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balance between the main goal of both our site and our forum, providing a fair,
impartial and free speech arena for lively and open discussion of important
topics and issues related to the mission and purpose of the CityCandidates
Services, and keeping the relaxed and welcoming atmosphere of our online
community.
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provide you with access to a variety of resources, including tools, download
areas, communication forums and product information (collectively
"Services"). All CityCandidates Services, including any updates,
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public debate of important social issues and unfettered access to public
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Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms,
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CityCandidates Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You
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responsible for any private behavior. However, if it is determined that a
pattern of abusive behavior is having a chilling effect on other's participation
in the Service, any CityCandidates Service operator may issue a warning,
suspension and/or remove by banning.
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USE OF SERVICES
CityCandidates Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services,
chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars,
photo albums, file cabinets and/or other message or communication facilities
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Service" and collectively "Communication Services"). You agree to
use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and
material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular
Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, by using any
CityCandidates forum or Services, you agree to the following conditions:
· If any user should decide they do not agree with the provisions of this policy and user agreement, they can email or PM the forum operator and their account will be placed into a non-operative status immediately upon receipt of the message.
· User and member accounts are no longer deleted for legal reasons. If any user or member chooses to not be a member any longer, their account will be rendered inoperative. That will prevent any new registrations under that member's former name and will alleviate possible legal issues connected with residual message content.
· To not use CityCandidates Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise). Surveys, polls and contest and information must be pre-approved by an CityCandidates Service Operator or staff/management. Online polls conducted as part of any CityCandidates Service Software (such as forum software) is allowed without approval, as long as the topic does not violate the law, community standards or these Terms of Service.
· To not reveal another member's real identity in any way. You may not reveal the real identity of any staff or management. You may not post any specific information that may identify any member or staff/management regardless of where that information came from; public records, telephone listing, web pages, membership records, newspaper or magazine articles, television or radio broadcasts, etc. We value our members' right to privacy. Violation of this provision is basis for immediate banning.
· If you have issues with another CityCandidates Service user or member, you may refer to that person by their site, forum or Service identity (or ID), and CityCandidates Services identities may be used in debate, arguments, discussions, and possibly even flame wars. As long as the real identity of the ID holder is not revealed in any way, there is little restriction that will be placed on how Service users may refer to one another's Service IDs.
· If someone should post derogatory messages to any CityCandidates Service mentioning another member by Service ID or name, without revealing the person's real name, as long as no accusations of illegal activity are made, there will most likely be no action taken against the poster of the messages.
· While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts in the open topic areas. Flame wars are to be held to the less restricted hidden areas of all CityCandidates Services and forums. In matters of dispute or conflict, our decision is final in these matters. Complaints concerning content are subject to the Notification provisions specified in these Terms of Service. Those provisions are non-negotiable.
· To not defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others. This provision is subject to libel/defamation law and current case law. Complaints are subject to the Notification provisions specified in these Terms of Service. Those provisions are non-negotiable.
· To not publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
· We do not allow the use of direct profanity in open areas of any CityCandidates service. Heated debate and argumentative discussion is reserved for the less restricted hidden areas of CityCandidates forums and Services. In those areas, the use of abbreviations such as "wtf" will most likely not get you banned but use your common sense.
· Users may not argue a staff member or moderator's decision publicly. Any and all complaints directed at a staff member or moderator must first address the staff member or moderator in question via PM. If the problem can not be resolved, then the staff member or moderator and user must send their positions to a an CityCandidates service management member. The CityCandidates service management member will make or change any and/or all final decisions. Users of CityCandidates Services agree not to harass any member of any CityCandidates Services staff or management, at any time, either in person, PM, e-mail, telephone, postal mail or by any other means. Doing so is grounds for immediate banning.
· To not upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including, by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consent to do the same.
· To not use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made available through CityCandidates Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.
· To not upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another. Any such activity will be prosecuted to the full extent the law allows, and use of this site denotes agreement by any perpetrator to reimburse CityCandidates.com, Thom E. Geiger and any user of CityCandidates services who have been harmed or damaged by prohibited activity.
· To not advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such CityCandidates Services specifically allows such messages.
· To not download any file posted by another user of a CityCandidates Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed, performed, and/or distributed in such manner.
· To not falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
· To not restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying any CityCandidates Services.
· To not violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular CityCandidates Service.
· To not harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.
· To not violate any applicable laws or regulations.
· To not create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
· To not use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of CityCandidates Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof.
· Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the like.
