Terms and Conditions
The terms and conditions below govern your use of this Website. Please read these carefully before using this Website. Your use of this Website indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not agree to these terms you must not use this Website.
Privacy Policy
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on this publishers website displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web.
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/faq.aspx
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, go here.
http://www.networkadvertising.org/
You can find additional information in Appendix A of the NAI Self-Regulatory principles for publishers (PDF). Please note that the NAI may change this sample language at any time.
http://www.networkadvertising.org/pdfs/NAI_principles.pdf
Legal Waiver
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Sponsors and/or Administrators are not responsible for any inaccurate information, whether caused by the website or by the website users or by any of the code or programming. Administrators/Sponsors assume NO liability for any injury, loss, or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with any person's participation in the website, including without limitation, participation in any forum or posts, or injury, loss or damage sustained from use of the website. ADMINISTRATORS/SPONSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES WHETHER OR NOT SUCH DAMAGES COULD HAVE BEEN FORESEEN AND WHETHER OR NOT SPONSORS OR ANY SPONSOR OR ADMINISTRATOR RECEIVED NOTICE THEREOF.
RELEASE: The individual site user does hereby RELEASE AND WAIVE any and all causes of action, claims, losses and damages, whether such causes of action, claims, losses and damages are known or unknown, whether such causes of action, claims, losses, and damages existing in law or in equity, and whether such causes of action, claims, losses, and damages exist under contract, tort, strict liability or other theory, owned by the user or which may be owned by the website as against Sponsors or any Sponsor or any Sponsor's directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives, arising, out of, relating to or in connection with the use and/or the site. Site users FOREVER DISCHARGES Administrators/Sponsors and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives from all Claims.
INDEMNITY: Site users do hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless each Administrator/Sponsor and each Sponsor's directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives from and against all losses, lawsuits, causes of action, claims and damages which arise from the acts or omissions of user in connection with the website.
Copyright and Trademarks
Unless otherwise stated, the copyright, database rights, trademark rights and other intellectual property rights in the contents of this Website (including without limitation all design, text, graphics, audio, video or image files and program code) are owned by us or our licensors. This includes the organisation and layout of this Website together with any underlying software code.
You may use this Website for your own personal use. You may not modify, alter, republish, redistribute, resend, sell or broadcast any material on this Website to any other party or make such material available on-line or make the same available in hard copy or on any other media without our prior written permission.
If you breach any of these terms your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloads or printed extracts from this Website.
Acceptable Use Policy for Forums and Database
Please remember that the open and real-time nature of these Forums and Database makes it impossible for us to vouch for the validity of any content posted. As such, we are not responsible for any messages posted or the consequences of following any advice offered within Forum or Database posts. The views expressed in the posts you will find in these forums belong solely to their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of StarNET. If you find any posts in these Forums or Database to be offensive or objectionable, please contact us via email to the address offered as a contact for the Forums or Database in question. If we determine that removal of a post or posts is necessary, we will make reasonable efforts to do so in a timely manner.
The Acceptable Use Policy is a simple set of guidelines determining behaviour of users. The intention is not to restrict, but rather to provide the barest possible protection for members in order to provide a respectable and constructive working environment for the site. The AUP is as follows.
By using these Forums and/or Database, you agree to the following:
By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication through this service, you are granting StarNET, its successors and assignees, a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display any such content on the site to which it was contributed (or successor site). In plain English, you allow us to continue to display your contributions to the site. We won't do anything else with them, however.
If you contribute any graphic images or photographs, you accept all liability for any model or property release issues that may arise from an individual or trademarked property in the content. Please do not submit any images or photographs for which you do not have a current model or property release.
You will not post any material that is knowingly false, misleading, or inaccurate.
You will not behave in an abusive and/or hateful manner, and will not harass, threaten, nor attack anyone.
You will not use profanity and will neither post with language or content that is obscene, sexually oriented, or sexually suggestive nor link to sites that contain such content.
You will respect other people's right to personal privacy and will not post any other person's identifying information (including their names, contact information, and any other relevant information) within the site but your own.
You will not use these forums or database to violate any laws nor to discuss illegal activities.
You will not to impersonate any person or entity, forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any posting, nor collect or store personal data about other users.
You will not post any copyrighted material, nor link to any copyrighted material (with the exception of publicly available sites and pages that the legal owners of the copyrights have created to make that material freely available to the general public), unless that copyright is owned by you or by these sites.
You will not use the site for the purposes of sharing or distributing viruses, licenses, registration information, software keys, "cracks," or other information designed to do harm to or allow unlawful access to any computer hardware, software, networks, or any other systems.
