Agreement for use of ShopinUkiah.com

While the Staff (everyone working on making ShopinUkiah happening) appreciates and encourages a free exchange of information and ideas, they ask that you follow a few simple rules (it is believed that this is common sense stuff, but you should know it). By accessing and/or posting on Shopinukiah.com (forums, pages or other information), you agree to the following rules:

  1. Within this agreement, the website Shopinukiah.com, the forum, we, us, and Staff, are all interchangeable. Further, these Terms of Use apply to everything withing Shopinukiah.com equally. You, your, member, and user, applies to that person utilizing the services of this site. The word Staff can be applied to Administrators, Assistant Administrators, Global Moderators, Moderators, and all other staff or support members.
  2. These Terms of Use (TOU), may be updated by the Staff from time to time with notice posted on the main page and/or on the Announcements board in the forum. It is your responsibility to review the most current form of this Agreement to ensure that you continue to agree with any revisions or changes. Your continued use of this service after any such revision or change indicates your acceptance of those revisions.
  3. While unregistered guests will have access to public forums and information, private forums are only accessible by accredited Members.
  4. You agree to never give out your user name or password to another person, for both your protection and for the protection of the other members. You also agree to NEVER use another user's account for any reason whatsoever. It is HIGHLY recommended that you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.
  5. All members are permitted have ONLY ONE USERNAME per person. Should you no longer feel comfortable with your username, please feel free to contact a Staff member and ask for assistance in changing your username. YOU MUST CONTACT A STAFF MEMBER BEFORE you create another username or another account. This applies even if you delete your old username first.
  6. Creating an account or username for the purpose of impersonating another user, is strictly prohibited and doing so will result in having your account permanently banned and all future requests for membership will be denied.
  7. You should NEVER provide any unnecessary personal information about yourself to others in your profile or elsewhere on this web site.
  8. Spamming, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are not tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, commercial listings, promotion of commercial and/or personal websites, etc outside of the greater Ukiah area. Active members of the web site are of course encouraged to share their personal websites and suggest helpful resources. If your only wish is to provide information or something else of benefit for our members, please contact administrator by registering/opening an account, and, upon review of your material, the Staff might promote it on your behalf.
  9. Requests for money, housing, sheltering, transportation, or other assistance are not permitted.
  10. Please note that with each and every post, your IP address is recorded, this can be used to verify what a member did or did not post.
  11. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Neither will you post words that come from an outside web site that you may or not belong to, or copy any posts or words in this web site that are not your own and use or place them anywhere else. Shopinukiah.com holds subsequent copyrights to all posts as necessary for legal purposes. In the event that the Staff is contacted by another who states a post contains material that is a copyright violation, the Staff will immediately move the post in question to a secure area (reserved for this purpose). If the Staff discovers that a copyright violation did NOT occur, the post will be returned. If another is able to clearly illustrate that the copyright violation occurred, then the Staff will ask the copyright holder what they desire our action to be. Please remember that you, the one posting the material, NOT Shopinukiah.com is responsible for the consequences of any copyright violations. It is impossible for the staff of this forum to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this web site, its staff, its subsidiaries, or its owner.
  12. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify a Staff member of this web site immediately.
  13. The Staff of this web site reserves the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, so, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to the information in member profiles as well.
  14. All The Legal Stuff
  15. As a condition of your use of this Web site and the services contained therein, you represent and warrant to Shopinukiah.com, and its Staff, that you will not use this Web site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices.
  16. You agree to use the services only to send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular service. In addition to any other terms or conditions of use of any services you agree that when using one, you will not:
    1. Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, derogatory defamatory, infringing, improper, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
    2. Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws or by rights of privacy of publicity unless you own or control such rights or have received all necessary consents.
    3. Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer.
    4. Advertise any goods or services for any commercial purpose unless you are approved as a merchant.
    5. Offer to sell any goods or services for any commercial purpose.
    6. Download for distribution in any manner any file posted by another user of a forum that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
    7. Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
    8. Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices, proprietary designations, labels of the origin, source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
    9. Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying any of the bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, site builder, communities and/or other message or communication facilities.