· To attempt to use multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
· Signatures may contain images, but may not be any larger than 300x100; 468x60 banners are also permitted (within reason). If your signature is larger than the allotted size given or deemed unacceptable by staff, you will be requested by a moderator to resize or change your image. Please also try and keep text signatures under 10 lines. Failing to comply with a moderator's request to fix your signature will result in the removal of your signature. Disagreements over signatures must, as with any conflict with CityCandidates staff or management, be handled through PM or email.
· Please try to keep images in your profile to a minimum file size to accommodate for dialup members. We want everyone here to have an enjoyable experience, and images that have excessive file sizes cause undue problems for those without broadband.
· Spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using any CityCandidates email or Private Message system to spam other members. Advertising is allowed, if pre-approved by CityCandidates management. By accessing and/or using this site, Spammers agree to all provisions of these Terms of Service, and agree to totally reimburse CityCandidates/Thom E. Geiger for any disruption in service, time spent deleting and editing spam content, and a minimum $500.00 (USD) fee per violation or message. What constitutes Spam and violations of these Terms of Service, will be determined solely by Thom E. Geiger or another member of the CityCandidates management team.
· Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
· While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative and critical conversations about public figures, products, companies, businesses, or celebrities, we will not tolerate constant and/or unauthorized blatant adverts.
· Remember to try and post in the correct forum/service areas. Take your time to look at all areas and see where your content should go. If your content is placed in the wrong service area, it can and may be moved or deleted by a moderator, staff or management member.
· We reserve the right to remove offensive posts/content without notice.
· We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates any provision of these Terms of Service, forum/service rules or current law.
· The use/theft of another person's real or CityCandidates Service identity is strictly forbidden and has special penalties which may include permanent banning from any or all CityCandidates Services.
· Various sub areas, sections, divisions, or sub forums of CityCandidates Services may have rules and guidelines specific to that area. You hereby agree to adhere to those rules and guidelines as part of these rules and this agreement.
· Also, while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure CityCandidates Services and forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
Warnings
You may receive informal or official warnings from any CityCandidates
Services staff or management.
Suspension
With your third official warning in one year, you can be suspended from the
area where you received the warning for 30 days.
If you attempt to use additional Service accounts to circumvent any suspension,
each attempt will prolong the suspension by an additional 30 days. Repetitive
attempts to circumvent a suspension can and may result in longer suspension
periods or banning from the Service. The 30 day suspension is not absolute, and
the time limit may be adjusted by any CityCandidates staff or management member.
DMCA, COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK, LIBEL, DEFAMATION, AND OTHER COMPLAINTS
Legal Disputes
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AGAINST A MEMBER OR USER OF THIS SITE, SERVICE OR FORUM, IN WHICH CASE THE
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AGAINST WHOM THE ACTION IS SOUGHT. ACCEPTANCE OF THIS CONDITION IS
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CONDITIONS OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE.
If you have an issue concerning our services, policies, or staff, please use a private contact method such as a personal message or email to a staff member. We take all complaints serious and will do our best to address them in a timely manner.
Subpoenas or other legal instruments seeking information considered private or sensitive.
We will consider any legal information seeking instrument issued by a court of
legitimate jurisdiction over this forum and site. That means it must be issued
by a court in
Notification
Anyone wishing to lodge a complaint on libel or defamation grounds must either
be the party that has supposedly been harmed by the content posted, or a legally
designated representative of that person. A written and signed complaint, along
with proof of identity or legal representation must be forwarded to
CityCandidates.com and/or Thom E. Geiger,
Any such complaint must include the following:
1. A physical signature of the person making the claim of libel or
defamation or that person's authorized agent;
2. A description of the content claimed to be libelous or defaming;
3. A description of the location of that content, sufficient to enable
the system operator to find it;
4. Sufficient information to enable the system operator to contact the
complainer;
5. A statement that the complainer believes in good faith that the
content in dispute constitutes libel or defamation under the law
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under
penalty of perjury, that the complainer is the person mentioned in the disputed
content or is authorized to act on behalf of the person mentioned in the
disputed content.
7. If the notice substantially conforms, CityCandidates/Thom E.
Geiger must notify the author of the allegation of libel or defamation and
secure a voluntary edit of the work or disable access to the message if
CityCandidates.com desires to claim the limitation. Under certain circumstances,
it may be appropriate for CityCandidates.com/Thom E. Geiger to participate in the
determination of whether the disputed content is actually libelous or
defamatory. The limit and need for any participation by CityCandidates.com/Thom
E. Geiger will be determined solely by CityCandidates.com/Thom E. Geiger.
If the notice fails substantially to conform, but the problems are all
with requirements 1, 5 or 6 above, in order to take advantage of a special
benefit resulting from the notice's nonconformance, CityCandidates.com must
contact the complainer.
