Terms & Conditions of Use & Service: (hereafter known as “TCUS”)
Abbreviations and/or designators used in this Section:
CSC: The Community-Server.com website, and any affiliated hosting service, parent, subsidiary, affiliate, director, officer, employee, licensor, distributor, supplier, agent, reseller, owner, operator, third-party content providers, sponsors, venues, and/or volunteer thereof.
TCUS: Terms and Conditions of Use and Service
USA: United States of America
If there are any apparent conflicting governing statements within CSC, they shall be interpreted in a manner which favors CSC, and if such statements result in partial or full nullification of affected policies and/or rights of CSC, such statements shall not vitiate the remaining governing policies, rights, and/or laws stated within CSC.
By accessing this website in part, in whole, or any information, content, application, process, and/or service found herein, you agree to the following Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. Please read them carefully.
Since CSC can not control the use of our service by users, CSC offers all information, user content, and services without warranty of any kind. Therefore, CSC shall not be liable or responsible for your use of CSC.
CSC allows users to post their own content; this content does not necessarily reflect the views of CSC. CSC is an independently-owned and managed website, and is not necessarily affiliated with the city which name appears in the domain and/or subdomain of CSC’s URL.
CSC allows You, the user, to view the Events Calendar found herein, and/or to post events or other content. You will be solely responsible for your own actions and the consequences of this use. In addition, you warrant that You:
* are a physical person
* will not use any ad blockers or otherwise thwart or interfere with the CSC’s monetization process(es).
* will not share your account for security and stability reasons
* will not use and/or reproduce, in any format, our content and/or services from a dedicated server for an automated, non-personal purpose, or for monetary gain or consideration of any kind.
CSC provides service and content on CSC and all other web properties owned and/or managed by CSC to you subject to the following Terms and Conditions of Use and Service (hereafter known as “TCUS”). We may periodically change TCUS without notice, so you are encouraged to review TCUS on a regular basis. TCUS constitutes a binding legal and social agreement between you and CSC governing your use of CSC and any/all content represented herein. By using and/or visiting the Community-Server.com Website, or any other web properties owned and/or operated by CSC, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to both TCUS and the CSC Privacy Policy, which is part of the TCUS, and is included in CSC. TCUS applies to all users of CSC, including users who contribute information, ideas, and other materials or services on CSC. Only entities which agree to and abide by all applicable laws, and to TCUS, are authorized to use CSC. Please read TCUS carefully. If you do not agree to TCUS, please do not use CSC.
CSC may contain links to third party websites that are not owned or managed by CSC. CSC has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites. By using CSC, you specifically release and indemnify CSC from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website.
CSC grants you permission to use the CSC Website, provided that:
You will comply with all terms and conditions stated in all sections of CSC which govern the use of CSC. These sections include, but are not limited to:
Terms of Use & Service
Privacy Policy
Cookie Policy
End User License Agreement
Disclaimer.
You will not copy or distribute any part of CSC in any format without CSC’s prior written authorization.
Your use of CSC as permitted is only for your personal, noncommercial use.
You will not alter, rearrange, reverse engineer, or modify any part of CSC other than as may be reasonably necessary to use CSC for its intended purpose.
CSC may permit you to view some parts of CSC without registering, but in order to access and use all parts of CSC, you may be required to register an account with us. To access & use CSC, you agree to the following:
When creating your account, you must provide accurate and complete information.
You are solely responsible for the security & activity that occurs on your account, whether such activity occurs with or without your knowledge or consent.
You must keep your account password secure.
You are in full control of your username & password, and may change your password at any time.
You agree to immediately notify CSC of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security. CSC will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section.
You are not allowed to access and/or use another user’s account without permission.
You are not allowed to disclose the personal information from any other entities to third parties. Such information includes, but is not limited to, usernames & passwords.
By registering with CSC, you represent, confirm, and/or agree to, the following:
You are an adult of legal age with the ability to form a binding contract and are not a person or entity barred by law from using the Internet and/or CSC’s Website;
You agree to provide the most current, accurate, and complete information about yourself in all required fields of the registration form;
You agree to update your registration information to accurately reflect your information as soon as possible.
