Website Terms of Use

Santa Barbara Scientific, LLC, Website Terms and Conditions of Use

Welcome to our website.  If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which we may revise at any time.  If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

The terms “Company”, “Santa Barbara Scientific, LLC", "Santa Barbara Scientific", "SBS", “us” or “we” refers to Santa Barbara Scientific, LLC, a limited liability company incorporated in the State of California, USA.  Our contact details are listed on the website page "Contact us".  The term 'you' refers to the user or viewer of our website.

The website is intended to provide you a general overview about us and our products.  Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, completeness or fitness for any particular purpose of the information and materials posted on or referenced in the website, including, without limitation, information prepared by third parties that is posted on the website or in web sites that are linked to the website.

Your use of any information or materials on the website is entirely at your own risk.  We do not warrant that your access to or use of the website will be uninterrupted or error free.  We will NOT be liable, on whatever basis, for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive or special loss or damages, arising out of your access to, use of, or inability to use the website or information or materials posted on or referenced in it.

The entire content of the website, including any images or text, and its design, layout, look, appearance and graphics, is copyrighted.  We authorize you to view and download the materials at this website solely for your personal, noncommercial use, provided that you retain all notices regarding our copyright and other proprietary rights that are contained in the original materials on any copies of the materials.  You may not modify the materials at this website in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any commercial purpose.

The SBS wordmark and the SBS logo are trademarks of Santa Barbara Scientific, LLC.  Your unauthorized use or misuse of our copyrighted material or trademarks is expressly prohibited and may be in violation of copyright law, trademark law, and other laws, statutes and/or regulations.

Portions of our website may give you the opportunity to post comments and/or submit photos.  With regard to any such “user generated content”:  You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever content you submit, and you, not Santa Barbara Scientific, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability and appropriateness.  By submitting, uploading or otherwise transmitting material to any aspect of the web site, you warrant that the material is your own, is in the public domain or otherwise free of proprietary or other restrictions and that you have the right to post it to the web site.  Any content and/or opinions uploaded, expressed or submitted to a message board, blog, chatroom or any other publicly available section of the web site (including password protected areas), and all articles or responses to questions, other than the content provided by Santa Barbara Scientific are solely the opinions and responsibility of the person or entity submitting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Santa Barbara Scientific.  All information publicly or privately transmitted through the web site is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such material originated, and Santa Barbara Scientific will not be liable for any errors or omissions in content.  Santa Barbara Scientific cannot guarantee the identity of any other users with whom you may interact in the course of using the web site or the authenticity of the data provided by other users.

Santa Barbara Scientific has the right but does not assume the responsibility, to (a) remove any material posted on the web site, including any material Santa Barbara Scientific has been notified, or has reason to believe, constitutes copyright infringement; (b) terminate any user’s access to all or part of the web site; and (c) reformat, excerpt or translate any content submitted by users.  However, Santa Barbara Scientific can neither review all material before it is posted to the web site nor ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted.  Accordingly, Santa Barbara Scientific assumes no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by third parties.  Santa Barbara Scientific reserves the right to take any action is deems necessary to protect the personal safety of users of the web site and public; however Santa Barbara Scientific has no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this paragraph.

In the event that any of the terms and conditions of use is determined to be unenforceable, the remaining terms shall remain in full force and effect and shall be construed as a whole to protect Santa Barbara Scientific's business interests to the maximum allowed by law.

These website terms and conditions of use, your use of this website, and any dispute arising out of such use of the website, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.

Updated May 1, 2015