If the complaining party sends the rest of the information, CityCandidates.com
must notify the message author of the allegation of libel or defamation and
secure a voluntary edit of the message or disable access to the message if
CityCandidates.com desires to claim the ISP "library" limitation.
If the complaining party does not respond, or if the notice is nonconforming
with respect to requirements 2, 3 or 4, CityCandidates.com may ignore the notice,
but will save it along with a copy of any correspondence attempting to obtain
more information, in case CityCandidates.com needs proof that it did not receive
a conforming notice and did what is required to try to get one.
Counter- notification
After the message owner voluntarily edits the message or CityCandidates.com
disables access to it, CityCandidates.com may decide to proceed to
counter-notification or the person lodging the complaint may receive a
substantially conforming counter-notification from the message author. In either
case, we must do certain things to respond and to preserve another special
immunity current law gives us.
Counter-notices can only claim two things: (i) that the complaining party is
mistaken and that the message is lawfully written and is not libelous or
defamatory or (ii) that the disputed content has been misidentified. A message
author may assert that the person lodging the complaint is "mistaken"
in characterizing it as libelous or defamatory. In some cases, it will be
appropriate for CityCandidates.com to participate in the determination of whether
the content should be removed. The limit and need for any participation by
CityCandidates.com/Thom E. Geiger will be determined solely by CityCandidates.com/Thom
E. Geiger.
Counter-notices from message authors must contain the following:
1. A physical signature of the message author;
2. A description of the content removed and its location before it was
removed;
3. A statement that the message author believes in good faith that the
content was removed by mistake or because it was misidentified;
4. The message author's name, address and phone number (if a resident of
the state of Mississippi) and his or her consent to jurisdiction of the Lowndes
County Chancery Court or Federal District Court for any Mississippi address, and
5. A statement that the message author will accept service of process
from the complainer.
6. We will not be liable to the author of the message for any harm he or
she might suffer because of our actions in disabling access to a message so long
as we:
a. Take reasonable steps to notify
the message author about the allegations in a conforming notice that we have
received;
b. Promptly send a copy of any
substantially conforming counter-notice to the complainer indicating that we
will restore access in 10 business days; and
c. Restore access to the contested or
disputed content within 10 to 14 business days after the day we receive the
counter-notice, unless we first receive a notice from the complainer that he or
she has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the message author.
These requirements are non-negotiable.
If you wish to lodge a complaint of copyright, trademark, intellectual property
or other type of complaint, you will be required to provide notice on
CityCandidates.com/Thom E. Geiger as detailed in the section above entitled Notification.
Appeals Process - You can appeal a warning(s) once you receive a
third warning and 30 day removal, but the decision of the CityCandidates Service
staff and management is final. Appeals will be taken up through email or
Personal Messaging, and at no time will any messages about suspensions be made
public. Doing so may result in banning from the Service.
Advertising Services
We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to
users here that advertise or solicit any products or services, unless the
posters of such information on those products or services are not connected with
said products or services, or the messages have been approved by the staff or
management of CityCandidates.com services. Explicit advertising and soliciting in
signatures is also prohibited, unless approved by the staff and management of
CityCandidates.com services.
CityCandidates.com and Thom
CityCandidates.com and Thom E. Geiger reserve the right at all times to disclose
any information as CityCandidates.com and Thom E. Geiger deem necessary to
satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request,
or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole
or in part, in CityCandidates.com/Thom E. Geiger's sole discretion.
CAUTION:
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about
yourself or your children in any CityCandidates Services. CityCandidates.com and
Thom E. Geiger do not control or endorse the content, messages or information
found in any CityCandidates Services and, therefore, CityCandidates.com and Thom
E. Geiger specifically disclaim any liability with regard to the CityCandidates
Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any CityCandidates
Services. Moderators and CityCandidates.com staff are not authorized
CityCandidates.com/Thom E. Geiger spokespersons, and their views do not
necessarily reflect those of CityCandidates.com and Thom E. Geiger.
Materials uploaded to the CityCandidates Services may be subject to posted
limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination; you are responsible for
adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO CityCandidates.com and Thom E. Geiger OR POSTED AT ANY
CityCandidates.com/Thom E. Geiger NETWORK WEB SITE.