If CSC suspects that your registration information is not complete, current, or accurate, or that you have otherwise violated TCUS, your account may be subject to temporary ban or termination.
You agree not to directly, or by proxy, employ automated system(s), servers, phones, computers, devices, software and/or hardware platforms, or any combination thereof, whether currently existing or as yet unknown, to access CSC in a manner that sends more request messages to the CSC servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser that has not been altered and/or modified to send automated requests.
CSC may permit the operators of public search engines unilaterally revocable permission to use automated systems to retrieve and store limited content from CSC for the sole purpose of creating publicly accessible searchable indices of the materials, but not caches, archives, or mirrors of such materials. CSC reserves the right to limit any and all content that is part of CSC and any other Web Properties, and to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases, in its sole discretion.
You agree not to collect, falsify, or use any information from CSC that identifies a unique individual, including but not limited to, account names, email addresses, or other User Submissions (as defined below).
You agree not to use the platforms and/or communication systems provided by CSC for any commercial solicitation purposes, including but not limited to, soliciting for commercial purposes any users of CSC.
You agree not to misrepresent the following:
your’s or another’s identity;
your affiliation with a person or entity;
any facts or credentials which may have otherwise barred you from using CSC, including but not limited to Internet Fraud, felonious activity, hacking, disturbing, and/or penetrating any Web Properties for any reason.
You may not interfere with the proper working of CSC. You may not access content on CSC through any technology or means other than those provided and/or authorized by CSC. You agree you will not bypass or circumvent the methods and/or means we may use to prevent or limit access to all or select features of CSC, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of CSC or CSC’s content, including but not limited to decompiling, reverse engineering, or otherwise attempting to obtain the source code of CSC.
Accessing CSC’s content in part or in whole, for any purpose or in any manner other than that offered and/or allowed by CSC is explicitly prohibited. All content on CSC is the property of CSC, and is not intended to be reproduced, stored, downloaded/stored in a manner which allows users access to such content other than viewing and/or temporary streaming, and/or redistributed by any persons or entities.
CSC may, without prior notice, alter the appearance, access features, or service methods of CSC, restrict or remove access to CSC or features of CSC, or create usage limits for CSC. We may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend your access to CSC without notice or liability to CSC, for any or no reason, including if in our sole determination you violate any provision of this Agreement. Upon termination of this agreement, or termination of your access to CSC for any reason or no reason, you will continue to be bound by the TCUS, which terms described in TCUS will survive termination, including without limitation ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other CSC Users. CSC reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Users. CSC shall have no liability for your interactions with other Users, or for any User’s action or inaction.
CSC may offer software and/or platforms to access CSC via Alternative Interface Devices (hereafter refered to as “AIDP”). AIDP are software packages which allow you to access CSC with devices other than full-size laptop or desktop computers with full versions of conventional operating systems.
To use the AIDP your device must be compatible with at least one version of AIDP offered by CSC. CSC makes no express or implied warranties that AIDP will be compatible with your device.
CSC hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, unilaterally revocable license to use a full and complete compiled code copy of AIDP for one CSC account on one AIDP device owned or leased solely by you, for your personal, non-commercial use.
You are not authorized for and are prohibited from:
modifying, disassembling, decompiling or reverse engineering AIDP, CSC, or any Web Properties owned and/or operated by CSC;
renting, leasing, loaning, reselling, sublicensing, distributing or otherwise transferring AIDP to any third party or using AIDP to provide access to CSC of any kind for any third party;
making any copies of AIDP;
deleting, reconstructing, replacing, removing, circumventing, disabling, damaging or otherwise interfering with security-related features of AIDP, features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content accessible through AIDP, or features that enforce limitations on use of AIDP;
deleting, reconstructing, replacing, removing, circumventing, disabling, damaging or otherwise interfering with the copyright and/or other proprietary rights notices on AIDP.
