Terms of Service:

Submitted by Chris Casey on Sun, 07/17/2005 - 9:37pm.

The Montclair Post web site is a privately owned and operated for the benefit of the community. Users of this system acknowledge and accept the following Terms of Service;

User Registration: Anybody can read this web site, but only registered users can submit content. User accounts are free and require a users to provide their name, date of birth, phone number, and zip code. We prefer that new accounts use your full name as your username on any account, but alternate screen names can be used. Accounts created with aliases or partial names may be deleted or require updating before any submitted content will be considered for posting.

Submissions: Registered users can submit four types of content; stories, forum topics, blog entries, and comments on other postings that allow them. Only registered users can post any type of content to this site. There are no anonymous postings allowed.

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update adopted 4/11/07 - thanks to Bill for drafting

The Montclair Post is a community for adults (ages 18 and older) and their friends. Please note: Montclair Post does not provide professional advice, diagnosis or treatment of any kind -- medical, legal, professional, personal. The opinions you read on this site are those of members of the Montclair Post community, not necessarily those of Montclair Property Owners Association or their management company.

We have just two rules: We embrace the spirit of civil disagreement and we decline to publish unacceptable content. Specifically:

  1. Montclair Post embraces the spirit of civil disagreement.

    As a Web site devoted to creating an opportunity for all kinds of citizens to seek greater exposure, education and community, we agree to agree and to disagree - as strongly as need be - without crossing the boundaries into unacceptable content (see below).

  2. Montclair Post declines to publish unacceptable content.

    Everything published on the Montclair Post is content: Your posts, comments, forum messages, poll responses, audio, video, text, images, you name it. We embrace your diversity of opinions and values (see above) but we insist that your content may not include anything unacceptable.

- We define unacceptable content as anything included or linked that is:

o Being used to abuse, harass, stalk or threaten a person or persons

o Libelous, defamatory, knowingly false or misrepresents another person

o Infringes upon any copyright, trademark, trade secret or patent of any third party. (If you quote or excerpt someone's content, it is your responsibility to provide proper attribution to the original author. For a clear definition of proper attribution and fair use, please see The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Legal Guide for Bloggers at this URL: http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/.)

o Violates any obligation of confidentiality

o Violates the privacy, publicity, moral or any other right of any third party

o Contains editorial content that has been commissioned and paid for by a third party, (either cash or goods in barter), and/or contains paid advertising links and/or SPAM or "Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages." For Montclair Post's purposes, we define SPAM as anything that qualifies as nonsense unrelated to the discussion, either in comments on a blog or in our forums. This nonsense may take classic forms (e.g., simple links to unrelated content that are often advertising or e-commerce), or more insidious forms.

o Montclair Post's co-founders define and determine what is "unacceptable content" on a case-by-case basis - and our definitions are not limited to this list. We reserve the right to change these standards at any time with no notice. We also reserve the right to remove links to any content at any time.

We welcome your help upholding these community guidelines. If you are concerned about any content you see on this network, we urge you to contact us asap. Thank you for working with us to build the Montclair Post community.

Thanks to BlogHer for the inspiration for these guidelines. http://blogher.org/