Thank you for your use of Portals of Prayer app. Your registration and access to the basic content are part of your subscription to Portals of Prayer. The principles in our Terms of Use are intended to help govern your conduct as a participant on the app and help protect Concordia Publishing House (CPH) as a ministry and business.
The entire content you see on this app, including, but not limited to, all the headers, images, illustrations, graphics, audio clips, video clips, and text (referred to herein as “Content”) is the exclusive property of CPH, and/or is subject to trademark, service mark, trade dress, copyright and/or other intellectual property rights or licenses held by CPH, or by third parties who have licensed or assigned their rights, interests and/or materials to CPH.
Authorized Uses: The Content of the app and the app as a whole, are intended solely for the personal and non-commercial use of the subscribers to Portals of Prayer, as a convenience, and for your information only. No part of the materials contained on the app may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of CPH. Neither CPH nor any third party has conferred upon you by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right under any patent, trademark, or copyright (except as expressly provided herein). If you choose to access, browse or use this app, you do so on your own initiative and risk, and you are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws if, and to the full extent that, such laws and restrictions are applicable. CPH reserves the right to limit, in our sole discretion, the provision of any feature or function of this app to any person and geographic area.
Copyrights: All Content on the app, and the app as a whole, is copyrighted as a collective work under the US copyright laws, and CPH owns the copyright to the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of the Content. In addition, the artwork and illustrations contained throughout the pages of this app are protected by copyright and may not be copied or otherwise reproduced without written permission.
Except as noted above, you may not copy, download, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, display, license, transmit, transfer, create derivative works from, sell or make any other use of any of the Content obtained from this app without prior written permission. No right, title or interest in any downloaded or copied Content is transferred to you as a result of installing this app. CPH reserve complete title and full intellectual property rights in any Content you download from this app.
Trademarks: Various product names, logos, designs, titles, words or phrases within this app are trademarks, service marks or trade names of CPH or their other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions and countries. The trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits CPH.
Scripture quotations, unless otherwise marked, are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
All other trademarks, product names, company names and logos appearing on this app are the property of their respective owners.
Links: This app may contain links to other apps. CPH does not operate or control in any respect, or necessarily endorse, the content found on those apps and you assume sole responsibility for use of those links.
Reminders Regarding App Content: This app is provided for your information only without any representations or warranties of any kind either expressed or implied. All Content, software, downloads, information regarding products and services, and functions made available on or accessed through this app are provided “as is, where is” and “as available”. (See "Disclaimer" below.) While CPH does its best to ensure the optimal performance of its app, you agree that you assume all risks concerning the suitability and accuracy of the information. The app may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. CPH assumes no responsibility for and disclaims all liability for any such inaccuracies, errors, or omissions in this app and in other documents referred to within or linked to this app.
International: This app may be viewed internationally and may contain references to CPH products, programs, and services that have not been announced in your country. These references do not imply that CPH intends to announce such products, programs or services in your country. For information on product availability within your country, contact our Customer Service Center.
DISCLAIMER: THIS APP IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE APP, OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS APP. CPH SHALL NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR OBLIGATION FOR THE TIMELINESS, MISSED DELIVERY, DELETION AND/OR ANY FAILURE TO STORE USER CONTENT, COMMUNICATION OR PERSONALIZATION SETTINGS. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION ACCESSED THROUGH THIS APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS APP, OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE, IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE DISCLAIMs ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS APP, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL PUNITIVE AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. NO ADVICE AND/OR INFORMATION, DESPITE WHETHER WRITTEN OR ORAL, THAT MAY BE OBTAINED BY YOU FROM CPH OR BY WAY OF OR FROM OUR CONTENT OR SOFTWARE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS OF USE.
Privacy:
CPH respect your privacy and carefully protect information you provide. A current copy of our Privacy Statement can be found at
https://www.cph.org/t-about-privacy.aspx
Applicable law: This app is created and controlled by CPH in the State of Missouri, USA. As such, the laws of the State of Missouri will govern these disclaimers, terms, and conditions, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.