CityCandidates.com and Thom E. Geiger do not claim ownership of the materials you
provide to CityCandidates.com and Thom E. Geiger (including feedback and
suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any CityCandidates Services or
its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of
any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively
"Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing
or submitting ("Posting") your Submission you are granting
CityCandidates.com and Thom E. Geiger, their affiliated companies and necessary
sub licensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation
of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all
CityCandidates.com and Related Services), including, without limitation, the
license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly
perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish
your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such
rights to any affiliate of the Services.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as
provided herein. CityCandidates.com and Thom
By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise
control all of the rights to your Submission as described in these Terms of
Service including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to
provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by Posting a
Submission that contains images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise
graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you warrant and represent
that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner
of such Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any content
and/or images contained in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of
your use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Service and the Services,
(b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses
described in these Terms of Service, and (c) that each person depicted in such
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these Terms of Service, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation,
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Registration
In order to use certain parts of this website, a user must first complete the
registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact
information (such as name and email address). This information is used to
contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed
interest. It is optional for the user to provide additional or demographic
information and/or unique identifiers. Personal information means any
information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not
limited to, a first and last name, email address, a home, postal or other
physical address, other contact information, title, birth date, gender,
occupation, industry, personal interests, and other information when needed to
provide a service you requested.
When you browse our services, you do so anonymously, unless you have previously
indicated that you wish a CityCandidates Service to remember your login and
password. We don't automatically collect personal information, including your
email address. We do log your IP address (the Internet address of your computer)
to give us an idea of which parts of our services you visit and how long you
spend there. But we do not link your IP address to any personal information
unless you have logged in to our website. Like many other commercial websites,
CityCandidates services may use a standard technology called a "cookie"
to collect information about how you use the site. Please go to "Cookies
and Tracking Information" below for more information.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing
information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any
personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes
their browser, the cookie may be deleted. For instance, by setting a cookie on
our sites or services, the user would not have to log in with a password more
than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie,
they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be
limited in some areas of our site. For example, the user will be required to log
on in the absence of a cookie and some or all software settings (such as skin or
appearance choices and settings) will be lost.
A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to
maintain settings choices between user sessions so users do not have to manually
login to the site or services on every visit, but the only personal
information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A
cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other
sites. Some parts of CityCandidates websites or services use cookies to log user
traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website
information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is
in helping users reach that information.
If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set
your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when
your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by
turning them off in your browser, although you may not be able to take full
advantage of CityCandidates websites and services if you do so. In particular,
you may be required to accept cookies in order to complete certain actions
through our websites and services. You do not need to have cookies turned on,
however, to use/navigate through many parts of our websites and services, except
access to certain restricted or protected web pages which may require a login
and password.
However, we have no access to or
control over third party cookies placed on visitors' computers by sites linked
to or from any CityCandidates.com services.
Data Security
Your CityCandidates Services account information is password-protected for your
privacy and security. CityCandidates safeguards the security of the data you send
us with physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. While we strive to
protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the
information you transmit to us, and so we urge you to take every precaution to
protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords
often, use a combination of letters, numbers and special characters, and make
sure you use a secure browser.
Children and Privacy
Our websites and services do not target and are not intended to attract
children under the age of 13. CityCandidates services do not knowingly
solicit personal information from children under the age of 13 or send them
requests for personal information.
Log Files
The web hosting software on the site that hosts CityCandidates.com Services
automatically logs and tracks IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the
site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for
aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information such as names or addresses.
Sharing
We will not share any automatically gathered/aggregated demographic information
with anyone. Such data is not linked to any personal information that can
identify any individual person.
Links
CityCandidates services contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are
not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our
users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of
each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This
privacy statement applies solely to information collected by CityCandidates
services.
Newsletter
If any CityCandidates.com Services use the email system built-in to the web
hosting site's server where CityCandidates.com is hosted, and a user chooses or
wishes to utilize such CityCandidates.com Services, the system will require
contact information such as name and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our services request information from users via official
CityCandidates questionnaires, surveys or contests. Participation in these
surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice
whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include
contact information demographic information (such as geographical location, age
level). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving
the use and satisfaction CityCandidates services.
Security
CityCandidates services take every precaution to protect our users’
information. When users submit sensitive information via CityCandidates services,
your information is protected both online and off-line. If you have any
questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to columbuscandidates2025@gmail.com.
Site and Service Updates
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updates. Members are not able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which
contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to
provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account
via Personal Messaging or email.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user’s personally identifiable information changes, or if a user no
longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update
or remove that user’s personal data provided to us. This can usually be done
at the member's personal control panel information page.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this
page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide
to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that
stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email.
Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this
different manner. We will use information in accordance the provisions in these
Terms of Service.
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