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Bus Conversions Magazine Bulletin Board Terms of Use
By using this site, you agree to be bound by these terms of use. If you do not wish to be bound by these Terms of Use, please do not complete the registration process. If you are already a registered member, your remedy for dissatisfaction with this site, or any content or other information available on or through this site, is to stop using the site. Your agreement with us regarding compliance with these Terms of Use becomes effective immediately upon commencement or continuation of your use of this site. These Terms of Use are effective as of 08/14/2010. We expressly reserve the right to change these Terms of Use from time to time without direct notice to you. We will place a public announcement on the each board within the forum announcing such changes and providing a link to the full text of the Terms of Use. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this site and these Terms of Use from time to time and to familiarize yourself with any modifications. Your continued use of this site after such modifications will constitute acknowledgement of the modified Terms of Use and agreement to abide and be bound by the modified Terms of Use. DEFINITIONS: For purposes of these Terms of Use, "content" and "material" are defined as any information, data, communications, software, photos, video, graphics, music, sounds, and other material and services that can be viewed by users on our site. This includes message boards, chat, and other original content. "Moderator" refers to the appointed volunteers that are given the task and authority of enforcing forum rules. CONDUCT ON THE SITE: You agree, through your use of this forum and/or chat room, that you will not post any material which is intentionally misleading or inaccurate, defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum. Other rules regarding conduct on and use of this forum are posted in the "Forum Rules" topic on the "All Topics" board of the forum. The rules listed there are specifically incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use. It is your responsibility to review those rules before posting and periodically check them for revisions. Note that it is impossible for the owners or moderators of this forum to confirm the validity of all posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor all posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not endorse or warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this forum, its moderating team, or this forum's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this forum immediately. The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well. CONTENT OWNERSHIP, RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITES: You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. You retain copyright ownership of content you created and if you included (with written permission) another entity's copyrighted material, they retain copyright ownership of their content. If such 3rd party copyrighted content is included in your post, it shall be properly credited and the copyright owner identified. While you retain your copyrights in such material, you grant Bus Conversion Enterprises, Inc. and any successors an irrevocable, non-exclusive, paid-up, perpetual, and worldwide right to copy, distribute, display, perform, publish, translate, adapt, modify, and otherwise use such material in any publication or medium (now known or not currently known) that is fully owned and controlled by Bus Conversion Enterprises, Inc. or any successors. If you wish to have the content you post in this forum excluded from use outside of this forum, as described above, you must provide physically printed and signed notification of that limitation by Postal Mail to Bus Conversion Enterprises, Inc. Mail it to: Bus Conversion Magazine 9852 Katella Ave, Ste 361 Anaheim, CA 92804 The exclusion will take effect 60 days from the post mark. Such exclusion will not apply to any publication or usage performed prior to the effective date. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT REPORTING: We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask you to do the same. If you or any user of this site believes its copyright, trademark or other property rights have been infringed by a posting on this site, you or the user should send notification to our Designated Contact (as identified below) immediately. To be effective, the notification must include: 1. Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed upon or other information sufficient to specify the copyrighted work being infringed). 2. Identify the material that you claim is infringing the copyrighted work listed in item #1 above. 3. Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you (email address is preferred). 4. Provide information, if possible, sufficient to permit us to notify the owner/administrator of the allegedly infringing webpage or other content (email address is preferred). 5. Include the following statement: "I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law." 6. Include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." 7. Sign the paper. 8. Send the written communication to the following address: Designated Contact for Claimed Infringement: Contact: Gary Hatt Address: 9852 Katella Ave, Ste 361 Anaheim, CA 92804 Phone: 657-221-0432 You acknowledge and agree that upon receipt of a notice of a claim of copyright infringement, we may immediately remove the identified materials from our site without liability to you or any other party and that the claims of the complaining party and the party that originally posted the materials will be referred to the United States Copyright Office for adjudication as provided in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. 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Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement. Also note that the software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out. The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer. The information we obtain through your use of this site, including your Registration Data, is subject to our Privacy Policy, which is specifically incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use. SITE CHANGES: We reserve the sole right to augment, modify or discontinue any of the site's features, at any time with or without direct notice to you. In such cases public announcements will be made as we determine appropriate for the situation. We will not be liable to you or any third party should we exercise such right. Any new features that augment or enhance the then-current services on this site shall also be subject to these Terms of Use. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: ALL MATERIALS AND SERVICES ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR THE WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. 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THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR THE DOWNLOADING OR OTHER ACQUISITION OF ANY MATERIALS THROUGH THIS SITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND WITH YOUR AGREEMENT THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH ACTIVITIES. Through your use of the site, you may have the opportunities to engage in commercial transactions with other users and vendors. You acknowledge that all transactions relating to any merchandise or services offered by any party, including, but not limited to the purchase terms, payment terms, warranties, guarantees, maintenance and delivery terms relating to such transactions, are agreed to solely between the seller or purchaser of such merchandize and services and you. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY TRANSACTIONS EXECUTED THROUGH, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SITE, AND YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT SUCH TRANSACTIONS ARE CONDUCTED ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. 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TERMINATION OF ACCESS/REMOVAL OF CONTENT We shall have the right in Our sole discretion to terminate your access to and use of the Services and/or remove any of your Content should We consider your statements or conduct to be inaccurate, illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy, injurious, objectionable, or otherwise in violation of these Terms or applicable law. ACCEPTANCE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF TERMS Use of this website constitutes acceptance of these Terms. You acknowledge that you have read and are bound by the Terms, as well as any other forum rules duly published on this forum, that may govern your conduct. Thank you for participating in the forum. Please do not hesitate to contact us at ForumAdmin@busconversions.com if you have questions. |
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