YANet Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

YANet is owned and operated by the General Board of Discipleship (GBOD) of The United Methodist Church. When using YANet, you agree to the terms and conditions listed on this page (the "Terms of Use "), which may be updated by us from time to time.

GBOD may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because GBOD has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that GBOD is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that GBOD shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.

You may not: (1) modify this website, (2) publish, display, disclose, rent, lease, modify, loan, distribute, or create derivative works based on this website or any part thereof without the express written permission of GBOD, (3) remove, obliterate, or cancel from view any copyright, trademark, confidentiality or other proprietary notice, mark or legend appearing on this website, (4) reverse engineer, decompile, translate, adapt or dissemble this website, nor shall you attempt to create the source code from the object code for this website without the express written permission of GBOD, or (5) assign the license for the Service.

Personal Information and Interactive Features
Certain features of YANet may require you to register personal information and obtain a user name and password from YANet. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account number and/or password. You are responsible for all uses of your account, whether or not actually or expressly authorized by you.

GBOD grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to create an account for and use YANet in accordance with this Terms of Use Agreement. YANet and any associated documentation are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of GBOD.

To enable YANet to protect our users and respond to user needs and complaints you consent to GBOD employees being able to access your account and records on a case-by-case basis to investigate complaints or other allegations or abuse. GBOD shall not disclose the existence or occurrence of such an investigation unless required by law.

All interactive communications (email, chat, discussion boards, etc.), even though intended for a private audience, are subject to public access. Although we reserve the right to remove without notice any bulletin board posting for any reason, we have no obligation to delete content that you may find objectionable or offensive.

Information and opinions expressed in bulletin boards or other interactive communications are not necessarily those of YANet or GBOD. Users alone are responsible for the contents of the messages they communicate when using our services as well as the consequences of any such messages.

However, you agree not to use YANet to:

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to GBOD.

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available content that violates laws or regulations designed to protect minors.

impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, the YANet webmaster, forum leader, guide or host, of falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person on entity;

forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through YANet;

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary right ("Rights") of any party;

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation.

Intentionally upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available nay material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware on telecommunications equipment;

disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to scroll faster than other users of YANet are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to engage in real time exchanges;

interfere with or disrupt YANet or servers or networks connected to YANet, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to this website;

intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;

stalk or otherwise harass another, or

collect or store personal data about other users.

GBOD and YANet does not condone copyright infringement and will not tolerate such infringement by its users. Accordingly, GBOD may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be infringing the intellectual property rights of others.

We may modify or discontinue of services or your account with us, with or without notice, without liability to you, any other user or any third party. We reserve the right to terminate your account if we learn that you have provided us with false or misleading registration information, interfered with other users or the administration of YANet's services, or violated these Terms of Use.

You understand and agree that YANet's services are provided AS-IS. GBOD assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GBOD, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants and agents from any and all third party claims, liability, damages and/or costs (including, but not limited to, attorneys fees) arising from your use of our services, your violation of the Terms of Use or your infringement, or infringement by any other user of your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. The Terms of Use will inure to the benefit of GBOD's successors, assigns and licensees.

These Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Tennessee. Any action brought to enforce this agreement or matters related to the site shall be brought in either the state or federal courts of Tennessee. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of the Terms of Use to be unenforceable, the remainder to the Terms of Use will continue in full force and effect.

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replace all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. Any waiver of any provision of the Terms of Use will be effective only if in writing and signed by GBOD.

Privacy
GBOD respects your privacy, believes personal information should remain private, and will not disclose or sell personal information to any outside organization for any purpose.

We will communicate you only for purposes related to your account. We may ask you if you are interested in receiving additional information from YANet or GBOD. If you do not give permission for us to send e-mail to you, GBOD will not send unsolicited e-mail.

You can visit our Website without telling us who you are or revealing personal information about yourself, in which case you may, however, be unable to use certain features, participate in certain promotions or receive product information. We collect, maintain and use personal information you have voluntarily submitted to contact you, including via email, to respond to your comments or requests for information, or to contact you if needed in the course of processing or shipping your order for products or services offered over our website.

GBOD will not trade, sell or share your personal information for use by any business, without your consent, unless required by law or as disclosed to you when the information is collected.

Your personal information will generally be stored in our databases located mainly in the United States. For easier processing of e-mail campaigns or other marketing purposes, however, your personal information may be sent, usually on a temporary basis, to a mailing house. Nonetheless, our policy is to ensure that your information is always granted the same level of protection.

Copyright Permissions
Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, you agree not to reproduce, retransmit, disseminate, sell, distribute, publish, broadcast or circulate the information received through this website to anyone, including, but not limited to, others in the same company or organization, without the express prior written consent of GBOD.

Updated 6/13/06
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