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Users of the Website may use the information contained on the Website for individual professional and non-commercial use. Permissible uses include, but are not limited to, utilizing data, graphs, and papers from the Website for modeling, research, and as a reference or informational source. The Website may be cited publicly as an information source as: American Academy of Actuaries, Canadian Institute of Actuaries, Casualty Actuarial Society and Society of Actuaries. Actuaries Climate Index. https://dev-cas-actuaries-climate-index.pantheonsite.io (accessed date). Users may not in any other way reproduce, publish, or otherwise distribute or make available any of the information displayed or accessible on the Website. Users may not create any derivative work of the Website or decompile, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to derive source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, structure, or organization of the Website. Users agree not to use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation any type of spider, web crawler, or robot) to navigate, search, compromise, alter, render unavailable, and/or extract information from the Website. Inquiries regarding other permissible uses should be directed to the Casualty Actuarial Society, ATTN: IT and Online Services Manager, 4350 N. Fairfax Dr, Suite 250, Arlington, VA 22203 or via email at webmaster@casact.org.
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Revisions to these Terms
These Terms may be revised at any time. Users should visit this page from time to time to review the then current Terms. Certain provisions of these Terms may be superseded by legal notices or other more relevant terms available on the Website.
Updated as of September 19, 2017
