This Agreement (the “Agreement”) governs your access and use of LargeScaleForums facilities, bulletin boards and service (the “Service”). In consideration for your right to access and use the Service, you and LargeScaleForums agree as follows:

Basic Terms

1. You must be 13 years or older to use this site.
2. You are responsible for any activity that occurs under your screen name.
3. You are responsible for keeping your password secure.
4. You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other LargeScaleForums users.
5. You may not use the LargeScaleForums.com service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. International users agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
6. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, screen names, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links (”Content”) that you submit, post, and display on the LargeScaleForums.com service.
7. You must not modify, adapt or hack LargeScaleForums.com or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with LargeScaleForums.com .
8. You must not create or submit unwanted email to any LargeScaleForums members (”Spam”).
9. You must not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature.
10. You must not, in the use of LargeScaleForums, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).

Violation of any of these agreements will result in the termination of your LargeScaleForums.com account. While LargeScaleForums.com prohibits such conduct and content on its site, you understand and agree that LargeScaleForums cannot be responsible for the Content posted on its web site and you nonetheless may be exposed to such materials and that you use the LargeScaleForums.com service at your own risk.

General Conditions

1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

By clicking the “I Accept” button when when you sign up for an account, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and any modifications made to it in accordance with Section 19 below.

2. THE LargeScaleForums SERVICE

The LargeScaleForums Service is an online application, enabling businesses and individuals to build, join and participate in customized and personalized discussion groups. You understand and agree that the Service is provided “AS-IS” and that LargeScaleForums assumes no responsibility for, among other things, (1) any service outages or interruptions (2) the unavailability of particular boards, features or services, (3) the inability to access the Service, (4) the failure or inability to post materials to the Service, (4) the deletion of materials posted to the Service or (5) the failure to store materials posted to the service.

3. REGISTRATION

To take advantage of the Service’s full capabilities users must register with LargeScaleForums. You may register at HERE. You may also register as a user by clicking on the “register” link on any LargeScaleForums screen, then clicking on the link that describes your age. If you choose to register, you agree that you will supply LargeScaleForums with the information requested in the registration process, ensure that the information supplied is accurate, and update the information as necessary to ensure that it remains accurate. Information supplied in the registration process, as well as other information provided to LargeScaleForums during your use of the Service is governed by LargeScaleForums’s privacy policy that can be viewed HERE. During the registration process, you will asked to provide a user ID and valid e-mail address. You will not be asked to select a password for your individual account. Your password will be e-mailed to the e-mail account you suppllied. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree that anyone with whom you share your password will abide by this Agreement, and that you will be liable for the conduct of those using your account and password. You are encouraged to and may change your password at any time by visiting the My RCNT menu located on any of the LargeScaleForums forum screens. If you learn of any unauthorized use of your account or password, you agree to notify LargeScaleForums immediately via email to support@LargeScaleForums.com.

4. CONTENT ACCESSIBLE ON THE SERVICE

The LargeScaleForums service contains a huge variety of information, data, messages, directions, computer programs, pictures, audio/visual works and other materials (the “Content”) that users post. Please use caution and common sense when viewing LargeScaleForums communities. You understand and agree that any Content posted on the Service is the exclusive responsibility of the person who posted or uploaded it, and that you will be solely responsible for any Content that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Service. You acknowledge that LargeScaleForums is not responsible for, does not control, does not endorse and does not verify the Content posted to the Service or available through the service, and that it makes no guarantee regarding the reliability, accuracy, legitimacy or quality of any such Content. You agree that you will bear any and all risk of reliance on the accuracy, validity or legitimacy of such Content. Under no circumstances will LargeScaleForums be liable in any way to you for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted or otherwise transmitted via the Service.
You acknowledge that LargeScaleForums does not pre-screen Content, but agree that LargeScaleForums shall have the right (but not the obligation) to access any board, and remove or restrict access to any Content on the Service in its sole discretion and without notice or compensation. Without limiting the foregoing, LargeScaleForums shall have the right to access any board and remove or restrict access to any Content that violates this Agreement or that LargeScaleForums believes is otherwise objectionable.
You acknowledge and agree that LargeScaleForums may preserve or disclose any Content if it reasonably believes disclosure is required by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce this Agreement; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of LargeScaleForums, its users and the public.

