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VISITOR
AGREEMENT
This visitor agreement is a binding
legal contract between you and us. Please read this visitor
agreement; by using this website, you accept its terms. The
Internet is an evolving medium; we may change the terms of this
agreement from time to time. By continuing to use this website
after we post any such changes, you accept this agreement, as
modified.
We reserve the right to deny access to this
website, or any service provided via this website, to anyone who
violates this visitor agreement or who, in our judgment, interferes
with the ability of others to enjoy this website, or infringes the
rights of others.
PRIVACY
We respect the privacy of the users of our
website. Please take a moment to review our privacy policy.
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS
Our Limited License to You. Although we make
this website freely accessible, we don't intend to give up our
rights, or anyone else's rights, to the materials appearing on the
service. The materials available through this website are the
property of us and our affiliates or licensors, and are protected
by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You
are free to display and print for your personal, non-commercial use
information you receive through this website. But you may not
otherwise reproduce any of the materials without the prior written
consent of the owner. You may not distribute copies of materials
found on this website in any form (including by email or other
electronic means) without prior written permission from the owner.
Of course, you're free to encourage others to access the
information themselves on our website and to tell them how to find
it.
Links. We
welcome links to our website. You are free to establish a hypertext
link to this website so long as the link does not state or imply
any sponsorship of your site by us.
No
Framing. Without our prior written permission, you may not
frame, or in-line link, any of the content of this website, or
incorporate into another website or other service any of our
intellectual property.
DISCLAIMERS
Use at Your Own Risk. We provide the material available through
this website for informational purposes only. You may only use the
material and the services available through this website for your
personal and non-commercial use. We try to ensure that information
we post to this site is both timely and accurate, and that the
services offered are reliable. Yet despite our efforts, errors may
occur from time to time. Before you act on any information you've
found on our website, you should confirm any facts that are
important to your decision. IF YOU RELY ON ANY INFORMATION OR
SERVICE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR
LOSS YOU MAY INCUR THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR USE OF ANY SERVICE OR ANY
MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED FROM OR OTHERWISE PROVIDED THROUGH
THIS WEBSITE.
No
Endorsements.
We are not responsible for, and cannot guarantee the performance
of, goods and services provided by our advertisers or others to
whose sites we link. A link to another website does not constitute
our endorsement of that site (nor of any product, service or other
material offered on that site).
No
Warranties.
THIS WEBSITE AND ALL MATERIALS, INFORMATION AND SERVICES AVAILABLE
THROUGH IT, ARE PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS," "WITH ALL FAULTS," AND "AS
AVAILABLE." WE, OUR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS CANNOT AND DO
NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS,
NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE OF THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION AND SERVICES AVAILABLE
THROUGH THE WEBSITE, NOR DO WE GUARANTEE THAT THE MATERIALS,
INFORMATION OR SERVICES WILL BE ERROR-FREE, OR CONTINUOUSLY
AVAILABLE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
Limitations on Our
Liability.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WE, OR OUR AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR
LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS
WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LIABILITY FOR
CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR SIMILAR DAMAGES,
EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. (BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY AND THE
LIABILITY OF OUR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS IS LIMITED TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY SUCH STATE LAW.) YOU AGREE THAT OUR
LIABILITY AND THE LIABILITY OF OUR AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND
LICENSORS, IF ANY, ARISING OUT OF ANY KIND OF LEGAL CLAIM IN ANY
WAY CONNECTED TO THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID
FOR THE USE OF THE SERVICE.
USE OF
COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
We may provide a variety of services on this website through which
you can directly interact with others, such as chat rooms and other
public posting areas ("Communications Services"). We want to
encourage an open exchange of information and ideas, but at the
same time we want everyone to be able to enjoy these Communications
Services. By using any such Communications Services, you agree (1)
not to post or transmit any libelous, abusive, obscene,
threatening, misleading, or illegal material, or any other material
that infringes the rights of others or interferes with the ability
of others to enjoy this website, (2) that you will not gather for
the purpose of "spamming" any email addresses that users post in
our chat rooms, forums and other public posting areas, and (3) you
will not upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available
any content or material that contains software viruses, worms or
any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt,
destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or
hardware or telecommunications or other equipment, or to cause a
security breach of such software, hardware or telecommunications or
other equipment.