You acknowledge that CSC may periodically issue upgraded versions of AIDP, and may unilaterally and automatically upgrade the version of AIDP that you will use and/or are using on your AIDP device. You consent to such unilateral and automatic upgrading on your AIDP device, and agree that the TCUS and all the provisions of all other documents found within CSC governing your relationship with CSC will apply to all such upgrades. Any third-party code that may be incorporated in AIDP is covered by the applicable open source or third-party license EULA, if any, authorizing use of such code. The foregoing license grant does not signify or authorize a sale of AIDP or any copy thereof, and CSC or its third party partners or suppliers retain all right, title, and interest in AIDP (and any copy thereof). AIDP may be subject to import and export laws of the United States and other countries. You agree to comply with all United States and foreign laws related to use of AIDP and CSC.
You affirm the following:
you are more than 18 years of age;
you are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these TCUS and all the provisions of all other documents found within CSC governing your relationship with CSC;
you will abide by and comply with these TCUS and all the provisions of all other documents found within CSC governing your relationship with CSC.
Access to any or all parts of CSC may not available to any Users previously removed from CSC by CSC. CSC reserves all rights not expressly granted under TCUS. Any attempt by you to transfer any of the rights, duties or obligations herein, except as expressly provided for in TCUS, is void.
Any use or access to CSC by anyone 18 and under is strictly prohibited and in violation of TCUS. CSC reserves the right to prosecute and/or ban any person who aids minors in violating TCUS.
With the exception of certain User Submissions (as defined below), CSC and the entire contents within CSC, including without limitation, all digital contents, interactive features, trademarks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features contained therein, are owned by or licensed to CSC, subject to intellectual property rights under United States, foreign, and/or international law. Content on CSC is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise used for any purpose whatsoever without the prior written consent of CSC. CSC reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to CSC.
You agree to not engage in the use, copying, or distribution of any of the CSC’s content other than as expressly permitted herein, including any use, copying, or distribution of User Submissions (as defined below) of third parties obtained through CSC for any commercial purposes. If you download or print a copy of such content for personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained thereon. You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security related features of CSC or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on use of CSC and/or CSC’s contents.
You agree that any comments or ideas you submit to and/or about CSC, including without limitation about how to improve CSC or our products (hereafter known as “Comments at Will” or CAW), are gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and:
will not vitiate, negate, or alter any provisions of any governing documents contained in CSC;
will not place CSC under any obligations beyond the provisions of governing documents contained in CSC;
do not create additional agreements, of any kind, beyond the provisions of governing documents contained in CSC.
You agree that CSC is free to use CAW without any additional compensation to you, and/or to disclose CAW on a non-confidential basis or otherwise to anyone.
You further acknowledge that, by acceptance of CAW, CSC does not waive any rights to use similar or related CAW previously known to CSC, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.
User Submissions
“User Submissions” is ANY digital content(s) that originate(s) from a device other than that owned and/or operated by CSC, is transmitted to a server that is owned and/or operated by CSC, and meets all criteria defined in TCUS. CSC is not responsible for any material posted by users, such content is not endorsed by CSC, and we make no guarantee regarding the reliability, accuracy, or quality of any User Submission that is posted on CSC. You affirm that you will be solely responsible for any and all risks related to your use of any User Submission, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such User Submission. All User Submissions posted to CSC are the sole responsibility of the person and/or entity who originally posted the User Submission, and your sole recourse for any damage you may suffer as a result of User Submissions shall be to such individual and/or entity. If CSC posts content to CSC, you accept such content as-is, with no warranties regarding and/or all aspects of such content.
In connection with your User Submissions & Comment(s) at Will (hereafter knows as “USCW”), you affirm, represent and warrant the following:
You have legal, written consent of/from each and every person and/or entity in the User Content to use such person’s/entity’s name or likeness in the manner contemplated by CSC and TCUS, and each such person has released and indemnified you from any liability that may arise in relation to such use.
Your USCW and CSC’s use thereof as stipulated in this Agreement and CSC will not violate any law or infringe any rights of any third party, including but not limited to any Intellectual Property Rights and privacy rights. Despite yet retaining the foregoing rules and/or restrictions, you may contribute any User Content for which you have appropriate legal authorization, permission and/or indemnification.
