FIRST WIVES WORLD
FORUMS COMMUNITY STANDARDS
Effective Date: October 2, 2008
The Firstwivesworld.com web site (the "Site") owned and operated by First Wives World, LLC ("FWW" or "we") makes available to its users certain community-based features that allow users to post articles or blogs, exchange messages with other Site users, and participate in chat rooms, newsgroups, and other similar Forums for the exchange of information of interest to the FWW community (collectively the "Forums"). To ensure that every user has an opportunity to enjoy the Forums, FWW has developed the following standards (the "Community Standards") to govern the conduct of users of the Forums. By using, accessing, or posting content to the Forums, you agree to these Community Standards. If you do not agree with these Community Standards, you must exit the Forums immediately and discontinue any use of the Forums.
We developed these Community Standards with a view towards promoting free expression while ensuring the widespread and harmonious exchange of information and content that all members of the First Wives World community can enjoy.
1. Content
You understand that all postings, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, or other materials ("Content") posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Site or Forums are the sole responsibility of the person originating the Content. More specifically, you are entirely responsible for each individual item ("Item") of Content that you post, e-mail, or otherwise make available on the Site or Forums. If you post or provide Content, you should assume that it is not private and you should have no expectation of privacy or security in your Content. When you post content on the Site or Forums, your user name will be visible to other members and attached to the Content that you posted. Please be aware that if you post personal information online that is accessible to other members, you may receive unsolicited messages from such members. You understand that FWW does not control, and is not responsible for, Content made available on the Site or Forums, and that by using the Site or Forums you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any Content, that you may not rely on such Content, and that under no circumstances will FWW be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, e-mailed, or otherwise made available on the Site or Forums. You acknowledge that FWW does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that FWW shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse, delete, or move any Content that is available via the Site or Forums for violating the letter or spirit of the Community Standards or for any other reason.
2. Third Party Content and Third Party Websites
The Site and Content available through the Forums may contain features and functionalities that may link you or provide you with access to third party content that is completely independent of FWW, including web sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information and databases, applications, software, programs, products or services, and the Internet as a whole (collectively "Third Party Content"). FWW makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any Third Party Content. You link to any third party web site at your own risk.
Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found on or through the Site or Forums, including the payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties.
You agree that FWW will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings. If there is a dispute between participants on this Site or the Forums, or between users and any third party, you understand and agree that FWW is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release FWW, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and / or our Forums. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which provides that: "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."
3. Conduct
You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
A. that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, stalking, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way;
B. that is pornographic or depicts a human being engaged in actual sexual conduct or otherwise publish, post, display, offer, or disseminate any profane, obscene, indecent, offensive, unlawful, terroristic, violent, or hateful user Content or any user Content reflecting negatively on the Site or Forums or the operators of the Site or Forums;
C. that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
D. that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a FWW employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity (this provision does not apply to Content that constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of public figures);
E. that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
F. that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes "bait and switch";
G. that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Site or Forums.
H. that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
I. that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," unsolicited commercial advertisement, or other spam;
J. that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if: posted in areas of the Sites which are not designated for such purposes; or emailed to Forums users who have not indicated in writing that it is ok to contact them about other commercial services, advertisements, products or commercial interests;
K. that includes links to commercial services or web sites, except as allowed expressly by FWW;
L. that advertises any illegal service or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by any applicable law.
M. that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
N. that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive amount of Content (flooding attack) to the Site or Forums, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use the Site or Forums; or
Additionally, you agree not to:
O. contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted;
P. collect, store, publish, post, sell, transmit or disclose personal data about other users of the Site or Forums;
Q. use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Site or Forums;
R. repeatedly post the same or similar Content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on FWW infrastructure;
S. attempt to gain unauthorized access to FWW's computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the Forums or the Site;
T. use any form of automated device or computer program that enables the submission of postings on the Site or Forums without each posting being manually entered by the author thereof, including without limitation, the use of any such automated posting device to submit postings in bulk, or for automatic submission of postings at regular intervals; or
U. use a Posting Agent to post Content to the Site or Forums.
FWW reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in its sole discretion, violates this Section, including without limitation, reporting a member to law enforcement authorities and terminating or suspending a member's right to use the Site or Forums.
