Site Policy/Terms of Service (TOS) of MyAstoria.com

Please read this agreement entirely and carefully before accessing this web site. By accessing the site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions below. If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions, you may not access or use this site.

All information on this site is for informational purposes only. No information or materials posted on this site are intended to constitute a legal or binding relationship. The information contained herein, nor the perusal of it, establishes nor constitutes a fiduciary relationship with www.myastoria.com or Envision Blue, Inc. All services, agreements for service, and vendor relationships will be executed via a written contract or letter of mutual understanding.

MyAstoria.com (Envision Blue, Inc) takes no responsibility for links or content of customer sites. Browsing this site or any site of an Envision Blue, Inc customer is at the risk of the web surfer or website visitor.

All forums are post moderated; however, this dialogue is a cooperative endeavor. To maintain an environment conducive to quality, please agree to the following few basic guidelines and requests before using this system:

By using this messaging system, you agree to abide by the following rules:

• You certify that you are 13 years of age or over. All those individuals under 13 years of age will need a full release form from their parents before posting any messages. This is in compliance with the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act of 2000 (COPPA).
• Usernames that we deem inflammatory, vulgar, promotional, rude or discrimitorty will be removed.
• All groups are moderated for foul language and commercialized promotional posts.
• Always be respectful of other users, the system, and the moderators. We put the system online in good faith, please use it in good faith.
• Links to adult content, pages with links to adult content, near adult content (including model and swimsuit sites), or messages describing anything against the law will be removed as soon as possible. Any discussion of those are off topic.
• Email excerpts of ANY type or length are not allowed on myastoria.com. There are no exceptions to this rule.
• No press releases, newsletters, web pages, or copyrighted content may be inserted into myastoria.com posts. Minor fair use excerpts of less than one paragraph (4 sentences) may be used if the content is publically available on the internet. All other forms of inserted content from press releases, newsletters, web pages, or any other copyrighted content placed into messages will be removed without exception. A link to the content is acceptable and appropriate.
• Periodically the Moderators of myastoria.com will post his or her comments, but they may not necessarily reflect the opinions of Envision Blue,Inc, or its employees.
• This forum system is not a venue for personal or private vendetta's. Keep your personal business as just that - personal. This forum is not a venue for the resolution of personal disputes with members or companies.
• Please don't drop promotional urls, signature files, nor specifics that would lead people to your site. Signing your name is fine, however commercialized posts or resume signatures will be edited. We tend to err on the side of caution to protect the integrity of the system. Affiliate based URLs are not allowed anywhere on the system.
• Please keep your language clean and decent. This include personal inflammatory language as well as obscenities.
• Any on site private discussions (StickyMail) with moderators or administrators related to board policy or actions may be shared with administrators if we feel it is necessary.
• Please stay within the topic area of the forum you are posting a message in, and within any topic that another poster may have started.
• You agree not to hold myastoria.com or its members liable for anything stated within the forums.
• Signing up a user name that is a obvious domain name or product name will be removed. This is out of unfair promotion considerations as well as trademark implications.
• Since this is interactive, and everyone who participates in myastoria.com is "in it together", please treat others the way you wish to be treated. One way to guard against misunderstandings is to read over your response before you post it. Flaming: flaming or personal attacks are not allowed or tolerated. Should anyone use inappropriate language, start a personal attack, or engage in hate speech, they will be barred from all further discussions.
• The forums are not a venue for advertisements in any way. It will be the sole discretion of MyAstoria.com and its moderators as to what constitutes an advertisement.
• We do not allow review my site posts. It is impossible to deduce which posts are honest requests and which are promotional.
• You are responsible for your own posts and agree not to hold Envision Blue, Inc (myastoria.com) liable for any messages posted.
• You will not copy and retransmit any information out of these forums without first getting the permission of the original author of the message and a myastoria.com administrator.
• Discussions about moderator or administrator actions are welcome in email or local private messages, but should not be discussed in public forums. This is out of respect for the members and moderators or policy involved.
• Self promotional URL drops and whisper campaigns are strictly forbidden within the forums and will be edited out.
• Claims of action, flames, and calls to action against any business or person will be removed.
• Messages posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster.
• Personal exposure. Anyone posting another members personal details or web site details without permission will be banned.
• When a message is placed in any forum system, you are granting a soft license to the site to use it.

For our part we will do our best to protect your privacy and respect your posts. We will not edit or otherwise misrepresent what you write without cause. However, we reserve the right to edit any and all content that has been placed on MyAstoria.com. We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Service from time to time without notice and changes are retro active.

Accuracy. Every effort is made to provide information that is accurate. Copyright in this website rests with MyAstoria.com unless otherwise indicated.

Disclaimer of Liability. The user assumes all responsibility and risk for the use of this web site and the Internet generally. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall anyone involved in creating or maintaining this web site be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or lost profits that result from the use or inability to use the web site and/or any other web sites which are linked to this site. Nor shall they be liable for any such damages including, but not limited to, reliance by a member or visitor on any information obtained via the web site; or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, viruses, errors, defects, or any failure of performance, communications failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access.

Online Conduct. Visitors agree to use the web site only for lawful purposes and are prohibited from posting on the web site any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory or obscene material of any kind, including, but not limited to, any material which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law.

Disclaimer of Endorsement. Reference to any products, services, hypertext link to the third parties or other information by trade name, trademark, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by us. Nor is an endorsement of us implied by such links. They are for convenience only, as an index in a public library.

Third Party Content. We are distributors (not publishers) of the content supplied by visitors and other third parties. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content made available by members, visitors and other third parties are those of the respective author(s) and we are not responsible for any material posted by third parties. We cannot and do not endorse it in any way, nor do they vouch for its accuracy or usefulness. Furthermore, we expressly disclaims any liability associated with material posted by third parties.

Information Subject to Change. Any information on this web site may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Furthermore, the information may change from time to time without any notice.

THESE LEGAL TERMS OF SERVICE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

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