether of a personal or technical nature, may be used by us in the following ways:

To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
To provide you with information about other goods and services that we, or our selected partners, offer that are similar or relevant to those that you have already purchased or enquired about, such contact will only be made by email or phone from which you can opt out at any time; To notify you about changes to our services;
To administer the Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, system and security updates, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
To improve the Site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
As part of our efforts to keep the Site safe and secure;
To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you; and To comply with our record keeping and information storage obligations and policy

Does NAN Blog use cookies for marketing and analytics?

Yes, we may use information collected from our cookies to identify user behavior and to serve content and offers based on your profile, and for the other purposes described below, to the extent legally permissible in certain jurisdictions.

In other cases, we can associate cookie information (including information from cookies placed via our advertisements on third party sites) with an identifiable individual. For example:

If we send you a targeted email which includes web beacons, cookies or similar technologies we will know whether you open, read, or delete the message. When you click a link in a marketing e-mail you receive from NAN Blog, we will also use a cookie to log what pages you view and what content you download from our websites, even if you are not registered at or signed into our site.

Combining and analyzing personal data – As described above, we may combine data from publicly available sources, and from our different e-mail, website, and personal interactions with you (this includes information collected across our different websites such as our careers and corporate sites and information collected when you sign-up or log on to our sites or connect to our sites using your social media credentials (such as LinkedIn). We combine this data to better assess your experience with NAN Blog and to perform the other activities described throughout our privacy policy.

Do you use any cookies from third party companies?

Some cookies, web beacons and other tracking and storage technologies that we use are from third party companies (third party cookies), such as Facebook, Google Analytics, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Clickso, WordPress and Linkedin Analytics to provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our sites which may also be used to provide measurement services and target ads. These companies use programming code to collect information about your interaction with our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on and how long you are on our sites. This code is only active while you are on an NAN Blog website. For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies: Facebook at Facebook Data Policy https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Google (including YouTube) at Google Privacy & Terms, https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
Microsoft at Microsoft Privacy Statement, https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
Linkedin at Linkedin Privacy Policy, https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Twitter at Twitter Privacy Policy, https://twitter.com/en/privacy
Instagram at Instagram Data Policy https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
and WordPress Privacy Policy https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
Clickso.com https://www.clickso.com/privacy_policy.html

Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. We anonymize this data at the point of collection and automatically delete user and event data that is older than two years.

Children’s Privacy

In general, NAN Blog does not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from children, as defined by local law. If you believe that we have collected personal information about a child, please Contact Us so that we can delete the information. Additionally, please Contact Us to request removal of content or information that was posted to our Services when the registered user was under the age of 18.

Does NAN Blog use any tracking technologies similar to cookies?

We may also use web beacons (including conversion pixels) or other technologies for similar purposes as above and we may include these on our sites, in marketing e-mail messages or our newsletter, affiliated websites, to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on. Web beacons do not place information on your device, but they may work in conjunction with cookies to monitor website activity. The information provided below about cookies also applies to web beacons and similar technologies. Conversion pixels are small codes located on a particular web page which are triggered when someone visits a page resulting in an increase in the conversion count.

What if I don’t want cookies or similar tracking technologies?

You can adjust your cookie settings through your Web Browser. If you want to remove existing cookies from your device, you can do this using your browser options. If you want to block future cookies being placed on your device you can use your Web Browser.

Please bear in mind that deleting and blocking cookies may have an impact on your user experience.

How can you manage cookies?

Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).

What types of cookies does the site use?

The cookies used on NAN Blog sites have been categorized as below. However, it is important to note that not all cookies may be used in all jurisdictions or websites. A list of the categories of cookies used on this website is set out below.

Strictly Necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

First party analytics cookies

These cookies allow us to employ data analytics so we can measure and improve the performance of our site and provide more relevant content to you. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor down to an individual level that is available to us. These cookies are not passing personally identifiable information to any external third party other than in limited cases when we engage a service provider to act on our behalf but who is then unable to use the data for their own purposes. These include, Adobe’s Analytics, Target and Audience Manager; Contentsquare and Demandbase.

Performance cookies

Performance cookies are generally third-party cookies from vendors we work with or who work on our behalf that collect information about your visit and use of the NAN Blog website, for instance which pages you visit the most often, and if you get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how the website works. Third party vendors may have access to this data and may use it to improve their overall services and offerings.

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow a site to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in) and provide more enhanced, personal features.

These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They don’t gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the Internet outside our site.

Advertising and social media cookies

Advertising and social media cookies (including web beacons and other tracking and storage technologies) are used to (1) deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests; (2) limit the number of times you see an advertisement; (3) help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign; (4) retargeting to NAN Blog websites/information and (5) understand people’s behavior after they view an advertisement. They are usually placed on behalf of advertising networks with the site operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a site and quite often they will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.

If you have any questions now or during your visit, please submit your request through our Contact Us form. https://www.nationalassistancenetwork.org/contact_us.html

You can adjust your cookie settings at any time from your Web Browser.