Rules of Use

Copyright

Copyright ©2008 Association Forum of Chicagoland

All materials posted on this site are subject to copyrights owned by the Association Forum of Chicagoland. Association Forum hereby provides limited permission for the user of this site to reproduce, retransmit, or reprint for such user's own personal use (and for such personal use only) part or all of any document on this site as long as the copyright notice and permission notice contained in such document or portion thereof is included in such reproduction, retransmission or reprinting. All other reproduction, retransmission, or reprinting of all or part of any document found on this site is expressly prohibited, unless Association Forum has expressly granted its prior written consent to so reproduce, retransmit, or reprint the material. All other rights reserved.

Trademark

The names, trademarks, service marks and logos of Association Forum appearing on this site may not be used in any advertising or publicity, or otherwise to indicate Association Forum's sponsorship of, or affiliation with, any product or service, without Association Forum's written permission.

Disclaimers

Association Forum is providing information and services on this site as a benefit and service in furtherance of Association Forum's non-profit and tax-exempt status. Association Forum makes no representations about the suitability of this information and these services for any purpose.

Association Forum does not exert editorial control over the materials that are posted by third parties onto the site or materials that are e-mailed by third parties to any other persons. Association Forum is not responsible for any material posted by any third party. Association Forum specifically disclaims any and all liability for any claims or damages which may result from any postings by third parties.

Association Forum Site Rules

In order to keep this forum attractive and useful for all users, we need some rules for use of the Association Forum Listservs.

1. Respect other visitors to this site and subscribers to Listservs. Feel free to express yourself, but do not do anything to injure or harm others. Users are expected to exercise both common sense and courtesy in the messages they transmit from this site. Defamatory, obscene, and other offensive communications are not acceptable forms of communication over this site and could lead to legal liability for those engaging in such improper communication. In particular, if you dislike someone else's ideas, you can attack the ideas, but not the person.
2. Do not use this site or listservs for anything that might be illegal. This site or the listservs may not be used to encourage anything to do with illegal drugs, gambling, pornography, prostitution, child pornography, robbery, spreading computer viruses, cracking into private computer forums, software infringement, trafficking in credit card codes, or other crimes.
3. Do not use this site or listservs to defame or disparage a member of Association Forum or any other person.
4. Do not use this site or listservs to communicate with competitors about prices, terms of service or otherwise communicate in a way that may violate the anti-trust laws. Communications in the listservs constitute an ongoing "meeting" of participants; such meeting may involve competitors; the same rules against illegal agreements in restraint of trade which apply at members' meetings apply to communications on this site. In fact, since this site's communications may be downloaded without the knowledge of the sender(s), users should be both fully informed about the rules of antitrust law regarding communication and agreements among competitors, and act on this site in strict conformity with those rules.
5. Do not upload or distribute files subject to trademark, copyright, or other proprietary rights except with the express consent of the owner of the rights.
6. This site may not be used to violate any rules of membership in Association Forum or the by-laws of Association Forum .
7. Association Forum reserves the right to modify or change the rules as it determines from time-to-time in the best interests of Association Forum .
8. Respect the security of this site. Do not try to gain access to areas private to ourselves, or to other callers. Some callers try to crack this site's security just to show it can be done. Don't try to demonstrate this on this site.

Privacy

We offer electronic mail from this site as a service to our visitors. We will endeavor to keep all of your e-mail private, viewable only by you and the person to whom you address it, except:

We, as site operators, may need to look at your electronic mail if we believe it is necessary to protect ourselves or other visitors from injury or damage. For example, if we have reason to believe a visitor is involved in activities which violate our rules or applicable law, which could lead the authorities to seize or search this site's server, we may review his or her electronic mail for our own protection. We will not, however, monitor electronic mail unless we obtain reason to believe it is being misused.

We will not deliberately disclose electronic mail to other visitors. If we believe certain electronic mail is connected with activities that violate our rules or applicable law, we may disclose it to the authorities to protect ourselves and other callers.

Remember that the person to whom you send electronic mail is not legally required to keep it secret. The sender or receiver of electronic mail has the right to make it public.

If a governmental authority ever searches or seizes this site's server, it may gain access to your private electronic mail. In that case, we cannot assure they will not review it. Remember that you have personal rights of privacy that even the government cannot legally violate, though you may have to go to court to enforce those rights.

All electronic messages may be copied as a routine matter and may be destroyed on a regular basis. Association Forum disclaims any responsibility to maintain copies of any such communication or to assure that such information is deleted.

Limitation of Liability and Indemnity

The great danger for us, and for all operators of web sites, is that we might be held accountable for the wrongful actions of our visitors. If one visitor libels another visitor, the injured visitor might blame us, even though the first visitor was really at fault. If a visitor uploads a program with a computer virus, and other visitors' computers are damaged, we might be blamed even though the virus was left on our board by a visitor. If a visitor transfers illegal credit card information to another visitor through private electronic mail, we might be blamed even though we did nothing more than unknowingly carry the message from one visitor to another.

We did not start this site to take the blame for others' actions, and we cannot afford to operate it if we must take that blame. Accordingly, all visitors must accept responsibility for their own acts, and to accept that an act by another visitor that damages them must not be blamed on us, but on the other visitor. Therefore, as a condition of participation in site, participants must agree as follows:

You agree that Association Forum will not be responsible to you for any indirect, consequential, special or punitive damages or losses you may incur in connection with visiting this site or any of the data or other materials transmitted through or residing on this site, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damage or loss. In addition, you agree to defend and indemnify Association Forum and hold Association Forum harmless from and against any and all claims, proceedings damages, injuries, liabilities losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) relating to any acts or omissions by you or materials or information transmitted by you in connection with our forum leading wholly or partially to claims against Association Forum or this site by other callers or third parties.

Association Forum of Chicagoland reserves the right to change any part of the rules of use, including the privacy policy, at any time and without notification.