| VFBA ™ Legal Statement
LEGAL STATEMENT AND ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY OF www.VFBA.org
and all related sites owned, operated or controlled
by Valley Forge Baptist Academy ("VFBA")
Acceptance of Terms through Use
This site provides you the ability to learn about
VFBA™ and its products and services as well as
the ability to access our network and services
("CMA Services"). By using this site
and any other site owned and operated by VFBA,
you signify your agreement to the terms, conditions
and notices of this policy.
This Acceptable Use Policy is used in conjunction
with the terms of your service agreement. Violating
any of these policies grants VFBA the authority
to take action to restrict or terminate your access
to VFBA Services. We reserve the right, at our
discretion, to update or revise this policy, any
other policy or statement on any VFBA website,
and any product offerings or programs described
on any VFBA website. Please check back periodically
to review any changes to this policy.
VFBA disclaims, to the maximum extent permitted
by law, all warranties, representations or other
endorsements, express or implied, with regard
to the information accessed from, or through,
this service, the systems which provide it and
the Internet, including all warranties of merchantability
or fitness for a particular use, or non-infringement
of any third-party rights. VFBA does not assume
any liability for the completeness, accuracy or
usefulness of any information disclosed or materials
accessed. In no event shall VFBA (or any persons
or entities related thereto) be liable for any
special, indirect, or consequential damages associated
with or arising from use of this service in any
way, including any loss of use, data or profits,
regardless of the form of action.
Lawful Use
You must use this site and the VFBA Services in
accordance with the terms of this policy, and in accordance with
all federal, state and local laws, ordinances,
and regulations.
User Conduct, Prohibited or Unlawful Use
In order to maintain an informative and valuable
service that meets the needs of the users of this
site and VFBA Services, the following rules have
been established to protect against abuse.
Use of this site or the VFBA Services for any purpose
that is unlawful or in any manner which could
damage, disable, overburden or impair the operation
of this site, or VFBA Services or any other party's
use or enjoyment of this site or VFBA Services,
is strictly prohibited.
Specifically, you may not:
* Attempt to use or gain unauthorized access to
data, accounts, hosts, systems or networks of
this site, or to probe, scan or test the vulnerability
of a system or network of this site, any VFBA Services
or those of any other party;
* Interfere with service to any user, host or
network including, without limitation, mail-bombing,
flooding, and attempting to deliberately overload
the system;
* Forge any TCP-IP packet header or any part of
the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup
posting;
* Falsify address information or otherwise modify
e-mail headers to conceal the sender's or the
recipient's identity;
* Use this site or VFBA Services to engage in activities
that violate any terms or conditions of any other
network access provider or Internet service provider.
Additionally, you may not, by use of any VFBA Service
or another service, upload, post or otherwise
distribute or facilitate distribution of any content,
including text, communications, software, images,
sounds, data, or other information that:
* Is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
libelous, defamatory, obscene, deceptive, fraudulent,
invasive of another's privacy, tortuous, pornographic
or inaccurate;
* Victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates
an individual or group of individuals on the basis
of religion, gender, race,
ethnicity, age, disability or any other reason;
* Constitutes unsolicited duplicative e-mail (commercial
or otherwise);
o This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited
mass e-mailings from another service which in
any way implicates the use of this site or VFBA
Services, VFBA equipment or any VFBA e-mail address.
o A communication is unsolicited if it is posted
in violation of a newsgroup charter, or if it
is sent to a recipient who has not requested receipt
of communications.
* Contains viruses, corrupted files, or any other
similar software or programs that may damage the
operation of another's computer.
Your participation in online communication is
not edited, censored or otherwise controlled by
VFBA. However, VFBA reserves the right to monitor
content on this site and VFBA Services and to remove
content which VFBA, in its sole discretion, determines
to be harmful, offensive, or otherwise in violation
of this Acceptable Use Policy.
Intellectual Property Rights
You acknowledge and agree that copyrights, trademarks,
service marks, patents, trade secrets, and other
proprietary rights and laws protect all content
and materials available on this site. Nothing
on any VFBA website shall be interpreted or implied
in such as way as conferring any license or right
to any intellectual property rights or license
to any intellectual property, content, technology,
system, process, or related material belonging
to VFBA by virtue of it being displayed or made
accessible on any VFBA website. Except as expressly
authorized by VFBA, you agree not to use this site
or the VFBA Services in any manner that would infringe,
violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights,
with respect to any material, which you access
or receive through this site or the VFBA Services.
The VFBA name, VFBA design logo, other related names,
design marks, product names, feature names and
related logos are trademarks of Valley Forge Baptist Academy, and may only be used with the express
written permission of VFBA. VFBA claims copyright
interests in all original content or works provided
by VFBA on the VFBA websites. If any pages, information
or content is copied, it may only be copied for
non-commercial uses and VFBA shall, in any event,
retain all copyright and other proprietary interests
therein.
If you use a domain name in connection with the
VFBA web hosting, or any other web hosting service,
you must not use that domain name in violation
of any trademark, service mark, or similar rights
of any third party.
User's Grant of Limited License
By posting or submitting content to any VFBA website,
you:
* Grant VFBA the right to use, reproduce, display,
adapt, modify, distribute and have distributed
the content in any form, anywhere and for any
purpose, subject to the VFBT Privacy Policy, which
is incorporated in and made a part of this Policy;
and,
* Warrant and represent that you own or otherwise
control all of the rights to the content and that
public posting and use of your content by VFBA
will not infringe or violate the rights of any
third party.
Termination
This Authorized Use Policy is subject to, and
shall be construed and enforced in accordance
with the laws of the state of Pennsylvania without
regard to its choice of law principles, and any
disputes hereunder shall be brought in the United
States District Court for Pennsylvania.
Please send reports of any activity in violation
of this Acceptable Use Policy to VFBA.
VFBA will investigate incidents involving such
violations and may involve and will cooperate
with law enforcement officials if a criminal violation
is suspected. Any such violation may result in
criminal and civil liability.
Generally, any complaints you may have regarding
unlawful use, e-mail abuse, copyright infringement
or system or network security issues should be
sent to dhoskinson@VFBT.org
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