'Assyrian Voice' Terms of Use
Posted:
09/09/2014
1. Assyrian Voice Network
{hereafter known as Assyrian Voice or AVN} is a free-of-charge Assyrian
community and family-oriented website whose purpose is to help Assyrians
build strong personal and cultural ties through the use of internet
services. These services include but are not limited to communication
tools such as text and audio chat rooms and message boards. Other services
include photo albums, free e-mail, e-magazines, MSN and ICQ directories
and online shopping. One of the primary aims of AVN is to provide
education to the international communities about who Assyrians are, their
history and their current events and achievements.
2. Users under the age of 14 are required to get the permission of their
parents or legal guardian[s] before using the AVN website or services.
Should the AVN administration team become aware of any user who had been
using the said services without being granted permission from their
parents will result in the immediate termination of any current AVN
service. Parents of any user under the age of 14 should email their
permission to assyrianvoice@rogers.com.
3. AVN considers all service users and members to be of equal merit and in
equal standing. No favour or bias is shown to any user regardless of age,
ethnic descent, creed, geographic location or accumulated time using the
AVN website. All rules apply to all users at all times.
4. The use of AVN services requires that members and visitors abide by the
rules and standards established by the AVN administration team. These
standards have been created to maintain a family-oriented atmosphere and
ensure the comfort and safety of the participants and subscribers. The
abuse of those rules may result in an expulsion or ban from the AVN site.
Further and repeated abuse will result in a permanent expulsion and
cancellation of all services to which the abuser is subscribed.
5. By using any AVN service, you agree to treat other members with
equality, common courtesy and respect. AVN will not tolerate any type of
threat, fight or any form of violence on our network. NO Abuse of any kind
will be tolerated. No insults, profanity, slander or racial slurs or any
language intended to convey such meaning will be permitted. Using any of
these will result in immediate disciplinary action from the AVN
administration team. The nature of the disciplinary action will be
situation-specific. This means that the severity of the disciplinary
action will depend upon the level of infraction, up to and including a
permanent expulsion from the website and any associated services. Legal
action may also be taken, if it has been deemed necessary to do so by the
AVN administration team.
6. Each AVN service user has an equal chance of expressing their views.
Freedom of speech is heavily endorsed by AVN, but is limited to
family-oriented expression. Profanity, slander or verbal abuse does not
constitute freedom of speech. The use of the concept of freedom of speech
as a means of communicating abuse or hatred is not condoned by AVN. Action
will be taken to immediately stop such activity.
7. By accessing AVN services, you agree to have your Internet Service
Provider’s Address [IP Address] monitored at all times. The use of any “IP
spoofers”, “nukers”, viruses and any other internet software or
programming tool designed to implicate duplicity and/or hostility is
prohibited on our website. The use of such tools may result in extreme
action against their users, up to but not including legal action.
8. Users of AVN services may choose the level of privacy in each service
at their own discretion. The user may choose to remain completely
anonymous or choose to use their real name and information at their own
risk. The user agrees to be responsible for the management of his or her
own personal information and agrees not to hold AVN or its administration
staff responsible for any consequence resulting from the release of
private information. PLEASE BE AWARE OF INTERNET SECURITY. RELEASE
PERSONAL INFORMATION ONLY AT YOUR OWN RISK. At no time will AVN or its
administration staff be held responsible for the user’s release of
personal information. Under no circumstances will AVN or its staff ask any
user to reveal any personal information unless solely for the
administration purposes of the website services or in response to
complaints of abuse. AVN and its staff will never solicit personal
information for the sale of said information to third parties; nor will
any monies be solicited from any user at any time in exchange for personal
information or for the use of services.
9. The AVN administration team reserves the right to cancel or terminate
any service offered to any user at any time should any abuse of the
preceding terms of use be discovered.
10. While we take the
most care possible to ensure that all pictures sent to us are of the
owners, the website is not responsible for putting pictures which have
been sent without the permission of the holder. We try to keep the IP and
email address of the sender, and we can use that to track users who sent
pictures without permission.
11.By sending your pictures
to us, you are giving us the permission to use it in our albums for other
people to view. These pictures, depending on the quality, could be altered
or have their size changed.
12. Should you, at anytime,
decide that you no longer want your picture to be in the photo album, you
may send an email to the website. Please note that it takes anywhere
from 2 days up to 4 weeks to remove any picture.
13. The AVN administration team reserves the right to stop and/or remove
any thread or message deemed unacceptable [as described in the preceding
terms of use] in any service that it offers.
14. The AVN website contains links to other websites, but is not a member
of any ring. The opinions promoted in linked websites are those of the
webmasters and may not coincide with those of AVN. AVN does not endorse
any other website or its content. Links are provided in the interest of
furthering Assyrian issues, or are directly related to AVN website
material.
15. At no time is the AVN or its administration staff to be held
accountable for any action taken by any party outside of the parameters of
the AVN website and its services.
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