CSC may exercise the rights to your User Content that are granted to CSC under this Agreement, without payment of any fees, royalties, payments, or consideration of any kind. You, the user, are solely responsible for any agreements between you and third parties. Although CSC is not obligated to mediate between you, the user, and third parties, you agree that CSC may choose to resolve disputes when necessary, and you agree to hold harmless and indemnify CSC in all such matters, negligence included.
All your User Content and other information that you provide to us is truthful and accurate.
User submissions, unless otherwise specified, are licensed under Creative Commons.
If you choose to post user content of any kind on CSC, we require that you adhere to generally accepted rules of etiquette and standards of behavior, and that your use of CSC reflects your respect for the legal and social rights of other users connected with CSC. You affirm that CSC does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User Submission.
CSC expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with User Submissions. CSC reserves the right to remove Content and User Submissions in its sole discretion and without prior notice. CSC also reserves the right to terminate a user’s access to CSC at any time in its sole discretion and without prior notice.
You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submission and the consequences of posting or publishing them. By posting any User Content on CSC, you hereby expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have a right to grant to CSC a royalty-free, sub licensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, syndicate, publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such User Content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with CSC and CSC’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of CSC (and derivative works thereof in any media formats and through any media channels; however, CSC will only share your personally identifiable information in accordance with our then-current Privacy Policy. You also hereby grant each User of CSC a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through CSC, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Content as permitted through the functionality of CSC and under this Agreement.
The trademarks, service marks, trade names, designs, symbols, and other designations and/or combinations of the preceding items, used to identify or distinguish CSC, its business, community and/or products, including without limitation all logos and all product and appliance designs and features (collectively, the Trademarks) displayed on the Site constitute the valuable intellectual property of CSC and its licensors and, in certain instances, the registered and unregistered trademarks of CSC and its licensors. You agree that you will not refer to or attribute any information to CSC or its licensors in any public medium (e.g.: Newspapers, TV, Internet, Radio, Concert Halls, Auditoriums, etc.) for advertising or promotional purposes, or for the purpose of informing or influencing any third party and that you will not use or reproduce any Trademark of, or imply any endorsement by or relationship with, CSC or its licensors.
CSC’s Policy/Procedure regarding copyright infringement:
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (currently located at http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf) (DMCA). The email address of CSC’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement is WebMaster1@Community-Server.com.
It is CSC’s policy to:
deny access to or remove any content from CSC that it deems, under cursory review, to be copyrighted material that has been copied, posted, and/or distributed by any of our users;
remove and discontinue service to repeat offenders.
If you are a copyright owner and/or agent and believe you have discovered content on CSC that infringes on your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the DMCA by providing our Designated Agent with the following information in writing to the email address listed above (see 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) for further detail):
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification 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;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit CSC provider to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit CSC provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail;
A statement 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 penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Once Proper Legal/Official Infringement Notification is Received by the Designated Agent:
It is CSC’s policy:
to remove or disable access to the infringing content;
to notify the content providers, member or user that it has removed or disabled access to the content; and
that repeat offenders will have the infringing content removed from the system and that CSC will terminate such content provider’s access to the CSC Website.
If the content provider believes that the content that was removed or to which access was disabled is either not infringing, or the content provider believes that it has the right to post and use such content from the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or pursuant to the law, the content provider must send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Designated Agent listed below:
A physical or electronic signature of the content provider;
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 the content provider has a good faith belief that the content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the content; and
Content provider’s name, address, telephone number, and, if available, e-mail address and a statement that such person or entity consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal Court for the judicial district in which the content provider’s address is located, or if the content provider’s address is located outside the United States, for any judicial district in which CSC is located, and that such person or entity will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.
If a counter-notice is received by the Designated Agent, CSC may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that it 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, 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 CSC’s discretion.
Please contact CSC’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement at the following address(es):
Email: WebMaster1@Community-Server.com.
