IMPORTANT -- PLEASE READ: These Terms of Service describe the proper kinds of conduct and prohibited uses of the WNC Forum. These terms are not exhaustive and WNCForum.com reserves the right to modify them at any time, effective upon posting of the modified terms on the Forum. By registering as a user or using the Forum, you agree to abide by these terms as modified from time to time. Any violation of these terms may result in the suspension or termination of your right to access the forum.

Permissible Uses

WNCForum.com believes that the Forum is a valuable place for WNCForum.com customers to exchange information and learn from one another. Like any community, the Forum is most valuable when everyone follows certain basic guidelines and rules of conduct. The Forum Terms of Service sets forth these Rules and Guidelines so that you know what is expected of you and what you can expect from other participants when using the Forum.

At WNCForum.com, we want the Forum to be appropriate, friendly, informative, safe and fun for all of our users. We want our users to utilize the Forum only to answer questions, correct problems, and learn more about WNCForum.com products and services. If everyone follows the Terms of Service, then the Forum will remain a fun and informative community. Use of the WNC Forum is limited to participants aged 13 and over.

The WNC Forum is an English language forum geared towards the communities of western North Carolina. Use of the Forum is governed by U.S. law. Although WNCForum.com customers from other countries are welcome to use it, WNC Forum moderators are not trained to assist these customers, and the advice on the Forum is not intended for their use, and thus may not be helpful or relevant to such customers.

Registration

You are not obligated to register in order to access the Forum and read the message boards. However, registration (via provision of a valid email address) user name and password are required in order to post to the message boards and adjust user settings. WNCForum.com will handle all information received from you in accordance with WNCForum.com's Privacy Policy.

Please keep in mind when choosing a user name and filling out your profile that whenever you post to a message board your user name, and a link to your profile and online status, will automatically appear with your post.

We may refuse to grant you, and you may not use, a user name (or email address) that is already being used by someone else, impersonates another person, belongs to another person (without his or her prior consent), violates the intellectual property or other rights of any person, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or that we reject for any other reason at our sole discretion.

In consideration of your use of the Forum, you agree that all information provided in your profile is accurate, true, current and complete. WNCForum.com may terminate your account if any of the information provided is found to be inaccurate, false, out of date, or incomplete.

WNC Forum Moderators

WNCForum.com provides Moderators for the Forum who may provide answers to some questions. Only the WNCForum.com Forum Moderators are authorized representatives of WNCForum.com on the Forum. WNCForum.com employees who are not assigned as Moderators are not authorized to represent themselves on the Forum as WNCForum.com employees, and do not provide official WNCForum.com responses to questions. WNCForum.com is not responsible for content provided by any WNCForum.com employee who is not designated as a WNCForum.com Forum Moderator.

Although the Forum is moderated by WNCForum.com employees; it is intended only as a way for visitors to get answers from other visitors, and not to get answers from WNCForum.com.

Posting Content/ Sending Private Messages

Participation in the Forum is governed by the Rules of Conduct, set forth below and incorporated herein by reference. Messages sent by the Private Messages component are subject to all rules set forth in these Terms of Service.

Links

The WNC Forum permits users to post hypertext links to content hosted and maintained by third parties. Although linked sites are not generally reviewed by Moderators, links are subject to treatment like any other type of content posted to the Forum. You may not include a link in the Forum that directs users to any content or information that, if posted in the Forum, would constitute a violation of these Terms of Service.

The linked sites are not moderated by WNCForum.com, are not under WNCForum.com's control and your access to any linked site is at your own risk. You should use your own judgment before you use any link or access any linked site. When leaving the Forum using any link provided by a user, you should be aware that WNCForum.com's terms and policies no longer govern, and, therefore, you should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of that site. If you access a linked site and find that materials to be in violation of these Terms of Service, you may report the link as described below.

WNCForum.com makes no claim or representation regarding, and accepts no responsibility for, the quality, content, nature or reliability of sites accessible by hyperlink from the Forum. The ability to include links is provided only as a convenience to you, and the inclusion of any link by a user of the Forum does not imply affiliation, endorsement, or adoption by WNCForum.com of the linked site or any information contained therein.

Enforcement

WNCForum.com generally does not pre-screen, verify or edit the content posted by users in the Forum. However, WNCForum.com and its agents reserve the right to investigate any violation of the WNCForum.com Website Terms of Use and these Forum Terms of Service and to take appropriate remedial action. WNCForum.com has absolute discretion to enforce the terms of these documents, including, but not limited to warning users of violations, disabling or suspending Private Message privileges and/ or Forum access, deleting, screening or editing any content, or prohibiting any behavior that does not comply with these Terms of Service, including the Rules of Conduct, or which is otherwise inappropriate for this Forum, harmful, objectionable, or inaccurate. If it is deemed necessary to delete content for violation of the Terms of Service, the entire thread, including the original post and all replies, may be deleted. WNC Forum Moderators generally will not edit users' posts to remove content; however, at their sole discretion, they may request that a user edit a post to delete the objectionable content and resubmit it.

