The DEFCON Warning System™

Ongoing GeoIntel and Analysis in the theater of nuclear war.  DEFCON Level assessment issued for public notification.  Established 1984.

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DEFCON Warning System

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website. 

You must be at least 18 years of age to use this website.  By using this website and by agreeing to these terms and conditions you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age. This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of privacy policy / cookies policy.

Unless otherwise stated, The DEFCON Warning System and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.  Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

  • republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
  • sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
  • reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
  • edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
  • redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without The DEFCON Warning System’s express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without The DEFCON Warning System’s express written consent.

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted.  The DEFCON Warning System reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at The DEFCON Warning System’s discretion.

If The DEFCON Warning System provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

The DEFCON Warning System may disable your user ID and password in The DEFCON Warning System’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to The DEFCON Warning System a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.  You also grant to The DEFCON Warning System the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or The DEFCON Warning System or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

The DEFCON Warning System reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on The DEFCON Warning System’s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

Notwithstanding The DEFCON Warning System’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, The DEFCON Warning System does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied.  The DEFCON Warning System makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, The DEFCON Warning System does not warrant that:

  • this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
  • the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind..

 

The DEFCON Warning System will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

  • to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
  • for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
  • for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if The DEFCON Warning System has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit The DEFCON Warning System liability in respect of any:

  • death or personal injury caused by The DEFCON Warning System negligence;
  • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of The DEFCON Warning System; or
  • matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for The DEFCON Warning System to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.
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By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, The DEFCON Warning System has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees.  You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against The DEFCON Warning System’s officers, staff, or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.

Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect The DEFCON Warning System’s officers, staff, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as The DEFCON Warning System.

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

You hereby indemnify The DEFCON Warning System and undertake to keep The DEFCON Warning System indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by The DEFCON Warning System to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of The DEFCON Warning System’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by The DEFCON Warning System’s arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

Without prejudice to The DEFCON Warning System’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, The DEFCON Warning System may take such action as The DEFCON Warning System deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

The DEFCON Warning System may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time.  Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website.  Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

The DEFCON Warning System may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with The DEFCON Warning System’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

These terms and conditions, together with The DEFCON Warning System’s Privacy Policy located at https://defconwarningsystem.com/privacy-policy/, constitute the entire agreement between you and The DEFCON Warning System in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Stevens County, Washington, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Stevens County, Washington.

The DEFCON Warning System is registered in Washington under registration number 604-134-666.

The DEFCON Warning System’s registered address is 3310B Fifteen Mile Creek Road, Kettle Falls, WA 99141.

You can contact The DEFCON Warning System by email to [email protected].

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The DEFCON Warning System is a private intelligence organization which has monitored and assessed nuclear threats by national entities since 1984. It is not affiliated with any government agency and does not represent the alert status of any military branch. The public should make their own evaluations and not rely on the DEFCON Warning System for any strategic planning. At all times, citizens are urged to learn what steps to take in the event of a nuclear attack.