Summary
www.DogsInTheNews.com
is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to educate and inform
the public of canine issues and dog-related topics throughout the world.
In general, any organization sharing
this goal will be granted the right to reproduce and redistribute
the information contained in this website free of charge, provided that
- the material
will not be sold or used for commercial purposes, and
- credit will be
noted for the appropriate source(s)
(e.g. www.DogsInTheNews.com).
If you would like to use any material contained in this website for such purposes as described above
and according to said terms but are not sure if you meet the listed
requirements, don't hesitate to send us a message via our on-line contact form.
Unfortunately, cartoons fall
under a separate copyright heading and may not be reproduced, but
please feel free to link directly to our comics pages.
All material contained herein is ©
2001-2002 Canine Nation.
And now, for the legal babble...
WEBSITE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY
www.DogsInTheNews.com
offers this website, including all information, software, products and
services available from this website or offered as part of or in
conjunction with this website (the "Website"), to you, the
user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all of the terms, conditions,
policies and notices stated here. Your continued use of the Website
constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions and notices.
Personal and Noncommercial Use
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you warrant to www.DogsInTheNews.com
that you will not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or
prohibited by these terms and conditions of use.
No Warranties
USE THE WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS
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KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE
OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Neither www.DogsInTheNews.com
nor its employees, agents, third party information providers, merchants,
licensors or the like warrant that the Website or its operation will be
accurate, reliable, uninterrupted or error-free. No agent or
representative has the authority to create any warranty regarding the
Website on behalf of www.DogsInTheNews.com.
Exclusion of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE, SHALL www.DogsInTheNews.com
OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, STORING OR DISTRIBUTING
THE WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH USE OF
THE WEBSITE, DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE, OR FOR ANY
INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THE
WEBSITE, WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT
LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. Because some states do not permit the exclusion or limitation
of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above
limitation may not apply to you.
Featured Links and Linking
The Website may contain hyperlinks to
websites offered by parties other than www.DogsInTheNews.com.
Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only. www.DogsInTheNews.com
does not control such other websites and is not responsible for their
content; nor does www.DogsInTheNews.com's
inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites imply any endorsement of the
material on such websites or any association with their operators.
Unless you are subsequently advised
otherwise by www.DogsInTheNews.com,
you are hereby licensed to create hyperlinks to the content on the
Website, provided that the hyperlink accurately describes the content as
it appears on the Website. www.DogsInTheNews.com
reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to
use specific links, at any time, and may normally break any hyperlink
after 30 days. Only with explicit permission may you
"frame" the Website or any of its content or copy portions of
the Website to a server. Each page within the Website must be
displayed in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising and
promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border, margin,
design, branding, trademark, advertising or promotional materials not
originally displayed on the page within the Website.
Software Available on Website
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download from this Website is the copyrighted work of www.DogsInTheNews.com
and/or its suppliers. Your use of the software is governed by the terms
of the End User License Agreement, if any, that accompanies or is
included with the software. You may not install or use any software
without first agreeing to the terms of such End User License Agreement.
For any software not accompanied by an End User License Agreement, www.DogsInTheNews.com
hereby grants to you a personal, nontransferable license to use the
software for viewing and other purposes within the scope of use of such
software anticipated by www.DogsInTheNews.com
in accordance with these terms and conditions, and for no other purpose.
Any such software is provided to you subject to the warranty and
liability exclusions set forth in these terms and conditions.
Copyright
Except for material in the public
domain under United States copyright law, all material contained on the
Website (including all software, HTML code, Java applets, Active X
controls and other code) is protected by United States and foreign
copyright laws. Except as otherwise expressly provided in these terms
and conditions, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display,
perform, reproduce, publish, license, modify, rewrite, create derivative
works from, transfer, or sell any material contained on the Website
without the prior consent of the copyright owner. Violation of this
provision may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.
You may make single copies of materials
displayed on the Website for your own personal and noncommercial use
only, provided any copies include the copyright and other notices
displayed with the materials on the Website. You may not distribute such
copies to others, whether or not for a charge or other consideration,
without prior written permission from www.DogsInTheNews.com
or the copyright owner of the copied material. Requests to reproduce
materials on the Website for distribution or other purposes should be
submitted via the online contact form.
Copyright Infringement
www.DogsInTheNews.com
will not tolerate copyright infringement of any kind. However, www.DogsInTheNews.com
does not necessarily monitor user-submitted materials for copyright
infringement. If you believe that any material on the Website
infringes your copyright, you may seek to have the material removed by
sending www.DogsInTheNews.com
a notice that includes all of the following information: your full name,
address and telephone number your e-mail address identification of the
copyrighted work(s) that you believe is being infringed identification
of the infringing material and information sufficient for www.DogsInTheNews.com
to locate the material your statement of good faith belief that (a) the
material infringes your copyrights, (b) the information provided in the
notice is accurate and (c) under penalty of perjury, you are authorized
to act for the copyright owner your physical or electronic signature
Please submit all such notices via the online contact form.
Upon receipt of notice complying with
the above requirements, www.DogsInTheNews.com
will act to remove infringing materials and, if applicable, send notice
to the user that posted such materials on the Website.
