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AGREEMENT REGARDING USE OF Permission to Grieve BLOG AND COMMUNICATIONS FEATURES

We invite you to view and comment on Permission To Grieve weblog (or "blog") on the site. Your use of the blog will signify your agreement to abide by the blog Guidelines for Commenting and Blog Rules stated below.

Guidelines for Commenting:

We love your blog comments, and thank you SO much for submitting them, because you help make this a great blog. Please follow these Guidelines in using the blog:

  1. Obviously, this blog is open to the public, so think about what you include in your comments. Don't include anything in a comment that you would like to keep private. For personal safety reasons, please DO NOT include any personal information (e.g., full name, address, phone number, etc.) about you or anyone else. If you want to sign up for the mailing list, we welcome you.
  2. Please feel free to write as much as you want and as often as you want
  3. We reserves the right to do anything we wants with any submitted comments, including archiving, distributing and publishing them forever. Also, we have the right (but not the obligation) to review and delete any submitted or posted comments, including any content or embedded links, at any time, for any reason (or no reason) without notice. We can do these things ourselves, or we can arrange for third parties to do them for us at our direction.
  4. Disagreement and respectful differences of opinion are welcome, hate speech and name calling are not. Religious recruitment, and any form of therapy is not welcome on this blog.

More Blog Rules and Communications Features Terms

By submitting comments to the blog or otherwise using any communications features that may be available to you on or through this site, you agree that you will comply with the Guidelines for Commenting, above, and that you will not upload, post, or otherwise distribute or facilitate distribution of any content - including text, graphics, software, images, sounds, data or other information - that:

  1. is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, contains explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of sexual acts (including but not limited to sexual language of a violent or threatening nature directed at another individual or group of individuals), uses vulgar language in the creation of a user or commenter name or otherwise violates the website Legal Stuff;
  2. victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
  3. infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary right of any party;
  4. constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk e-mail (also known as "Spamming"), chain letters, any other form of unauthorized solicitation, or any form of lottery or gambling;
  5. contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs that are designed or intended to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorized access to any data or other information of any third party; or
  6. impersonates any person or entity.
  7. You also agree that you will not harvest or collect information about the blog or site users, or use such information for the purpose of transmitting (or facilitating transmission of) unsolicited bulk electronic e-mail or communications. You further agree that you will not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from a minor (anyone under 18 yrs old). Personal information includes but is not limited to name, address, phone number or name of a minor's school.

PermissionToGrieve.com, itself or through its agents and contractors, has the right, at its sole discretion, to remove any content or blog comment that, in its sole judgment, does not comply with the Legal Stuff, or is otherwise harmful, objectionable, inaccurate or out of place. PermissionToGrieve.com is not responsible for any failure, or delay, in removing such content.

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By submitting or posting content or comments to this site, including the blog, you grant PermissionToGrieve.com and its owners, principals, affiliates, subsidiaries and licensees the right to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, distribute, have distributed, and promote such content and comments in any form, anywhere and for any purpose; and you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to such content and comments and that public posting and use of your content and comments by PermissionToGrieve.com com and its owners, principals, affiliates, subsidiaries and licensees will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

THIRD PARTY SITES

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As noted above, reproduction, copying, or redistribution for commercial purposes of any materials, contents, software or design elements on this site is strictly prohibited without the express prior written permission of PermissionToGrieve.com.

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LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

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INDEMNIFICATION

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INTERNATIONAL USE

PermissionToGrieve.com makes no representation that materials or products available on this site are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United States. Accessing this site from territories where the site contents are illegal is strictly prohibited. Those who choose to access this site from locations outside the United State do so at their own risk and at their discretion, and are responsible for compliance with all local laws.

CHOICE OF LAW AND FORUM

The Legal Stuff shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of New York excluding its conflicts of law rules. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to the Legal Stuff or your use of this site shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in the state of New York, and you further agree and submit to the exercise of personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating any such claim or action.

SEVERABILITY AND INTEGRATION

Unless otherwise specified herein, the Legal Stuff constitutes the entire agreement between you and PermissionToGrieve.com with respect to this site and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals (whether oral, written, or electronic) between you and PermissionToGrieve.com with respect to this site. If any part of the Legal Stuff is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.

TERMINATION

PermissionToGrieve.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or any part of this site with or without notice.