Arizona
Aviation Photographers (AzAP)
Terms
of Service Agreement
Effective January 31, 2013
Viewers
A Viewer, defined
as any person viewing, reading or browsing any content found on the AzAP forum, and not a previously registered User, Moderator, Administrator or owner, is
hereby granted a limited ‘permission of use’ for images and content viewed on
the AzAP forum.
Such ‘permission of
use’ shall be defined as:
1) The authority to view and appreciate
the artistic content of images and photos posted to the AzAP forum and the AzAP
website (http://www.azaerophoto.com);
2) Respect, observe and obey the
copyright laws of the United States, where the ownership and content of this
forum resides;
3) Viewers agree to not copy, download
or otherwise use any posted content without obtaining written permission from
the copyright owner of said content;
4) Viewers shall agree to indemnify and
hold harmless the owner(s) of this forum, its staff and any subsidiaries for
any content viewed on the AzAP forum and associated website;
5) Any violation of this ‘permission of
use’ agreement, whether implicit or explicit, shall be considered a violation
of this agreement, and at the discretion of the AzAP owners and administrators,
legal action may be pursued.
Users
A User, defined as
any person registering for a username for use on the AzAP forum, will:
1) be permitted to post comments,
photos (via direct posting or linking to a third-party photo hosting site), and
otherwise contribute to the AzAP forum, in a manner consistent with
AzAP’s Mission Statement;
2) only post images (via direct posting
or linking to a third-party photo hosting site) to which they have lawful
permission (i.e. copyright possession or written permission from the
copyright’s owner) to use and/or post said image(s) in a public forum;
3) agree to indemnify and hold harmless
the owner(s) of this forum, its staff and any subsidiaries;
4) if posting photos from a third-party
hosting site (i.e. Flickr, Zenfolio, Photobucket, etc), must ensure that they
are posting their content to the AzAP forum in accordance with the Terms of
Service of the host site. Images or other content posted to the AzAP
forum from a third-party hosting site that is found to be in violation of that
site's terms of service will be deleted by the moderators if corrective action
is not taken by said User;
5) refrain from posting
partisan political and religious comments;
6) be solely responsible for any
content posted by said User, and that such views are not necessarily the views
of the this forum, its staff nor the forum’s owner(s);
7) grant the AzAP forum, its moderators
and administrators limited rights to re-post all contest winning images, along
with image credits, on said forum’s home page for the sole purpose of
celebrating the photographer’s achievement and providing due recognition for
the achieved accomplishment(s);
8) be able to modify the ‘permission of
use’, as solely related to the use of images posted by said User, by indicating
such modifications within said User’s ‘Signature’ box of the ‘Forum Profile
Information’ such that the modified ‘permission of use’ for said User will
appear under each and every posted image of that User;
9) will maintain an active status on the forum. To
maintain an active status, a User shall not have a period of AzAP forum
inactivity (such as posting or similar productive contribution) that is in
excess of one year (i.e. 365 days). Failure to maintain an active status
may result in the deletion of said User’s account and profile, subject to the
discretion of the Moderators and Administrators.
10) will have their IP address recorded
on each post. This IP address, and other personal information, may
only be used to pursue legal action in the event of a violation of this
Terms of Service, at the discretion of the forum’s Administrator(s) and/or
owner(s);
11) report any perceived violation of these general Terms of Service to the forum’s Moderators and Administrators, by using the ‘report to Moderator’ tab on the particular offending post.
Users shall not:
1) provide false identification
information during the registration process;
2) post any content that is:
pornographic, libelous or defamatory, contains threats or incite
violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or
publicity rights of any third party;
3) make knowingly false statements or
which do not contribute to the AzAP forum in a manner consistent with AzAP’s
Mission Statement;
4) make false/unsupported claims of sponsorship by AzAP in an effort to obtain interior access or media credentials to any facility or entity. Only authorized AzAP representatives shall correspond with official personnel, with regards to obtaining interior access or media credentials, on behalf of AzAP. If you don't know, then you're not an authorized AzAP representative;
5) post any content that; may be
considered spam, is machine- or randomly-generated, nor contains 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.
Moderators and Administrators
Moderators and
Administrators, as appointed by the owner(s) of the AzAP forum and website, are
here to support and help contribute to the forum’s overall daily function and
adherence to the Terms of Service, with the following understandings:
1) Due to the nature and volume of
posts and contributions to the AzAP forum, it is impossible for all content to
be reviewed for adherence to the above defined Terms of Service. As such,
the AzAP forum, its Moderators and Administrators are not responsible for the
content posted by Users of said forum;
2) Moderators and Administrators have
the right to remove any posts, images or content that is found to be
objectionable.
3) Moderators and Administrators will
comply with law enforcement agencies and other legal authorities that may be
involved in a lawful action pertaining to Viewers or Users and any potentially
related content or personal information.
4) May modify and update this Terms of
Service at any time.
5) Will provide access to the Terms of Service by providing a permanent link at the top of the AzAP homepage.
6) Violations of any items within these Terms of Service are grounds for, at the sole discretion of the site's Administrators, suspension and or deletion of the violator's account.
For more information, please contact us at info@azaerophoto.com