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of Use
PaloAltoOnline.com provides an opportunity for community members to post opinions
and other content directly onto the PaloAltoOnline.com Website. The
Terms of Use outlined below are intended to govern and restrict
your use of PaloAltoOnline.com, and your use of PaloAltoOnline.com constitutes
a binding agreement to these terms between you and Embarcadero Media. If you do not wish to accept these terms, then do
not post anything.
- You agree to be respectful of others, be truthful and be solely
responsible for all postings you make.
- You agree not to use any profanity, nor post any information
that is hateful, libelous or obscene, or that is threatening,
abusive or offensive to any individual, group or class of person.
- You agree not to post comments under multiple names. Postings within a single topic from the same IP address made under different names will be deleted.
- You agree not to disclose personal information about another
person, nor post anything that misleads others as to the source
of the posting.
- You grant to Embarcadero Media a nonexclusive
license to republish in its newspapers or in other media formats,
at its sole discretion, all or portions of the content you post
on PaloAltoOnline.com.
- You agree not to post anything on PaloAltoOnline.com that is not your
original work, unless you know with certainty that it is legally
in the public domain and permissible under U.S. copyright laws.
- You agree not to make posts that are primarily intended to promote, or create links to another Website.
- You agree not to make posts of a commercial nature that promote a business, product or
service.
- You agree not to republish in any form the posts that others
make on PaloAltoOnline.com.
- You acknowledge that although we do not have any obligation
to review, monitor or screen the content that is posted on PaloAltoOnline.com, and that we do not own such content, we are the sole
judge of whether the content you post meets these Terms of Use,
and that we may edit, remove or lock content you post on PaloAltoOnline.com at our sole discretion for any reason, even if not specifically addressed in this Terms of Use.
- You acknowledge that in spite of these Terms of Use, we make
no assurances as to the accuracy or truthfulness of any content
posted on PaloAltoOnline.com and are not responsible for content posted
by others.
- You agree that we may modify these Terms of Use at our sole
discretion and that your right to use PaloAltoOnline.com is conditioned
on your compliance with the then-current version of these Terms
of Use, which you will always find on this site.
PaloAltoOnline.com is hosted on servers located
in California and is intended to be viewed primarily by residents
of California. In the event of any dispute arising out of or relating
to this site, you agree that the exclusive venue for litigating
disputes shall be in state or federal court in San Jose, California.
Should
you believe there is content on PaloAltoOnline.com that violates any
of the above Terms of Use, please report it immediately to Frank A. Bravo, Director of Information Technology/Webmaster, Embarcadero Publishing Company/Palo Alto Online, at 450 Cambridge Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, phone 650-326-8210.. |
