Terms of Use

EboniPages's Terms of Use
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Basic Terms

EboniPages.com, a service of JLG, Inc. ("JLG"), welcomes you. EboniPages provides this service to you, subject to your agreement to the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”). EboniPages also maintains a Privacy Policy which you should review. Personal and certain other information about you is subject to our Privacy Policy. As a condition of using the Service, you agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy, as it may be changed from time to time.

If you will be "writing" to this site or engaging in activities within the site other than passively viewing site content, you must register and become a site member. During registration, you will be asked to ACCEPT these Terms of Use. Once you check the "agreement" box, you will be deemed to have consented to and you will be bound by these Terms of Use.

Visitors to the site merely wishing to "read" or view content do not need to register and become members. However, any use of this site (which includes but is not limited to simply viewing the sites content) constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of these Terms of Use, which takes effect the moment you first use the site.

EboniPages reserves the right at any time to change the terms, conditions and notices under which its services are offered, including but not limited to these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy or the Copyright Notification pages by posting such changes on those webpages, and for material changes, by emailing members. If the alterations constitute a material change to our policies, we will notify you via EboniPages's internal messaging service or via internet mail based upon the preference expressed on your account. What constitutes a "material change" will be determined at our sole discretion, in good faith and using common sense and reasonable judgement.

We may, but have no obligation to, remove content and accounts containing content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Use. EboniPages tools also may makes it possible to post content hosted on EboniPages to outside websites. EboniPages supports this as an accepted use, however, pages on other websites which display EboniPages content from EboniPages.com must provide a link back to EboniPages to the specific page where the content originates from on EboniPages.
Appropriate Conduct

You affirm that you are more than 13 years of age. You must be 14 years or over or possess legal parental or guardian consent to register as a member of this website. If we discover or have any reason to suspect that you have not reached 14 years of age or that you do not have legal parental or guardian consent, then we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your membership to this site immediately and without notice.

You are responsible for any activity that occurs under your screen name. You are responsible for keeping your password secure. You may not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other EboniPages users. You may not use the EboniPages.com service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of the EboniPages is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed without notice and may result in termination of user accounts. Appropriate legal action will be taken for any illegal or unauthorized use of the EboniPages Services. International users agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, screen names, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links (“Content”) that you submit, post, and display on the EboniPages service. The EboniPages Services are for your personal use and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by EboniPages.com. You must not modify, adapt or hack EboniPages.com or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with EboniPages.com. You must not create or submit unwanted email to any EboniPages members (“Spam”). You must not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature. You must not, in the use of EboniPages, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).

Violation of any of these agreements will result in the termination of your EboniPages account. While EboniPages prohibits such conduct and content on its site, you understand and agree that EboniPages cannot be responsible for the Content posted on its web site and you nonetheless may be exposed to such materials and that you use the EboniPages.com service at your own risk.

You agree that you are responsible for your own conduct and communications while using the EboniPages's service and for any consequences thereof. You agree to use the service only to send and receive messages and material that are legal and proper. By way of example, though not as a limitation, you agree that when using our web service, you will not:

* defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
* post inappropriate, defamatory, infringing, obscene, libelous or unlawful Content.
* post content that infringes copyright or other proprietary right of any party (the "Rights"), unless you are the owner of the Rights or have the permission of the owner to post such Content.
* post messages that promote pyramid schemes, chain letters or disruptive commercial messages or advertisements.
* restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Service.
* use the Service for illegal or unauthorized purposes including but not limited to distributing spam.
* remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the Service unless you know them to be incorrect and replace them with correct information.
* submit content that falsely expresses or implies that such content is sponsored or endorsed by EboniPages.
* create member accounts by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretenses.
* promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities or promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual;
* transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, or any items of a destructive nature.
* engage in "ad slamming" of any nature, including the repeated clicking on advertisements to increase potential earnings to you as a publisher, to increase potential costs to an advertiser, or for any reason other than viewing an advertisement as a potential consumer. International users agree to comply with their own local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, including laws regulating the export of data to the United States or your country of residence.
* 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.
* use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application in unauthorized areas (those areas with appropriate robots.txt or other files prohibiting bots, spiders or other search retrieval applications), or other device to retrieve or index any portion of the Service or collect information about users for any unauthorized purpose.

While EboniPages prohibits the conduct and content described above in connection with EboniPages's service, you understand and agree that you nonetheless may be exposed to such conduct and/or content and that you use the EboniPages service at your own risk.