Registration Agreement

TERMS OF USE
Last Updated on 29 JUNE 2009


Thank you for visiting THIRDWORLDNETWORK.ORG ("Site"), a website operated by Third World Network ("TWN", "us" or "we"). To assist you in enjoying the many features of the Site, here are our terms and conditions for use ("Terms of Use").

It is important to us that you, and our other visitors, have the best possible time while using our Site, and that when you use the Site you are fully aware of our respective legal rights and obligations. For that reason, we have created these Terms of Use as the legally binding terms to govern your use of the Site. Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using the Site, because they affect your legal rights and obligations.

The Site is offered and made available only to users 13 years of age or older.
If you are not yet 13 years old, please discontinue using the Site immediately.
By using or attempting to use the Site, you certify that you are at least 13 years of age.

Your Acceptance of the Terms of Use
If you do not agree with any of these Terms of Use, please do not use the Site, because by using the Site you will be deemed to have irrevocably agreed to these terms.

Areas of the Site may be subject to additional terms and conditions, which you should read carefully before making any use of those areas. Any such terms will not vary or replace these Terms of Use regarding any use of the Site, unless otherwise expressly stated.

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Please note that we may, at any time and from time to time, modify these Terms of Use. We will post or display notices of material changes on the Site, but you should also visit this page regularly to review the current Terms of Use. Once we post or display a change notice on the Site, the changes become effective immediately, and your continued use of the Site will be deemed as irrevocable acceptance of such changes.
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Thank you for visiting TWN, a Third World Network ("we" or "us") Web site. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the collection and use of the personal information you submit on Web pages where this policy is posted.

As we operate internationally, and many of our computer systems are currently based in the United States, your personal data will be processed by us in the U.S. where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as the European Union. If you create a user account with this site as a visitor from outside the United States, you will be asked during the initial registration to consent to the collection and/or processing in the United States of your personally identifiable information, which includes the use of cookies as described below.


THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

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At some Third World Network Web sites, you can order products, enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.

At some other Third World Network Web sites, you can submit information about other people. For example, you might submit a person's name and e-mail address to send an electronic greeting card and, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient's name and address. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.

At certain parts of some of our sites, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and services, or otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings. We also collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our Web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows or Mac OS), and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).


HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION

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We use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

We use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us.

We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services to them.

The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.

If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., an article for the TWN E-Zine), we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us. We use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.

We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law. In addition, we may transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company.

Agents and contractors of Third World Network who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Third World Network.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

At some places on our Site, we may ask your permission to disclose personally identifiable information about you to companies whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy (e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases and non-profit organizations) that want to market products or services to you. If at some point you grant us permission to transfer your information for these purposes and later decide that you no longer want us to do so, simply send us an email at privacy@thirdworldnetwork.org, and we will edit your preferences accordingly.

We may, on occasion, combine information we receive online with outside records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services that may be of interest to you. When registering with our site, we provide you with an opportunity to express your preferences with respect to receiving details about other products and services from Third World Network and other TWN businesses and about products and services from selected third parties. If you ever decide in the future that you would like to update these preferences, you may do so by sending us an email at privacy@thirdworldnetwork.org and we will edit your preferences accordingly. Finally, we will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.



COLLECTION OF INFORMATION BY THIRD PARTY SITES AND SPONSORS

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Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy policies, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

We sometimes may offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) that is sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. We have no control over these third parties' use of this information. The site will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third parties will obtain such information.

At some Third World Network Web sites, reputable third parties may present or serve the advertisements. Our Privacy Policy does not cover any use of information that a third party ad server may collect from you. For more information on third party ad servers, please click here.



COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNICAL INFORMATION

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We send "cookies" to your computer primarily to enhance your online experience. "Cookies" are files that can identify you as a unique customer and store your personal preferences as well as technical information (including click through and click stream data). Cookies can either be permanent (i.e., they remain on your computer until you delete them) or temporary (i.e., they last only until you close your browser). We may also use "Web beacons" that monitor your use of our sites. Web beacons (or Web bugs) are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a Web page for the purpose of transferring data, such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the Web beacon appears, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the Web beacon appears, the time the page containing the Web beacon was viewed, the types of browser that fetched the Web beacon and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable e-mail, Web beacons let us know whether you received and opened our e-mail.