  17. Shopinukiah.com, and its Staff, has/have no obligation to monitor the services, member's site and/or other message or communication facilities. However, we reserve the right at all times to disclose any information deemed by us necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part.
  18. You acknowledge that communications to or with any services and/or other message or communication facilities are not private communications, therefore others may read your communications without your knowledge. You should always use caution when providing any personal information about yourself. Shopinukiah.com and its Staff, does/do not control or endorse the content that is added to any services, specifically disclaims any liability with regard to same and any actions resulting from your participation. To the extent that there are moderators, forum managers or hosts, none are authorized as Shopinukiah.com, Staff, spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Shopinukiah.com or its Staff.
  19. Shopinukiah.com and its Staff, is/are not responsible for and assumes no liability with respect to the Content posted by users on the forum(s). However, Shopinukiah.com and its Staff, reserves the right to delete, move or edit any Content that it may determine, in its sole discretion, violates this Agreement or is otherwise unacceptable. Shopinukiah.com and its Staff, shall have the right, but not the obligation, to correct any errors or omissions in any Content, as it may determine in its sole discretion. You shall remain solely responsible for all User Content. 28. Shopinukiah.com and its Staff, does/do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any Content posted in any forum and you acknowledge that any reliance upon such Content shall be at your sole risk. Any and all Content placed in any Forum by users are the views of the user posting the statement, and do not represent the views of Shopinukiah.com and its Staff, or any of its affiliates if any.
  20. ShopinUkiah.com and its Staff, claim no responsibility for the use of this Web Site, use of content, or content of any links leading from this WebSite.
  21. The information, products, and services included on this Web site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. ShopinUkiah.com and its Staff, may make improvements and/or changes in this Web site at any time. Advice received via this Web site should not be relied upon for personal, legal or financial decisions and you should consult an appropriate professional for specific advice tailored to your situation.
  22. ShopinUkiah.com and its Staff, MAKES/MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES CONTAINED ON THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
  23. ShopinUkiah.com and its Staff, HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES CONTAINED ON THIS WEB SITE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
  24. IN NO EVENT SHALL ShopinUkiah.com BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED:
    1. WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS WEB SITE,
    2. WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEB SITE,
    3. WITH THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR
    4. FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS WEB SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF A SANCTUARY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES.
  25. DUE TO THE FACT THAT CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS DO NOT PERMIT OR RECOGNIZE AN EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THIS WEB SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THIS WEB SITE. 35. ALL INFORMATION IN THIS SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITH NO GUARANTEE OF COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY OR THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THIS INFORMATION AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NOTHING HEREIN CONTAINED SHALL TO ANY EXTENT SUBSTITUTE FOR THE INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION AND THE SOUND AND TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS JUDGMENT OF THE READER.IN NO EVENT SHALL HOST POPULARITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE, THE MATERIALS AND THE PRODUCTS OR THE CONTENTS OR ANY ERROR. DISPUTES IF ANY WILL BE SUBJECTED TO California COURT JURISDICTION ONLY.
  26. ShopinUkiah.com and its Staff, reserves/reserve the right in its sole discretion to deny any user access to this Web site, any interactive service herein, or any portion of this Web site with or without notice, and the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which this Web site is offered.
  27. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and ( NAME OF ASSOCIATED WEBSITES ), the website, ( NAME OF FORUM ), the forum, and its Staff, as a result of this agreement or use of this Web site. The performance of this agreement by ( NAME OF ASSOCIATED WEBSITES ), the website, ( NAME OF FORUM ), the forum, and its Staff members, is/are subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of its right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of this Web site or information provided to or gathered with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.
  28. At this time, this agreement constitutes all agreements between the user and ShopinUkiah.com, with respect to this Web site it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written with respect to this Web site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. Fictitious names of companies, products, people, characters and/or data mentioned herein are not intended to represent any real individual, company, product or event. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
  29. With exceptions stated herein, specifically to those provided by Drupal.org and/or those uploaded by visitors, members, or users, the contents of this Web site are: Copyright © ShopinUkiah.com. Thanks for reading and complying to the Terms Of Use (TOU). Enjoy our site, Admin