If we offer Communications Services on this website and you submit
any materials to any public posting areas of this website, such as
message boards, you agree that we (including our partners, agents,
affiliates and service providers (collectively the "Providers"))
may reproduce, modify and distribute such material as we see fit in
any medium and for any purpose. You also agree that we, including
our Providers, may identify you as the author of any of your
postings by name, email address or screen name as we see
appropriate. In addition, if we offer Communications Services on
this website, we reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to
delete, move, or edit any postings that come to our attention that
we consider unacceptable or inappropriate, whether for legal or
other reasons.
Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold us and our affiliates, agents and
licensors, harmless from any claim that may arise from your use of
any Communications Services available through this website.
MISCELLANEOUS
Registration. To obtain access to certain services on our site, you
may be given an opportunity to register with us. You agree that you
will register only if you are 13 years or older. You agree that the
information you supply during that registration process will be
accurate and complete and that you will not register under the name
of, nor attempt to enter the service under the name of, another
person. We reserve the right to reject or terminate any user name
that, in our judgment, we deem offensive.
Forward-Looking Statements.
This website may contain "forward-looking statements" for purposes
of the securities laws of the United States. These statements are
based on current expectations and are not guarantees of future
performance. Forward-looking statements, which can be identified by
the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will,"
"should," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate" or "continue", or the
negative thereof, or other variations thereon, or other comparable
terminology, are subject to risks, trends, and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those
projected. Among those risks, trends, and uncertainties are the
general economic climate; the supply of and demand for retail
properties; interest rate levels; the availability of financing;
and other risks associated with the development, acquisition, and
operation of retail properties, including risks to lease available
space to tenants at favorable rental rates, that tenants will not
take occupancy or pay rent in accordance with their leases, or that
development or operating costs may be greater than anticipated, as
well as those risks described in our annual report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2003 filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Jurisdiction.
This visitor agreement has been made in and shall be construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Virginia. By using this
service, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and
federal courts in Alexandria, Virginia for all disputes arising out
of or relating to this agreement or this website.
PRIVACY
POLICY
We respect the privacy of visitors to our site. This Privacy Policy
governs the use and collection of information from you by The Mills
Corporation ("we" or "us") through your use of this site. This
Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may provide to
us through other means; for example, at a live event, via mail, or
via telephone. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that
you understand our online privacy practices. By visiting this site,
you agree that your visit, and any dispute over our online privacy
practices, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Visitor
Agreement.
CHILDREN'S
PRIVACY
Children should always get permission from their parents before
sending any information about themselves (such as their names,
email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to
anyone else. We won't knowingly allow anyone under 13 to register
with our site or to provide any other personally identifying
information. If you’re under 13, please do not provide us
with any personally identifying information about yourself (such as
your name, your email address or your phone number).
TYPES OF
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information we gather falls into two categories: (1)
information (for example, your name and address) that you
voluntarily supply when you register or initiate transactions, and
(2) information gathered on usage patterns and preferences as
visitors navigate through our site, use our services such as
obtaining gift certificates, or read our email newsletters. In some
cases, it is an agent or affiliate of ours that collects the
information on our behalf. Third party providers featured on or
linked to by our site, such as vendors of products and services
offered through our site, may be gathering the same kinds of
information.
Registration
Information.
To make use of certain features on our site (such as to receive
email newsletters) visitors need to register and to provide certain
information as part of the registration process. We may also ask
for information from those who buy products or services or conduct
other transactions on our site. The information you supply will
help us to offer you more personalized features, to tailor our site
to your interests, and to process e-commerce transactions that may
be made available on our site.
The more you tell us about yourself, the more value we can offer
you. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. But if you
don't supply the information we need, we may be unable to provide
you with services we make available to other visitors to our site.
