Terms of Use

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago provides this website on behalf of the U.S. Coin Task Force. Content, opinions, and recommendations of this site are the product of the U.S. Coin Task Force and do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve or any individuals or organizations represented on the task force. By using this website or the information, data or materials provided on this website, you acknowledge and agree to the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, do not use this website. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the U.S. Coin Task Force reserve the right to change the terms and conditions at any time without notice. You understand and agree that your continued use of this website after the date on which these terms and conditions have changed constitutes your acceptance of the new terms and conditions.

Disclaimers and Limitations

The U.S. Coin Task Force, or the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, or any other entity that is part of the Federal Reserve System (hereafter the “Federal Reserve System”) may periodically update the information made available on this website, but make no commitment to do so. Any conclusions that users draw from the information presented here are theirs and are not to be attributed to the Federal Reserve System. The content, opinions, and recommendations expressed on this website may not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve System.

This website may provide relevant links to web sites outside of the Federal Reserve System (hereafter “External Websites”) as an additional resource for our users. External Websites may also link to this website (External Websites that are linked to this website or that are linked to by this website shall be referred to as “Linked Websites”). Linked Websites are not under the control of the Federal Reserve System. Linked Websites may contain material that is protected under copyright or other laws with restrictions on use. The Federal Reserve System makes no warranty, express or implied, nor assumes any liability or responsibility for any information that is available on any Linked Website. Neither inclusion of links to External Websites nor External Websites’ inclusion of links to this website imply the Federal Reserve System’s sponsorship, endorsement, recommendation or approval of the External Websites, the entities or organizations managing the External Websites, any views expressed on the External Websites or any products or services offered.

This website may also publish information made available from third parties. The Federal Reserve System makes no warranty, express or implied, nor assumes any liability or responsibility for any third party information. The Federal Reserve System does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, timeliness of third party information or endorse the views or opinions given by any third party content provider, even if such content may include input from the Federal Reserve System. The provision of third party information is for general informational purposes only, does not constitute a recommendation and is not intended to provide legal or business advice.

The Federal Reserve System does not warrant that any information contained on this website does not defame any individual or entity or infringe upon any individual’s or entity’s rights of privacy or publicity.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM PROVIDES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, COMPLETENESS, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUALITY AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF ANY INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE. ALL INFORMATION, DATA AND MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY OTHER KIND OF DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF INFORMATION, OR ATTORNEY’S FEES) THAT ARE IN ANY WAY DUE TO, RESULTING FROM, OR ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THIS WEBSITE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR ANY VIRUSES WHICH MIGHT INFECT A USER’S COMPUTER SYSTEM.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you release and waive all claims against the Federal Reserve System and their officers, directors, employees and agents from any and all liability for claims, damages, costs and expenses (including litigation costs and attorney’s fees) of every kind and nature, arising from or in any way related to your use of this website. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Federal Reserve System and their officers, directors, employees and agents from and against all claims, damages, costs and expenses (including litigation costs and attorney’s fees) of every kind and nature, arising from or in any way related to your use of this website.

Applicable Law

This website is controlled and operated by the Federal Reserve System from their offices in the United States of America. By entering this website you acknowledge and agree that this website will only be construed and evaluated according to the laws of the United States, and in the absence of controlling federal law, with the laws of the State of Illinois. When using this website you agree to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. If you use this website from locations outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with any and all applicable laws of that or any other applicable location.

Appropriate Use

This website contains copyrighted material, trademarked material and other proprietary information, including but not limited to text, software, graphics, logos and button icons that are the property of the Federal Reserve System or third parties. Users may not reproduce, modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, of any copyrighted, trademarked or proprietary information owned by Federal Reserve System, except as expressly authorized by the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve System cannot grant permission to use copyrighted material, trademarked material or other proprietary information owned by third parties.

Any unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, to defeat or circumvent security measures or to utilize this website for reasons other than its intended purposes are prohibited.

The Federal Reserve System does not permit the use of its name, or the name of any other entity within the Federal Reserve System, in advertising, as an endorsement for any product or service, or for any other commercial purpose.

Registration

Some features on this website may require registration. By registering and in consideration of your use of this website, you shall provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself. You shall maintain and promptly update registration information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.

Any features on this website that require registration may also require use of a password. You shall maintain the confidentiality and security of your password and registration identification. You are solely and fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place using your account. If you have any reason to believe or become aware of any loss, theft or unauthorized use of your password, you must notify the Federal Reserve Bank Services webmaster immediately.

In registering or using this website, you shall not (1) create an account for anyone other than yourself, (2) attempt to cloak or conceal your identity; and (3) share your password, let anyone else access your account or take other actions that might compromise the security of your account.

The Federal Reserve System may terminate your account and remove or discard all or any part of your registration data or user content at any time for any reason without prior notice.

Trademark and Service Mark Notices

A list of marks related to financial services products that are offered to financial institutions by the Federal Reserve Banks is available at FRBservices Terms of Use (Off-site).

Other product names and company names referenced may be either trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

Reference to Third Parties and Third Parties’ Products and Services

The Federal Reserve System does not sponsor, endorse or recommend any third party or any third party products and/or services used on or by this website or referenced on or by this website.

Consent to Monitoring

The Federal Reserve System monitor this website. By using this website you expressly agree to such monitoring and you are advised that any evidence of criminal activity may be provided to law enforcement officials.

Accessibility

The Federal Reserve System is working to make every page on its public web server accessible to the widest possible audience, including people with visual disabilities using screen-reading software.

Many of the documents on our web server are in HTML and are usually accessible to screen-reading software. We also may have a large number of documents in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript (.ps), types that reproduce the exact look of a printed page. PDF documents are displayed through Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader, but may require additional steps to become accessible to screen readers. PostScript files can be saved electronically and sent directly to a printer.

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The Federal Reserve System undertakes to obey all relevant copyright laws, and do not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights on this website. The Federal Reserve System will review all claims of copyright infringement received and remove content deemed to have been posted or distributed in violation of any such laws.

The Federal Reserve System will promptly terminate without notice any registered user’s access to the limited access website if that user is determined by the Federal Reserve System to be a “repeat infringer.” A repeat infringer is a registered user who has been notified by the Federal Reserve System of infringing activity violations more than twice and/or who has had their content or any other user-submitted content removed from a Federal Reserve System website more than twice. The Federal Reserve System may also, at its sole discretion, limit access to any limited access site and/or terminate the registrations and/or memberships in any limited access site of any users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.

(a) If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any user content or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by providing the Federal Reserve System with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):

A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or the person authorized to act on its behalf;
A description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
A description of the infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit the Federal Reserve System to locate the material;
Your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and email;
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

(b) If you believe that your user content that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the content in your user content, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information:

Your physical or electronic signature;
Identification of the content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the content appeared before it was removed or disabled;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the content; and
Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in Chicago, Illinois, and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

If a counter-notice is received by an entity in the Federal Reserve System, that entity may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that they may replace the removed content or cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member or user, the removed content may be replaced, or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at the Federal Reserve System’s sole discretion.

(c) Claims and counter-notices can be sent via e-mail to webmaster or physical mail to Webmaster – Customer Relations and Support Office, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the above requirements of this Section, your DMCA notice or counter-notice may not be valid.