1. About This Website

This website is operated for Sons of Italy Lodge 2738 in Pueblo, Colorado. The production website address is https://osia2738.com.

The site presents information about the Lodge, Italian and Italian-American heritage, membership, scholarships, community service, events, programs, and preservation of Pueblo’s historic Christopher Columbus Monument and Piazza.

2. Acceptance of These Terms

By using this website, you represent that you are legally able to agree to these Terms. A parent, guardian, or other authorized adult should supervise use of the website by a minor and must complete or approve any submission requiring adult authorization.

If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use the website.

3. Informational and Community Purpose

Website content is provided for general informational, educational, historical, cultural, and community purposes. It does not constitute legal, tax, financial, medical, or other professional advice.

Accessing the website, submitting an inquiry, attending an event, or receiving Lodge information does not by itself create membership, eligibility, a scholarship award, a contractual relationship, or a right to participate in any particular Lodge program.

4. Permitted Use

You may access and use the website for lawful, personal, educational, historical, cultural, and community purposes. You may share links to public pages and may print limited portions for personal, noncommercial use, provided that ownership notices, credits, captions, and source information are not removed or altered.

Any broader reproduction, commercial use, republication, distribution, adaptation, exhibition, or incorporation of Lodge content into another work requires prior written permission unless the use is otherwise permitted by law.

5. Prohibited Conduct

Visitors may not use the website to:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation, court order, or third-party right.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, administrator areas, servers, accounts, databases, or connected systems.
• Interfere with website availability, security, performance, or normal operation.
• Introduce malware, harmful code, automated attacks, spam, or deceptive communications.
• Scrape, harvest, or collect personal information from the website without lawful authorization.
• Impersonate the Lodge, an officer, a member, a volunteer, a partner, or another person or organization.
• Use Lodge names, logos, photographs, documents, or other materials in a misleading, defamatory, infringing, or unauthorized commercial manner.
• Misrepresent affiliation with, sponsorship by, approval from, or endorsement by the Lodge.
• Remove or alter copyright, trademark, attribution, historical-source, or ownership notices.

6. Intellectual Property and Historical Materials

Unless otherwise identified, the website design, written content, graphics, photographs, video, audio, compilations, page layouts, and other original materials are owned by or used with permission by Sons of Italy Lodge 2738 and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

Historical photographs, documents, quotations, recordings, logos, artwork, and third-party materials may remain the property of their respective owners and may carry separate credits, restrictions, or permissions. Inclusion on this website does not transfer ownership or grant a general license for reuse.

“Sons of Italy,” “Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America,” related emblems, and other organizational names or marks may be protected or controlled by their respective organizations. Nothing on this website grants permission to use those names or marks except as expressly authorized.

7. Content Submitted to the Lodge

When you voluntarily submit a photograph, document, family history, event information, testimonial, article, recording, or other material for possible publication, you represent that you have the authority to provide it and that its use will not violate another person’s rights.

Unless a separate written agreement states otherwise, a submission made for publication gives the Lodge a nonexclusive, royalty-free permission to review, reproduce, format, display, publish, archive, and promote that material for the purpose for which it was submitted. The Lodge may edit for length, clarity, formatting, accessibility, or technical requirements and may decline or remove a submission.

Do not submit confidential, proprietary, highly sensitive, or legally restricted material through a general email address or ordinary website form.

8. Membership, Events, Scholarships, and Programs

Lodge memberships, events, scholarships, grants, contests, reservations, donations, merchandise, and other programs may have separate eligibility rules, deadlines, prices, applications, releases, refund provisions, or participation requirements.

Information published on the website is subject to correction. Dates, locations, speakers, availability, requirements, deadlines, and program details may change. The Lodge may postpone, modify, limit, or cancel a program when reasonably necessary.

Submission of an application or payment does not guarantee selection, admission, membership approval, an award, or continued availability unless the Lodge expressly confirms otherwise in writing.

9. Donations, Payments, and Transactions

When the website offers donations, registration fees, purchases, deposits, or other payments, the applicable page may provide additional transaction terms. Payments may be processed by an independent payment provider, whose terms and privacy practices also apply.

Visitors are responsible for supplying accurate billing, contact, and transaction information. The Lodge may reject, reverse, or refund a transaction when reasonably necessary to correct an error, address suspected fraud, comply with law, or administer the applicable program.

10. External Links and Embedded Content

The website may link to or display content from other organizations, government agencies, museums, archives, social-media platforms, video services, maps, vendors, or community partners.

External links are provided for information and convenience. Unless expressly stated, a link does not constitute Lodge ownership, control, sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of the external website, its policies, views, products, or services. Visitors use third-party websites at their own discretion and subject to the third party’s terms.

11. Accuracy and Availability

The Lodge works to present useful and accurate information, but historical sources may conflict, information may become outdated, and typographical or technical errors may occur. The Lodge does not promise that every page will always be complete, current, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

The Lodge may correct, update, reorganize, suspend, or remove website content or features at any time.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. The Lodge does not warrant that the website will meet every visitor’s needs or that access will be continuous, secure, or free from harmful components.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Sons of Italy Lodge 2738 and its officers, members, volunteers, committees, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from access to, inability to use, or reliance upon the website or external content.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

14. Responsibility for Your Use

You are responsible for your conduct while using the website and for the accuracy and lawfulness of information you submit. To the extent permitted by law, you agree to be responsible for losses, claims, or expenses resulting from your unlawful use of the site, violation of these Terms, or infringement of another party’s rights.

15. Privacy

Information received through the website is handled in accordance with the Lodge’s Privacy Policy. Additional notices may accompany particular applications, registrations, payments, or programs.

16. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to applicable law, disputes relating to the website or these Terms will be addressed in an appropriate court serving Pueblo County, Colorado.

17. Changes to These Terms

The Lodge may revise these Terms when website features, programs, services, laws, or organizational practices change. Updated Terms will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Continued use of the website after revised Terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

18. Severability and No Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law. A failure by the Lodge to enforce a provision on one occasion does not waive the right to enforce it later.

19. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms of Use may be directed to:

Sons of Italy Lodge 2738
Pueblo, Colorado
info@osia2738.com