If you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information can be stored in or linked to other data stored in the cookies/Web beacons.

By accepting this Privacy Policy, you specifically agree to our use of cookies and Web beacons as described herein. You may adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other Web site. Additionally, by setting your Web browser to display HTML e-mails as text only, you may be able to prevent the use of some Web beacons. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information. However, certain areas of our sites can only be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of our content.



OUR COMMITMENT TO SECURITY

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We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.



HOW YOU CAN ACCESS OR CORRECT INFORMATION

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To access the personally identifiable information that this Third World Network Web site has collected about you online from the pages on which this Privacy Policy is posted, to correct factual errors in such information, or to update your interests, preferences or other portions of your user profile, please send an email to privacy@thirdworldnetwork.org.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.



CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

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Visitors to this site may participate in many activities without providing any personally identifiable information. However, if a user wants to participate in certain of our interactive features, we ask the user to register and provide us with the following information: the user's e-mail address and age information. When the person who registers indicates that he or she is under 13, we will either collect no personally identifiable information from that individual or inform the child that a parent's verifiable consent is required or we will collect the e-mail address of the user's parent in addition to the user's e-mail address. We use the parent's e-mail address to seek the parent's verifiable consent or notify the parent of his/her child's online activities and enable the parent to unsubscribe his/her child from a newsletter or other similar activity. If a user is under 13, we will not condition his/her participation in an online activity on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity. We do not share children's information with outside third parties not bound by this Privacy Policy. If you would like to review any personally identifiable information that we have collected online from your child, have this information deleted, and/or request that there be no further collection or use of your child's information or if you have questions about these information practices, you may contact us at privacy@thirdworldnetwork.org, or at Third World Network, Attn. Chief Privacy Officer, 39 Bel Air Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 01201, (413) 464-0569.



NOTIFICATION REGARDING UPDATES

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From time to time, we may update this privacy notice. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.



HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation you may contact us at: privacy@thirdworldnetwork.org or at Third World Network, Attn. Chief Privacy Officer, 39 Bel Air Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 01201, (413) 464-0569.
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To access some areas or functionality of the Site, you may be asked to provide registration details and we may require you to have a unique user name/login and password combination. Any information you provide to us must be correct, current and complete. If we believe any information is not correct, current or complete, we have the right to refuse you access to the Site, or any of its areas or functionality, and to terminate or suspend your account.

Your user name and password are personal to you and you may not allow any others to use your user name or password under any circumstances. We are not liable for any harm caused or related to anyone else's use of your user name or password (whether through theft or your disclosure). You agree to immediately notify us if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your user name or password. TWN will be entitled to monitor your password and, at its discretion, require you to change it.
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The contents of the Site, including all Site software, design, text, images, photographs, illustrations, audio and video material, artwork, graphic material, databases, proprietary information and all copyrightable or otherwise legally protectible elements of the Site, including the selection, sequence and 'look and feel' and arrangement of items, and all trademarks, service marks and trade names (individually and/or collectively, "Material"), as between you and TWN, are the property of TWN and are legally protected under U.S. Federal and State laws, as well as applicable foreign laws, regulations and treaties.

Your right to make use of the Site and any Material or other content appearing on it is subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use. Modification or use of the Material or any other content on the Site for any purpose not permitted by these Terms of Use may be a violation of our intellectual property rights and is prohibited. The Material and all other content on the Site may not otherwise be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed or used in any way unless specifically authorized by TWN. Any unauthorized or prohibited use of any Material may subject you to civil liability, criminal prosecution, or both, under applicable federal, state and local laws. Any authorization to copy Material granted by TWN in any part of the Site for any reason is subject to your keeping intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Also, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling or otherwise reducing the code used in any software on the Site into a readable form in order to examine the construction of such software and/or to copy or create other products based (in whole or in part) on such software, is prohibited.
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The Site is controlled and operated by Third World Network, 39 Belair Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 01201. The phone number is 413-464-0569. Please forward any comments or complaints to admin@thirdworldnetwork.org.
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We require users to respect our copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights. We likewise respect the intellectual property of others. On notice, we will act expeditiously to remove content from the Site that infringes the copyright rights of others and will disable the access to the Site and its services of anyone who uses them repeatedly to infringe the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any content appearing on the Site infringes your copyright rights, we want to hear from you. Please forward the following information in writing to the Copyright Agent at the address listed below.

