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privacy points (plain english key points)

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Terms Of Use (plain english key points)

We do not guarantee any information provided on the site, we disclaim any liabilities for any information we carry. You are solely responsible for any and all information you upload to the site. By contributing information you are implicitly allowing us to host that information at our domains for as long as we wish. We also reserve the right to edit or remove any information you upload, edit or remove your user account, for any reason whatsoever, and with no prior notice.


Disclaimer for site Message Boards:
The Message Boards, and remark functions, of dslreports.com are not affiliated with or endorsed by the companies they may describe. The opinions expressed on dslreports.com Message Boards reflect solely the opinions of the participants. dslreports.com cannot effectively monitor all material posted on its Message Boards and, therefore, makes no representation and warranty with respect thereto. Participants of message boards may or may not actually be ISP customers, or whomever they represent themselves as, and the information they provide may or may not be true.

The dslreports.com Message Boards are designed to help readers obtain DSL ISP information discuss ways to make ISP choices. This information is provided by other contributors, many of whom use anonymous screen names and are people we've never met.

We recognize that people sometimes post messages on our Message Boards or make statements that are misleading, deceptive, or downright wrong. They may do this unintentionally and even intentionally.

Please treat the contributors here the same way you would treat anyone you had met for the first time. This is important because anyone can post on our Message Boards: no membership or proof of identity is required.

You should NOT rely only upon the information or opinions you read on this site. Rather, you should use what you read here as starting points for doing independent research on an ISP or DSL provider, then judge for yourself the merits of the material that has been shared in our forum.

dslreports.com does not guarantee the veracity, reliability or completeness of any information provided in our forum or in any hyperlink appearing on our site.

dslreports.com will not be responsible for any errors or omissions in articles or postings, for hyperlinks embedded in messages, or for any results obtained from the use of such information. dslreports.com will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a reader's reliance on information obtained in our area, or in a hyperlinked area. If you don't accept this responsibility for yourself, then you should not use dslreports.com.

If you ignore our advice to do independent research of company services and choose to make decision based on, or take at face value, opinions found in our forum, you have made a conscious, willing, free, and personal decision to do so.

Please proceed with caution and do your homework.

General Disclaimer:

The ISPs and other companies described are not associated or affiliated with dslreports.com, and ISPs may not endorse dslreports.com or the information provided. dslreports.com Inc. does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the information, content or advertisements (collectively, the "Materials") contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded or accessed from any of the services contained on this website (the "Service"), nor 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 the Service (the "Products"). You hereby acknowledge that any reliance upon any Materials shall be at your sole risk. dslreports.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without any obligation, to make improvements to, or correct any error or omissions in any portion of the Service or the Materials.

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TERMS OF USE

All users of dslreports.com agree to follow the Terms of Use. If you do not agree to abide by the Terms of Use, do not use dslreports.com. Users represent that they have read, understand, and agree to all legal disclaimers. Users agree that they will not post any material that is defamatory, infringing, obscene or otherwise unlawful. If you post material, you represent and warrant that the material you post is not defamatory, infringing, obscene or otherwise unlawful and that you have rights to post any material you supply. dslreports.com may, in appropriate circumstances and in its sole discretion, terminate the accounts of users that infringe or otherwise violate such rights of others. dslreports.com reserves the right to remove any postings for any or no reason. Users may not post third-party links which use trademarks of dslreports.com or otherwise could cause confusion, wrongfully imply and endorsement of goods and services, or contain defamatory, obscene or illegal material.

Users of dslreports.com shall not deploy data-mining, web-mirroring or web-copying of any kind against the site. Any such effort will be construed as an attempt to duplicate copyright data, and/or to destabilize the operation of the website. dslreports.com employs active log checking in order to identify users who ignore this condition of use, and will investigate fully any suspected cases.

dslreports.com users authorize dslreports.com to use, reproduce, transmit, store and display any user-supplied content (including message board postings and replies) for any purpose in any and all media.

dslreports.com respects user privacy, in accordance with our Privacy Policy. dslreports.com may disclose individual account or user information in cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating dslreports.com Terms of Use or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) dslreports.com's rights or property, other dslreports.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. dslreports.com may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

DSLR may reject, refuse to post or delete any Content for any or no reason, including Content that in the sole judgment of DSLR violates standards (defined below) or detailed in each forum, or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights of any person or entity, or harm or threaten the safety of any person or entity. DSLR assumes no responsibility for monitoring the DSLR Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. It is impossible for DSLR to monitor the many third-party postings on the website. If at any time DSLR chooses, in its sole discretion, to remove, reject or delete postings on DSLR, DSLR nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, and assumes no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of Users submitting any such Content.

Content/Activity Prohibited. The following are examples of the kind of Content that users are prohibited from posting on the DSLreports.com website. DSLR reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who violates Terms of Use or the provisions below, including without limitation, and in DSLR sole discretion removing the offending Content from the DSLR site and terminating the Membership of such violators.

Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in the sole discretion of DSLR:

1) Is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

2) harasses another person or advocates such harassment or causes them to be fearful;

3) publicly posts information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person;

4) constitutes or promotes information that is fraudulent or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive or threatening, ;

5) contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);

6) solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;

7) includes a photograph or video of another person that violates copyright of a third party;

8) libels or violates the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, or other rights of any person.

None of these standards or Terms of Use constitute or can be read as a waiver or diminution of any of DSLR's rights under the Communications Decency Act Sec. 230 all of which are reserved.

NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT

If you note that your work may have been copied and reproduced on dslreports.com without permission, or that your intellectual property rights have been violated, please provide the following information:

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3) A statement declaring (under penalty of perjury) that (a) the above information in your notice is accurate, and (b) that you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner;

4) Your full address, and email address; and

5) Your written or electronic signature.

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CONTACTING US FOR OTHER REASONS REGARDING POSTED MATERIAL

If you believe that material posted is defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful, and you are, or represent, the person or entity whose rights are being violated, please contact dslreports.com via this page.

Include full details including your contact, location of material and we will respond.

Last updated on Nov 1, 1999

Plain english section added Sep 4th, 2001

Claims of Infringement added Nov 14th, 2009