WNCForum.com also may release information concerning your use of the Forum (including posted content, registration information, and network records) when WNCForum.com believes release is appropriate to comply with the law (e.g., a lawful subpoena, warrant or court order); to enforce or apply WNCForum.com's the Terms of Use and these Terms of Service; to protect WNCForum.com's rights or property, or to protect WNCForum.com's users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of the Forum; or if WNCForum.com reasonably believes that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay.

Deliberate attempts by you or someone on your behalf to evade or circumvent your suspension or termination of your rights to use the Forum violates these Terms of Service, constitutes an unlawful trespass to WNCForum.com's equipment and systems, and may result in legal action.

To report violations of the WNC Forum Terms of Service, please write to the Forum Administrator at Support@WNCForum.com. Please include the message board name, the post's subject, the post author user name, the link of the post in question and any other applicable information in your email.

Rules of Conduct

By participating in the Forum, including the posting of content and sending of Private Messages, you agree that you will not upload, post, or otherwise transmit any content (including text, links, communications, software, images, sounds, data, or other information) that:

1. Is not consistent with the permissible uses outlined by the Terms of Service, including, but not limited to, content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, vulgar, profane, sexually explicit, obscene, racially or ethnically offensive or otherwise objectionable;


2. Infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party;


3. Constitutes advertising or promotion, junk mail, "spamming," chain letters, or any other form of unauthorized solicitation. Links that connect to commercial websites will not be considered unauthorized solicitations unless the link or the website content appears to be intended as a means of solicitation as determined by WNCForum.com in its sole discretion;


4. Contains software viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other computer code or files that are designed to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software or hardware;


5. Provides any non-public information about WNCForum.com or any other company or person without the proper authorization to do so. This includes providing the names and extension numbers of WNCForum.com employees and Forum participants;


6. Intentionally interferes with the operation of the Forum or with a fellow user's message box, without limitation, mail or "post" bombing, news bombing, other flooding techniques, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks, or attempts to avoid messaging blocking.


7. Impersonates any person or entity, including a WNCForum.com employee or forges any TCP-IP packet header, e-mail header or any part of a message header. This prohibition does not include the use of aliases or anonymous remailers.


8. Attacks or insults another WNC Forum user or moderator;


9. Suggests or encourages illegal activity; or


10. Violates U.S. export law, including, without limitation, the Export Administration Act and Export Regulations maintained by the Department of Commerce.

Additional Guidelines

These Guidelines are intended to set the Forum's tone and visitor expectations, in order to improve the Forum experience.

Do not reveal information that you do not want to make public. Any personal information that you post can be obtained and used by others. Anything you post in the Forum, you post at your own risk.

You use the Forum at your own risk. In any online forum like WNCForum.com's Forum, it is not possible to be sure that other users are who they say they are, know what they say they know, or are affiliated with whom they say they are affiliated.

Please refrain from posting where you do not know the answer. Incorrect, misleading or incomplete responses do not help other users. Please feel free to respond to any post where you know the answer. Forum users have come to trust that they will get good answers. Please help build and maintain that trust.

Forum Moderators do not respond to every post. The Forum is a place for users to help users. Forum Moderators will review the message boards, and respond at their discretion. If you need to contact WNCForum.com support, please do so by email. You can contact WNCForum.com Support at Support@WNCForum.com

Be respectful of other users. Some Forum users are new to computing and may not have extensive knowledge of computers and their use. Belittling or insulting remarks are not conducive to the creation of a strong online community.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

Most of the content posted to the WNC Forum and sent in Private Messages is provided by third parties like you. Such third-party content is the sole responsibility of the person originating that content. WNCForum.com does not control, and is not responsible for this third-party content. You agree to indemnify and hold WNCForum.com, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and employees harmless from any claim, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content you submit, post, transmit or make available through the Forum or its Private Message feature, your use of the Forum, your violation of these Terms of Service or the Website Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of another.

Although the Forum is moderated by WNCForum.com employees who will do their best to answer your questions and assist you, they may not have time to fully research answers before posting them due to time pressures. Accordingly, the Forum is not a substitute for contacting WNCForum.com support or customer care. If you need to contact WNCForum.com support or customer care, please do so by using the contact information provided above.

WNCForum.com does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, reliability, completeness, usefulness, non-infringement of intellectual property rights, or quality of any content on the Forum, regardless of who originates that content. You expressly understand and agree that you bear all risks associated with using or relying on that content. WNCForum.com will not be liable or responsible in any way for any content posted on or linked from the Forum or in Private Messages, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in content, or for any losses or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of or reliance on any content. This disclaimer and limitation on liability is in addition to the disclaimers and limitations contained in the Site Terms of Use that apply to all of WNCForum.com's websites.

Governing Law and Venue

THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND ITS VALIDITY, CONSTRUCTION AND EFFECT SHALL BE GOVEREND BY AND ENFORCED PURSUANT TO THE SUBSTANTIVE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ALL LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENFORCEMENT, CONSTRUCTION, INTERPRETATION, BREACH OR VIOLATION OF THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS IN FRANKLIN, MACON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND THAT JURISDICTION AND VENUE ARE PROPER IN SUCH COURTS.