Website Conditions of Use
Beacon of Truth
This document explains our position and specific conditions regarding your use of our Internet or "web" site(s) (collectively, "Site" or "Sites"). By using this Site, you agree to be bound by our Conditions of Use, Legal Notices, and Privacy Policy (collectively, "Notices and Policies"), in addition to other terms and conditions that may appear throughout our Sites.
References to "Beacon Of Truth" in this document mean beaconoftruth.com and any affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions and designees, and the Site owner, Craig Portwood,
Beacon Of Truth reserves the right to make changes to this Site and its Notices and Policies at any time. Each time you use this Site, you should visit and review the then current Notices and Policies that apply to your use of this Site. If you do not agree to be bound by the then current Notices and Polices, your sole remedy is not to use this Site. Beacon of Truth is not responsible for typographical or photographic errors on this Site.
Limitation of Liability
Intended for Users Over 13 Years of Age
Information, Articles and Advice
Errors on Site
Indemnity
Disputes
Termination of Site Use
Contact Us
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
You expressly agree that your use of this Site is at your sole risk. THIS SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. Beacon of Truth does not warrant that use of this Site will be uninterrupted or error-free. Although Beacon of Truth strives to achieve accuracy, integrity and completeness of the content provided on this Site, neither Beacon of Truth nor any Third Parties warrant the accuracy, integrity or completeness of the content provided on this Site. Beacon of Truth and any Third Parties specifically disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, including warranties of title, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. No oral or written information or advice given by Beacon of Truth or any Third Parties shall create a warranty, except where the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties is prohibited by law.
Under no circumstances shall Beacon of Truth or any Third Parties be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from your use or inability to use this Site, including your reliance on any information obtained from this Site that results in mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion or corruption of files, viruses, delays in operating or transmissions, or any failure of performance. The foregoing limitation of liability shall apply in any action, whether in contract, tort or any other claim, even if an authorized representative of Beacon of Truth has been advised of or should have knowledge of the possibility of such damages. By your use of this Site, you acknowledge that this paragraph shall apply to all content available through this Site, except where the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages is prohibited by law.
See also Legal Notices.
INTENDED FOR USERS OVER 13 YEARS OF AGE
The safety of children is very important to us. Although this Site is intended for use by persons at least 13 years of age, Beacon of Truth can not prohibit minors from visiting our Site and must rely on parents and guardians (at least 18 years of age at time of use) to decide which materials are appropriate for children under 13.
INFORMATION, ARTICLES AND ADVICE
Beacon of Truth offers articles, information, and advice through this Site for educational purposes only.
ERRORS ON SITE
Errors will be corrected where discovered and Beacon of Truth reserves the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold Beacon of Truth and any Third Parties harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any other third party due to or arising out of your use of this Site, including your use of this Site to provide a link to another site or to upload content or other information to this Site. See also Legal Notices.
DISPUTES
This Site is operated by Beacon of Truth, with is located in the United States of America. If there is any dispute regarding this Site, by using this Site, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws of the State of Oregon without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts of the State of Oregon, Jackson County.
TERMINATION OF SITE USE
Beacon of Truth, in its sole discretion, may terminate your use of this Site at anytime. Beacon of Truth reserves the right to change, suspend, or discontinue all or any aspects of this Site at any time, without prior notice.
CONTACT US
If you have questions about our Conditions of Use, Legal Notices or Privacy Policy, you may contact us by:
- E-mail: questions@beaconoftruth.com
Revised October 22, 2006
Website Legal Notices
Beacon of Truth
This document provides notice of specific legal obligations in connection with your use of our Internet or "web" sites (collectively, "Site" or "Sites"). By using this Site, you agree to be bound by our Legal Notices, Conditions of Use, and Privacy Policy (collectively, "Notices and Policies"), in addition to other terms and conditions that may appear throughout our Sites.
References to "Beacon of Truth" in this document mean Beacon of Truth and the Site owner, Craig Portwood.
Beacon of Truth reserves the right to make changes to this Site and the Notices and Policies at any time. Each time you use this Site, you should visit and review the then current Notices and Policies that apply to your transactions and use of this Site. If you do not agree to be bound by the then current Notices and Policies, your sole remedy is not to use this Site. Beacon of Truth is not responsible for typographical or photographic errors on this Site.
Proprietary Rights and Trademarks
Site Downloads Restricted
Contributions to this Site
Applicable Law
Links to Third-Party Web Sites
Privacy, Security and Prohibited Content
U.S. Export Controls
Indemnity
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS
All Site content and collective work comprising the Site, including information, articles, data, software, photographs, graphs, videos, typefaces, graphics, music, sounds and other artwork and material (collectively "Content") is protected by copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary rights under United States and/or international laws and held by Beacon of Truth and/or the original creator of the material, including any Beacon of Truth's affiliates. These rights are valid and protected in all forms, media, and technologies existing now or developed in the future.
All intellectual property used on the Site may not be reproduced, copied or otherwise manipulated in any manner without express, written permission of the owner. Beacon of Truth disclaims any proprietary interest in intellectual property other than its own.
SITE DOWNLOADS RESTRICTED
You may only download Content displayed on this Site for non-commercial, personal use, provided you also retain all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices contained in our Content. Do not alter the Content, and do not copy or post the Content on any network computer or broadcast the Content in any media.
