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Forum Rules, Terms & Conditions

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:32 pm
by BoardHost
This forum is operated by Victoria Stilwell Enterprises, LLC (“VSE”) and is committed to providing information about positive reinforcement dog training as well as information and activities relating to Victoria Stilwell. As such, any user posting information which is deemed by VSE to promote aversive, dominance-based training ideologies will be warned that such activity does not promote the philosophical ideals of this community and will be asked to refrain or risk being removed. While VSE and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not VSE, moderators or webmaster and hence will not be held liable.

You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for any User Content that you post. You further acknowledge and agree that VSE has no responsibility for any User Content posted at this Site and will not be liable for any User Content that is in violation of these Terms and Conditions.

With respect to all User Content that you post, you represent and warrant that: (i) the material is either fully original to you or that you have all necessary rights, licenses and permissions needed to post the material at this Site (including but not limited to all copyright and right of publicity/privacy rights), and to grant, and hereby do grant, VSE and all other users of this Site a world-wide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license that can be fully assigned and sub-licensed, to use such User Content, in whole or in part, throughout the world forever in all media now known or hereafter developed, including on the Internet and in advertising and promotion of VSE. Without limiting the foregoing, such license permits VSE to publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, and reproduce the User Content, in whole or in part, alone or with other material on or via the Internet, including without limitation, any VSE authorized online and offline receiving and playback devices by any means of transmission now known or hereafter devised. You further grant VSE the right to use your User Content, likeness, biographical information, logos, marks or trade names, or other information provided or obtained, including without limitation, the right to publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, and reproduce such excerpts of your User Content, for purposes of advertising or promoting VSE, its products and/or services; (ii) such User Content will not infringe the rights of any person or entity, or violate any governmental rule, regulation statute or law, or the terms and conditions of use of this Site; (iii) no money will be owing to any party as a result of the posting of the User Content or its use as contemplated herein; (iv) you will be responsible for all User Content submitted through your email access, and for all purposes under these Terms and Conditions, all submissions from your account shall be deemed to have been submitted by you; and (v) you are 18 or older.

VSE has no control over, and does not endorse, any User Content and expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with any User Content. However, in connection with User Content posted at this Site, in addition to all other rights it has under this Agreement, at law or in equity, VSE reserves the right in its sole and absolute discretion, to: (i) remove without notice, or refuse to post in the first instance, any User Content; (ii) revoke any user’s right to use this Site. VSE is under no obligation to use, exhibit, perform, distribute, post, or otherwise exploit your User Content; without limitation of the foregoing, VSE may edit, alter, post, decline to post, remove, discard or delete your User Content at anytime with no further notice.

Any User Content sought to be posted at the Site must conform, in the sole and exclusive opinion of VSE, to the following rules and standards. It must: (i) conform to all applicable laws, (ii) be appropriate in the context of the general purposes of the Site; (ii) not be obscene, pornographic, patently offensive, hateful, abusive or promote racism or discrimination of any kind; (iii) not provide personal information, or solicit such information from any other user of the Site; (iv) not involve or result in the transmission of junk email, unsolicited mass emailings, “spamming,” “spimming” or “phishing;” (v) not transmit or distribute any potentially harmful programs such as Trojan horses, worms, viruses, spyware or any malicious software or code; (vi) not contain any material or images owned by any other person or entity unless you have obtained all necessary rights, licenses and permissions needed to post the material and have it used as contemplated by this Site; and (vii) be only for non-commercial purposes.

VSE may, at no cost or expense to you, process your Material for playback over the Internet or direct playback on prepared files. VSE shall have and retain all right, title, and interest in and to the data resulting from such processing ("Digital Files"), including without limitation, encoding, compressing, formatting and processing of audio and video data. VSE agrees that its use of the Digital Files will be in accordance with this Agreement.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised. You further agree that by registering as a user on these forums, you agree to receive periodic newsletters from VSE and Positively.

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