DoxAdon Web
Site(s) Terms and Conditions
Wow! You actually came to this page.
Our lawyers made us include it and made us use a precious link on
our page to get you here. At first, we thought the lawyers were a
real pain. But then we read the page. What a Netwakening! It's
really important stuff. We took the legalese the lawyers wrote and
translated it into readable English. So be a smart nethead and read
the stuff on this page. It could prevent you from hearing from our
lawyers, or worse yet, from really nasty people, like prosecutors.
Here's the deal:
We run this site so that people like
you (and people you like) can use it for personal entertainment,
information, education, communication, and cybergratification. So go
ahead and browse around all you like. You can even download stuff
from the site but only for non-commercial, personal use. If you do,
though, don't fool around with the copyright and other notices all
over the stuff. They're there for a really good reason. And don't
even think about distributing, modifying, transmitting, reusing,
re-posting, or anything else uncool with any of the stuff, including
the text, images, audio, and video, for public or commercial
purposes unless we give you written permission. And it's not likely
we will.
If you visit our site, you're also
legally obligated to [read: stuck with] the terms and conditions
listed below and any other law or regulation that applies to the
site, the Internet, the World Wide Web, or Oviedo, FL. You
shouldn't access or browse the site if you have any problem with
that, because once you start, there's no turning back -- you are
bound by [read: stuck with] the terms and conditions.
So here's the scoop on our Top Ten
Rules for Cybersurfers who hang out on our site:
1. For everyone's sake, just
assume that everything on the site is copyrighted unless we say it's
not. So you can't use the stuff except how we say you can on this
page or anywhere else on the site without our written permission.
And like we said before, it's not likely we'll give you permission. In fact, even if we wanted to, the lawyers are likely to
veto any deal anyway. So it's better you don't even ask.
2. While we try to include
accurate stuff on the site, we're not promising you it's accurate.
In fact, we're not promising you anything except fun and
entertainment. So if you use stuff on the site, or any of the stuff
we recommend, you're using it at
your own risk. Don't call us if there's a problem, because we assume
no liability or responsibility for errors or omissions on the site,
or on the sites we might tell you to check out, or with the
stuff they provide. OK, tell you what -- in the name of
Customer Service (which is always really important to us), you can
CONTACT us if you have a problem, and we MAY try to help you get it
worked out. We'll PROBABLY try. But we might not
(depending on what kind of sticky wicket it is, or whether we're
lying on a beach somewhere and have no desire to check emails, or
whether we're bogged down with other stuff and have no time).
3. We and anybody else who
helped us create, produce, or deliver the site are not liable for
any damages you suffer when you use it, or when you use anything we
might recommend on the site. In particular, the lawyers
want you to know that our disclaimer includes "direct, incidental,
consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your
access to, or use of, the site. Without limiting the foregoing,
everything on the site is provided to you 'AS IS' WITHOUT WARRANTY
OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON INFRINGEMENT.
Please note that some jurisdictions
may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the
above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any
restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied
warranties. " Ugh! What a mouthful from the mouthpieces. We put all
of that in quotes because we couldn't figure out any other way to
say it that the lawyers would accept. But here's the bottom line --
we're not responsible if you're browsing around our site or sites we
might point you to, and the sites (or stuff you download) damages
you or your computer or infects it with any nasty viruses. We sure
hope that doesn't happen, but if it does, don't call us.
4. If you don't want the world
to know something, don't post it on the site in any bulletin board
or anyplace else. That's because anything you disclose to us is
ours. That's right -- ours. So we can do anything we want with the
stuff you post. We can reproduce it, disclose it, transmit it,
publish it, broadcast it, and post it someplace else. We can even
send it to your mother (as soon as we find her address). Not only
that, we can even use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques
you post any way we want to, including, developing, manufacturing
and marketing products or other stuff using the information you
post.
5. Pictures of people or places
shown on the site are either our property or someone else's property
we're using with their permission. No matter what, it's definitely
not your property. You or any of your net-friends can't use it
unless we said you could on this page or somewhere else on the site.
