Legal

This page contains all the legal mumbo-jumbo for this site.

CoffeeBear.net Copyright Notice

All original works on CoffeeBear.net are copyrighted to Mark McKibben, but I’ve decided to release these works under a Creative Commons license.

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CoffeeBear.net Terms of Use

Access to and use of this Web site and the products and search services available through this Web site (collectively, the “Services”) are subject to the following terms, conditions and notices. By using the Services, you are agreeing to all of these terms, conditions and notices, without modification. This Web site contains links to Web sites, Web pages and services also operated by CoffeeBear.net or its affiliates, and your use of each CoffeeBear.net Site is also subject to the terms of use, if any, contained within each CoffeeBear.net Site. If any of the terms, conditions and notices contained in these Terms of Use conflict with the terms of use contained within any particular CoffeeBear.net Site, then those terms of use shall control the use of that Site. Please familiarize yourself with the terms of use applicable to each CoffeeBear.net Site. If you have any questions concerning these Terms of Use, please contact us.

Personal and Commercial Use

You may copy, distribute, display, perform any of CoffeeBear.net’s works and you may also make derivative works; so long as you follow the guidelines of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Creative Commons License. If you want to use works from CoffeeBear.net in any other way (e.g. commercially); please contact us.

Disclaimer of Warranties

Some Web sites linked to on CoffeeBear.net are developed by persons over whom CoffeeBear.net exercises no control. CoffeeBear.net cannot continuously screen the sites included in our links. For these reasons, CoffeeBear.net assumes no responsibility for the content of any site included in our links, and shall not be responsible for any errors or omissions contained in this Web site or any CoffeeBear.net Site, or any offensive or otherwise objectionable content contained in this Web site or any CoffeeBear.net Site.

THE SERVICES AND ALL INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND OTHER CONTENT (INCLUDING THIRD PARTY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND CONTENT) INCLUDED IN OR ACCESSIBLE FROM THIS WEB SITE AND CoffeeBear.net, ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE TO YOU. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CoffeeBear.net DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES (EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS) AS TO THE SERVICES AND ALL INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND OTHER CONTENT (INCLUDING THIRD PARTY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND CONTENT) INCLUDED IN OR ACCESSIBLE FROM THIS WEB SITE AND OTHER CoffeeBear.net WEB SITES.

Removal of Links

CoffeeBear.net occasionally receives requests to remove links from the CoffeeBear.net site. Although CoffeeBear.net reserves the right to address such requests on a case-by-case basis, CoffeeBear.net’s approach generally reflects the following principles:

In general, CoffeeBear.net believes that persons who make information available on the Web do so with the expectation that such information will be publicly and widely available and will be linked to by sites such as CoffeeBear.net. CoffeeBear.net further believes that making links to publicly accessible Web pages available at this site is legally permissible and consistent with the common, customary expectations of those who make use of the Web communications media.
If access to a particular Web site is restricted, we will remove the link to that site from CoffeeBear.net at the site operator’s request.

Feedback Information

Any information provided to CoffeeBear.net in connection with this Web site or any CoffeeBear.net Site shall be provided by the submitter and received by CoffeeBear.net on a non-confidential basis. CoffeeBear.net shall be free to use such information on an unrestricted basis.

Policy Concerning Repeat Infringes

Under the appropriate circumstances, it is CoffeeBear.net’s policy to remove and/or to disable access to Web pages of repeat infringes, to terminate subscribers and account holders who are repeat infringes.

Access Restrictions

CoffeeBear.net reserves the right to terminate your access to this Web site, or any CoffeeBear.net Site, and to remove any user-created content, at any time, without cause or notice. CoffeeBear.net also reserves the right to revise these Terms of Use at any time, without notice, and you hereby agree to be bound by such changes.

CoffeeBear.net Privacy Policy

CoffeeBear.net takes your privacy seriously. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit our web site or use our services unless you choose to provide that information to us.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers CoffeeBear.net’s treatment of personally identifiable information that CoffeeBear.net collects when you are on the CoffeeBear.net site and when you use CoffeeBear.net’s services. This policy does not describe information collection policies on other sites, including those linked to or from CoffeeBear.net.

Children’s Issues

This site is not directed to children under 13 years of age, and children under 13 years of age shall not use the web site or services offered by CoffeeBear.net to submit any individually identifiable information about themselves.

What Type of Information We Collect

CoffeeBear.net does not collect any personally identifiable information about you other than information that you affirmatively choose to submit to us, such as your e-mail address and name when you register to one or more of our forums or weblogs. CoffeeBear.net also may automatically collect aggregate information about the use of our site, including which pages are most frequently visited, how many visitors we receive daily, and how long visitors stay on each page.

How We Use the Information We Collect

The personally identifiable information we collect from and about you may be used to provide e-mail announcements and other information to you as you request and to notify you from time to time about services offered by CoffeeBear.net or other entities associated with CoffeeBear.net.

Third-Party Services

At this time CoffeeBear.net is partnered with Amazon.com through their Amazon Associates program. However no information is transmitted to Amazon.com, unless you click a link to their site from ours. Common links you will see on CoffeeBear.net to Amazon.com include products listed in our sidebar under: Reading, Listening, Watching and Playing. From time to time, there will also be links in postings on CoffeeBear.net to additional products on Amazon.com’s website. Again, no information is actually sent to Amazon.com unless you click one of these links. If you do click one of these links; you will be given the opportunity to purchase the item being linked to. In the event that you do so, a small portion of the proceeds will be given from Amazon.com to CoffeeBear.net.

CoffeeBear.net is now also partnered with Text Link Ads. Text Link Ads publishes the links to our Sponsors listed in the sidebar of our home page. Additionally, Text Link Ads will occassionally place links at the bottom of posts on CoffeeBear.net with the title of Related Links. No information is sent to Text Link Ads unless you click one of these links. By using Text Link Ads services, CoffeeBear.net is simply trying to recoup some of the costs involved with running this site.

With Whom We Share Information

We may provide personally identifiable information we collect about you to third parties only when such third parties desire to provide, on a limited basis, information that may be of interest to you.

We may disclose information about you if we have a good-faith belief that we are required to do so by law or legal process, to respond to claims, or to protect the rights, property or safety of CoffeeBear.net or others.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

CoffeeBear.net may revise and update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting such revised Privacy Policy at http://coffeebear.net/legal/. Your continued usage of CoffeeBear.net will mean you accept those changes.