Definitions
"Congress.org" is a public-use web site operated by Capitol Advantage LLC ("Capitol Advantage"), and Knowlegis, LLC ("Knowlegis") "Users" are any individuals who access Congress.org through the World Wide Web. "Subscribers" are organizations or individuals under contract with Capitol Advantage for on-line advocacy services, which may choose to post alerts (issue summaries and calls to action) on Congress.org. "Advertisers" are organizations under contract with Capitol Advantage to post advertisements on Congress.org.

Background
The purpose of Congress.org is to enable Users to contact public officials, media and other important figures, as well as to enhance public knowledge of government, public policy and current public issues. Congress.org includes information provided by Capitol Advantage, Knowlegis and by third parties.

User Conduct
Certain sections of Congress.org allow Users and Subscribers to post their opinions about issues and/or public officials. Users and Subscribers shall not post or transmit through Congress.org any material which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law, or which, without Capitol Advantage's express prior approval, contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. Capitol Advantage retains the right to exclude or remove any material that is deemed by it to be inappropriate, or to expose it to potential liability to third parties.

Restrictions on Data Submitted to or Posted on Congress.org

Capitol Advantage/Knowlegis reserves the right to review all public postings submitted to the site including Soapbox and Letters to Leaders. Letters that contain profanity, advocate specific violence against an individual or a group or other objectionable postings will be removed and will not be subject to refunds or other compensation. Multiple postings of the same Soapbox or Letters to Leaders will be removed as well. Capitol Advantage/Knowlegis reserves the right to rotate or re-sort postings in keeping with a policy of balance and non-partisanship.

• Soapbox Commentary is a feature of Congress.org that allows you, the public, to have a higher profile platform while speaking your mind about issues or elected officials and/or candidates for public office.

  Congress.org is dedicated to increasing civic participation, and open and spirited debate is among the ways you can participate.

  Congress.org is a privately run, non-partisan site, so we reserve the right to not publish any commentary for any reason we choose. Profanity and threats will (among other reasons) prevent commentaries from being posted.

  Your name and address, while required to post a commentary, will not be posted online, nor will it be given or sold to any third parties.

  Soapbox alerts unless otherwise noted here will receive equitable time posted in the public areas of the site at the discretion of Capitol Advantage/Knowlegis.

• Letters to Leaders is a feature of Congress.org that allows you to publicly post a copy of your message to an elected official.

  There are no guarantees of any kind that submissions for Letters to Leaders or will be posted for any stated duration or at all. All postings are at the discretion of Capitol Advantage/Knowlegis. We reserve the right not to publish any letter for any reason we choose. Profanity, threats and objectionable material (among other reasons) prevent Letters to Leaders from being posted.

Monitoring
Capitol Advantage\Knowlegis shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of Congress.org and to exclude or remove any material that is deemed at its sole discretion to be inappropriate according to the above standards or otherwise objectionable, or to expose it to potential liability to third parties.

Third Party Content
Congress.org contains content about public officials, government bodies, procedures to contact public officials and the media, election information and other information supplied by third parties. Capitol Advantage does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content.

In many instances, material posted on Congress.org represents the opinions and judgments of the respective User, Subscriber or Advertiser. Congress.org does not endorse or take responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on Congress.org by anyone other than authorized Capitol Advantage employee spokespersons while acting in their official capacities. Under no circumstances will Congress.org be liable for any loss or damage caused by a User's reliance on information obtained through Congress.org. It is the responsibility of User to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through Congress.org.

Copyright Notice
This Service (including, but not limited to text, content, photographs, video and audio) is protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other laws. You must abide by all additional copyright notices or restrictions contained in this Service.

YOU MAY NOT COPY, REPRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, PUBLISH, DISPLAY, PERFORM, MODIFY, CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS, TRANSMIT, OR IN ANY WAY EXPLOIT ANY PART OF THIS SERVICE, EXCEPT THAT YOU MAY DOWNLOAD MATERIAL FROM THIS SERVICE FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL, NONCOMMERCIAL USE AS FOLLOWS: YOU MAY MAKE ONE MACHINE READABLE COPY AND/OR ONE PRINT COPY THAT IS LIMITED TO OCCASIONAL ARTICLES OF PERSONAL INTEREST ONLY.

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