CLIMATESAFE VILLAGES TERMS OF USE AND USER AGREEMENT

The following are the terms of use and the user agreement for ClimateSafe Villages. These terms of use apply to anyone and everyone using or visiting any of our websites in any way. These terms of use also apply to members and email list subscribers for any of our websites.

When you begin using any one of our websites, you are agreeing to these terms of use and this user agreement. Our terms of use, including this user agreement, are posted at the bottom of every one of our websites.

CLIMATESAFE VILLAGES GENERAL TERMS OF USE AND USER AGREEMENT

ClimateSafe Villages operates as a nonaligned electronic reading, lending, sharing, and research library, and preservation archive. The purpose of our research library and archive service is to promote independent investigation and public debate and dialog on issues critical to our social and individual well-being.

Statements made in any documents in any of our research libraries or archives on or off the Internet do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of ClimateSafe Villages. We provide only the electronic medium for transferring information, with the explicit understanding that each user will independently evaluate it and carefully make up their own mind as to its factual accuracy and usefulness.

For the following reasons, ClimateSafe Villages treats all of the information on its website, in these electronic research libraries, email boxes, electronic chats, comment fields, blog postings, editorials, and electronic conferences as allegations, opinions, or theoretical research discussions and makes absolutely no claims for the factual accuracy or validity of any information, statement, or document contained in any of its electronic research libraries or services:

  1. Independent individuals, organizations, or authors contributing documents to ClimateSafe Villages' research libraries may be exercising their constitutional rights of petition, free speech, freedom of opinion, participation in government, or freedom of religion in researching, evaluating, and freely discussing any matter. These discussions or statements may be the constitutionally protected opinions, allegations, satire, fiction, or religious beliefs or religious opinions of these independent individuals, organizations, or authors and, as such, may or may not be factual.

  2. Most of the documents in our research libraries have been electronically scanned and mechanically translated. Even using the newest technologies, errors occur naturally during this process.

  3. Some of the information contained in these libraries may be fictional works, "works in progress," or archival materials included in the library or archive only to preserve their possible historical or bibliographical value or for which even the author or contributor makes no claims as to the document's factual accuracy.

  4. The information posted in our electronic research libraries, email boxes, electronic chats, comment fields, blog postings, editorials, and electronic conferences may be posted by independent individuals or organizations hostile to our organization and their goals, done so with the intent to embarrass, disrupt, or otherwise distract or divert our organization into internal or legal conflicts for the purpose of stopping messages they do not like.

  5. The information posted in our electronic research libraries, email boxes, electronic chats, comment fields, blog postings, editorials, and electronic conferences may be posted by hackers or other individuals or groups with commercial or other interests contrary to the well-being of our organization.

Because we are not always aware of everything posted on our websites and because of the preceding, neither ClimateSafe Villages, nor any of its information providers offer any warranties, expressed or implied, concerning the performance of the ClimateSafe Villages information network or the veracity of information available through on or provided by ClimateSafe Villages. All information is provided to ClimateSafe Villages library users on an "as is" basis subject to the qualifications of this disclaimer and all use of such information for any purpose is at the library user's sole risk.

Acceptance of Terms of Use, user agreement, and amendments

Each time you use or cause access to this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, as amended from time to time with or without notice to you. In addition, if you are using a particular service on this website or accessed via this website, you will be subject to any rules or guidelines applicable to those services, and they will be incorporated by reference within these Terms of use. Please read the site's Privacy policy, which is incorporated within these Terms of use by reference.

The site editor's service

This website and the services provided to you on and via this website are provided on an "AS IS" basis. You agree that ClimateSafe Villages reserves the right to modify or discontinue provision of this website and its services, and to remove the data you provide, either temporarily or permanently, at any time, without notice and without any liability towards you. ClimateSafe Villages will not be held responsible or liable for timeliness, removal of information, failure to store information, inaccuracy of information, or improper delivery of information.

