Terms and Conditions of Service

All visitors to this website agree to be bound by the terms and conditions as follows.

Acceptance of Terms

This website ("Site") is provided subject to the following Terms and Conditions of Service ("Terms"). By accessing and using this Site, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the Terms.

Proprietary Rights, Copyright Information and Release

The Site contains information, text, images and other content that are protected by copyright (the "Content"). You acknowledge and agree that these rights belong to their respective owners and are protected in all forms. You agree not to display or use the Content in any manner without written permission.

Online Conduct

Your use of the Site is subject to applicable local, state, federal and international law. You agree not to use the Site or any of the Content for any illegal purpose, or to transmit to or through the Site any illegal, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, hateful or other objectionable material of any kind, or to interfere with, abuse or otherwise violate the legal rights of any third party using the Site. For example, you agree not to:

  • Upload, post, e-mail, or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable at our sole discretion;
  • Upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
  • Upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
  • Interfere with or disrupt the service or servers or networks connected to the service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the service.
  • Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or any regulations having the force of law.
  • Use the Site or the Content, in whole or in part, without permission of the applicable rights holder, including without limitation: modification, republication, deletion, transmission, public performance, distribution, proxy caching, uploading, posting, reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, or other similar unauthorized exploitation of the Site or the Content. Without limiting the foregoing, any unauthorized use of the Content is illegal and could subject you to criminal prosecution as well as personal liability for damages in a civil suit.

We reserve the right to refuse to post or remove any comment for any reason. Comments that violate these Terms, or that add no value to discussions, will not be posted or will be removed.

Disclaimer

The Site and its Content are provided "as is" and "as available" without any warranty or representations of any kind, whether express or implied.

Limitation of Liability

Your use of the Site and its Content is at your own risk. No parties involved in creating and delivering the Site, its Content, any services or any products provided as a part of, or otherwise in connection with, the Site, will be liable for any compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property, or any claims of third parties arising from use of the Site or its Content, regardless of the legal theory on which the claim is based, and even if advised of the possibility of such damages, including without limitation any damages arising out of reliance by the user on information obtained from the Site, or for damages which result from any mistake, omission, virus, delay in operation, interruption of service, or failure of performance, whether or not resulting from an act of God, communications failure, theft, or unauthorized access to the Site or its Content. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability of consequential or incidental damages, so the above exclusions may not apply to you; in such states, liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Applicable Law

The Site is created and published within the State of Massachusetts in the United States of America. Since it can be accessed from any location in the world, and each of these places has laws that may differ from those of Massachusetts, by accessing the Site you agree that the statutes and laws of the State of Massachusetts, without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof, will apply to all matters relating to use of the Site and its Content. No representation is given that the Content is appropriate or will be available for use in other locations. If you use this Site from outside the United States of America, you are entirely responsible for compliance with applicable local laws, including but not limited to the export and import regulations of other countries, in relation to the Content.

Links to Other Websites and Services

The Site may from time to time contain links to other sites. All responsibility for the contents and use of such sites is disclaimed. Please be advised of the terms and conditions of use of such individual sites.

Security Rules

You agree not to violate or attempt to violate the security of the Site, including without limitation, (a) accessing data that is not intended for your use; (b) logging on to a server or account that you are not authorized to access; (c) probing, scanning or testing the vulnerability of any system or network related in any way to the Site without proper authorization; (d) breaching security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (e) interfering with service to any host, network, other user, including without limitation, sending unsolicited e-mail, flooding, spamming, mail bombing, or crashing; (f) sending promotions and/or advertising products and/or services; or (g) attempting to do any of the preceding.

Special Legal Considerations

We reserve the right to cooperate with local, state and federal officials in any investigation relating to any purported illegal activity(ies) and, when required by law, regulation, legal process or government requests, to disclose any personal information furnished by you or collected by us to law enforcement authorities or other relevant or related third parties.

We reserve the right to change the foregoing terms at any time by posting changes online. You are responsible for reviewing these changes when posted to obtain timely notice of such changes. Your continued visits to or use of the Site constitutes your acceptance of these terms, as modified by any posted changes.

General

If any provision of these Terms is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties, with all other provisions remaining in full force and effect. Any failure to enforce any right or provision in these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision or any other unless acknowledged and agreed to in writing and then only to the particular circumstance listed in such writing. These Terms comprise the entire agreement between us and supersede all prior or contemporaneous negotiations, discussions or agreements, if any, between us regarding the express subject matter (with respect to the Site) contained herein. Your use of the Site, however, is subject to the additional disclaimers and caveats that may appear throughout the Site. If you violate these Terms, we reserve the right to terminate service to you without notice, without recourse or right of any claim by you.