DragonLands Site Disclaimer

What Can Yo Do? : Go Back || The DragonLands

~Ye Annoyin' Disclaimerererer!
(the non-complex version)

While maintaining sanity, keeping the open forums and occassional contests that manage to attack our wallets, you may be asked for super-super-secret information like your superspecial alias and email address in order to join the madness, and the occassional conspiracy. The Pathways will keep these secrets to ourselves, and protect this information.

At no point whatso-diddly-ever will this information be given, or sold to any third parties or that funky dude in the pink leotard for any reason what so ever. Should the people that manage to keep the madness as bay be captured, strung up by their thumbs and forced to listen to abba, spicegirls, country music, even the yodelling of sven, the housekeeper, they'll be as tight lipped as if they have a lemon in their mouth. If we do however talk/scream/gurgle, only things to leave our lips are screams detailing how awfully terrible such punishment is. When it comes to your supersupersecret info, our mouths are shut for once. We know that the last thing that you want is more junk mail in your inbox.

Be assured, that the thingiewhasits that do things (heh) on this site may keep a few details, mainly which path you travelled from, and that IP thing (no. bad. not the potty I-Pee thing). We're in no way whatsoever wishing to share our madness, (because it's OURS, and we're VERY greedy with it). But if a big-ass company like AOL or Microsoft (small and floppy) should ask us to give up stuff, we'll tell him to speak to our 'laywer' who co-incidentally, is the pitbull mastiff named "Lawyer".

If you really think we have the information and the resources to trace your every movement (nice socks by the way.) and know your every desire (boy! you should be -ashamed!-) I'd have a better computer, life, and possibly a nice supermo...wife. ^_~

If you wish to expose your questions to the mentality of the site admins, throw a piece of mail on the floor, We'll find it.

~Ye Borin' arsed version.
(in semi-legalese)

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This disclaimer is based on documents from http://cex.tsx.org with permission.
(yes. it's not ours. but it's boring.)

-=Copyright=-

The content of this site is protected by copyright. Nothing on this site, except where otherwise noted, may be copied, redistributed, modified or commercially exploited without the express permission of the author. Any other materials used in this site (materials used from other sources, guest write-ins, messageboard entries, etc.), excepting materials as described under "Chronicles, and other trademarks" remain the property of their respective owners. Please respect the rights of myself and others; ask for permission from the author before copying (etc.) any materials. 

-=Privacy Policy=-

Everyone else has one, why shouldn't I? For information about how any personal information you provide is used, see my lo-and-behold the easy to read privacy policy. Mostly it says that your email address, if ever given to us. will NOT be sold or shared with anyone. 

-=Disclaimers=-

Disclaimer of liability for any injury occurring while reading the disclaimer. You have been warned. Shutdown that table saw now! 

The following disclaimers are very boring. Do not read while driving or operating heavy machinery. In no event will anyone but you be held responsible as a result of personal injury arising from your falling asleep while reading any disclaimers appearing herein. 

-=Policy regarding Harassing, Abusive, or Otherwise Objectionable Communications=-

"ANY message that mentions the words "lawyer" or related terms in particular will very likely be posted." 

E-mail sent to the webmaster(s) of this site will remain confidential, and will not be reproduced without permission, except in the following circumstance: 

The webmaster(s) of this site reserve the right to archive, copy, reproduce, redistribute and make derivative works of any communication, via electonic mail, postal mail, telephone, instant message or any other media, which is in our sole discretion: 

--harassing, abusive, or threatening to any content writer, sponsor or affiliate; 
--damaging to the reputation of any content writer, sponsor or affiliate; 
--serves to vilify, defame or cast aspersions against any content writer, sponsor or affiliate with the intent of interfering with business relationships, affiliations, service or other agreements (this includes ANY   threatening letters to an ISP, Web host, sponsor, etc., or allegations of activities in violation of applicable laws and/or service agreements). 

Any such material becomes the exclusive property of the webmaster(s) upon submission. The webmaster(s) will be the sole arbiter(s) of what constitutes a communication fitting the above description. Upon receipt of any such communucation, or notification of receipt of any such communication by a party associated with the site, the webmaster(s) of this site reserve the right take to take action as necessary to protect their rights and interests, with or without prior notice to the person(s) or group(s) responsible for said communication. If you do not agree to these terms, do not harass the webmaster(s). 

In English: If you send the ops a bunch of threats, "witty" four-letter words or other lovely-phrased email, expect to see it here! In particular, corporate phallic-waving of any sort will not be tolerated. And don't try to claim copyrights to get it removed; it now belongs to us! Finally, disclosure applies to more than just publishing your bull on the Web. If you engage in any serious harassment of any WM or contributor, including death threats and bogus lawsuits/SLAPPs, we will pursue any actions necessary (including litigation, criminal prosecution, or the application of high voltage to our doorhandles) to protect our lives, civil rights or other interests. SLAPP us and we'll slap you back! ;) 

-=SPAM Policy=-

We detest spam and have zero tolerance for any spam passing through our machines. Read our spam policy below to find out what'll happen to you if you spam us. 