Your responsibilities and subscriber or registered user obligations

In order to use this website or certain parts of it, you may be required to subscribe or register for a user account on this website; in this case, you agree to provide truthful information when requested, and -- if a minimum age is required for eligibility for a user account -- you undertake that you are at least the required age. By subscribing or registering for a user account, you explicitly agree to this site's Terms of use, including any amendments made by ClimateSafe Villages that are published herein.

Account Management and Security

As a user, you are accountable for maintaining the confidentiality of any passwords provided to you. You assume full responsibility for all activities under your account or username, regardless of whether they are authorized by you. It is your responsibility to immediately inform ClimateSafe Villages of any unauthorized usage of your account, username, or password.

Conduct on ClimateSafe Villages Platform and Interactive Areas:

By choosing to use our platform, you agree that all forms of data or information, including but not limited to text, software, music, sound, photos, graphics, videos, or other content ("content"), whether made publicly or privately available, will be the sole responsibility of the individual providing said content, or of the individual whose user account is used. You understand that ClimateSafe Villages may expose you to content that you may find objectionable or offensive. ClimateSafe Villages will not be held accountable in any way for content displayed on its platform, nor for any error or omission.

In choosing to use this platform or any service provided, you explicitly agree that:

(a) You will not provide any content or behave in any manner that can be interpreted as: unlawful; illegal; threatening; harmful; abusive; harassing; stalking; tortious; defamatory; libelous; vulgar; obscene; offensive; objectionable; pornographic; designed to interfere with or disrupt the operation of ClimateSafe Villages or any service provided; infected with a virus or other destructive or deleterious programming routine; giving rise to civil or criminal liability; or in violation of any applicable local, national, or international law;

(b) You will not impersonate or misrepresent your association with any person or entity; you will not forge or otherwise seek to conceal or misrepresent the origin of any content provided by you;

(c) You will not collect or harvest any information about other users;

(d) You will not provide, and you will not use ClimateSafe Villages to provide, any content or service in any commercial manner, or in any manner that would involve junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of unauthorized advertising or commerce; you will not use this platform to promote or operate any service or content without ClimateSafe Villages' prior written consent;

(e) You will not provide any content that may give rise to ClimateSafe Villages being held civilly or criminally liable, or that may be considered a violation of any local, national, or international law, including -- but not limited to -- laws relating to copyrights, trademarks, patents, or trade secrets.

Contributing Content to ClimateSafe Villages

By submitting any content to ClimateSafe Villages:

(a) You grant ClimateSafe Villages a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license (including any moral rights or other necessary rights.) to use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, perform, promote, archive, translate, and to create derivative works and compilations, in whole or in part. Such license will apply with respect to any form, media, technology already known at the time of provision or developed subsequently;

(b) You confirm and assert that you possess all legal, moral, and other rights that may be necessary to grant ClimateSafe Villages the license specified in this section 7;

(c) You acknowledge and agree that ClimateSafe Villages will have the right (but not obligation), in ClimateSafe Villages' sole discretion, to refuse to publish, remove, or block access to any content you provide, at any time and for any reason, with or without notice.

Third-Party Services

Third-party goods and services may be advertised and/or available on or through ClimateSafe Villages. Statements made about these third-party products and services will be governed by the policies and representations of these third parties. ClimateSafe Villages will not be liable for or responsible for any interactions or dealings with third parties.

Blog Posting or Reposting of Articles on ClimateSafe Villages:

Any editorial/opinion/news alert provided or distributed by ClimateSafe Villages is posted ONLY to foster public dialogue on crucial issues. ClimateSafe Villages does not endorse political parties, political positions, or politicians in any way. Nothing posted on ClimateSafe Villages should be construed as an endorsement of political parties, political positions, or politicians. ClimateSafe Villages is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. ClimateSafe Villages, PMB 2167, Laughlin, Nevada 89029, USA, E-mail: info at climatesafevillages dot org

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless ClimateSafe Villages and its representatives, subsidiaries, affiliates, related parties, officers, directors, employees, agents, independent contractors, advertisers, partners, and co-branders from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party, due to or arising out of your conduct or connection with ClimateSafe Villages, your provision of content, your violation of these Terms of use, or any other violation by you of the rights of another person or party.