(a) your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
(b) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
(c) the exact URL or a description of each place where alleged infringing material is located;
(d) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use has not been authorized by you, your agent or the law;
(e) your electronic or physical signature or the electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on your behalf; and
(f) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.


Copyright Agent
Third World Network
39 Belair Avenue
Pittsfield, MA 01201

Tel: 413-464-0569
Fax: 413-464-0569
Email: admin@thirdworldnetwork.org


TWN seeks to preserve any and all exemptions from liability that may be available under the copyright law, but does not necessarily stipulate that it is a service provider as defined in USC section 512(c) or elsewhere.
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YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SITE AND ALL THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES AND OTHER CONTENT ON THE SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, TWN DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. TWN DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED ON THE SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT TWN'S WEB SITES OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. TWN DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT ON THE SITE OR ANY SITES LINKED TO THE SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. TWN MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT YOUR USE OF THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT ON THE SITE WILL NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS, AND TWN ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMMISSIONS IN SUCH MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICE OR OTHER CONTENT ON THE SITE. IF APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE IMPLIED WARRANTIES TO APPLY TO YOU, THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS WILL APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
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TWN DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE (DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR OTHERWISE) RESULTING FROM ANY USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR THE MATERIAL, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, FACILITIES, SERVICES OR OTHER CONTENT ON THE SITE, REGARDLESS OF THE BASIS UPON WHICH LIABILITY IS CLAIMED AND EVEN IF TWN HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE. WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOU (AND NOT TWN) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION IN THE EVENT THAT ANY SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE OCCURS. IF APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW ALL OR ANY PART OF THE ABOVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY TO APPLY TO YOU, THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
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The Site may, from time to time, include functionality such as bulletin boards, chat rooms, community pages or other forums ("Forums"). Considering the real-time nature of Forums, it is impossible for us to review messages or confirm the validity of information posted. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the contents of the Forums. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of TWN.

Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. Under no circumstances will TWN be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from use of, or the inability to use, the Forums. You specifically acknowledge and agree that TWN will not be liable to you for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any other user.

Although we do not and cannot review the messages posted and are not responsible for the content of any of these messages, we reserve the right to remove or modify any message without notice or liability at any time in our sole discretion. Any use of the Forums will be at your own risk and will be subject to the disclaimers and limitations of liability set forth above.
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TWN is interested in hearing from you regarding your questions or comments about the Site. However, except for Invited Submissions (as defined below), TWN does not accept unsolicited submissions of any kind (e.g., scripts, treatments, concepts or any other materials), in any format, by any means of transmission (including email). Any such submissions will either be returned to the sender without being reviewed, or deleted/discarded without being reviewed. Therefore, please do not send unsolicited submissions of any kind to TWN.

From time to time, areas on the Site may expressly request submissions of content from you ("Invited Submissions"). Where this is the case, please carefully read any specific rules or other terms and conditions which appear elsewhere on the Site to govern those submissions ("Additional Terms"), because the Additional Terms will affect your legal rights. If no Additional Terms govern those submissions, then these Terms of Use will apply in full to any Invited Submissions you make.

In any event, any material you send to us will not be treated as confidential.
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Please act responsibly when using the Site. You may only use the Site and its contents for lawful purposes and in accordance with all applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations, and you are prohibited from storing, distributing or transmitting any unlawful material through the Site. You may not collect or store personal information regarding other users. You recognize that storing, distributing or transmitting unlawful material could expose you to criminal and/or civil liability. You agree that if a third party claims that material you have contributed to the Site is unlawful, you will bear the burden of establishing that it is lawful. You understand and agree that all materials publicly posted (other than by TWN) or privately transmitted on or through the Site are the sole responsibility of the sender, not TWN, and that you are responsible for all material you upload, post or otherwise transmit to or through the Site.