5. LICENSE GRANTED TO LargeScaleForums

You grant LargeScaleForums the world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt, distribute and publish any Content you post/upload/contribute to the Service, for the purposes of displaying such information on LargeScaleForums’s sites and for the promotion and marketing of LargeScaleForums’s services. However, LargeScaleForums will not resell, attempt to resell, or otherwise convey these rights to any third party.

6. USER CONDUCT

You agree to not use the Service to: (a) violate or solicit the violation of any applicable local, state, national or international law; (b) infringe the rights of any third party, including but not limited to intellectual property rights and privacy or publicity rights. (c) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that (1) is unlawful, threatening, abusive, tortious, defamatory, obscene, libelous, or invasive of another’s privacy; (2) consists of instructional information on illegal activities, including, but not limited to, hacking, cracking, and phreaking; (3) violates or infringes in any way upon the proprietary rights of others, including, without limitation, copyrighted software, music, photographs, text, videos or artwork; (4) constitutes pornography, or sexual material of an obscene nature or that violates local, state or national laws; (5) is the private information of another such as their addresses, phone number, Social Security number or credit card number; (6) contains software viruses, Trojan horses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; or (7) you do not have a right to upload or post due to contractual or other legal obligation. (d) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a LargeScaleForums official, message board leader (moderator), guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (e) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service; (f) interfere with or disrupt the Service, computer servers or boards accessible through the Service; (g) disseminate off-topic messages on boards promoting any product, service, web site, board or venture, or promote boards on the Service through unsolicited electronic mail messages to third parties.
If you do use the Service to commit any of the above, LargeScaleForums may, at its sole discretion. terminate your password, account (or any part of it) or ability to use the Service, and remove and discard any Content within the Service.

7. CREATION OF BOARDS

In using the Service to create or make accessible a board, you agree to use your best efforts to ensure that individuals posting Content to the board comply with Paragraph 6 of this Agreement, and agree to take action to remove or disable access to any Content on the board that violates Paragraph 6 of this Agreement.

8. COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED PROGRAM

By signing up to be a registered user or moderator under the Community-Supported program, you agree to the following:
(a) You expressly understand and acknowledge LargeScaleForums’s Disclaimer of Warranties under Section 13 below and that LargeScaleForums will not be liable for any damages under this Agreement pursuant to the Limitations of Liability in Section 14 below. You expressly understand and acknowledge that the pricing reflected in this program is based on the above limitations, and that the limitations in this Section 8(a) represent a reasonable allocation of risk for the parties.
(b) You expressly understand and acknowledge that any fees due or paid by you under the COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED program are non-refundable in part or in whole. LargeScaleForums currently accepts payment by check, money order or PayPal, and reserves the right to modify its acceptable forms of payment at any time without notice.
(c) You expressly understand and acknowledge that LargeScaleForums may change your privileges as a user or administrator of the COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED program and that LargeScaleForums reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED program (or any part of it) with or without notice. You acknowledge that LargeScaleForums shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED program.

9. LIMITATIONS, CONDITIONS AND RULES REGARDING SERVICE

You agree that LargeScaleForums may establish, in its sole discretion, any limitations, conditions or rules concerning use of the Service, including, for example, the maximum number of messages a user may post to a given board or the Service in a given day, the number of days that posted messages will be available, or the maximum size of a given post. You acknowledge that LargeScaleForums has the right to change these general practices and limits at any time, in its sole discretion, with or without notice.

