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-This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion
+The following terms and conditions govern all use of the GrangerHub.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, GrangerHub.com Forum Software, GrangerHub.com Support Forums and the GrangerHub.com Hosting service ("Hosting"), (taken together, the Website). The Website is owned and operated by GrangerHub.com ("GrangerHub"). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, GrangerHub.com’s Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by GrangerHub (collectively, the "Agreement").
-Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.
+Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by GrangerHub, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.
-These are not hard and fast rules, merely aids to the human judgment of our community. Use these guidelines to keep this a clean, well-lighted place for civilized public discourse.
+. Your GrangerHub.com Account
-Improve the Discussion
+If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account. You must immediately notify GrangerHub of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. GrangerHub will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
-Help us make this a great place for discussion by always working to improve the discussion in some way, however small. If you are not sure your post adds to the conversation, think over what you want to say and try again later.
-The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.
+. Responsibility of Contributors
-One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Please spend some time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests.
+If you post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, "Content"), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
+the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
+if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
+you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
+the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
+the Content does not contain information on vulnerabilities, exploits, or network attacks against the game servers or any GrangerHub operated site or service.
+the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
+the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
+the Content does not contains racial slurs or derogatory slang, or otherwise attack a person or group on the basis of attributes of gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, race, religion, medical condition, or disability.
+your content is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;
+your content is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company; and
+you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by GrangerHub or otherwise.
-Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree
+. User Content License
-You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But, remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:
+User contributions are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, GrangerHub has the right (though not the obligation) to, in GrangerHub’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in GrangerHub’s reasonable opinion, violates any GrangerHub policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in GrangerHub’s sole discretion. GrangerHub will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid. Users who contribute assets and content to be included with Tremulous must release it under an Open Content license and have the legal authority to remove the 'no commercial use' clause from their work (to re-license it without -NC), and should consider specifically re-licensing their work under the OpenGameArt license OGA-BY-3.0 (which can later be re-licensed as CC-BY-SA-3.0 if desired, or another "Free Software" compatible license, see the topic: "Using Free Assets and Code".
-Name-calling.
-Ad hominem attacks.
-Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content.
-Knee-jerk contradiction.
-Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.
+. Payment and Renewal
-Your Participation Counts
+General Terms
-The conversations we have here set the tone for everyone. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.
+Optional paid services or upgrades may be available on the Website. When utilizing an optional paid service or upgrade, you agree to pay GrangerHub the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated. Payments will be charged on a pre-pay basis on the day you begin utilizing the service or upgrade and will cover the use of that service or upgrade for a monthly or annual subscription period as indicated. These fees are not refundable.
-Discourse provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: favorites, bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.
+Automatic Renewal
-Let’s try to leave our park better than we found it.
+Unless you notify GrangerHub before the end of the applicable subscription period that you want to cancel a service or upgrade, your subscription will automatically renew and you authorize us to collect the then-applicable annual or monthly subscription fee (as well as any taxes) using any credit card or other payment mechanism we have on record for you. Subscriptions can be canceled at any time.
-If You See a Problem, Flag It
+. Services
-Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.
+Hosting, Support Services
-When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. It encourages the bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.
+Optional Hosting and Support services may be provided by GrangerHub under the terms and conditions for each such service. By signing up for a Hosting/Support or Support services account, you agree to abide by such terms and conditions.
-In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts in any way; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.
+. Responsibility of Website Visitors
-Always Be Civil
+GrangerHub has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, GrangerHub does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. GrangerHub disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
-Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:
-Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
+. Content Posted on Other Websites
-Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
-Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
-Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.
-These are not concrete terms with precise definitions — avoid even the appearance of any of these things. If you’re unsure, ask yourself how you would feel if your post was featured on the front page of the New York Times.
-This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.
+We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which GrangerHub.com links, and that link to GrangerHub.com. GrangerHub does not have any control over those non-GrangerHub.com websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-GrangerHub.com website or webpage, GrangerHub does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. GrangerHub disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-GrangerHub.com websites and webpages.
-Keep It Tidy
+. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy
-Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:
+As GrangerHub asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by GrangerHub.com violates your copyright, and if this website resides in the USA, you are encouraged to notify GrangerHub in accordance with GrangerHub’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") Policy. GrangerHub will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. GrangerHub will terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Website if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of GrangerHub or others. In the case of such termination, GrangerHub will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to GrangerHub.
-Don’t start a topic in the wrong category.
-Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
-Don’t post no-content replies.
-Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
-Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.
-Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.
+. Intellectual Property
-Post Only Your Own Stuff
+This Agreement does not transfer from GrangerHub to you any GrangerHub or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with GrangerHub. GrangerHub, GrangerHub.com, the GrangerHub.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with GrangerHub.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of GrangerHub or GrangerHub’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any GrangerHub or third-party trademarks.
-You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.
+. Advertisements
-Powered by You
+GrangerHub reserves the right to display advertisements on your content. "Advertisements" for sites or projects (either part of GrangerHub, or not) but are still related to Tremulous or other GrangerHub projects are permissible as long as they are posted in the designated place for advertisements of their type and are not spammed. "Advertisements" for things not related to Tremulous or GrangerHub projects will not be tolerated and will be removed. Discussions are not ads and not unsolicited.
-This site is operated by your friendly local staff and you, the community. If you have any further questions about how things should work here, open a new topic in the meta category and let's discuss! If there's a critical or urgent issue that can't be handled by a meta topic or flag, contact us via the staff page.
+. Attribution
-Terms of Service
+GrangerHub reserves the right to display attribution links such as ‘Powered by GrangerHub.com,’ theme author, and font attribution in your content footer or toolbar. Footer credits and the GrangerHub.com toolbar may not be removed regardless of upgrades purchased.
-Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against unfriendly folks. We have a Terms of Service describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. To use this service, you must agree to abide by our TOS.
+. Changes
+GrangerHub reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. GrangerHub may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
+. Termination
+GrangerHub may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your GrangerHub.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
+. Disclaimer of Warranties
+The Website is provided "as is". GrangerHub and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither GrangerHub nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that cess thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. If you’re actually reading this, here’s a treat. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
+. Limitation of Liability
+In no event will GrangerHub, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to GrangerHub under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. GrangerHub shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
+. General Representation and Warranty
+You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the GrangerHub Privacy Policy, Community Guidelines, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the country in which this website resides or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
+. Indemnification
+You agree to indemnify and hold harmless GrangerHub, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
+. Miscellaneous
+This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between GrangerHub and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of GrangerHub, or by the posting by GrangerHub of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of California, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in San Francisco, California, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; GrangerHub may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.
+This document is CC-BY-SA. It was last updated August 26, 2015.
+Originally adapted from the WordPress Terms of Service.