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These Terms of Service (the "Agreement") govern your use of AnonyNews and form an agreement between you and @Space Enterprises, LLC ("Company"), the owner of AnonyNews.
By subscribing I am stating that I have fully read, understood and accepted all terms and conditions listed in this agreement.
The content of all discussion groups, including without limitation, the descriptions for discussion groups and the content within a specific article, is provided by and is the responsibility of the creator of the discussion group or the person posting an article. AnonyNews has NO responsibility for such content and is merely a conduit of articles traveling across Usenet. Usenet in general is a public forum much like the world wide web is available to the public. AnonyNews does not control Usenet. AnonyNews has no way to control the content on the servers we provide access to, since AnonyNews isn't the owner or manager of the servers. AnonyNews resell capacity in other providers servers, over which AnonyNews has no influence or control.
All articles on our servers, except those posted by our own users, are pushed to our servers via our upstream providers, including large international corporations. AnonyNews receives well over 800,000 articles per day, and it is impossible for us or any other corporation running a usenet server to moderate newsgroups.
By its very nature, Usenet groups may carry very offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate material, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. We expect that you will use caution and common sense and exercise proper judgment when using Usenet.
Again we must emphasize that it is impossible for us or any other usenet service to police hundreds of thousands of articles that pass through our servers everyday. Any article that passes through our servers is the SOLE RESPONSIBILITY of the person who posted the article or created the newsgroup.
AnonyNews does not produce any content that passes through our servers.
AnonyNews does not publish any content that passes through our servers. What we mean when we say publish is that we DO NOT extract pictures or programs from usenet for redistribution by various means, such as putting them on CD-ROM or making slide shows or putting them in zip files for download.
AnonyNews does not condone nor support people posting copyrighted or illegal content to Usenet. If you discover an article that contains any copyrighted or illegal content please fill out our abuse reporting instructions. We will then take any possible action to remove the offending article, and forward any and all relevant information to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. The name of a newsgroup is not illegal in nature and does not necessarily imply inappropriate or illegal activity. However we encourage customers to exercise caution and discretion when viewing and posting to all Usenet newsgroups. All content, without limitation, is provided by and is the responsibility of the person posting the content. We expect all customers to abide by Usenet etiquette, copyright laws, and civil and criminal laws.
I understand that I may only enter this site, and/or use its services, if I agree to all the following terms. If I do not agree to all of the terms, I must exit now.
I am at least 18 (21 where required) years of age and have the legal right to possess adult material in my community.
I understand the standards and laws of the community, site and computer to which I am transporting this material, I am solely responsible for my actions, posting of illegal media is prohibited, violators will be banned from our servers.
I will not sell, redistribute, or copy in any way the contents of this site. I will not allow anyone to use my username, password. If I do post, I do so at my own risk.
Posting ability is a privilege, not a right. Your posting access may be suspended at any time without notice at the discretion of our abuse department. If you are unable to post and believe that your access may have been revoked, you may contact AnonyNews with your account information. We will then inform you if your posting access has been revoked and the reason. If it has, and you feel this was in error respond and explain the situation. They will then investigate and inform you of their decision by email. The decision of the abuse department is final. Subject to your mandatory consumer rights described under Canceling And Refunds, no discretionary refunds will be granted due to inability to post after your posting access has been blocked. You will still have the ability to read articles.
AnonyNews has a zero-tolerance policy for the following activities, performing any of them will cause permanent suspension of your posting ability. These activities include, but are not limited to:
Spamming: Advertising that is not welcome in the group where it was posted. If you do spam you may be billed for the cleanup costs (at the discretion of the management) at the rate of $200.00 (US) per hour, plus any collections and/or attorney's fees incurred in the collection of this fee.
Flooding: Attempting to take over a newsgroup by flooding it with your posts.
Trolling: Harassing or annoying other newsgroup users repeatedly.
Copyright Infringement: Posting anything that is not in the public domain and that you don't own the rights to. This is a serious crime carrying serious legal consequences!