The following rules of conduct apply to your use of CSC and to any and all materials you post on CSC, regardless of the type, method of transmission, or its location within any CSC web property.
You may not upload, post, email or otherwise transmit in connection with CSC any User Submission which:
treats, expounds, argues, and/or discusses politics or religion
is libelous or defamatory, pornographic, sexually explicit, unlawful or plagiarized (except to iterate when given express permission);
mentions, deals with, or is associated with firearms, explosives, drugs and/or drug paraphernalia, prostitution, human trafficking;
mentions, deals with, teaches/instructs, or is associated with the tampering, hacking, or alteration of technological devices;
infringes or violates any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret or other property right;
breaches a duty of confidentiality by which you are bound due to a contractual or fiduciary relationship (a gag order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, inside information, or proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
misleads and/or deceives an individual and/or other users as to your true intent, arrangement, and/or commitment;
a reasonable person would consider harassing, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, profane, obscene, excessively violent, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or offensive in any way;
constitutes a breach of any person’s privacy or publicity rights, a misrepresentation of facts, or hate speech;
violates or assists, teaches, and/or encourages others to violate any applicable law, statute, code, ordinance or regulation;
promotes software, services, or other constructs/platforms that deliver unsolicited e-mail;
contains MalWare of any kind regardless of intention to inflict harm, deny service in whole or in part, or interfere with CSC’s ability to interact with its users.
You may not, except with CSC’s express advance authorization or in a specially designated area, use CSC to:
upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any User Submission that provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email address;
engage in commercial activities within CSC;
harm minors in any way;
solicit personal information from anyone 18 and under;
provide false or deceptive information;
use CSC content to engage in commercial activities;
delete, add or otherwise change other people’s entries or other Content when you have not been granted the privileges to do so;
allow usage by others in such a way as to violate CSC’s Terms of Service;
violate the CSC Ethical Behavior Guidelines.
CSC recognizes that sometimes the content on the CSC website can be used by someone to violate CSC’s use policies. This behavior is usually unintended and can be resolved with a simple email. However, there are occasions where the behavior is willful and may require immediate action. This policy deals with identifying and correcting those situations.
Anyone may investigate or report suspect behavior at any time. You may contact WebMaster1@Community-Server.com or any CSC team member if you suspect behavior that violates the TCUS.
Once a report has been made, the questionable or offensive content should be emailed to CSC for review. If in CSC’s sole discretion, in accordance with TCUS, CSC determines that the offending member(s) are responsible for the offense, then CSC reserves the right of option to notify all involved parties, to remove the offending work, and to ban the offending member(s) from the CSC site for a term designated solely by CSC.
If a User who has been removed from the CSC site for offending behavior chooses to participate within the community under an alternate name and/or alias, and without permission, then such user may be forever banned from CSC.
This is covered in other sections of the Terms of Service, but described here simply: Try to exercise the Golden Rule:
Treat all others the way you’d want to be treated;
Don’t take or claim property, attributes, or other goods and/or services that you haven’t earned for yourself;
Don’t do or say anything that would devalue yourself and/or another person or that would jeopardize your standing in the CSC community.
CSC reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, CSC (or any part thereof) with or without notice. CSC shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of CSC.
CSC may, under certain circumstances and without prior notice, immediately discontinue your CSC account and access to CSC and any other CSC services. Cause for such termination shall include, but not be limited to:
breaches or violations of the Terms of Service or any other incorporated agreements or guidelines;
requests by law enforcement or other government agencies;
a request by you (self-initiated account deletions);
discontinuance or material modification to CSC (or any part thereof);
unexpected technical or security issues or problems;
extended periods of inactivity;
engagement by you in fraudulent or illegal activities;
and/or nonpayment of any fees owed by you in connection with CSC or any other CSC product.
Termination of your CSC account includes:
removal of access to all pages within CSC;
deletion of your password and all related information, files and materials, including User Submissions associated with or inside your account (or any part thereof);
banning you from further use of CSC.
Further, you agree that all terminations for cause shall be made in CSC’s sole discretion and that CSC shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your account, any associated email address, or access to CSC.