| 1. | This site on the World Wide Web with its home page in the domain HOGC.NET (the "Website") is a complimentary information service offered by HOGC.NET ("HOGC.NET") and its affiliates (collectively referred to herein as "Affiliates") at no charge to users of the World Wide Web, with the express condition that these users agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this User Agreement. HOGC.NET and its Affiliates reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time, and you should consult the most recent version of this User Agreement (not an older cached version) each time you view the Website. Do not use the Website if you do not agree to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. |
| 2. | You acknowledge that the information on the Website is provided "as is" for general information only. HOGC.NET and its Affiliates make no warranties of any kind regarding this Website or the information in it, including but not limited to any warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or any warranty that these pages, or the server that makes them available, are free of viruses or other harmful elements, and such warranties are expressly disclaimed. HOGC.NET reserves the right to change or discontinue at any time any aspect or feature of this Website. |
| 3. | You agree that you will hold harmless HOGC.NET and its Affiliates and their shareholders, officers, directors, and employees from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this Website or the information contained in this Website or other websites to which it is linked, including but not limited to claims that you have found something you have heard, viewed or downloaded from this Website or another website to which it is linked to be obscene, offensive, defamatory, or infringing upon your intellectual property rights. In no event will HOGC.NET or its Affiliates or the contributors of information to this Website be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. |
| 4. | You acknowledge that opinions and recommendations contained in this Website, including but not limited to those which may be found in news items and discussion areas, are not necessarily those of HOGC.NET or its Affiliates or endorsed by HOGC.NET or its Affiliates. |
| 5. | HOGC.NET or its Affiliates may provide links on the Website to other websites which are not under the control of HOGC.NET or its Affiliates. In general, any website which has an address (or URL) which does not contain HOGC.NET is such a website. These links are provided for convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by HOGC.NET or its Affiliates of the organization or individual operating the website or a warranty of any type regarding the website or the information on the website. |
| 6. | You may provide a hypertext link to this Website on another website, provided that: (a) the link must be a text-only link clearly marked "HOGC.NET Website", (b) the link must "point" to the URL "https://www.HOGC.NET" and not to other pages within the Website, (c) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with the name and trademarks of HOGC.NET or its Affiliates, (d) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not create the false appearance that an entity other than HOGC.NET or its Affiliates is associated with or sponsored by HOGC.NET or its Affiliates, (e) the link, when activated by a user, must display this Website full-screen and not within a "frame" on the linked website, and (f) HOGC.NET and its Affiliates each reserve the right to revoke consent to the link at any time in its sole discretion by amending this User Agreement. You agree that all other hypertext links to this Website must be approved in writing by HOGC.NET. |
| 7. | The works of authorship contained in or downloadable from this Website, including but not limited to all design, text and images, are owned or licensed by HOGC.NET or its Affiliates, and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored for subsequent use or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without HOGC.NET's prior written consent, except that the user may make such temporarily copies in a single computer's RAM and hard drive cache as are necessary to browse the Website, and the user may make one permanent printout of each page of the Website (unmodified in form, with a copy of this User Agreement attached) to be used by the user for personal and non-commercial uses which do not harm the reputation of HOGC.NET. Elements of the website are also protected by trade dress and other laws and may not be imitated in whole or in part on other websites. Certain software downloads or other content may be used for certain other limited purposes if expressly stated in a license agreement on this Website which makes express reference to the software or content. |
| 8. | Some portions of the Website are made available for the free exchange of ideas by participants and are not regularly monitored nor moderated by HOGC.NET. While reserving the right to delete messages and other materials that it deems in its sole discretion to be indecent, obscene, defamatory, infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others, or otherwise objectionable, HOGC.NET assumes no responsibility and makes no warranty that it will undertake to screen or remove such material. You agree to hold HOGC.NET harmless from all claims based upon the materials posted by others. Also, in exchange for availing yourself of the opportunity to upload or provide information to this site and any associated chat rooms and discussion areas, you agree that nothing you provide will be obscene, offensive, defamatory, infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others, or otherwise unlawful, and that you will indemnify HOGC.NET from any claims made by third parties regarding the material that you provide. Personal information posted by you to the Website is posted at your own risk and you agree that HOGC.NET and its Affiliates will have no liability arising from use of that information by any person or entity. You agree that you will not use the Website to distribute or publish any advertising of goods or services, solicitations for funds, or other commercial messages. You agree that you will not post, upload or otherwise introduce anything onto the Website a virus or other harmful code. |
| 9. | If you post works of authorship on the Website or provide to HOGC.NET any work of authorship with any indication of consent to use it on the Website, you will be deemed to have granted HOGC.NET a perpetual, non-revocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license to include the work on the Website (and to reproduce, publish, distribute, perform, display, and transmit the work and to prepare derivative works as reasonably necessary to do so) and you waive all rights of attribution and integrity with respect to the work. |
| 10. | This Website (excluding linked sites) is controlled by HOGC.NET, which is headquartered in the State of GEORGIA, United States of America. The Website can be accessed from all 50 states, as well as from other countries around the world. As each of these places has laws that may differ from those of GEORGIA, by accessing this Website both you and HOGC.NET agree that the statutes and laws of the State of GEORGIA, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof, will apply to all matters arising from or relating to use of this Website, except where preempted by the federal laws of the United States of America (such as its copyright laws), in which case such U.S. federal law will apply. You and HOGC.NET also agree and hereby submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the federal district court of the HOMEDISTRICT or, at the option of HOGC.NET, any state court located in Bibb County, GEORGIA, with respect to such matters. HOGC.NET makes no representation that materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this Website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. |
| 11. | Export Controls: Software downloaded from this site and goods purchased through this site are subject to United States export controls. No such software or goods may be downloaded directly to, nor otherwise exported or reexported: (a) into (or to a national or resident) of Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria or any other country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Denied Persons List. By downloading or using software from this Website or purchasing goods through this Website, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. |
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