This website is provided for use of the public, and as such, is available to anyone with internet access. Anonymous Users (those who have not logged in) will be provided with basic access privileges, allowing them to read most of the sections of the website, but not contribute (this is due to the abuse of spammers, scum of the earth that destroy the very fabric of the open communications capabilities of the internet for commercial gain despite the very fact that very few wish to receive the information they are peddling.) Registering and obtaining a user account provides a user with complete user access to the website, along with the ability to contribute.
Like the san2600.org meetings, access to this website is open to all, regardless to age, sex, race, or any other distinguishing marks or features, religion, sexual preference, or skills, capabilities, or employment (or lack there-of of any of the above.) If you believe at any time that access of this website has been denied to you because of age, sex, race, or any other distinguishing marks or features, religion, sexual preference, or skills, capabilities, or employment (or lack there-of,) please send an email to meetings @ 2600 . com (and please carbon copy admin @ san2600 . org).
We value freedom of speech, and we afford our users the opportunity to speak their mind whether or not it is considered polite, tasteful, or politically correct. While we'd prefer to see polite discourse between users on this site, we do not at any time police or monitor speech provided on this site. We will not, under any circumstances beyond a legal court order requiring us to do so, remove or hide (beyond that what is provided to each user to filter speech through "moderation", since the user has control over what is filtered, not the administrator or website software) speech provided by our users due to lack of taste, politeness, or politically correct speech.
Of course, compliance with any legal court order we receive for removal or censor of any speech which is not abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, or that contains questionable or illegal material (child porn, copyright material with no valid license to distribute, etc.) will be published in every avenue available to us, and the 2600 Organization as well as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be alerted regarding any legal court order we receive to remove or hide speech.
We do, however, prohibit the posting of abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, or any other material that violates any applicable laws. Freedom of Speech has its limits when the material being posted is only meant to inflame or incite others. It is one thing to have a discussion on a sensitive topic, but once the discussion becomes so heated that parties have broken down to verbal abuse of one another, slander, hateful or threatening speech, it is time to put the breaks on the discussion.
Illegal or Questionable material published on this site (i.e. child porn, copyrighted material with no valid license to distribute, etc.) will be removed as quickly as possible once we are made aware of its existance. Those who routinely violate the law in posting this material will have their user accounts limited or removed. If you see illegal or questionable material posted on this site, please contact admin @ san2600 . org for removal. Material that is illegal or questionable will be removed without court order, but the speech accompanying the material will be allowed to remain.
While the administrators and moderators of this website will attempt to remove or edit any illegal material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to this website express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for messages by these people), and the San Diego 2600 and the National 2600 Organization and hence will not be held liable.
Other than illegal or questionable material, there is only one other type of speech that is prohibited. Speech on this website which is unsolicited and commercial in nature will be deleted or hidden from view as soon as it is discovered by the moderators. We don't advertise on this website, and there is no way we or our members will stand for you advertising on this site. Accounts which post this material will be permanently banned from this system. It is unfortunate that this needs to be even said, but due to some actions of a few annoying individuals who have ruined it for everyone else, all speech that is solely commercial in nature and is unsolicited, will be removed.
Commercial speech alone will be tolerated, however, if it is contained within non-commercial speech which is of more value than the commercial speech. In other words, if you are an active, contributing member of this website, and as part of your messages, you include some commercial speech, we will make no attempt to remove the commercial speech from the non-commercial speech.
You agree that the administrator of this website and the ISP providing connectivity to this website have the right to monitor all activities occuring on this website to assure quality and protect assets from compromise. Any information obtained during this monitor activities can be used in prosecution if monitoring reveals an illegal act has occurred. Your use of this website provides consent for this monitoring.
While you agree to monitoring above, we agree to not release any of the information collected during this monitoring unless it reveals an illegal act has occurred.
In addition, in order to register as a user for this website, you provided information to us (such as email address and other personally identifiable information.) We will not, under any circumstance under our control, release this information to third party without your permission to do so. Your email address will not be sold or provided to a third party unless you choose to provide it to them (using "Show my Email Address" option in the "My Preferences" section of the website.) We will make every attempt to secure this information, but the administrators cannot be responsible for disclosure of this information outside of our control due to hacking.
This website uses cookies to store login information on your local computer. These cookies may contain user-id and password used to access the site, or the language used on the site, but will not contain other personally-identifiable information.
Your email address stored in the system will be used by the system to send forum update messages (whenever someone responds to a post you make in the forum,) newsletters, lost-passwords, and other uses. You can configure the website to limit this correspondance if you wish.
You agree that any information you provide to this website as part of your use of the website is your "intellectual property" (if such a concept exists,) and remains your property under your copyright. However, using this website means you have given us a non-exclusive license to use, distribute, copy, display, and archive your property without further need for obtaining permission. In addition, we sublicense this right to various search engines and mirroring services without further need for obtaining your permission.
This website is provided free-of-charge to the community, and all costs associated with the website are fronted by some of the members within the organization. As a result, we provide no warranties or guarantees on any of the material on the site, nor any warranties or guarantees on the accessibility of the site or any of the materials on the site. You, the user, agree to not hold the website, or the owner of the website liable for any reason or circumstance for the use, or lack of use, of this website. In other words... "we didn't break it, and we certainly cannot afford to fix it for you."
That is all. End of Line.