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Terms of Use
The following represents Want 2 Dish? Publishing, Want 2 Dish? Frederick County, and its affiliates Terms of Use. These may be changed from time to time as necessary or required. Please review before agreeing to them and contact us with any questions. The most recent date of these terms will be listed at the bottom of this page. By continuing to use this site, it is assumed that you have accepted the new Terms of Use. These Terms of Use refer to Want 2 Dish? Publishing and its affiliates.
Use of the Service
Welcome to Want2Dish.com, Want 2 Dish? Publishing, Want 2 Dish? Frederick County, and its affiliates. By using this website, you agree to be bound by the Terms of this Agreement. The website is currently free to all members. The owners of the site reserve the right to charge for the website in the future. This is certainly not anticipated and, if it does change, you will be notified prior to that change. We reserve the right to modify the website from time to time (and this will happen) without notice. By continuing to use the website after any changes are made, you agree to be bound by those changes.
This website contains information on businesses, nonprofits, public services as well as news, images, audio and other materials. Although we attempt to verify that all information is correct, we do not make any guarantee that the information is accurate, and any use of the information is at your own risk. If you believe there is something on the website that looks like it should not be there, please contact us. By using the site, you agree to not hold us liable for any inaccurate, outdated or missing data.
This website is for your personal use only and is not to be used for any commercial enterprise unless an agreement between the owner of the site and you has been entered into.
Registering for Service
Access to the website is provided at no charge and there is no requirement for registration. However, should you decide that you want to comment, contribute or access certain parts of the site, you will need to register. Your registration is yours and yours only. You are responsible for its use, comments or articles that may be posted and for protecting the password associated with the account. By using the site, you agree that the information provided is true and accurate and contains no aliases or other means to hide your identity.
Termination of Service
Okay, here is the reverse of registering for the service. We reserve the right to suspend, terminate or limit the use of your account or to access our site with or without notice or cause. In addition, in the event we are made aware of any illegal activities through your post, we may provide this information, including your personal information, to the proper authorities. We do not want to do that, so let’s keep it all honest and above board. If you repeatedly break the rules, we will terminate access to the site. Sorry.
Posting comments/articles
You are responsible for any posts that may be made to the website. By using the site, you are agreeing to these terms and conditions and hold the website owner harmless for any items that you may post or any items/articles that may be posted by other users of the site.
We attempt to edit articles or submissions for grammar, punctuation, etc. but not content. We do, however, reserve the right to not post, or to remove posts that we feel may in some way not be suitable for publishing, or that may not be timely, or any number of other reasons as determined by the owners and editors of the site. These acceptable items may change from time to time and a listing may not be all inclusive. As a guideline, we ask that if you could not tell your mother or grandmother what you are posting, then it probably should not be posted.
The following is a list of some items that cannot be posted at any time. This is not meant to be all inclusive but to serve as a guideline:
- Inaccurate, false or misleading articles or posts
- Anything that promotes illegal activities
- Anything that infringes on the rights of others
- Racial slurs, threats of physical violence and slanderous or libelous items
- The promotion of alcohol, tobacco, illegal substances, sex, adult entertainment
- Anything that contains computer viruses or programs that are intended to cause harm to or disrupt another person’s or company’s computer, software or other equipment
- Anything that plagiarizes or attempts to take credit for another person’s property rights unless express written approval has been received from the owner
- Anything that contains profanity or the veiled use of profanity
Although the website owner attempts to edit postings, there may be articles or posts from time to time that are inaccurate, misleading (intentional or not), do not meet our guidelines for posting or other standards. By using this site, you recognize that there may be occasional postings that do not hold up to these guidelines. You agree that you will hold the website owner harmless from any inaccurate, misleading or otherwise objectionable posts. If you decide that these occasional posts may be offensive, please do not use or register for the site.
Should we become aware of posts, videos, pictures, audio or any comments that might be made or posted on the site that infringe on another’s intellectual property rights, we will immediately remove the material from the site. We will comply with requests for information about the posting should it be in conjunction with an ongoing legal matter for which we have been subpoenaed to provide information.
