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Terms of Website Use

This website is provided for personal enjoyment, entertainment, education, information, and communication. You are only permitted to download content from this website for non-commercial, personal use. You are not permitted to distribute, modify, reuse, transmit, or reposition website content including text, images, video, and audio for public or commercial use without expressed written consent from us or our attorney.

All content provided on this website is copyrighted unless otherwise noted. Content provided on this website is for entertainment and personal enjoyment only. We do not guarantee content accuracy. Further, we assume no liability or responsibility for errors or omissions on this website.

We are not liable for any damages resulting from browsing this website. Our disclaimer includes direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from usage of this website. Everything on the website is provided to you ‘as is’ without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for particular purpose, or non infringement. Some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Your local laws should be reviewed for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties.

Any and all information that you disclose to us becomes our property. This statement applies mainly to, but is not limited to our community members. We are permitted to reproduce, disclose, transmit, publish, broadcast, and post all information as we see fit. Further, we also have rights to use any ideas, concepts, know-hows, or techniques posted on our website any way we want.

Pictures and images of people or places displayed on this website are either our property or someone else's property we're using with their permission. You may not use pictures or images provided on this website unless stated somewhere on this website. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted to the full extend of the law. In addition, trademarks, logos, and service marks on the website are also either our property or someone else’s that we're using with permission. Unlawful use of trademarks, logos and service marks will also be prosecuted.

We are not responsible for offensive materials that are provided on other websites that we link to. Therefore, when you link to another website you are doing so at your own risk. Further, we take no responsibility and assume no liability for the content provided within our community forums meaning we are not responsible for any mistakes, defamation, libel, slander, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography, or profanity you might encounter when you visit the community forums.

While we do respect your privacy, we have no choice but to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or courts that might ask us for information about members who may have posted unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, nasty, mean, or profane material that may be considered a criminal offense or violate any law.

Software that we use on this website is protected by U.S. law. You cannot download or transmit the software to Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other country where the United States has embargoed goods. Software also cannot be transmitted to anyone on the United States Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals, or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders.

We reserve the right to make changes to our terms of use along with anything else on this website at anytime.