Thomas W.P. Slatin

Writing, Photography, and Website Design

Oct-20-2007

Terms Of Use

TomSlatin.com Terms of Use

This statement covers all of the TomSlatin.com website(s) and any associated content including email and RSS. Please read this statement carefully before using proceeding to access any of the TomSlatin.com website(s). Your use of the TomSlatin.com website(s) indicates your agreement to abide by the Terms in effect.

Trademarks and Copyrights

TomSlatin.com website(s) and all materials incorporated by Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com Website(s) (”Material”) are protected by copyrights, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights (”Copyrights”). Some of the characters, logos or other images incorporated by Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) are also protected as registered or unregistered trademarks, trade names and/or service marks owned by or others (”Trademarks”). Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com respects the intellectual property rights of others and asks users of TomSlatin.com website(s) to do the same.

Your Use of Material

Your right to make use of TomSlatin.com website(s) and any Material or other content appearing on it is subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use. Modification or use of the Material or any other content on Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) for any purpose not permitted by these Terms of Use may be a violation of the Copyrights and/or Trademarks and is prohibited.

You may access and display Material and all other content displayed on Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) for non-commercial, personal, entertainment use on a single computer only. The Material and all other content on Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) may not otherwise be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed or used in any way unless specifically authorized by Thomas Slatin or his agent.  Any authorization to copy Material granted by Thomas Slatin in any part of Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) for any reason is restricted to making a single copy for non-commercial, personal, entertainment use on a single computer only, and is subject to your keeping intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Using any Material on any other web site or networked computer environment is prohibited. Also, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling, or otherwise reducing the code used in any software on Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) into a readable form in order to examine the construction of such software and/or to copy or create other products based (in whole or in part) on such software, is prohibited.

External Link Disclaimer

Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) contain links to external, third party web sites.

By providing links to other sites, Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com does not guarantee, approve or endorse the information or products available at these sites, nor does a link indicate any association with or endorsement by the linked site to the website in question.

Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com does not operate or control and has no responsibility for the information, products and/or services found on any external sites. Nor does it represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any information, products and/or services provided on or through any external sites, including, without limitation, warranties of any kind, either express or implied, warranties of title or non-infringement or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Visitors to Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) assume complete responsibility and risk in their use of any external sites. Visitors should direct any concerns regarding any external link to its site administrator or webmaster.

Comments and Discussion Groups Terms of Use

In order to make our Comments interesting and informative for our users, the following guidelines must be adhered to by all users posting and/or viewing comments:

  • If a comment is made using your identity it will be deemed to have been posted by you.
  • Do not post abusive, obscene, threatening, harassing, defamatory, libelous, offensive or sexually explicit material.
  • Do not intentionally make, false or misleading statements.
  • Do not offer to sell or buy any product or service.
  • Do not post material that infringes copyright.
  • Do not post information that you know to be confidential or sensitive or otherwise in breach of the law.
  • Do not question why a previous comment was removed.
  • Keep all comments relevant and ‘on topic’ to the particular Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website posting open for comments.
  • Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com will not accept responsibility for information posted in the Comments.

If Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com receives notice that any posting is not in keeping with these terms and conditions or the intended use of the Comments, Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com may remove that posting and/or any other related postings.

Notification of Changes

Whenever Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) changes its Terms of Use, it will post those changes to this Statement, and other places we deem appropriate to make users aware of such changes.

Disclaimer of Warranties

YOUR USE OF THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WEBSITE(S) IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. ALL THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES AND OTHER CONTENT IN THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WEBSITE(S) ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WEBSITE(S) WILL BE AVAILABLE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WEBSITE(S) OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT IN THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WEBSITE(S) OR ANY SITES LINKED TO THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WEBSITE(S) IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT YOUR USE OF THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT IN THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WILL NOT INFINGE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMMISSIONS IN SUCH MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT OF THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WEBSITE(S). IF APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE IMPLIED WARRANTIES TO APPLY TO YOU, THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS WILL APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

Limitation of Liability

THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE (DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNATIVE, ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR OTHERWISE) RESULTING FROM ANY USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WEBSITE(S) OR THE MATERIAL, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT ON THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM WEBSITE(S), REGARDLESS OF THE BASIS UPON WHICH LIABILITY IS CLAIMED AND EVEN IF THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE. WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOU (AND NOT THOMAS SLATIN / TOMSLATIN.COM) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION IN THE EVENT OF ANY SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING. IF APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW ALL OR ANY PART OF THE ABOVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY TO APPLY TO YOU, THE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

Our Use of Content

Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com will consider anything you provide to and/or contribute to Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) as available for our use free of any obligations to you.

By posting or uploading any content to Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) and/or providing any communication or material to Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com (”User Content”), you automatically and irrevocably: (a) grant and assign to Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com any and all rights in the User Content throughout the world including without limitation all copyright, together with all consents (if any) necessary to enable its reproduction, distribution, modification, publishing and/or other exploitation by Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com and/or by any person authorized by Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com, by any means and in all media now known or hereafter devised without payment or other reference to you or any other person, and to advertise and promote such exploitation, for the full period of all such rights (together with any extensions and renewals) and insofar as possible in perpetuity; (b) waive all moral rights in the User Content which may be available to you in any part of the world and confirm that no such rights have been asserted; (c) appoint Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com as your agent with full power to enter into any document and/or do any act Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com may consider appropriate to confirm the grant and assignment, consent and waiver set out above; (d) warrant that you are the owner of the User Content and entitled to enter into these Terms of Use; (e) confirm that no such User Content will be subject to any obligation, of confidence or otherwise, to you or any other person and that Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of such User Content.

Claims of Infringement

Please contact us if you believe any content appearing on Thomas Slatin / TomSlatin.com website(s) infringes on your copyrights.

Contact Information

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