Posting Illegal Content: Posting anything that is not legal in the United States, the European Union, or your country of residence.
Posting Off-Topic: Posting something that does not belong in that newsgroup, as indicated by its charter or FAQ.
Crossposting: Posting the same article to more than three newsgroups is prohibited. The article posted must be on-topic for each group.
Defamatory, libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing posts: Defamatory, libelous, threatening or provoking confrontation with another party, causing fear for personal safety. Posting anyone's personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, social security numbers, etc. without that person's prior consent also falls under this category.
I will not attempt to bypass any security and/or access features of this site.
If I use these services in violation of this agreement, I understand I may be in violation of local, federal and or civil laws. I agree to be responsible for all legal fees and loss of any income due the owners, Corporate Officers of this site. I understand that my membership may be canceled for violations, subject to applicable law and the mandatory consumer rights described under Canceling And Refunds.
I will not use or provide any information about or contained within this site against the providers, owners, Corporate Officers, and/or creators of this site in any type of action, legal or otherwise.
You may cancel your membership at any time using the billing facilities in your dashboard, or, if you cannot do so, the online support form. Please include your account username. Cancellation stops future renewals, and your access continues until the end of the paid subscription period. Cancellation does not by itself request a refund or exercise a statutory right of withdrawal.
Except where required by applicable law, subscription payments are non-refundable after NNTP credentials have been issued. Nothing in these Terms, including the rules about posting restrictions, account termination, refunds, or chargebacks, limits your mandatory consumer rights or your right to dispute a payment lawfully.
If you are an EU consumer purchasing a subscription online, you may withdraw from the contract within 14 days of the day the contract is concluded, without giving a reason. To exercise this right, send us a clear statement of your decision to withdraw before the withdrawal period expires. You can use the online support form. Include your account username so that we can identify your subscription.
We will reimburse payments due under your right of withdrawal without undue delay and within 14 days of receiving your withdrawal notice, using the same payment method unless you expressly agree otherwise, without a reimbursement fee. Issuing NNTP credentials or starting access does not by itself waive your right of withdrawal.
A proportionate charge for service already supplied during the withdrawal period may apply only where permitted by law, after you expressly requested early performance and received the required information. Without those conditions, no such charge will apply. For a service contract, the right of withdrawal can end after full performance only where the legally required prior express consent and acknowledgement have been obtained.
If AnonyNews fails to issue your NNTP credentials because of an error on our part, you may request a refund or agree to activation and compensation for the lost time. This does not limit any other remedy available under applicable law.
AnonyNews reserves the right to attach an advertisement to the bottom any posts you make through our service.
Each account has a specified download limit. The limit may for some account types be "unlimited", but are still bound by the limits outlined in the "Acceptable use of account" below. The reason for the limitations are to prevent the server system from becoming overloaded and to prevent abusive users from running suck feeds from an individual user account. Each account supports up to 60 simultaneous NNTP connections. We reserve the right to modify these settings at any time.
Purchasing a yearly account does not "grandfather" you into any particular set of download limits or other settings.
Personal accounts may be used for the subscribers personal use only. Under no circumstances may a subscriber share their account or login information with any third party whatsoever. Usage that can not be considered "personal" also includes excessive continuous downloading of whole newsgroups, 24/7 downloading, or similar activities, likewise you may NOT use a personal account to feed a news server, news caching server, or similar. Any such use will be grounds for immediate account termination. No discretionary refunds will be issued if your account is canceled for any of those reasons, subject to the mandatory consumer rights described under Canceling And Refunds. AnonyNews.com would like for all of its customers to have reasonable use of its service. To that end, AnonyNews.com may curtail unreasonable usage of Unlimited accounts in order to ensure the best possible service for all customers. Unlimited account does not constitute a dedicated connection. If a customer appears to be unable to maintain a reasonable use of the service, AnonyNews.com may cancel, suspend, or decline to renew service for that customer without notice. It is within AnonyNews.com's sole discretion to determine what comprises unreasonable use. AnonyNews.com reserves the right to limit the bandwidth for users with high usage.
