Please read these Terms and Conditions for Use (“Terms of Use”) carefully before using this Web Site. Your use of this site is expressly conditioned upon your acceptance of these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with any part of the Terms of Use, you must not use this site.
Progressive does not evaluate the accuracy, veracity, legality, safety or effectiveness of any of the user-submitted tips on this Web site. Use the tips on this Web site at your own risk.
Progressive reserves the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time. Your continued use of this site will constitute your acceptance of any revisions of the Terms of Use. Please check this site regularly.
Purpose of this Web Site
The purpose of this site is to provide a forum for truckers to share their tips, bits of wisdom or other helpful hints with other members of the trucking community.
Privacy Statement
By creating a user account to submit truck tips on this Web site, you agree that we may contact you via e-mail or traditional mail regarding the tips you submitted or to give you information about our products and services. We will not share your information with third parties for their marketing purposes. Please refer to the Privacy Policy for this Web site for more information.
Rules for Submitting Tips
In order to submit truck tips, you must:
- Complete the username registration process.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Submit your own tip—please do not submit tips that someone else wrote.
- Keep it clean. No offensive language or subject matters.
- Do not use the names of people or companies in your tips.
- Make sure your tip is appropriate and relevant to the Truck Tips forum.
Before each tip is published, we will review the content of each tip to ensure that it meets our guidelines for publication in the forum. We may, in our sole discretion, edit tips you submit to correct minor spelling and grammatical errors and to remove names, other personally identifiable information or the intellectual property of others. Submissions with excessive errors or proper names will not be published.
Copyright/Trademark
Progressive does not claim ownership of the content you submit to the Truck Tips Web site. For the content you submit, you agree to grant Progressive a worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty free license to use, reproduce, modify and publicly display the photos on the Truck Tips Web site and on marketing materials promoting the Web site.
Except as expressly provided above, all materials contained in this Web site are the property of Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, its affiliated companies and/or third party licensors. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to Progressive Casualty Insurance Company or its affiliates. You may not modify, publish, reproduce, republish, create derivative works, copy, upload, post, transmit, distribute, or otherwise use any of this Web site’s content or frame this Web site within any other Web site without prior written permission from Progressive.
Limitations of Liability
Progressive shall not be liable for any injury, loss, claim, or damage, nor any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind, whether based in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, which arises out of a) the use of, or inability to use this site or content found in this site, or b) unless resulting from the gross negligence or intentional actions of Progressive, the unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmission or data, even if Progressive has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion of liability for certain damages, so the foregoing exclusions or limitation may not apply to you.
Progressive cannot and does not guarantee the integrity, safety, accuracy or quality of the user-submitted content on the Truck Tips Web site. Some of the user-submitted tips may not be reliable or safe. Use your best judgment when using this Web site.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL PROGRESSIVE BE LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY FORUM CONTENT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY USER-SUBMITTED CONTENT, OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF USER-SUBMITTED CONTENT.
Indemnification
You agree at all times to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, its employees, agents, affiliated companies and/or third party licensors against all actions, proceedings, costs, claims, damages, demands, liabilities and expenses whatsoever (including legal and other fees and disbursements) sustained, incurred or paid by the Progressive directly or indirectly arising out of:
(i) any information or other content You provide on or through the Site or by e-mail or other correspondence; or
(ii) Your use or misuse of the Content or the Site, including without limitation infringement claims.