And guess what -- we won't say yes. So be careful, Bunky, because
unauthorized use may violate all sorts of nasty laws. Be smart, keep
the stuff you download to yourself.
6. There's also a lot of
trademarks, logos, and service marks on the site that either we own
or we're using with someone else's permission. So don't think you
have any kind of license or right to use them, because you don't and
we're not about to give you one. If you don't leave them alone and
mess with our trademarks, logos and service marks on our site, we'll
probably go ballistic, so will the companies that own the other
trademarks, logos and service marks. That means that we're likely to
sue you or to ask a prosecutor to come after you for messing around
with our property or the property of others.
7. You'll probably notice we've
linked our site to lots of others. While that's cool, it doesn't
mean we've looked at all those sites, much less checked them out
periodically to see what's going on. So don't blame us if some site
you link to is bad or has stuff on it that offends you or your pets.
Go ahead and link, but remember, you're doing it at your risk.
8. That brings us to what you
do on our own site. While we occasionally listen in on chat groups,
or look at the postings in our discussion groups or on our bulletin
boards, blogs, forums, etc., we take no responsibility and assume no liability for the
content of those locations or for any mistakes, defamation, libel,
slander, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography, or profanity
you might encounter when you visit such places on our site. And
don't be stupid by posting or transmitting any unlawful,
threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous,
inflammatory, pornographic, nasty, mean, or profane material or any
material that law enforcement types may consider a criminal offense,
get someone in court on a civil lawsuit, or for that matter violate
any law -- anywhere, anytime. While we certainly respect your
privacy, we have no choice but to fully cooperate with any law
enforcement authorities or court which might ask us who might have
posted nasty stuff on our site.
9.
Software that we have on this
Site is protected by all sorts of patriotic U.S. laws. Because of
that, you can't download or send the software to anyone in the
vacation travel spots of Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran,
Syria, or any other country where United States has embargoed goods;
or (get this) to anyone on the United States Treasury Department's
list of Specially Designated Nationals, the U.S. Commerce
Department's Table of Deny Orders, or the FBI's Most Wanted Internet
Creeps List (just kidding on the last one). As if that were not
tough enough, if you live in or are a national of any of those
lovely places, you're not even supposed to be reading this page, so
beat it!
10. We're also allowed to change
this page and anything else on the site any time we want to. That's
because it's ours and we have the programmers who can do it. If we
do change the page, then you're bound by [read: stuck with] those
changes, too, whenever you visit our site.
11. If either of us wants to
make something of it and wants to “sue” (a dirty word) then we have
to follow these rules of engagement. (sort of according to the
Geneva Convention):
This Agreement is governed by the
laws of the State of Florida, without regard to principles of
conflict of laws.
To the extent you have in any manner
violated or threatened to violate DoxAdon.com and/or its affiliates'
intellectual property rights, DoxAdon.com and/or its affiliates may
seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or
federal court in the State of Florida, and you consent to exclusive
jurisdiction and venue in such courts.
Any other disputes will be resolved
as follows:
If a dispute arises under this
agreement, we agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a
mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location: Oviedo, FL
and/or Seminole County, FL (whichever is appropriate).
Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the
mediation will be shared equally by each of us.
If it proves impossible to arrive at
a mutually satisfactory solution through mediation, we agree to
submit the dispute to binding arbitration at the following location:
Oviedo, FL and/or Seminole County, FL (whichever is appropriate), under the rules of the American Arbitration Association.
Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered
in any court with jurisdiction to do so.
Oh yeah --
almost forgot the "Catch all"
phrase the lawyers always insist on: any rights not expressly granted
herein are reserved.
If this all sounds kind of mean and
undiplomatic, you should have seen what the lawyers gave to us in
the first place. We had to remind them that human torture and
sacrifice was outlawed in the United States. Boy, did they look
disappointed!
Updated August
19th, 2008
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