Terms of use PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS SITE. 1. General. This site is owned and operated by conxtions.com, inc. conxtions.com has the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the site, including, without limitation, the content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use of the site. These terms of use apply to all users of conxtions.com, including patrons of institutions or other libraries and individual conxtions.com members. Individual conxtions.com members are limited to a single individual. 2. Equipment. You shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telephone, computer hardware and other equipment needed for access to and use of the site and all charges related thereto. 3. Restrictions on Use. A. You shall use the site for lawful purposes only. You shall not post or transmit through the site any material that (i) violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, (ii) is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, or (iii) encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law. Without conxtions.com's express prior approval, you shall not post or transmit through the site any material that contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. You shall not use the site to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, without limitation, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other on-line information services. Any conduct by you that in conxtions.com's discretion restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the site will not be permitted. B. The site contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, without limitation, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound, and the contents of the site are copyrighted under the Canadian copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part. No copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the express written permission of conxtions.com and the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material. C. You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on the site any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with you. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting material to any public area of the site, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such material has expressly granted conxtions.com the royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, display, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed. You also permit any other user of the site to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that user's personal use. You grant conxtions.com the right to edit, copy, display, publish and distribute any material made available on the site by you. D. Your access to the site, other than to portions open to the public, is controlled by your individual password. You may not share your password with anyone else or permit your password to be used to provide anyone else with access to non-public portions of the site. E. The foregoing provisions of Section 3 are for the benefit of conxtions.com, its subsidiaries, affiliates and its third party content providers and licensors and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own behalf. 4. Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability. A. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL conxtions.com’s TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING ITS OWN NEGLIGENCE) OR UNDER ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY (INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY) EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THIS SITE. D. THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER OF conxtions.com APPLIES TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INACCURACY, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF THIS SITE, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR (INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY), NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT conxtions.com IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD-PARTIES AND THAT THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU. 5. Monitoring. conxtions.com shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of the site including any chat rooms and forums, to determine compliance with these Terms of Use and any operating rules established by conxtions.com and to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request. conxtions.com shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the site. Without limiting the foregoing, conxtions.com shall have the right to remove any material that conxtions.com in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable. 6. Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless conxtions.com and its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, damages, costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the site. 7. Trademarks. conxtions.com, conxtions.com , and all page headers, custom graphics and button icons are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of conxtions.com. All rights reserved. All other trademarks appearing on the site are the property of their respective owners. 8. Third Party Content. conxtions.com is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties and users of the site. Accordingly, conxtions.com has no more editorial control over such content than does a public library, bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers and users, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of conxtions.com. In many instances, the content available through the site represents the opinions and judgments of the respective information provider or user. conxtions.com neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the site by anyone other than authorized conxtions.com employee spokespersons while acting in their official capacities. 9. Changed Terms. conxtions.com has the right at any time to change or modify these Terms of Use applicable to use of the site, or any part thereof, or to impose new conditions. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by any means including, without limitation, posting on the site, or by electronic or conventional mail, or by any other means. Any use of the site by you after such notice shall be deemed to constitute acceptance of such changes, modifications, additions or deletions. 10. Miscellaneous. These Terms of Use shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not be given any legal import. 11. Use of the "Adult" areas of conxtions.com services is only available to individuals at least 18 years of age (21-years old in AL, MS, NE, WY, and any other location where 18 is not the age of majority). 2. All photo/audio/video content submitted to conxtions.com by conxtions.com users is reviewed by conxtions.com Photo Reviewers before being displayed on the site. conxtions.com Photo Reviewers will immediately reject anyone under 18 years old who attempts to submit photos, audio or video ("content") to our "Adult" categories. Their best judgment based on the information available to them will be used - regardless of the representations made by the submitter of the content. If submitted content looks questionable or the age of the person in the content is potentially suspect, the content will be rejected and the submitter will be banned from using conxtions.com's service. Those who submit content of minors to the "Adult" areas of conxtions.com, will be referred to the authorities, along with their logged IP address.

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Forum Terms of Service:
conxtions.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including email) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website and/or Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.

NO SPAMMING

Spam will in no way be tolerated.
Spam can also be repeated posting, though different topics
or repeatedly posting a topic that has been deleted by a mod.

NO POINTLESS THREADWASTING

This includes topics like 'I'm bored'.
Also topics whose sole intent is to insult someone will be deleted.
These forums are for discussion, not attention seeking.
Any topic considered to be a threadwaste will be deleted.

NO DUPLICATE TOPICS
If a topic exists a couple of pages away covering the same issues then the new one
will be deleted. Look through the pages to see if it has already been posted, if not
The it should be okay to post.

NO POSTING IN WRONG THREAD or FORUM

If you have a political(or other specific)question don't post it in L&R.
If it contains a politics question post in politics.
If you are new, try posting in the newbies thread in general forum or contribute to an existing topic.
Also try to avoid off-topic posts in existing threads.

NO OBSCENITY

This includes excessive swearing, flaming, posting of pornographic images
Racism, Homophobic, sexist remarks or bigotry of any sort.
Adult subjects MUST be posted in the adult category.

NO CROSS-POSTING THE SAME TOPIC

Do not post the same topic in more than one forum.
This is treated as spam.

NO POLITICAL PROPAGANDA
NO INSULTS

ALL DELETIONS ARE FINAL.

Covering topics with code WILL result in profile deletion
Do not do this, it makes the admin's job harder and will get you deleted.

NO ADVERTISING.
This includes party invites, promos for your any product or service or it will be deleted.
You will be able to do this in the classifieds section when it comes online soon.


Redundant Help Requests
Your thread will get deleted if you ask a question that was covered in the FAQs or answered in the same post.

NO POSTING OF HUGE IMAGES
It causes more server strain and uses more bandwidth.

PLEASE POST TOPICS IN THE CORRECT FORUMS/POSTS.

ATTENTION SEEKING THREADS, LIFE STORIES ETC ARE MORE SUITED TO BLOG ENTRIES NOT THE FORUM. POST IT THERE.
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