USER'S AGREEMENT AND RULES OF CONDUCT FOR VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES NETWORK MESSAGE BOARDS 

Use of and participation in Virtual Communities Network message boards is contingent upon your acceptance of the following terms and rules. By participating in the interactive community, you acknowledge your acceptance of these terms. For purposes of this agreement, "Participant" refers to you. "vCommunities" or "vCom" refers to Virtual Communities Network. 

RULES OF CONDUCT

Participant shall not post or transmit through vCommunities any defamatory, threatening, obscene, harmful, pornographic or other material which would violate or infringe in any way upon the rights of others, or which would give rise to criminal or civil liability and/or violate federal or local law or regulation. You may not transmit materials which encourage conduct that constitutes a criminal offense. 

Participant shall not upload, post, or otherwise make available on the vCommunities site any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of such copyright, trademark or other proprietary right.  Participant shall not post messages containing personal phone numbers or addresses.  These  restrictions also apply to private messages 

NO ADVERTISEMENTS

This community is for the exchange of ideas. Participant may not use the interactive community to post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind. 

SCREEN NAMES

You may choose a name to use in connection with your messages in the community. However, you may not use a user name (or e-mail address) that attempts to impersonate another person; that belongs to another person, without his or her prior consent; that violates the intellectual property rights of any person; or that vCommunities deems to be offensive. 

RIGHTS OF Virtual Communities Network / DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

vCommunities is a distributor only (and not a publisher) of its interactive community. The content is supplied by Participant with occasional responses from vCommunities. vCommunities shall not be responsible for policing, monitoring, or editing such content, exercises no more editorial control over such content than would a public library, bookstore, newsstand, or other distributor of content, and accordingly, shall not be responsible for exercising editorial control over such content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, vCommunities shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor such content in order to respond to or comment upon communications by Participants and in order to determine compliance with the foregoing Rules of Conduct. vCommunities shall have the right and sole discretion to edit, to refuse to port or to remove any content whatsoever which it finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or which it finds in its sole discretion to be otherwise objectionable for any reason. 

The opinions expressed in the message boards are not necessarily (and in some cases not at all) those of vCommunities and its representatives. vCommunities is not responsible for any materials provided by users which are deemed harmful or offensive to others. vCommunities is not responsible in any way for any injury, loss, or damage which occurs as a result of an opinion expressed or information provided in these sections of the site. vCommunities is not responsible for the content of any sites linked to a vCommunities site. 

Virtual Communities Network makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the content in the Virtual Communities Network site or the accuracy or reliability of any information or statements contained therein. All statements, advice and opinions made by Participants in Virtual Communities Network message boards are those of such Participants only, and Virtual Communities Network neither endorses nor shall be held responsible for the reliability or accuracy of same. 

PARTICIPANT'S INDEMNIFICATION / OBLIGATIONS

Participant agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Virtual Communities Network, its parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims, losses, costs, and expenses (including attorneys fees) arising out of Participant's use of Virtual Communities Network sites, or arising out of any violation of these Rules of Conduct by Participant including, without limitation, any communication by Participant which is claimed to be defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful, which is claimed to violate the copyright, trademark, proprietary or other rights of third parties, or which constitutes a submission of materials. 

TERMINATION

Virtual Communities Network shall have the right to immediately terminate any Participant's use of the Virtual Communities Network site if Virtual Communities Network determines in its sole discretion that Participant has violated the Rules of Conduct set forth herein or otherwise breached this agreement, or has engaged in conduct which Virtual Communities Network determines in its sole discretion to be unacceptable.