This section of legalese is here to help us collect $$$ damages from any illegal spammers abusing our email or other systems. 
  
-="Spampoena" Policy=-

A spampoena is an overbroad subpoena of dubious validity "served" by email to unnamed recipients throughout cyberspace. It is CEXX.ORG's policy to ignore such materials, and to pursue avenues of recourse should they become a nuisance. We also reserve the right, at our option, to apply the Spam Policy to spampoenas and seek monetary compensation for the use of our computing resources and bandwidth. 

-=Guest Write-Ins and Third Party Content=-

(including guestbooks, forums, messageboards and other free-response media) 

"Third-party Content" includes guest write-ins and reader submissions, posts made on a message board or similar media, and materials legally obtained from another source or Web site (used with permission, of course). Excepting harassing materials described above, Third-Party Content remains the property of its original author. While every effort will be made to provide a wealth of publicly-accessible information, the webmaster(s) of this site reserve the right to reject (not publish) a user-submitted material for any reason or no reason at all, or to remove a user-submitted material which is vulgar, unlawful, useless... 

Anyone submitting materials (you) retains the right to request the materials be removed at any time. Any such request will be honored as soon as possible. 

Neither the webmaster(s) of this site nor their families, friends, acquaintances, ISPs, upstream providers, countries, etc. shall be held in any way liable for any third-party content appearing on this site. 

In English: Feel free to give us stuff to post. But remember that (a) We can delete it (for any reason or none), (b) You can make us delete it (for any reason or none), and (c) We assume no responsibility for it whatsoever. E.g. if you post a defamatory message in our guestbook, and some nuisances lawyer sees it and goes out for blood, it'll be your blood and not ours. So for your own happiness, please don't put any illegal shite on our site! (Yes, I know that rhymes.) 

-=Third Party Sites=- 

(this should probably go under "Guest Write-Ins and Third Party Content") 

"Third Party Sites" refers to sites or other materials which are stored on the pathways.vectorstar.com server but are not authored or controlled by Ben or any other of the Pathways people. These sites are the property and responsibility of their respective creators, and pathways.vectorstar.com disclaims any liability for the content of these sites/areas. 

In English: This site includes some stuff that The Pathways don't control, e.g. places where we've given away server space to another site. We don't go around dissecting these files with a fine-toothed comb and doesn't actively monitor the content of these areas. Any concerns about those contents should be addressed to their owner(s), and not us. 

-=The Ranting & Raving section=-

The over-paid lawyer says....  
This information is provided for informational purposes only. The page author(s) make no warranty as to the accuracy, timeliness or usability of any information presented in this document. I have a small dick. In no event shall the page author(s) be held liable for any incidental, consequential or other damages arising from your use or mis-use of this information. The contents of this page are protected against corporate bullying by the First Amendment. In no event will harassing letters directed at the hosting server's webmaster, bogus legal threats, or other corporate harassment tactics be honored. If you feel like sending bogus legal threats anyway, please spell-check them first! Please note that bogus legal threat submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned. 

We say.... 
Lawyers are stupid. I shouldn't need one. Sadly, the dynamics of our new Corporate Internet dictate that I must have defense against powerful corporate bullies that would rather this information be suppressed.       

"That it sought power because men in the mass were frail, cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be systematically ruled over and deceived by others who were stronger than themselves." -George Orwell, 1984 

Any attempts to censor this material using en terrorem brute-force, litigation threats, threats against the page host, or other intimidation tactics shall be interpreted as harassment and an attempt to deny service, and remedy will be pursued accordingly.  

-=SPAM Policy=-

We are unwilling to accept email SPAM because it wastes our time and consumes the limited resources of our computing equipment in terms of processing, storage and network traffic (which we of course have to pay for). Therefore, we reserve the right to take action against any company, group or individual who chooses to abuse our resources for commercial purposes. 

Specifically, this refers to any entity who   sends unsolicited commercial materials through our systems, or in any way causes unsolicited commercial materials to be passed into or stored on our systems; misappropriates, rents or sells contact information contained within the Site, including (but not limited to) email addresses, for commercial purposes. 

We reserve the right to take action as necessary to protect our systems and keep the costs of maintaining these systems to a minimum. "Our systems" refers to any network or computing equipment used in the production, maintenance, storage or publication of the Site in whole or in part, including the computer systems of Webmasters, guest writers and affiliates who produce content displayed on the Site. 

Individuals who abuse our services, whether a customer or not, will be pursued for compensation under the laws pursuant to theft of service. We also reserve the right, at our discretion, to notify connectivity and hosting providers of such abuses in order to suspend or disconnect service of the offending party. 

Offenders will be tracked down using any available information as well as proprietary spam-tracking and security tools. For the time and other expenses incurred in dealing with such offenders, the industry-standard fee of US $500.00 will be charged in addition to any compensation provided under the laws pursuant to theft of service. 

Any entity refusing to pay the fees they have incurred will be turned over to collection or law enforcement, as appropriate. 

-=Trademarks and the obligatory "Lawsuits suck ass."=-

"All trademarks used in this publication are hereby acknowledged as the property of their respective owners." 

Lawsuits suck Ass.