Except as expressly authorized herein, or by an authorized representative of Beacon of Truth, or by license, Beacon of Truth strictly prohibits modifying, transmitting, distributing, reusing, reposting, "framing" or using the Content of this Site and the Site servers, including the text, images, audio and/or video for public or commercial purposes and is strictly prohibited. You may not copy, modify, remove, delete, augment, add to, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, lease or rental of, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit the Content of this Site, in whole or in part.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS SITE
There are many opportunities to contribute to this Site. By using this Site, you agree that any information you send to Beacon of Truth to contribute to this Site is not confidential. This includes materials, suggestions, ideas or comments you send to Beacon of Truth or any other third party using this Site. By submitting any solicited or unsolicited information using this Site, you grant Beacon of Truth an irrevocable and unrestricted license to use, modify, reproduce, transmit, display and distribute the materials, information, suggestions, ideas or comments for any purpose whatsoever to the extent permitted by law.
Beacon of Truth is not liable or responsible for any content provided by its users or other third parties for use on this Site. Contributions to this Site by third parties do not necessarily represent the view or opinions of Beacon of Truth. Beacon of Truth may not preview user content before it appears on this Site. Users can be held liable for any illegal or prohibited user content they provide to this Site, including among other things, infringing, defamatory or offensive materials. If you discover this kind of material on this Site, please promptly notify us at webmaster@Beacon of Truth.com so that we may investigate and take appropriate action.
APPLICABLE LAW
This Site is created, operated and controlled by Beacon of Truth in the State of Oregon, United States of America. The laws of the State of Oregon will govern the Site without giving effect to any principles or conflicts of laws. See also Conditions of Use.
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEB SITES
This Site contains links to other sites operated by third parties, including third-party sites that display may Beacon of Truth trademarks ("Third-Party Site(s)"). These links are available for your convenience and are intended only to enable access to these Third-Party Sites and for no other purpose.
Beacon of Truth does not warrant or make any representation about the substance, quality, functionality, accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability or any other representation about any Third-Party Site or its content. A link to a Third-Party Site from this Site does not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, approval or responsibility of any such Third-Party Site. Beacon of Truth makes no representation or warranty as to any products or services offered on any Third-Party Site.
The conditions of use, legal notices and privacy policy of any Third-Party Site may differ substantially from the Notices and Policies that apply to your use of this Site. Please review the conditions of use for all Third-Party Sites for more information about the terms and conditions that apply to your use of Third-Party Sites.
By using this Site to search for or link to a Third-Party Site, you agree and understand that you may not make any claim against Beacon of Truth for any damages or losses whatsoever resulting from your use of this Site to obtain search results and/or to link to a Third-Party Site. However, if you have a problem with a link from this Site, please let us know at webmaster@beaconoftruth.com and we will investigate and take appropriate action.
PRIVACY, SECURITY AND PROHIBITED CONTENT
See Beacon of Truth's Privacy Policy for information on the privacy and security practices of Beacon of Truth and this Site.
By using this Site, you agree that you are responsible for restricting access to your computer and you accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your isp account. If you access this Site on a public computer or use a computer to which multiple people may have access, follow all relevant instructions to sufficiently.
Unlawful activities on this Site are strictly prohibited. This includes tampering with this Site, misrepresenting the identity of a user or conducting fraudulent activities.
Site users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of this Site, including without limitation: (1) using this Site for unintended purposes or trying to change the behavior of this Site; (2) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (3) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to this Site, overloading, "flooding," "spamming," "mailbombing" or "crashing"; (4) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting; and (5) forging communications on behalf of this Site (impersonating this site) or to this Site (impersonating a legitimate user). Sending unsolicited and unauthorized e-mail on behalf of Beacon of Truth is expressly prohibited. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability.
You agree not to use any device, software or routing data to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Site or any activity being conducted on this Site. You agree not to use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, data or other device or mechanism (including browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search this Site other than the search engine and search agents provided by Beacon of Truth or publicly available browsers.
Content that does the following types of things is illegal and/or prohibited on this Site:
* Is patently offensive to the online community, such as content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
* Is or could be harmful to minors, including material that exploits persons under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
* Provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons; violating someone's privacy; providing or creating computer viruses;
* Solicits passwords, personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
* Harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
* Displays pornographic material of any kind;
* Involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters", or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
* Promotes information that you know is false, misleading, or promotes illegal activities or conduct, or is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
* Is or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, provides information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or provides pirated content or links to pirated content files;
* Contains restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); and
* Engages in commercial activities and/or sales relating to Beacon of Truth without Beacon of Truth's prior written consent, such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes.
U.S. EXPORT CONTROLS
Certain software and similar materials ("Software") that you may download from this Site may be further subject to United States Export Controls. No Software from this Site may be downloaded or exported contrary to any applicable export law, including any applicable prohibitions against download or export as follows: (1) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria or any other country to which the United States has embargoed goods; or (2) anyone on the United States Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders (except Libya). By downloading or using Software downloaded from this site, you agree to abide by the applicable laws, rules and regulations - including the Export Administration Act and the Arms Export Control Act - and you represent and warrant that you will not transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, this Software to a foreign national or a foreign destination in violation of law.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold Beacon of Truth and any officers, agents, employees, and other partners, harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of this Site, including your use of this Site to provide a link to another site or to upload content or other information to this Site.
CONTACT US
If you have questions about our Conditions of Use, Legal Notices or Privacy Policy, you may contact us by:
Revised October 22, 2006
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