Terms of Website Use
Wow! You actually came to this page. Our lawyers made us include
it and made us use a link on our home page to get you here. At first, we thought
the lawyers were a real pain. But then we read the page. What a awakening! It's
really important stuff. We took the legalese the lawyers wrote and translated
it into readable English. So be a smart cyberhead and read the stuff on this page.
It could prevent you from hearing from our lawyers.
Here's the deal:
We run this site so that people like you (and people you like)
can use it for personal entertainment, information, education, communication,
and cybergratification. So go ahead and browse around all you like. Don't fool
around with the copyright and other notices all over the stuff. They're there
for a really good reason. And don't even think about distributing, modifying,
transmitting, reusing, re-posting, or anything else uncool with any of the stuff,
including the text, images, audio, and video, for public or commercial purposes
unless we give you written permission or it's specifically stated on a web page
otherwise.
If you visit our site, you're also legally obligated to [read:
stuck with] the terms and conditions listed below and any other law or regulation
that applies to the site, the Internet, the World Wide Web, or Phoenix, AZ. You
shouldn't access or browse the site if you have any problem with that, because
once you start, there's no turning back -- you are bound by [read: stuck with]
the terms and conditions.
So here's the scoop on our Top Ten Rules for Cybersurfers who
hang out on our site:
For everyone's sake, just assume that everything on the site
is copyrighted unless we say it's not. So you can't use the stuff except how we
say you can on this page or anywhere else on the site without our written permission.
While we try to include accurate stuff on the site, we're
not promising you it's accurate. In fact, we're not promising you anything except
fun and entertainment. So if you use stuff on the site, you're using it at your
own risk. Don't call us if there's a problem because we assume no liability or
responsibility for errors or omissions on the site.
We and anybody else who helped us create, produce, or deliver
the site are not liable for any damages you suffer when you use it. In particular,
the lawyers want you to know that our disclaimer includes "direct, incidental,
consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or
use of, the site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the site is provided
to you 'AS IS' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, OR NON INFRINGEMENT.
Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion
of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check
your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of
implied warranties. " Ugh! What a mouthful. We put all of that in quotes
because we couldn't figure out any other way to say it that the lawyers would
accept. But here's the bottom line -- we're not responsible if you're browsing
around and the site damages you or your computer or infects it with any nasty
viruses. We sure hope that doesn't happen, but if it does, don't call us.
If you don't want the world to know something, don't post
in on the site in any bulletin board or anyplace else. That's because anything
you disclose to us is ours. That's right -- ours. So we can do anything we want
with the stuff you post. We can reproduce it, disclose it, transmit it, publish
it, broadcast it, and post it someplace else. We can even send it to your mother
(as soon as we find her address). Not only that, we can even use any ideas, concepts,
know-how, or techniques you post any way we want to, including, developing, manufacturing
and marketing products or other stuff using the information you post.
Pictures of people or places shown on the site are either
our property or someone else's property we're using with their permission. No
matter what, it's definitely not your property. You or any of your net-friends
can't use it unless we said you can on this page or somewhere else on the site.
So be careful, Bunky, because unauthorized use may violate all sorts of nasty
laws. Be smart, keep the stuff you download to yourself.
There's also a lot of trademarks, logos, and service marks
on the site that either we own or we're using with someone else's permission.
So don't think you have any kind of license or right to use them, because you
don't. If you don't leave them alone and mess with our trademarks, logos and service
marks on our site, we'll probably go ballistic and so will the companies that
own the other trademarks, logos and service marks. That means that we're likely
to sue you or to ask a prosecutor to come after you for messing around with our
property or the property of others.
You'll probably notice we've linked our site to lots of other
sites. While that's cool, it doesn't mean we've looked at all those sites, much
less checked them out periodically to see what's going on. So don't blame us if
some site you link to is bad or has stuff on it that offends you or your pets.
Go ahead and link, but remember, you're doing it at your risk.
That brings us to what you do on our own site. While we occasionally
listen in on chat groups, or look at the posting in our discussion groups or on
our bulletin boards, we take no responsibility and assume no liability for the
content of those locations or for any mistakes, defamation, libel, slander, omissions,
falsehoods, obscenity, pornography, or profanity you might encounter when you
visit such places on our site. And don't be stupid by posting or transmitting
any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory,
pornographic, nasty, mean, or profane material or any material that law enforcement
types my consider a criminal offense, get someone in court on a civil lawsuit,
or for that matter violate any law -- anywhere, anytime. While we certainly respect
your privacy, we have no choice but to fully cooperate with any law enforcement
authorities or court which might ask us who might have posted nasty stuff on our
site.
Software that we use on this Site is protected by all sorts
of patriotic U.S. laws. Because of that, you can't download or send the software
to anyone in the vacation travel spots of Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran,
Syria, or any other country where United States has embargoed goods; or (get this)
to anyone on the United States Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated
Nationals, the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders, or the FBI's Most
Wanted Internet Creeps List (just kidding on the last one).
We're also allowed to change this page and anything else on
the site any time we want to. That's because it's ours and we have the programmers
who can do it. If we do change the page, then you're bound by [read: stuck with]
those changes, too, whenever you visit our site.
If this all sounds kind of mean and undiplomatic, you should
have seen what the lawyers gave to us in the first place. We had to remind them
that human torture and sacrifice was outlawed in the United States. Boy, did they
look disappointed!
Thanks for joining us and hope you find our website of informative
value.
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