If your credit card or phone number was fraudulently used to gain access to this service, contact us immediately, providing a copy of the police report. We will refund the charge and have your credit card blocked from anyone ever using it with AnonyNews again. We will provide this information to the appropriate police authority for substantiation of criminal fraud charges. We take fraud very seriously, and will press charges, both criminal and civil. Users who intentionally obtain access through fraudulent payments or fraudulent refund claims may be subject to civil or criminal action. Lawful withdrawal, refund requests, and payment disputes are not fraud.
We do not provide dial-up service, you must have Internet access to use our service. Any Windows, Linux or Macintosh system will work.
New accounts opened by credit card will normally become active immediately. If you are having difficulties accessing your account after two business days, please contact us via the online support form.
Accounts are intended for personal use only, commercial use is prohibited without prior written authorization from AnonyNews.
@Space Enterprises, LLC, the owner of AnonyNews, does not represent nor endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the information, content, or advertisements (collectively, the "Material") contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded, or accessed from any of the services contained on this website (collectively, the "Service"). Company also does not represent nor endorse the quality of any products, information, or other materials displayed, purchased, or obtained by you as a result of an advertisement or any other information or offer in or in connection with Company (collectively, the "Products"). You hereby acknowledge that any reliance upon any Material shall be at your own risk. Company reserves the right, but is not obligated to nor does it accept any responsibility for refusing to, in its sole discretion to make improvements to, or correct any error or omissions in any portion of the Service or Material contained in AnonyNews.
THE SERVICE AND THE MATERIAL AND THE PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED BY COMPANY ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND COMPANY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE MATERIAL AND PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE, MATERIAL, AND PRODUCTS.
The contents of this web site may contain material that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. In some communities, the contents may be deemed to violate the community's norms or mores. If you believe that you will find the content to be offensive, inappropriate, or in violation of your community's norms or mores, then you must stop viewing the contents immediately and go to a non-offensive web site.
It is also possible that some material may be inaccurate, wrong, and defamatory in nature.
Company does not review the material that is posted nor exert any editorial control over the material. As such, AnonyNews acts merely as a forum for the expression of ideas, thoughts, and information, similar to the way that a public square could be the forum for discussion of ideas, thoughts, and information.
Company is not responsible for any inaccurate, wrong, offensive, inappropriate, or defamatory material that is contained herein. Company is also not responsible for any material that violates a community's norms or mores. Company expects and demands that users comply with all federal, state, and local laws when using this web site and when posting content to the web site and refrain from violating those laws. If a person is unsure whether or not a posting will violate a law, that person is urged to contact the Electronic Freedom Foundation or an attorney prior to posting the information, document, or other type of content. Company can not enforce the laws of each locality, state, and even federal laws for all material that is posted to this site. As such, Company is not responsible for the content of this site.
If, as a result of a user's actions, postings, statements, or other activity, Company is named as a defendant in a lawsuit, threaten with legal action, has a judgment issued against it, or incurs expense to defend itself, then the user shall indemnify Company for all expenses incurred by Company to protect or defend itself, or otherwise respond to the problem. Furthermore, the user shall hold Company harmless for the user's actions, postings, statements, or other activity. These actions, postings, statements or other activity could include, but is not limited to, defamation, libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, theft of a trade secret, economic espionage, and transmission of pornographic material.
The sponsors of AnonyNews are separate legal entities and are not related to AnonyNews. The sponsors are not responsible for any action, postings, statements, or other activity of a user. The user shall hold harmless and indemnify the sponsors of AnonyNews any lawsuit, dispute, or other legal action should the lawsuit, dispute, or other legal action result out of a user's actions, postings, statements, or other activity.
By entering this web site or by clicking on any of the links within this web site, I will have released and discharged the providers, owners, Corporate Officers and or creators of this site from any and all liability which might arise.
If you have any questions about anything listed in this disclaimer please direct them to AnonyNews.com sales support via the online support form before you subscribe.