10. MODIFICATION AND TERMINATION OF SERVICE

LargeScaleForums reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part of it) with or without notice. You agree that LargeScaleForums shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service. You agree that LargeScaleForums, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, account (or any part of it) or ability to use the Service, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason or for no reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use, or for violating the letter or the spirit of this Agreement. You agree that any termination of your access to the Service may be immediate and without prior notice. You further agree that LargeScaleForums shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your use or ability to access the Service. Specific reasons for such limitation or termination include, but are not limited to the following: (a) circumventing any LargeScaleForums banner display. Subscribers to our “no-ad banner option” are exempt from this requirement. All LargeScaleForums member boards must have a link to LargeScaleForums or its related directories. (b) using in the registration of your LargeScaleForums membership an email account that is not your own or that is or becomes inactive. (c) reproducing, distributing, republishing or retransmitting material posted by other LargeScaleForums members without the prior permission of such members. LargeScaleForums reserves the right to take any action it deems necessary with respect to your LargeScaleForums or user account if we have reason to believe it may cause us to lose the services of our ISP or suppliers.

11. OTHER WEB SITES AND RESOURCES

Third parties using the Service may provide links or access to other web sites and resources. Because LargeScaleForums has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that LargeScaleForums is not responsible for the availability of such 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 LargeScaleForums 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.

12. NO RESALE, REDISTRIBUTION OR REPURPOSING OF SERVICE OR CONTENT

You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, use of the Service, access to the Service or any of the Content accessible through the Service, other than Content as to which you hold the intellectual property rights.

13. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT: (a) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. LargeScaleForums EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. (b) LargeScaleForums MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE INFORMATION THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE. (c) ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS OBTAINED AND USED AT YOUR SOLE| RISK AND DISCRETION AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. (d) NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY BY LargeScaleForums.

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT LargeScaleForums SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF LargeScaleForums HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE.

15. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF SECTIONS 13 AND 14 MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

16. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS

You agree to indemnify and hold LargeScaleForums, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, and contractors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post to or transmit through the Service, your use of the Service, your connection to the Service, your violation of the law, this Agreement or the rights of another.

17. NOTICES

Notices to you may be made via either email or regular mail. LargeScaleForums may also provide notices of changes to this Agreement or the Service by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on the Service.

18. NOTICES

This Agreement and your relationship with LargeScaleForums shall be governed by the laws of the State of Kentucky without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and LargeScaleForums agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Fayette Kentucky, USA agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the Agreement must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

19. NOTICES

LargeScaleForums does not routinely terminate user accounts, If you decide to leave or are removed from LargeScaleForums for whatever reason, all of your prior submissions and contributions to the community remain the content and property of this community. The exception is when your contributions are hosted on your own server, in which case you are free to do what you want with it. LargeScaleForums is an ongoing work in progress and even if you and LargeScaleForums eventually grow apart, we want to maintain a true history of the building of LargeScaleForums, and everything that once was, will always be.

20. MODIFICATION

We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on our site located HERE. All amendments shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on our site. Your use of the Service following the effective date of any modifications shall constitute your binding acceptance of those modifications. This Agreement may not be otherwise amended except in a writing signed by an officer of LargeScaleForums.

21. GENERAL

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and LargeScaleForums with respect to the Service and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between you and LargeScaleForums. LargeScaleForums’s failure to enforce any provision of this agreement will not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. In the event that a portion of this agreement is held unenforceable, the unenforceable portion will be construed in accordance with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions of the parties, and the remainder of the provisions will remain in full force and effect. Paragraphs 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 of this Agreement shall survive any termination of the Agreement. If you are a Connecticut resident, you may have a copy of this Agreement emailed to you by sending a e-amil request to support@LargeScaleForums.com This e-mail should include your; user ID, actual name and address to mail the request of this agreement to.

22. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE - ENGLISH

This AGREEMENT AND THE LargeScaleForums site is developed in English and MAY BE translated into other languages. TO THE EXTENT A TRANSLATION OF THE AGREEMENT OR THE SITE IS PROVIDED, IT IS AFFORDED AS a convenience only. For all purposes, only the English VERSION OF THIS AGREEMENT, AND THE ENGLISH VERSIONS OF THE LargeScaleForums SITE SHALL BE OFFICIAL AND BINDING ON THE PARTIES. LargeScaleForums is not responsible for the accuracy and correctness of the translation. You are solely responsible to carefully read AND UNDERSTAND the English text and YOU AGREE THAT YOU MAY NOT RELY on translations provided AS OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OR REPRESENTATIONS.