4. Limitations on the Use of the Forums
You acknowledge that FWW may establish limits concerning use of the Site or Forums, including the maximum number of days that Content will be retained by the Site or Forums, the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or other Content that may be transmitted or stored by the Site or Forums, and the frequency with which you may access the Site or Forums. You agree that FWW has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted by the Site or Forums. You acknowledge that FWW reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Site or Forums (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that FWW shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Site or Forums. Your continued use of the Site or Forums after such modifications shall constitute your acceptance of all such modifications, including modifications to these Community Standards.
5. Access to the Forums
FWW grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Site or Forums for your own personal use. This license does not include: (a) access to the Site or Forums by Posting Agents; or (b) any collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Site or Forums nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by FWW. A limited exception to (b) is provided to general purpose internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that use such tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Site or Forums, provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses using an easily identifiable agent and comply with our robots.txt file.
You agree that FWW, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Site or Forums (or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within the Site or Forums, for any reason, including, without limitation, if FWW believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Community Standards. Further, you agree that FWW shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Site or Forums and you agree not to attempt to use the Site or Forums after any such termination. The Sections of the Community Standards which by their nature should survive termination shall survive the termination of your access to the Site or Forums.
6. Proprietary Rights
The Site and Forums are protected to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or through the Site or Forums are protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the Site, the Forums or the collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the Site, Forums or any portion thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without the express written consent of FWW. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Site or Forums without the express written consent of FWW, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Site or Forums. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the Site or Forums. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Site or Forums.
Although FWW does not claim ownership of Content that its users post, by posting Content to any public area of the Site or Forums, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to FWW an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through multiple tiers) of the foregoing. Furthermore, by posting Content to any public area of the Site or Forums, you automatically grant FWW all rights necessary to prohibit any subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction, or exploitation of the Content on the Site or Forums by any party for any purpose except as expressly permitted herein.
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please follow the copyright infringement notice procedures set forth in the Terms of Use for the Site.
7. Interactions With Others
You are solely responsible for your interactions, both on-line and off-line, with other users, visitors to or participants in this Site or Forums, and with persons you meet through such users, visitors or participants. You understand and acknowledge that FWW does not screen our users, visitors or participants, inquire into their backgrounds or attempt to verify the information they provide. In all interactions, whether on-line or off-line, with other users of, visitors to or participants in this Site or Forums and with persons you meet through such visitors or participants, you agree to take all precautions necessary to protect yourself, your property and your personal and financial information. IN NO EVENT SHALL FWW OR ANY FWW OFFICER, EMPLOYEE, AGENT, OR REPRESENTATIVE BE LIABLE FOR, AND YOU AGREE TO RELEASE FWW FROM LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THIS SITE OR FORUMS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGE TO OR LOSS OF PROPERTY, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, BODILY INJURY OR DEATH RESULTING FROM YOUR COMMUNICATIONS OR OTHER CONTACT, WHETHER ON-LINE OR OFF-LINE, WITH VISITORS TO OR PARTICIPANTS IN THIS SITE OR FORUMS, OR PERSONS YOU MEET THROUGH SUCH VISITORS OR PARTICIPANTS.
8. Applicability of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
You understand that your use of the Forums are governed by the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy which are incorporated herein by reference applicable to the Site and as supplemented by these Community Standards. You further understand that these Community Standards are intended to supplement, not replace, the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy and that all terms, conditions, and provisions of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy shall remain in full force and effect with respect to your use of the Site or the Forums. In the event of any conflict between these Community Standards, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy shall control.
9. Disclaimer
ALL CONTENT OR USER CONTENT CONTAINED ON THIS SITE OR FORUMS, INCLUDING TEXT, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS, ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITH NO WARRANTY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FWW DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO SUCH CONTENT, WHETHER PROVIDED OR OWNED BY FWW OR BY ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OR MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS, AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. IN ADDITION, FWW DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT ACCESSIBLE VIA THIS SITE OR FORUMS IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT, AND YOU MAY NOT REPLY ON THE CONTENT ACCESSIBLE VIA THIS SITE.
10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL FWW, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM ANY: (I) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES WITH REGARD TO THE CONTENT; (II) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SITE OR FORUMS OR FWW'S SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN; (III) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SITE OR FORUMS; (IV) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES OR THE LIKE THAT MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR SITE OR FORUMS BY ANY THIRD PARTY; OR (V) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT FWW WAS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
11. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold FWW, its officers, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, directors, officers, agents, and employees harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post or make available through the Site or Forums, your use of the Site or Forums, your violation of these Community Standards, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights, including intellectual property rights, of another.
10. Feedback
We welcome your feedback. Any comments or questions should be sent by e-mail to [email protected].