Terms of Use
The purpose of this “Terms of Use” is to make sure that our respective rights and responsibilities related to this website are clear. Joseph Kulandai (”Me”, “Myself”, and “I”) offer this website as a service to the user (”You”, “Your”) subject to the following terms and conditions of use(”Terms”). By accessing or contributing to the website hosted at http://josephkulandai.com (”Website”) you agree to abide by these Terms. These Terms are adapted from the terms of use of Harvard’s Weblog Community.
1. Rights in the Content You Submit
Any and all works of authorship copyrightable by you and posted by you to Website are submitted under a fully paid-up license to Me. Under this license, you permit Me to copy, distribute, display and perform your Content, royalty-free. You also permit Me to distribute derivative works of your Content and to grant sublicenses to anyone. Although blogs often do not make any money, the fully paid-up license gives Me the right to earn money from your content in any way that I see fit — including posting it in a password protected site or publishing it in a book.
Amongst other things, at my discretion, this license may permit RSS aggregators to copy, distribute, display and perform any Content that you submit. Further, your submission does not create any obligition on Me to publish your submitted Content.
2. Conduct
I believe deeply in free speech. However, this is My Website, and I reserve the right to remove any content that you may post. As a general matter, I will attempt to remove any content that is inaccurate, racist, illegal, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable to Me, software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware. However, my filters are far from perfect. You may not use My name to endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause or political candidate. Representation of your personal opinions as endorsed by Me is strictly prohibited.
By posting content to the Website, you warrant and represent that you either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, or that your use of the content is a protected fair use. You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading false information. You represent and warrant also that the content you supply does not violate these Terms, and that you will indemnify and hold Me harmless for any and all claims resulting from content you supply.
You acknowledge that I do not necessarily pre-screen or regularly review posted content, but that I shall have the right to remove or modify in My sole discretion any content that I considers to violate these Terms or for any other reason. I may also delegate this authority.
You understand that all content posted to the Website is the sole responsibility of the individual who originally posted the content. You understand, also, that all opinions expressed by users of this Website are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of Me or My Employer.
You agree that I will not be liable, under any circumstances and in any way, for any errors or omissions, loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of use of any content posted on this site. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.
You agree that You will not use the Website to: (a) transmit spam, bulk or unsolicited communications; (b) pretend to be Me or someone else, or spoof My or someone else’s identity;
3. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
This Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. I make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the Website’s operation or the information, content or materials included on this Website. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, I hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. I will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this Website. You expressly agree that you use this Website solely at your own risk.
This is Joseph Kulandai’s personal Website. These posts or articles or work or comments or software (”Work”) are not edited by my employers or their clients and, as such, cannot be so attributed. Similarly, this Website and these Work are not works for hire, but are written entirely outside of the scope of my employment. To the extent that any of my employers’ resources have been used to maintain the site, that use was done with full understanding that a limited amount of personal computer use is acceptable. I.e., I own the Website and these Work. Views expressed here should be double-checked for accuracy and current applicability. These Work do not provide any financial advice.
4. External Resources
You may find links to other Internet sites or resources on the Website. You acknowledge and agree that I am 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. I will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any actual or alleged damage or loss 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.
5. Privacy Policy
The nature of Work is to reach a public audience. Please be aware that any information that you submit to Me whether through forms or email, including personally identifiable information, may be publicly displayed on the Website, or on websites within or not within My control. If you don’t want others to see such information, don’t submit it. I may publicly display the IP addresses of visitors and contributors the Website. I may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to tailor Website content and to format the Website and software to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. I may use aggregate visitor data to prepare publicly displayed reports regarding the traffic on individual Work, Website popularity rankings, and referrers that visitors use to access individual Work.
6. Modification of These Terms
I reserve the right to change, at any time, at My sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms (Monthly). Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.
7. Copyright
Anyone should feel free to copy short snippets from the Website, so long as you attribute the material source. A sample attribution follows: Reproduced from http://josephkulandai.com. Contact Me if you want to copy an entire Work or a series of Works.
8. Reader Addendum
Anyone who reads content from the Website more than twice agrees to not charge Me with any violation of copyright, Lanham Act, patent, defamation, libel, or fraud claim based wholly or partially on any aspect of this Website. I am committed to respecting others’ intellectual property rights. If you do have a problem with anything posted on the Website or feel that you have an ownership claim to anything on the Website, please contact Me immediately. I shall validate Your claim and act accordingly.