Terms Of Service

We (the folks at geognos.com) run this site called geognos.com and would love for you to use it. Our service is free.

Geognos is an educational web site, all topics and content (including photos) in this site is safe and suitable for kids and minors therefore is available to individuals of any age.

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the geognos.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website.
The Website is owned and operated by geognos.com.
Compilation of the information and data available on this site was possible thanks to the information and data provided by various open source resources such as, CIA World Factbook, ISO organisation, UN statics and others.
The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, geognos.com Privacy Policy’s) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by geognos.com (collectively, the “Agreement”). Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by geognos.com, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms.

• Responsibility of Website Visitors.
  geognos.com has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, geognos.com does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. geognos.com disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
• Content Posted on Other Websites.
  We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which geognos.com links, and that link to geognos.com. geognos.com does not have any control over those non-geognos.com websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-geognos.com website or webpage, geognos.com does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. geognos.com disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-geognos.com websites and webpages.
• Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy.
  As geognos.com asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by geognos.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify geognos.com in accordance with out policy. geognos.com will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of geognos.com or others, geognos.com may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination, geognos.com will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts.
• Intellectual Property.
  This Agreement does not transfer from geognos.com to you any geognos.com or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with, geognos.com, the geognos.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with geognos.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of geognos.com or geognos.com’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any geognos.com or third-party trademarks.
• Changes.
  geognos.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. geognos.com may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 
• Termination.
  geognos.com may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your geognos.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability. 
• Disclaimer of Warranties.
  The Website is provided “as is”. geognos.com and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither geognos.co nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
• Limitation of Liability.
  In no event will geognos.com, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts. geognos.com shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
• General Representation and Warranty.
  You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the geognos.com Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party. (iii) you can not use this Website or any material obtained from this site to develop or use as component of, any information, retrieval, or database system.
• Indemnification.
  You agree to indemnify and hold harmless geognos.com, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
• Third parties Terms of Service.
  This site relies on services provided by other parties as APIs (Application Programming Interface), therefore users of this site are bound to Terms of Service and/or Terms of Use of the providers of those services. In particular :
  • Google Maps/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service
  • Google AJAX API Terms of Use
  • Google Visualization API Terms of Service
  • Panoramio API Terms of Service
• Miscellaneous.
  This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between geognos.com and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of geognos.com, or by the posting by geognos.com of a revised version. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.