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Terms Of Use

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) sets out the terms of use (Terms) on which you may make use of our website www.studiolaforte.com (site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms carefully before you use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms, please refrain from using our site.

 

 

About Us

www.studiolaforte.com is a site operated by Studio LaForte LLC (we or us), a limited liability company incorporated in the United States and have our registered office at 2230 San Anseline Avenue, #4, Long Beach, CA 90815.

 

 

Accessing Our Site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

 

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms.

 

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.

 

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

 

Whilst we take reasonable steps to ensure the smooth functioning of our site, we do not guarantee that it will be error-free or that content downloaded from our site will be free from viruses and we do not accept any responsibility for any damage or loss caused by any such virus.

 

 

Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it.  Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.  All such rights are reserved.

 

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.

 

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

 

We (or the identified contributors) must always be acknowledged as the authors of material on our site.

 

You must not use the materials on our site (or any part(s) thereof) for commercial purposes without obtaining a prior written licence to do so from us or our licensors.

 

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

 

Reliance On Information Posted

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are for information only and not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.  We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

 

 

Our Site Changes Regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

 

 

Our Liability

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us shall not be liable, whether in tort (including for negligence or breach of statutory duty), contract, or misrepresentation or otherwise for:

  • loss of profits; or
  • loss of business; or
  • depletion of goodwill and/or similar losses; or
  • loss of anticipated savings; or
  • loss of goods; or
  • loss of contract; or
  • loss of use; or
  • loss of corruption of data or information; or
  • any special, indirect, consequential or pure economic loss,
    costs, damages, charges or expenses.

 

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

 

 

Links From Our Site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.  We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

 

 

Content Standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.

 

You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

 

Contributions must:

  • Be accurate (where they state facts).
  • Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
  • Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

 

Contributions must not:

  • Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
  • Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
  • Promote sexually explicit material.
  • Promote violence.
  • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
  • Be likely to deceive any person.
  • Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
  • Promote any illegal activity.
  • Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
  • Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
  • Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
  • Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
  • Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Suspension And Termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms through your use of our site.  When a breach of these terms has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

 

 

Jurisdiction And Applicable Law

Your use of this site and any issues arising from it are governed by English law. The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

 

 

Variations

We may revise these terms at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

 

 

Submissions Policy

We regret that we can no longer accept unsolicited material. For administrative reasons we do not respond to individual submissions and any unsolicited material which is sent to us will not be read and will be destroyed.

 

 

Your Concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact  support@studiolaforte.com. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  Thank you for visiting our site.

 

 

Information About You And Your Visits To Our Site

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy www.rsafilms.com/privacy-policy.  By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

 

 

Uploading material to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the standards set out in these terms.  You warrant that any such contribution does comply with these terms, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

 

Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

 

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

 

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the standards set out in these terms.

 

 

Prohibited Uses

You may use our site only for lawful purposes.  You may not use our site:

  • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international
    law or regulation.
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or
    fraudulent purpose or effect.
  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards below.
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar
    solicitation (spam).
  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed
    to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

 

You also agree:

  • Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of these terms
  • Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or
    disrupt any part of our site

 

 

Interactive Services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site,
including, without limitation:

 

  • Chat rooms and blogs.
  • Bulletin boards.
  • “Share” function whereby you can send your friends a link to our site.

 

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

 

The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not fool proof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.

 

 

Linking To Our Site

You may link to our home page provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

 

Where links to our site are sent via email using our “Share” function, neither Studio LaForte Limited nor its directors, employees nor agents take any responsibility nor accept any liability for the content of email messages by which links to the site are accompanied.

 

You must not establish a link [to our site] from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

 

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to  support@studiolaforte.com

CONTACT

Michael LaForte
CEO, Creative Director

12752 Valley View St

Garden Grove, CA 92845

562.981.4478

michael@studiolaforte.com

WORK

graphic design

experience design

environmental design

architectures

sculpture in expansive fields