If you access or use any part of this website (www.connectingourlakes.com and/or the “website”), you agree to the terms and conditions (“Terms”). If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, do not access or use this website.
The Spatterdock Group (SpDG) and/or Connecting Our Lakes (COL) may change these Terms at any time without giving you notice. Please check these Terms for any changes in the future. By using or continuing to use the website, you agree to all changes in Terms made by SpDG and/or COL.
By using this website, you expressly agree that the use of this website is at your sole risk, and neither SpDG and/or COL warrant that the website will be uninterrupted, error free, or without omissions, nor does SpDG and/or COL make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the website or from the information contained therein, or as to the reliability, truthfulness, integrity, accuracy, completeness, comprehensiveness, or service provided through this website. SpDG and/or COL cannot be held liable for any inaccuracies, lack of completeness, unreliability, errors, or incorrect information contained therein. SpDG and/or COL strive to update information and to make any necessary corrections or changes in a timely manner. SpDG and/or COL do not guarantee and/or warranty the accuracy of any of the information contained on this website.
By using the website, you are agreeing to the Terms of this website’s Privacy Policy below. The website, SpDG, and/or COL may collect and use information in line with the website’s Privacy Policy. By using the website, you agree to the way in which we collect, use, and share your information, including without limitation, your personal information as described by the Privacy Policy. Please review the Privacy Policy below.
In no event will covered parties or any other person or entity involved in creating, producing, revising, or distributing the website be liable for any damages, costs, claims, actions, demands, liabilities, or injury, including without limitation, direct and/or indirect, consequential, incidental, special, or punitive damages, or personal or bodily injury, arising out of the direct or indirect use of, or inability to use, the website or arising from or in connection with you creating content, by videotaping, photography or otherwise, for submission to the website, and you hereby assume all risk for any claims or damages or injuries, including reasonable attorney fees, as permitted under this agreement.
The services and/or the website are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to warranties which are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction, or modification under appliable law. Additionally, there are no warranties as to the results obtained from the use of this website. This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of omission, performance, error, inaccuracy, delay, interruption, deletion, or defect in operation or transmission, computer virus, failure of communication, theft, destruction, unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of the website, whether for breach of contract, tortious behavior (including, without limitation, strict liability), negligence, or under any other cause of action, by the fullest extent permissible by law. This does not affect any statutory rights which may not be disclaimed. You specifically acknowledge that the website, SpDG, and/or COL are not liable for the offensive, defamatory or illegal conduct of other users or third parties, over which the website, SpDG, and/or COL has no control.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SpDG and/or COL against any and all claims, damages, actions, demands, liabilities, costs, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising out of, relating to, or in connection with your use of the website; any content or materials that you submit or upload to or through the website; your unauthorized use of the website, content, or material obtained through the website; any violation of any law or regulation by you; and your breach of this agreement. SpDG and/or COL is not responsible for theft, destruction of information, or someone getting access to SpDG and/or COL’s records, programs, or website without our permission.
The website incorporates links to other websites, third-party sites, and videos publicly available. SpDG and/or COL does not in any way endorse, nor is it responsible for, the content, substance, ideas, thoughts, or information on the links, websites, brochures, videos, or any other information that may be linked to or from this website. SpDG and/or COL has no control over such third-party links, websites, videos, or users. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information, providers, and users, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of SpDG and/or COL. SpDG and/or COL neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, ideas, information, or statements made by the third-party websites, videos, or other parties or entities that are linked to or from this website.
You cannot use this website for any unlawful purpose to send spam, to harm, threaten, abuse or harass another person or entity, or in any way invade someone’s privacy that is offensive, unacceptable, or damaging to SpDG and/or COL and our website users. Users cannot tamper with, update or change any part of this website or affect how it is run. Users cannot use any automated means to monitor or copy the website or its contents, or to interfere or attempt to interfere with how the website works. No forms of mass-mailing or spam permitted related to the website. We have no obligation to publish any user content on the website, and we retain the right to remove any user content at any time and for any reason.
If you provide any materials, suggestions, ideas, comments, or thoughts to this website (for example, under ‘Contact Us’), you agree to the grant the SpDG and/or COL permission, irrevocably and free of charge, to use user content for research, promotional activities, educational purposes, or ideas, which may include providing the user content to selected third party partners, social media, and/or networking sites. You own your user content at all times, and you continue to have the right to use it in any way you choose. By providing any user content to the website, you confirm that your user content is your own original work, or you are authorized to provide it to the website and that you have the right to give SpDG and/or COL permission to use it for the purposes set out in these terms. if you do not want to grant SpDG and/or COL the permissions set out above, please do not provide any materials to the website.
Privacy Policy
By submitting content to SpDG, COL, and/or the website, you acknowledge that you automatically grant or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly granted, to use, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, reformat, edit, distribute, modify, adapt, publish, and/or translate such content (in whole or in part either directly or indirectly) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form manner, media or technology, now known or hereafter devised in the future.
SpDG and/or COL shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to refuse to post or to remove any content submitted to or placed on the website. While SpDG and/or COL may review submissions, SpDG and/or COL does not assume responsibility for the contents of any submissions to the website. SpDG and/or COL may choose to not publish all, or any content, submitted to the website at its sole discretion, and such choices or decisions cannot be disputed.
Subject to SpDG and/or COL policies, regarding privacy, emails, notes, messages, images, ideas, suggestions, concepts or other content submitted by you, will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. If you submit any content to SpDG and/or COL, you will be deemed to have made the following representations and warranties, upon which SpDG and/or COL has the right to rely. You have the sole and exclusive right to grant such rights to SpDG and/or COL. You have obtained any and all necessary rights and where required, written releases, from any and all recognizable persons appearing in the content, and from any and all persons who provided artwork, photographs, or any other material appearing in the content. You understand and agree that SpDG and/or COL shall have no obligation to copy, publish, display or otherwise exploit the content, nor shall it be obligated to prevent or have any liability for, any unauthorized copying, publishing, displaying or other exploitation of the content by others.
Newsletters, Updates, News
If SpDG and/or COL has your permission or you have not opted out, we may send you materials we think may interest you, including but not limited to, newsletters, updates, and news. You can decide not to receive these emails at any time, and you will be able to unsubscribe directly by responding back, “I unsubscribe.” If you have raised a question, idea, concern, or complaint with SpDG and/or COL, we may contact you to answer your query or to resolve any complaints, but that is at the sole discretion of the website, SpDG, COL, and its entities.
These conditions make up the whole agreement between you and us (SpDG, COL and/or connectingourlakes.com – the website) in how you use the website. If a court decides that a condition is not valid, the rest of the conditions will still apply. Each provision of these terms shall be considered severable; and if, for any reason any provision or provisions herein are determined to be invalid and contrary to any existing or future law, such invalidity shall not impair the operation of or affect those portions of this agreement that are valid.
All questions, concerning the construction validity, and interpretation of these terms and conditions and the performance of the obligations imposed by these terms and conditions, shall be governed by the internal law of the State of WI.
The headings and captions in the sections, subsections, and clauses of these terms and conditions, are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of the terms and conditions.
Last updated April 18, 2025.