We at TWN require that you do not post emails or submit to or publish through Forums or otherwise make available on the Site any content, or act in a way, which in our opinion:

(a) libels, defames, invades privacy, stalks or is obscene, pornographic, racist, abusive, harassing, threatening or offensive;
(b) seeks to exploit or harm children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise;
(c) infringes any intellectual property or other right of any entity or person, including violating anyone's copyrights or trademarks or their rights of publicity;
(d) violates any law, regulation (including laws regarding the transmission of technical data or software exported from the United States ), treaty or judicial or governmental order, or violate or infringe upon any intellectual property rights, rights of publicity or privacy or any other rights of ours or of any other person, firm or enterprise;
(e) you do not have the right to transmit under any contractual or other relationship (e.g., inside information, proprietary or confidential information received in the context of an employment or a non-disclosure agreement);
(f) advocates or promotes illegal activity;
(g) impersonates or misrepresents your connection to any other entity or person or otherwise manipulates headers or identifiers to disguise the origin of the content;
(h) advertises any commercial endeavor (e.g., offering for sale products or services) or otherwise engages in any commercial activity (e.g., conducting raffles or contests, displaying sponsorship banners, and/or soliciting goods or services) except as specifically authorized on the Site;
(i) solicits funds, advertisers or sponsors;
(j) includes programs which contain viruses, worms and/or 'Trojan horses' or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications;
(k) disrupts the normal flow of dialogue, causes a screen to scroll faster than other users are able to type, or otherwise act in a way which affects the ability of other people to engage in real time activities via the Site;
(l) copies any other pages or images on the Site except with appropriate authority;
(m) includes MP3 format files;
(n) amounts to a 'pyramid' or similar scheme;
(o) amounts to 'data warehousing' (i.e., using any web space made available to you as storage for large files which are only linked from other sites). You must provide a reasonable amount of content to accompany such material in order that at least some of the traffic to your site comes directly via us;
(p) disobeys any policy or regulation established from time to time regarding use of the Site or any networks connected to the Site; or
(q) contains links to other sites that contain the kind of content which falls within the descriptions set forth in (a) through (p) above.


In addition, you are prohibited from removing any sponsorship banners or other material inserted by TWN anywhere on the Site (e.g., on any web space made available for your use).
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Without limitation, you agree not to send, create or reply to so called "mailbombs" (i.e., emailing copies of a single message to many users, or sending large or multiple files or messages to a single user with malicious intent) or engage in "spamming" (i.e., unsolicited emailing for business or other purposes) or undertake any other activity which may adversely effect the operation or enjoyment of the Site by any other person.

You may not reproduce, sell, resell or otherwise exploit any resource, or access to any resource, contained on the Site.

You are prohibited from using any services or facilities provided in connection with the Site to compromise security or tamper with system resources and/or accounts. The use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security (e.g., password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools) is strictly prohibited. If you become involved in any violation of system security, TWN reserves the right to release your details to system administrators at other sites in order to assist them in resolving security incidents.
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TWN reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of these Terms of Use, including any violation arising from any submission, posting or emails you make or send to any Forum. TWN may seek to gather information from the user who is suspected of violating these Terms of Use, and from any other user. TWN may suspend any users whose conduct or postings are under investigation and may remove such material from its servers as it deems appropriate and without notice. If TWN believes, in its sole discretion, that a violation of these Terms of Use has occurred, it may edit or modify any submission, posting or emails, remove the material permanently, cancel postings, warn users, suspend users and passwords, terminate accounts or take other corrective action it deems appropriate. TWN will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing TWN to disclose the identity of anyone posting any emails, or publishing or otherwise making available any materials, that are believed to violate these Terms of Use. BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS TWN FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY TWN DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND/OR FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER TWN OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
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In order to use the Site, you must obtain access to the World Wide Web and pay any service fee associated with that access. You will need to provide all equipment necessary to connect to the Site on the World Wide Web (including a computer, modem and/or other access devices).

TWN reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, all or any part of the Site and/or any software, facilities and services on the Site, with or without notice, and/or to establish general guidelines and limitations on use.
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TWN makes no representation that Materials or other content on the Site are appropriate or available for use outside the United States, its territories and possessions. If you choose to access the Site from other locations you do so on your own initiative and at your own risk. You are responsible for complying with any applicable local laws. You specifically agree to comply with all applicable laws concerning the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.
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You will indemnify and hold harmless TWN , its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates and its and their employees, agents, officers, directors, representatives, licensees, successors, heirs and assigns, from and against any and all claims, losses and expenses (including counsel fees and costs) that any of them may suffer or incur as a result of your breach of any of the foregoing provisions, representations or warranties, and/or from your placement or transmission of any content onto TWN's servers, and/or from any and all use of your account. TWN will have the sole and exclusive right to undertake the defense and/or settlement of any such claim.
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TWN will consider anything you provide to TWN and/or contribute to the Site as available for our use free of any obligations to you, except where we have expressly solicited Invited Submissions and those submissions are expressly governed by Additional Terms appearing elsewhere on the Site (see "Submissions, Postings and Emails" above), in which event those Additional Terms will determine how we will treat your Invited Submissions.