Statements made in any documents in any of our research libraries, archives, online comments fields, Basecamp Project management software, or other software accessible to the public, on or off the Internet, do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the ClimateSafe Villages organization. ClimateSafe Villages provides only the electronic medium for transferring information, with the explicit understanding that each user will independently evaluate it and carefully make up his or her mind as to its factual accuracy and usefulness.

For the following reasons, ClimateSafe Villages and its DBAs treat all of the information in these electronic research libraries, e-mail boxes, electronic chats, comment fields, blog postings, editorials, Basecamp Project Management, or other software accessible to the public, and electronic conferences as allegations, opinions, or theoretical research and analysis discussions and makes absolutely no claims for the factual accuracy or validity of any information, statement, or document contained in any of its websites, electronic research libraries, or services.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF CLIMATESAFE VILLAGES AND ANY SERVICES OR CONTENT PROVIDED (THE "SERVICE") IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS", AND CLIMATESAFE VILLAGES EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

CLIMATESAFE VILLAGES MAKES NO WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, THAT ANY PART OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, VIRUS-FREE, TIMELY, SECURE, ACCURATE, RELIABLE, OR OF ANY QUALITY, NOR IS IT WARRANTED EITHER IMPLICITLY OR EXPRESSLY THAT ANY CONTENT IS SAFE IN ANY MANNER FOR DOWNLOAD. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT NEITHER CLIMATESAFE VILLAGES NOR ANY PARTICIPANT IN THE SERVICE PROVIDES PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OF ANY KIND AND THAT USE OF SUCH ADVICE OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION OBTAINED VIA CLIMATESAFE VILLAGES IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK, AND THAT CLIMATESAFE VILLAGES WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE IN ANY WAY.

TRADEMARK

ClimateSafe Villages, fiscally sponsored by Factnet Inc., is a nonprofit organization. All of our materials have various proprietary rights and we are liberal in granting free non-commercial use of them. If you wish to use any of our proprietary trademark, please write us and tell us if it is a commercial or non-commercial use and exactly how and where you wish to use our proprietary or copyrighted materials.

We will evaluate your request and get back to you. Until we provide you with a written agreement that changes the following proprietary rights policy do not use any of our materials in any way that violates any of the provisions above or below. Mail your proprietary use requests to info at climatesafevillages dot org .

PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

1. You acknowledge and agree that ClimateSafe Villages (or JClimateSafe Villages' licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further acknowledge that the Services may contain information which is designated confidential by ClimateSafe Villages and that you shall not disclose such information without ClimateSafe Villages' prior written consent.

2. Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with ClimateSafe Villages, nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use any of ClimateSafe Villages' trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features.

3. If you have been given an explicit right to use any of these brand features in a separate written agreement with ClimateSafe Villages, then you agree that your use of such features shall be in compliance with that agreement, any applicable provisions of the Terms, and ClimateSafe Villages' brand feature use guidelines as updated from time to time.

4. Other than the limited license set forth in this document, ClimateSafe Villages acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with ClimateSafe Villages, you agree that you are responsible for protecting and enforcing those rights and that ClimateSafe Villages has no obligation to do so on your behalf.

5. You agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trademark notices), which may be affixed to or contained within the Services.

6. Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by ClimateSafe Villages, you agree that in using the Services, you will not use any trademark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company or organization in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall [Non-Profit Organization Name], its affiliates, agents, directors, employees, suppliers or licensors be liable for any indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including without limitation damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, that result from the use of, or inability to use, this website.

Under no circumstances will [Non-Profit Organization Name] be responsible for any damage, loss or injury resulting from hacking, tampering or other unauthorized access or use of the service or your account or the information contained therein.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, [Non-Profit Organization Name] assumes no liability or responsibility for any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content; (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to or use of our website; (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information stored therein; (iv) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the website; (v) any bugs, viruses, Trojan horses, or the like that may be transmitted to or through our website by any third party; and/or (vi) any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available through the website.

This limitation of liability section applies whether the alleged liability is based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other basis, even if [Non-Profit Organization Name] has been advised of the possibility of such damage.