Askville Terms of Service

Askville Conditions of Use

Welcome to Askville. Askville and its affiliates provide their services to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit Askville, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully.

PRIVACY

Please review our Privacy Notice, which also governs your visit to Askville, to understand our practices.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

When you visit Askville or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

COPYRIGHT

All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, data compilations, and software is the property of Askville or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of Amazon.com, Inc., its affiliates, or its software suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws.

TRADEMARKS

ASKVILLE and other Askville graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are trademarks, registered trademarks or trade dress of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. Askville's trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Askville's, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Askville. All other trademarks not owned by Askville or its affiliates that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by Askville or its affiliates.

LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS

Askville grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of Askville. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any questions or answers displayed on this site; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of information for the benefit of another business; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of Askville. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Askville and our affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Askville's name or trademarks without the express written consent of Askville. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Askville. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of Askville so long as the link does not portray Askville, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Askville logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.

YOUR ACCOUNT

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. If you are under 13, you may use Askville only with involvement of a parent or guardian. Askville and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, and remove or edit content in their sole discretion.

QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, AND OTHER CONTENT

You may post content on this site, so long as the content is not:

Illegal
Obscene
Threatening
Defamatory
Hateful
Invasive of privacy
Infringing of intellectual property rights (such as copyright and trademark rights)
Racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable
Otherwise harmful or injurious to third parties

In addition, you may not post any content that consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitations, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." Askville reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit any submitted content, but does not regularly review posted content.

If you do post or otherwise submit questions, answers feedback, or any other content, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Askville and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Askville or its affiliates for all claims resulting from content you supply. Askville has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. Askville takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

Askville does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of any of the answers that are provided in response to your questions, and we make no representations or warranties of any kind about these answers.

COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS

Askville and its affiliates respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow our Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement.

�DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY ASKVILLE ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. ASKVILLE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, OR MATERIALS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, ASKVILLE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ASKVILLE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM ASKVILLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ASKVILLE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

APPLICABLE LAW

By visiting Askville, you agree that the laws of the state of Washington, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Askville or its affiliates.

DISPUTES

Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to Askville shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Seattle, Washington, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Askville's intellectual property rights, Askville may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of Washington, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY

Please review our other policies posted on this site. These policies also govern your visit to Askville. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

OUR ADDRESS

Askville
P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
http://www.askville.com

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Askville's copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying Askville and its affiliates that your copyrighted material has been infringed.

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;
A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Askville's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on its site can be reached as follows:

Copyright Agent
Amazon.com Legal Department
P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108
phone: (206) 266-4064
fax: (206) 266-7010
email: copyright@askville.com

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