If www.DogsInTheNews.com
removes materials posted by you as a user due to alleged copyright
infringement, you may seek to have the materials reinstated by notifying
the Website in writing, including the following information:
- your full name, address and
telephone number
- your e-mail address
- identification of the material that
has been removed or to which access has been disabled, including its
location before it was removed or disabled
- your statement under penalty of
perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was
removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of
the material
- your statement consenting to the
jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the district in which
your address is located, or, if you reside outside of the United
States, for the Eastern District of Virginia, and that you will
accept service of process from the person who provided notice of
copyright infringement or from such person's agent
- your physical or electronic
signature
Upon receipt of a notice meeting the
above requirements, www.DogsInTheNews.com
will send a copy of the notice to the copyright owner who initially
claimed copyright infringement. Within 10 to 14 days following receipt
of the notice, www.DogsInTheNews.com
will replace or enable access to the removed material unless the Website
receives notice from the copyright owner who submitted the first
notification that it has filed an action seeking a court order to
restrain the user that posted the materials from engaging in infringing
activity. Please note that parties who misrepresent that
materials are infringing or were removed by mistake or misidentification
are subject to substantial civil liability to www.DogsInTheNews.com
and/or the copyright owner or Website user.
Trademarks
www.DogsInTheNews.com,
"The Scoop, Dogs in the News" and "TheDogNet.net"
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Canine Nation and are
protected by state and federal trademark laws. Other trademarks appear
on the Website with permission from their respective owners. Your
unauthorized use of trademarks appearing on the Website may constitute
trademark infringement, which could subject you to substantial civil
penalties.
Public Posting Areas
You agree not to use the Website to
send or submit for public posting any libelous, slanderous, defamatory,
abusive, obscene, profane, sexually explicit, threatening, harmful or
illegal material, material containing blatant expressions of bigotry,
racism or hate, material encouraging conduct that would constitute a
criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or violate any local,
state, national or international law, or other material of any kind that
www.DogsInTheNews.com finds
objectionable.
The public posting areas are for
discussion and debate only. You may not use the public posting areas to
post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind.
You may not post or transmit any material of any nature, including text,
audio, software, animation or photographs, belonging to any person or
party other than yourself, without the prior written consent of such
owner. Simply because material is available on the Internet does not
mean it is in the public domain. The vast majority of materials on the
Internet are protected by copyright and trademark laws. www.DogsInTheNews.com
shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the posting
areas of the Website to determine compliance with these Terms and
Conditions and any other operating rules that may be established by www.DogsInTheNews.com
from time to time.
By posting messages or other material
in the public posting areas of the Website, you are granting to www.DogsInTheNews.com
and its licensees a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive
and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt,
publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform
and display any posting by you (in whole or in part) and/or to
incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known
or hereafter developed.
Termination of Privileges
www.DogsInTheNews.com
reserves the right to terminate your privilege of using all or any
portion of the Website if you breach any of these terms and conditions
of use. If www.DogsInTheNews.com
receives notice or otherwise discovers that you have posted material
that infringes another party's copyright or trademark rights or violates
another party's rights of privacy or publicity, www.DogsInTheNews.com
may terminate your access to the Website, including all of your
privileges or accounts that you may have established in connection with
the Website.
General Privacy
For each visitor to the Website, the
servers automatically collect information about which pages are visited
and the domain name of visitors. This information is used for internal
review, to tailor information to individual visitors and for website
traffic audits. We do not provide this information about our users to
any advertisers or third-party market researchers.
Through your use of the Website, www.DogsInTheNews.com
may collect information about you that identifies you or your household.
Normally, you would provide such information when specifically asked for
it by the Website. Any information in www.DogsInTheNews.com's
possession solely as a result of your use of the Website and that is
associated with you or your household is considered "Personal
Information." It consists of both information supplied by you (e.g.
name, address, telephone number and e-mail address) and information
collected about how you use the Website. It does not include aggregate
information or information that you have made public on the Website or
that is otherwise publicly available.
www.DogsInTheNews.com
uses Personal Information only for purposes necessary to provide the
Website and other products and services to you.
General
These Terms and Conditions constitute
the entire agreement and understanding between you and www.DogsInTheNews.com
with respect to use of the Website, superseding all
prior or contemporaneous communications and/or proposals. www.DogsInTheNews.com
reserves the
right to make changes to these Terms and Conditions immediately by
posting the changed Terms and Conditions in this location. By continuing
to use the Website, you are agreeing to all changes made by the Website.
A printed version of these Terms and Conditions shall be admissible in
judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to use of
the Website to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as
other business documents and records originally generated and maintained
in printed form.
The Website is controlled and operated
by www.DogsInTheNews.com
from its principal office in the United States of
America. www.DogsInTheNews.com
makes no representation that materials on the Website
are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who
choose to access the Website from other locations do so on their own
initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to
the extent local laws are applicable. The Website is not intended to
subject www.DogsInTheNews.com
to the laws or
jurisdiction of any country or territory other than the United States of
America.
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