Except for Invited Submissions governed by Additional Terms, by posting or uploading any content to the Site and/or providing any communication or material to TWN ("User Content"), you automatically and irrevocably: (a) grant and assign to TWN any and all rights in the User Content throughout the world, including all copyright, together with all consents (if any) necessary to enable its reproduction, distribution, modification, publishing and/or other exploitation by TWN and/or by any person authorized by TWN, by any means and in all media now known or hereafter devised without payment or other reference to you or any other person, and to advertise and promote such exploitation, for the full period of all such rights (together with any extensions and renewals) and insofar as possible in perpetuity; (b) waive all moral rights in the User Content which may be available to you in any part of the world and confirm that no such rights have been asserted; (c) appoint TWN as your agent with full power to enter into any document and/or do any act TWN may consider appropriate to confirm the grant and assignment, consent and waiver set forth above; (d) warrant that you are the owner of the User Content and entitled to enter into these Terms of Use; and (e) confirm that no such User Content will be subject to any obligation, of confidentiality or otherwise, to you or any other person and that TWN will not be liable for any use or disclosure of such User Content.
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From time to time, you may communicate with, receive communications from, be re-directed to, interact with, or participate in or use the services or obtain goods and services of or from, third parties (collectively, "Advertisers") such as our advertisers, sponsors or promotional partners as a result of your use of the Site. All such communication, interaction and participation is strictly and solely between you and such Advertisers and we will not be responsible or liable to you in any way in connection with these activities or transactions (including, without limitation, any representations, warranties, covenants, contracts or other terms or conditions that may exist between you and the Advertiser or any goods or services you may purchase or obtain from any Advertiser).

In addition, the Site may link you to other sites on the Internet. These sites may contain information or material that some people may find inappropriate or offensive. These other sites are not under the control of TWN, and you acknowledge that (whether or not such sites are affiliated in any way with TWN) TWN is not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, decency or any other aspect of the content of such sites. The inclusion of such a link does not imply endorsement of any site by TWN or any association with its operators.

Third World Network [TWN] does not provide, endorse, nor guarantee any third-party product, service, information, or recommendation available through links from this Web site. The third parties providing products and services available through this Web site are not affiliated with Third World Network and are solely responsible for their products, services, information, recommendations, and all other content on their Web sites. Any educational tools, guides, and other content available on this site are provided by third parties and are for informational purposes only. These materials are not intended to provide legal, social, or financial advice or to indicate the availability or suitability of any TWN product or service to your unique circumstances. For specific advice about your unique circumstances, you may wish to consult a qualified professional.
 
Third World Network works hard to offer you products and services that it believes to be useful and reliable; however, TWN does not provide, endorse, nor guarantee these unaffiliated third-party products, services, or information nor guarantee their accuracy. TWN is not liable for any third parties' failure with regard to such advertised products, services, and benefits. These advertised products and services are NOT TWN INSURED NOR GUARANTEED. We encourage you to check individual offers, products, and services to become familiar with any applicable restrictions or conditions.

By responding to offers advertised on this Web site, you may be communicating information about yourself to the company that provides such product or services-- for example, that you are a Third World Network member. Please be aware that these third parties may have a different privacy policy than TWN. Their Web sites may also provide less security than TWN.
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The Materials and all other content on the Site are presented solely for the purpose of providing entertainment and information and promoting programs and products available in the United States, its territories and possessions. The Site is controlled and operated by TWN from its offices within the State of Massachusetts, United States of America.

These Terms of Use will be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Massachusetts, as they are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within Massachusetts. Any action you, any third party or TWN may bring to enforce these Terms of Use or in connection with any matters related to the Site will be brought only in either the State or Federal Courts located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and you expressly consent to the jurisdiction of said courts.
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If any provision of these Terms of Use will be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severable for this Terms of Use and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. These Terms of Use (including the Privacy Policy) are the entire agreement between the parties relating to the matters contained herein.
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