Green Interfaith Network, Inc.
Terms of Use Agreement
The following Terms of Service apply to your use of greeninterfaith.com; greeninterfaith.org; greeninterfaith.net, greeninterfaith.ning.com; hereafter referred to as the "Web Site". You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on this Web Site and compliance with these terms. By registering with us or using or browsing this Web Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. Your use of this Web Site signifies your unconditional agreement to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions of use, do not access or otherwise use this Web Site.
Green Interfaith Network, Inc. reserves the right, at its sole discretion, from time to time, to change, modify, add or remove any portion of this Terms of Use Agreement, in whole or in part, at any time. Green Interfaith Network, Inc. reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to suspend access to and membership with the Web Site.
This Web Site is not directed to children younger than 16 and is offered only to users 16 years of age or older. Any person who provides their personal information through this Web Site represents that they are 16 years of age or older.
Content available at this Web Site
- The Web Site, including the information, artwork, text, videos, graphics, images, pictures, audio and other materials (collectively known as the "Content") contained thereon, is protected by one or more copyrights pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions and other intellectual property laws.
- You will abide by any and all copyright notices, trademark notices, ownership information or restrictions contained in any Content on the Web Site. You may download and make copies of the Content and other downloadable items displayed on this Web Site, provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained in such Content. Copying or storing of any Content on the Web Site for reproduction, redistribution or publication to third parties for commercial purposes is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from Green Interfaith Network, Inc.
- Green Interfaith Network, Inc., at its sole discretion, may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Web Site at any time, including the availability of any Web Site feature, forms, database or Content. Green Interfaith Network, Inc. may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Web Site without notice or liability.
- The Web Site may contain links to the other World Wide Web Internet sites and resources operated and controlled by parties other than Green Interfaith Network, Inc. Links to and from the Web Site to such third party sites do not imply or constitute an endorsement by Green Interfaith Network, Inc. of any third party material or contents and Green Interfaith Network, Inc. does not assume any responsibility or liability for said third party material or contents
Your Privacy
- Green Interfaith Network, Inc. will not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose Personally Identifiable Information to any third party, except as required by subpoena, search warrant, or other valid legislative or judicial process.
- Green Interfaith Network, Inc. may use Personally Identifiable Information to statistically analyze usage of the Web Site; to improve offerings; to customize the Web Site's content and layout; and to otherwise improve the Web Site.
Your Usage Restrictions
- Green Interfaith Network, Inc. reserves the right to suspend or revoke, in its sole discretion, the license hereunder and to prevent you from accessing all or any portion of the Site with or without notice or reason and without liability on the part of Green Interfaith Network, Inc.
- You acknowledge that communications involving the Web Site are not confidential and that communications may be read or intercepted by others.
- You agree not to:
- "Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
- Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
- Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Web Site or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Web Site for the purposes of automating logins to this Web Site;
- Post any content containing child pornography to this Web Site;
- Post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
- Post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature;
- Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from this Web Site - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or "well-behaved" web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by "well-behaved";
- Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Web Site's infrastructure;
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, this Web Site;
- Use this Web Site as a generic file hosting service;
- Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of this Web Site or for using it for purposes unrelated to this Web Site); and
- Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Web Site.
- You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use this Web Site:
- In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
- in a manner 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;
- to engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Use Agreement, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
- in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
- in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
- in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
- in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable;
- to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to this Web Site without authorization;
- to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Web Site or prevent others from using this Web Site, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Web Site, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use this Web Site;
- to use any manual or automated means, including agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access or manage any user's account or to monitor or copy this Web Site or the content contained therein;
- to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
- in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
- in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through this Web Site or to users; and
- in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.
- in a manner that does not align with Green Interfaith Network, Inc.’s core values (Compassion, Conservation, Equity, Justice, Respect, Accountability, Sustainability). Examples of unacceptable content include, but are not limited to, content that is sensational, politically-charged, offensive, or irrelevant to the mission and vision of Green Interfaith Network, Inc.
The Green Interfaith Network, Inc. Web Site, including all content, functions, materials and information made available on or accessed through the Web Site, is provided on an "as is" basis. To the fullest extent permissible by law, Green Interfaith Network, Inc. makes no representation or warranties of any kind whatsoever for the content on the Web Site of the materials, or information accessed through the Web Site, for any links to third party web sites. Green Interfaith Network, Inc. shall not be liable for the use of the Web Site, or any third party web site accessed through the Web Site, including, without limitation, the content and any errors contained therein.
The following Terms of Service apply to your use of this Network. You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on the Network and compliance with these terms. By registering with us or using or browsing this Network, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. This Network is not directed to anyone younger than 16 and is offered only to users 16 years of age or older. Any person who provides their personal information through this Network represents that they are 16 years of age or older.
You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use this Network:
- In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
- in a manner 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;
- to engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
- in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
- in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
- in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
- in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable;
- to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to this Network without authorization;
- to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Network or prevent others from using this Network, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Network, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use this Network;
- to use any manual or automated means, including agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access or manage any user's account or to monitor or copy this Network or the content contained therein;
- to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
- in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
- in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through this Network or to users; and
- in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.
Additionally, you agree not to:
- "Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
- Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
- Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Network or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Network for the purposes of automating logins to this Network;
- Post any content containing child pornography to this Network;
- Post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
- Post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature.
- Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from this Network - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or "well-behaved" web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by "well-behaved";
- Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Network's infrastructure;
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, this Network;
- Use this Network as a generic file hosting service;
- Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of this Network or for using it for purposes unrelated to this Network); and
- Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Network.
To provide notice of alleged copyright infringement on this Network, please see the DMCA Notification Guidelines.
You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use this Network to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that these Network Terms of Service inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our Network platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Network Terms of Service. Technology and hosting for aspects of this Network are provided by this Network's online service provider. However, the Network Creator of this Network controls the content, membership and policy of this Network, including those pages served by such service provider on behalf of this Network. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, by participating on this Network you agree to indemnify and hold harmless such service provider on all matters related to your interaction with others using this Network and participation with this Network.