Changes: CPH may update, modify or revise any current content and services without notice to you. You, as the end user, acknowledge, accept and agree that CPH shall not be held liable for any such updates, modification, revision, suspensions or discontinuance of any of our content or this product. Your continued use of the app provided, after such posting of any updates, changes and/or modifications shall constitute you acceptance of such updates, changes and/or modifications, and as such, frequent review of this Terms of Use and any and all applicable terms and policies should be made by you to ensure you are aware of all terms and policies currently in effect. Should you not agree to the updated, revised or modified terms, you much stop using the app forthwith.
Indemnity: You agree to indemnify and hold CPH and its related parties, harmless from and against, and to reimburse us and our related parties with respect to, any and all losses, damages, liabilities, claims, judgments, settlements, fines, costs, and expenses (including reasonable related expenses, legal fees, and costs of investigation) of every nature whatsoever incurred by CPH or its related parties by reason of or arising out of or in connection with: (1) your failure to comply with or your breach of these Terms of Use; (2) your infringement of any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or any other intellectual propriety right of any third party; (3) any content included by you in the service or claims brought against CPH arising from such content; or (4) your violation of any applicable law or regulation. You explicitly acknowledge, understand and agree that CPH and our subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents, partners and licensors shall not be liable to you for any punitive, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages including, but not limited to, damages which may be related to the loss of any profits, goodwill, use, data and/or other intangible losses, even though CPH may have been advised of such possibility that said damages may occur, and result from:
- The use or inability to use our content;
- The cost of procuring substitute goods and content;
- And any other matter which may be related to our content.
App Use Restrictions. You are the sole authorized user of your account. You agrees not to replicate, duplicate, copy, trade, sell, resell or exploit for commercial reasons any part, use of , or access to this app. CPH has granted you personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive rights and/or license to make use of the object code or our software, as long as you do not allow any third party to duplicate, alter, modify, create or plagiarize work from, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise make any attempt to locate or discern any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in and/or otherwise transfer any rights in the software. Furthermore, you agree not to alter or change the software in any manner, nature or form, and not to use any modified version of the software, including without limitation, for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to our content through any means other than the interface provided by CPH for use in accessing our content.
Content Use Restrictions. You also agree that, in using the app: (i) you will not monitor, gather, copy, or distribute the Content (except as may be a result of standard search engine activity or use of a standard browser) on the app by using any robot, rover, "bot", spider, scraper, crawler, spyware, engine, device, software, extraction tool, or any other automatic device, utility, or manual process of any kind; (ii) you will not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any such Content (including any images, text, or page layout); (iii) you will keep intact all Trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property notices contained in such Content; (iv) you will not use such Content in a manner that suggests an unauthorized association with any of our or our licensors' products, services, or brands; (v) you will not make any modifications to such Content; (vi) you will not copy, modify, reproduce, archive, sell, lease, rent, exchange, create derivative works from, publish by hard copy or electronic means, publicly perform, display, disseminate, distribute, broadcast, retransmit, circulate or transfer to any third party or on any third-party application or web app, or otherwise use or exploit such Content in any way for any purpose except as specifically permitted by these Terms or any Additional Terms or with the prior written consent of CPH or, in the case of Content from a licensor, the owner of the Content; and (vii) you will not insert any code or product to manipulate such Content in any way that adversely affects any user experience.
Availability of App and Content. CPH may immediately suspend or terminate the availability of the App and Content (and any elements and features of them), in whole or in part, for any reason, in CPH's sole discretion, and without advance notice or liability.
Choice of Law and Forum. It is at the mutual agreement of both you and CPH with regard to these Terms of Use that the relationship between the parties be governed by the laws of the state of Missouri without regard to its conflict of law provisions and any and all claims, causes of action and/or disputes, arising out of or relating to the Terms of Use, or the relationship between you and CPH shall be filed with the courts having jurisdiction with the County of St. Louis, Missouri.
Reservation of All Rights Not Granted as to Content and App. These Terms and any Additional Terms include only narrow, limited grants of rights to Content and to use and access the App. No right or license may be construed, under any legal theory, by implication, estoppel, industry custom, or otherwise. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by CPH, and its licensors and other third parties. Any unauthorized use of any Content or the App for any purpose is prohibited.