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The Foundation of L.I.F.E. Weblogs Blog Policy
We don’t mean to turn you off from blogging by immediately inundating you with policies, but we need to make clear our respective rights and responsibilities related to this service. So, The Foundation of L.I.F.E. (the “Foundation”) offers these blogging services (the “Services”) to you subject to the terms and conditions of use (“Terms”) contained herein. By accessing, creating or contributing to any blogs hosted at TheFoundationofLIFE.org, and in consideration for the Services we provide to you, you agree to abide by these Terms. Please read them carefully before posting to or creating any blog.
Unless you specify otherwise, any and all works of authorship copyrightable by you and posted by you to any blog (“Content”) are submitted under the terms of an Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons Public License. Under this license, you permit anyone to copy, distribute, display and perform your Content, royalty-free, on the condition that they credit your authorship each time they do so. You also permit others to distribute derivative works of your Content, but only if they do so under the same Attribution-Share-Alike license that governs your original Content.
Please read the full text of the Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons Public License.
Among other things, this license permits RSS aggregators to copy, distribute, display and perform any Content on your blog that you syndicate using RSS. All Content on this blog is syndicated for RSS aggregation unless you change your settings to indicate otherwise.
When publicly displaying, publicly performing, reproducing or distributing copies of any Content as incorporated into a collective work, the Foundation will make best efforts to credit your authorship. You grant the Ministry permission to use your name for such attribution purposes. You, likewise, agree to represent yourself accurately. You acknowledge that misrepresentation may lead us, in our sole discretion, to cancel your use of the Services and delete any of your Content.
The Foundation believes deeply in free speech. However, we must reserve the right to remove certain content that you may post. As a general matter, you may post content freely to your blog and to those of others, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable.
You may not use the Foundation name to endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause or political candidate. Representation of your personal opinions as institutionally endorsed by The Foundation of L.I.F.E. is strictly prohibited.
By posting content to any blog, 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 the Ministry harmless for any and all claims resulting from content you supply.
You acknowledge that the Foundation does not pre-screen or regularly review posted content, but that it shall have the right to remove in its sole discretion any content that it considers to violate these Terms or the terms of any other campus user agreements that may govern your use of the campus networks.
You understand that all content posted to TheFoundationofLIFE.org is the sole responsibility of the individual who originally posted the content. You understand, also, that all opinions expressed by users, even the associated ministers, of this site are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of the Foundation.
You agree that the Foundation 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.
Collecting personal information from children under the age of 13 is prohibited. No Content should be directed toward such children without the express written permission of the Foundation.
This site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The Foundation makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the site’s operation or the information, content or materials included on this site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, the Foundation hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. The Foundation will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this site. You expressly agree that you use this site solely at your own risk.
Please be sure to read our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.
The Foundation reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.
The Foundation respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please contact us in order that we might follow the proper reporting procedures for copyright infringements.
By clicking on the link below and entering the blog section of this website, you acknowledge that you have read and are bound by this agreement, as well as any other Ministry network usage agreements that may govern your conduct. Thank you for participating in The Foundation of L.I.F.E. Weblogs. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions.
The Foundation of L.I.F.E. Blogger Ethics Agreement
By entering the blog section of this website, you further agree to abide by the following ethics:
- I will tell the truth.
- I will write deliberately and with accuracy.
- I will acknowledge and correct mistakes promptly.
- I will preserve the original post, using notations to show where I have made changes so as to maintain the integrity of my publishing.
- I will never delete a post.
- I will not delete comments unless they are spam or off-topic.
- I will reply to emails and comments when appropriate, and do so promptly.
- I will strive for high quality with every post – including basic spellchecking.
- I will stay on topic.
- I will disagree with other opinions respectfully.
- I will link to online references and original source materials directly.
- I will disclose conflicts of interest.
- I will keep private issues and topics private, since discussing private issues would jeopardize my personal and work relationships.
Under my agreement to the above policies and statement of ethics, I wish to enter the Foundation of L.I.F.E. weblogs.
