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BOARDOO TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
Last Updated September 19, 2007

This is a contract between you and Boardoo.com, a web site owned and operated by Retail Media Concepts LLC, referred to herin as "Boardoo", and/or "the service".  This contract outlines your responsibilities, limits our liabilities, and provides no warranties expressed or implied as to the usability, reliability, or accessibility of the service.

1. ACCEPTABLE USE AND CONTENT
Boardoo is a general purpose forum hosting service. Users are not permitted to host forums and/or send e-mail which contains or promotes any pornographic, racially offensive, software piracy, warez, hacking, spamming, denial of service, or any other illegal content. Boardoo and its' assigns shall be the sole arbiter determining what does and does not meet the prior described criteria.  While typically Boardoo or its' admins will provide advanced notification of service termination, accounts found to be in violation of this policy may be removed from our servers without notice based on the severity of such violation at the discretion of Boardoo staff.  Abusive or threatening behavior of any type will not be tolerated toward Boardoo, it's staff and customers.  All illegal content will be removed from our servers without notice and illegal acts will be reported and prosecuted as needed.  Under no circumstances shall Boardoo be held liable for any content contained within any hosted forum.

2. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
You are responsible for making sure that we have your current and correct contact information on file, by logging into your account and updating your records as needed. As a member of Boardoo.com you are required to always maintain a valid address with which we can contact you regarding your service. We do not send out unsolicited e-mail or postal mail, nor do we sell our contact information to outside companies.  We reserve the right to send announcements and invoices relating your e-mail hosting account to either your postal address on file and/or your Boardoo account.

3. UNSOLICITED E-MAIL (SPAM) POLICY
Accounts caught sending unsolicited (as defined by Boardoo), email through our email facility will be terminated immediately, and without notice.  Accounts terminated sending spam will not qualify for any refund of paid services and will be subject to a penalty of $40 per complaint filed. Accounts terminated for sending unsolicited email give up all rights to any content, files, backups and technical support associated with this account hosted on any and all Boardoo servers and network. Boardoo reserves the right to investigate accounts accused of sending unsolicited emails, in any way deemed necessary. This includes suspending the accused account, during the pending investigation.  We reserve the right to cancel any account suspended of sending spam. We will make available, upon request, the source of the complaints. We will NOT make available the actual complaint, if it means giving out individual contact information of the party filing the complaint. Unsolicited is defined by Boardoo but not limited in definition to, E-mail sent to recipients who have not asked to be contacted by you, for the sole purpose of promoting a website, commercial or non-profit activity using your e-mail account or other content stored on our servers.

4. ACCOUNT TERMINATION
Violation of our anti-spam policy and posting of illegal content on your forum will be grounds for immediate account termination. Link, Images, Attached Files, and any other content deemed offensive, illegal, pornographic or racially degrading, by Boardoo will be removed from our servers without notice. We reserve the right to terminate any forum without notice if such forum has been warned about similar activity and/or content within the previous 6 months.  Abusive behavior of any type toward Boardoo staff or customers will not be tolerated. Content promoting, making available or otherwise contributing to software piracy, hacking, spamming, denial of service attacks and/or damage to commercial networks or servers will be removed from our servers without notice and illegal acts will be reported and prosecuted. All server activity is logged. Any snooping, hacking, or other inappropriate activity of any type outside of your account, on our servers, will be grounds for termination. In addition, your account is for forum hosting use only, any other activities such as but not limited to illegal file sharing will, at our sole discretion, will be grounds for termination.

5. DATA PROTECTION
While we strive to make every effort to protect your data, this contract in no way obligates us to create, store, or provide a backup of any hosted account.

6. ADVERTISING (FREE ACCOUNTS ONLY)
All free forum accounts at Boardoo are advertising supported.  We reserve the right to place advertising in any area of the forum as well as each e-mail generated by your forum.  We also reserve the right to place advertising in any area of our site, including but not limited to the home page and members area.  Advertising may only be removed by upgrading to one of our ad-free accounts where available. Any attempt to circumvent our advertising in any way will result in an immediate account termination.

7. ABANDONED ACCOUNTS
While we hope that you will find your Boardoo account to be useful and that you will use it daily, we recognize that our service is not for everyone.  To preserve resources for active users we may at our sole discretion remove any account inactive for a period of 90 days or more.  An inactive account is defined as an account not having been logged into by the account holder or which the contact information for the account holder is not valid.

8. NO WARRANTY. 
This service is provided "as-is", with any and all faults, and as availability permits. We do not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of information available from the service. Boardoo and its' owner give no written or expressed warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws that this contract cannot change.  We exclude any implied warranties including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort and non-infringement.

9. AMENDMENTS
This Terms of Service/Acceptable Use Policy may be amended, at any time, at the discretion of Boardoo without notice. All accounts are required to comply with any changes made to these policies. Notification of any major changes to the policies will be posted in the Boardoo support forum, but it remains your responsibility to keep up to date.

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