For example, we can't send you our email newsletters if you don't
give us your email address.
Cookies. To help make our sites
more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we use a standard
feature of browser software, called a "cookie," to assign each
visitor a unique, random number that resides on your computer. The
cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer
that a visitor uses to access our site. Unless you voluntarily
identify yourself (through registration, for example), we won't
know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The
only personal information a cookie can contain is information you
supply. A cookie can't read unrelated data off your hard drive. Our
advertisers and the third parties that provide products or services
through our site may also assign their own cookies to your browser,
a process that we don't control.
We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs, to deliver
a better, more personalized service. For example, we may use
cookies to avoid showing you the same ad, repeatedly, during a
single visit. In addition, we may use cookies to track the pages on
our site visited by our users. We can build a better site if we
know which pages our users are visiting and how often. Of course,
you can set your browser not to accept cookies, but if you do, you
may not be able to take advantage of the personalized features
enjoyed by other visitors to our site.
Other Methods of Collecting
Information.
Our web pages may contain electronic images (called "single-pixel
GIFs" or "web beacons") that allow us and our vendors to count
users who have visited particular pages or to access certain
cookies. We may use these tools and other technologies to recognize
which pages users visit, and which links they click on. These
features may also be included in our email newsletters so that we
can learn which messages have been opened and acted upon. We may
also be able to verify your online purchases from us or from third
party sites that have agreed to share such information with
us.
Browser Level Information and IP
Addresses. Our web servers may
automatically collect limited information about your computer
configuration when you visit our site, including the type of
browser software you use, the operating system you're running, the
resolution of your computer monitor, the website that referred you,
and your IP address. (Your IP address is a numerical address that
is used by computers connected to the Internet to identify your
computer so that data (such as the web pages you want to view) can
be transmitted to you. We may also use IP address information for
systems administration and trouble shooting purposes. Your IP
address does not tell us who you are.) We may use this information
to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to
the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our
site.
DISCLOSURE OF
INFORMATION
Advertisers.
Without your permission, we will not share the
personally-identifiable information you provide when registering on
our site with advertisers. We may, however, take the information
you provide and aggregate it with data from all the other people
that use this site and associated services. Then we will use that
pool of information to inform advertisers about our audience
without identifying you personally.
Vendors and Service Providers.
To make our site more valuable to our visitors, we may offer some
features in conjunction with other providers ("Provider Partners").
Our email newsletters and gift certificate purchasing services, for
example, may be made available through cooperative arrangements
with providers that specialize in operating such services. In some
instances, our Provider Partners will have the same access to your
information as we do. Their use of the information will be subject
to the terms of their respective privacy policies, which you can
find on their websites.
Our Affiliates.
We may share the information that we collect from you with any
wholly or majority-owned subsidiary so
that we and they can provide you with products and services
provided by these entities that we believe may be of interest to
you.
Statistical Information.
Much of the information we collect is in the form of aggregated
statistics, such as the traffic that visits various pages within
our sites, and the habits and preferences of our audience. Such
aggregated information does not include any information that would
identify you personally. We may use such aggregated information and
disclose it to third parties as we see
fit.
Sites to which we link.
Our site includes links to other websites, and provides access to
products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy
policies we don't control. When you access another site or purchase
products or services or conduct other transactions through our
site, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy
policy of the operator of the site you're visiting or the provider
of such products or services, even if it appears that you’re
on Mills-branded pages.
Other
Disclosures. We may occasionally
release information about our visitors when release is appropriate
to comply with law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement, or to protect
the rights, property or safety of visitors to our site, the public,
our customers, or our company and its employees, agents, partners
and affiliates. As our business grows, we may buy or sell various
assets. In the unlikely event that our company, or the bulk of our
assets relating to this site, is acquired by another company,
information on our visitors would be among the transferred
assets.
CHANGES TO THIS
PRIVACY POLICY
A final note: The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change
our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the
changes before they take effect
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