You will not post advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or solicitations, all of which are inappropriate and prohibited in the site. You will not, furthermore, collect personal information about forum members for the purpose of sending them any such advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or solicitations through other means (email, messaging programs, etc.).
You will not post messages that are clearly outside of the stated topic of any Forums nor disrupt a forum by deliberately posting repeated irrelevant messages or copies of identical messages (also known as "flooding").
You will not attempt to access any protected sections of the sites or forum or database, nor make use of any hacks, cracks, bug exploits, etc. to bypass or modify the features of the forum software at any StarNET site.
You will, if asked by a representative of the Forums, cease posting any content, and/or links to content, deemed offensive, objectionable, or in poor taste by the staff of the Forums.
At all times, you remain solely responsible for anything found within your posts and agree to indemnify and hold StarNET. and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of any material you submit, post to or transmit through the Forums or Database, your use of the Forums or Database, your connection to the Forums or Database, your violation of the AUP, legal notice, or privacy policy, or your violation of the rights of another .These Forums and Database do not and cannot review all of the content of every message posted and do not accept responsibility for the contents of any messages. We reserve the right to delete any message and/or restrict posting rights in our Forums or Database for any reason whatsoever. Should you continue to post messages that violate the rules of the site, your account may be terminated, your access to the Forums and Database may be banned, and your service provider(s) may be contacted about your behaviour. Furthermore, we expressly reserve our rights under the law to take any other actions we deem necessary.
We at these Forums and Database also reserve the right to disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on StarNET protect and defend the rights or property of StarNET network of sites, or visitors to StarNET, identify persons who may be violating the law, the legal notice, or the rights of third parties, and cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities.
User Supplied Information
StarNET does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you via the Site. You agree that any material, information, or data you transmit to us or post to the Site (each a “Submission or collectively “Submissions”) will be considered non confidential and non proprietary. For all Submissions, (1) you guarantee to us that you have the legal right to post the Submission and that it will not violate any law or the rights of any person or entity, and (2) you give StarNET the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to use, distribute, display and create derivative works from the Submission, in any and all media, in any manner, in whole or in part, without any restriction or responsibilities to you.
User Responsibilities
You may only use this Website in accordance with these terms and conditions. In particular you agree to use this Website only for lawful and proper purposes and:
not to post or transmit to or from this Website any material that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, offensive, pornographic, abusive or otherwise unlawful or objectionable;
not to do, cause or permit anything to be done that may infringe our intellectual property rights or those of third parties;
not to do, cause or permit anything to be done which infringes the privacy rights of any third party;
not to do, cause or permit anything to be done that may be technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmless data);
not to make any unauthorised, false or fraudulent claims;
not to alter or modify any part of this Website.
Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under our Privacy Policy any material you transmit or post to this Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary and we shall be free to use such material as we see fit including copying, disclosing, distributing, incorporating and otherwise using such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
User Conduct
You agree to use the Site only for lawful purposes. You agree not to take any action that might compromise the security of the Site, render the Site inaccessible to others or otherwise cause damage to the Site or the Content. You agree not to add to, subtract from, or otherwise modify the Content, or to attempt to access any Content that is not intended for you. You agree not to use the Site in any manner that might interfere with the rights of third parties.
Liability
We exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contract, use of money, or loss or damage arising from or connected in anyway to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence) contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit our liability for:-
(a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
(b) fraud; or
(c) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Disclaimer
We endeavour to ensure that the information on this Website is correct and updated, we do not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. We may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products, services and prices described in it, at any time without notice. Any reference to any product or service is not a promise that such product or service is available. You should take appropriate steps to verify any information.
The material on this Website is provided “as is”, without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind as to the operation of our Website, the accuracy of the information or the products or services referred to on it. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we provide you with this Website on the basis that we exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms which but for these terms and conditions might have effect in relation to this Website.
Indemnification
You understand and agree that you are personally responsible for your behaviour on the Site. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless StarNET, its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, joint venturers, business partners, licensors, employees, agents, and any third-party information providers to the Service from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs (including, but not limited to, direct, incidental, consequential, exemplary and indirect damages), and reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from or arising out of your use, misuse, or inability to use the Site, the Service, or the Content, or any violation by you of this Agreement.
Changes to these terms and conditions
We may revise these terms and conditions at anytime by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the current terms and conditions because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these terms and conditions may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Website.
Severability
If any part of these terms and conditions is found to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, the offending part shall be amended or extracted from the remaining terms all of which shall remain in full force as permitted by law.
Jurisdiction
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Canadian law. Disputes arising in connection with these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Canadian Courts.
Last Updated: 27/03/2009