Posting Content
From time to time, you may want to post articles, videos, photos or other information (you cannot do that all today, but it is coming) on our site. If you do, you are the owner of that material. However, by posting on our site, you give us license to use, copy, publish, republish and distribute this material without payment or compensation of any kind or amount and without having to get permission from you to do so. You also agree that nothing you post that we then reuse will require us to get permission from a third party in order to use the content. You also give us permission to use publicly known information about you in connection with us using the content that you post.
Privacy
The information you provide is important to us. Please review our Privacy Policy to see how we collect and use this information.
Agreement to allow editing
In the event you submit an article for posting, you agree to allow us to edit your story for capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or length. We will not edit content or substance. If we have a question, we will attempt to contact you at the email address you provide.
In the event you submit a comment, you agree to allow deletion of the entire comment if a portion breaks our rules. We do not edit comments. It is all or nothing.
We also reserve the right to place a submitted article into a category other than the one requested or suggested. We try not to do this, but may find it more beneficial from time to time.
Links to other sites
On our site, you may find links to third party sites. These are not maintained by us nor do we have control over the content, postings, photos, videos, sales, etc. or have any influence over those sites. We do not endorse and are not affiliated with any third party site with the exception of www.bringittofuition.net. We are not responsible when you leave our site and enter a third party site. You should read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for that site.
Our proprietary rights
The site and its materials are the property of Want 2 Dish? Publishing and its affiliates. The use of software, content, videos, photos, trademarks and intellectual property are strictly controlled and may not be used, copied, modified, distributed, etc. without the express prior written approval for such use. Any rights not granted in these terms are reserved by Want 2 Dish? Publishing and its affiliates.
Indemnity
By agreeing to these terms and using the site, you agree to hold, defend, indemnify and hold harmless Want 2 Dish? Publishing, its affiliates, officers, directors, advisors, employees, business partners, agents, writers and bloggers from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, or debt and expenses arising from:
1. Any breach by you of any of these Terms of Use,
2. Your content,
3. Your use of materials or features available on the site, or
4. A violation by you of any applicable law or any agreement or terms with a third party to which you are subject.
No Warranties
The site, including all content made available on or accessed through the site, is provided as is and we make no representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever for the content on the site. Further, to the fullest extent permissible by law, we disclaim any express or implied warranties including without limitation, noninfringement, title, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that the functions contained in the site or any materials or content contained therein will be completely secure, uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the site or the server that makes it available is free of viruses or other harmful components. We shall not be liable for the use of the site, including without limitation, the content and any errors contained therein provided by third parties. In no event will we be liable under any theory of tort, contract, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or other consequential damages, lost profits, lost data, lost opportunities, costs of cover, exemplary, punitive, personal injury/wrongful death, each of which is hereby excluded by agreement of the parties regardless of whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
If, for any reason, any of these disclaimers or limitations of liability is found invalid or unenforceable, or if we are otherwise found to be liable to you in any manner, then our liability for all claims for liabilities shall not exceed $25 or the cost of your subscription for the last 12 months (should there be a charge).
Disclosures and Copyrights
If you have a relationship, either personal or business, with the subject in a post, please mention it so that our readers will know.
If you want to want to tell other readers about an article found somewhere else, please provide a link to that article rather than copying and pasting the entire article.
You may not republish someone else’s copyrighted material on our site without permission from the copyright holder. We respect all copyright laws, and it is our policy to not infringe on another parties copyright. We reserve the right to remove any material that we find in violation of copyright laws. If we find that you are a repeat offender of copyright laws, we will revoke your access to the site.
The Law
The laws of the state of Maryland will govern these Terms of Use. By using this site, you agree to be bound by the laws in the state of Maryland in connection with the Terms of Use, access to or use of this site.
Any claims in connection with the site must be presented in 180 days from the date the claim first arose, or such claim is forever waived. No claim may be combined with another claim of any third party.
Severability
If any part of these Terms is declared to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, that part will be ineffective but will not affect any other part of these Terms of Use
Waiver
Our failure to exercise any rights or remedies of these Terms, shall not prevent us from exercising such rights or remedies in subsequent issues. In other words, if you do something wrong and we miss it, that does not make it okay. If we catch it later, we will still exercise our rights and remedies as spelled out.
Contact us
Should you need to contact us, you can do so at www.want2dish.com or by mail at 145 W. Patrick Street, Frederick, Maryland 21701, or by phone at 240-446-4304.
Last updated September 28, 2010.
