ANIMEBLOGGER.NET TERMS OF SERVICE 1. ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF SERVICE: AnimeBlogger.net ("Animeblogger"), owned and operated by AnimeBlogger.net, (hereinafter the "Owner"), is provided to you (hereinafter the "User") under the terms and conditions of this Animeblogger Terms of Service (ATS) and any operating rules or policies that may be published by the Owner. The ATS forms the entire agreement between the User and Animeblogger and supersedes all prior agreements between the parties regarding the subject matter contained herein. BY COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION PROCESS, YOU ARE INDICATING YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE ATS. 2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE: Animeblogger provides free anime web log hosting. The User must: (a) provide all equipment, including a computer and modem, necessary to establish a connection to the World Wide Web; (b) provide their own access to the World Wide Web and pay any service fees associated with such access. 3. MODIFICATIONS TO TERMS OF SERVICE: The Owner reserves the right, at any time and from time to time, to update, revise, supplement, and otherwise modify the ATS and to impose new or additional rules, policies, terms, or conditions on your use of Animeblogger. Such updates, revisions, supplements, modifications, and additional rules, policies, terms, and conditions (collectively referred to in this Agreement as "Additional Terms") will be effective on the date specified when they are announced and incorporated into this Agreement on the specified date. Your continued use of Animeblogger hosting after the specified date will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of any and all such Additional Terms. Additional Terms will be announced by a posting made on the website and an E-mail will be sent out to the site announcement list. 4. PRIVACY POLICY: All information entered into Animeblogger by the User is private to said User except to the extent that he or she opts to share that information with other Animeblogger Users and/or the public, through Animeblogger or otherwise. It is the Owner's policy to respect the privacy of its Users. Therefore, the Owner will not disclose to any third party a User's name or contact information. The Owner will also not monitor, edit, or disclose the contents of a User's information unless required to do so by court order or as otherwise required by law. As part of this agreement, your E-mail address will be signed up for Animeblogger's site announcement mailing list. This list is used only for official communications regarding site issues and, most importantly, will be used to notify you of any changes to the ATS or privacy policies. It is the responsibility of the user to check the E-mail address they provide in a timely manner so they will be aware of changes to the ATS or privacy policies. Addresses of members of the site announcement list will not be visible to other members of the list, keeping your E-mail address private. 5. CONTENT OWNERSHIP: The User acknowledges and agrees that the Owner neither endorses the contents of any User communications nor assumes responsibility for any threatening, libelous, obscene, harassing or offensive material contained therein, any infringement of third party intellectual property rights arising therefrom or any crime facilitated thereby. Animeblogger reserves the right to remove libelous posts where required to do so by court order or as otherwise required by law. The User shall be notified of any action taken by Animeblogger in this regard. 6. CONTENT: The User acknowledges that content, including, but not limited to, text, software, music, sound, photographs, video, graphics or other material placed on their web log may be protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws, and the User therefore may place such content on their web log in accordance only with said copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws and at the User's own risk. It is the User's responsibility to ensure that they are acting in accordance with the above. Animeblogger assumes no liability in this regard. Under no circumstances may a User place on their web log software, music, sound, photographs, video, photographs or other material, of a pornographic nature. Animeblogger reserves the right to demand that a User remove any material which Animeblogger has, at its discretion, deemed to be pornographic. Failure by the User to comply with any such order in this regard will result in a termination of service. 7. LINKING: All Users are required to place an evident link to Animeblogger's homepage, being http://www.animeblogger.net, Animeblogger's forums, being http://forums.animeblogger.net/, and AnimeBlogger.net's Antenna, being http://antenna.animeblogger.net/ on their web log. This link may be text only or may make use of the provided link icons provided by AnimeBlogger at http://www.animeblogger.net/icons/. Users are encouraged to provide an evident link to AnimeBlogger's donation page (full link information provided on the links icons page), but this is not required. 8. USER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY: Once you become a User of the service, you shall receive a password and an account. You are entirely responsible if you do not maintain the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities which occur under your account. You may change your password at any time; you may also set up a new account and close an old one at your convenience. The User agrees to immediately notify the Owner of any unauthorized use of the User's account or any other breach of security known to the User. 9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: The User expressly agrees that the use of the service is at the User's sole risk. The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. The Owner makes no warranty that the service will meet your requirements, or that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free; nor does it make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the service or as to the accuracy or reliability or any information obtained through the service or that defects in the software will be corrected. The User understands and agrees that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the service is done at the User's own discretion and risk and that the User will be solely responsible for any damage to said User's computer system or loss of data that results from the download of such material and/or data. 10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: The Owner shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, resulting from the use or the inability to use the service, or messages received or transactions entered into through the service or resulting from unauthorized access to or alteration of User's transmissions or data, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, use, data or other such intangible loss, even if it has been advised of the possibility of such damages. 11. NO RESALE OF THE SERVICE: The User agrees not to resell the service, without the express consent of the Owner. (Note: Setting up Animeblogger web logs for clients to update their web pages and charging for your time is fine.) 12. STORAGE AND OTHER LIMITATIONS: (a) Animeblogger has set no fixed upper limit on the number or posts the User may send or receive through the service or the amount of storage spaced used; however, Animeblogger retains the right, at its sole discretion, to determine whether or not a User's conduct is consistent with the letter and spirit of the ATS and may terminate service if a User's conduct is found to be inconsistent with the ATS. (b) Animeblogger expects that the User shall be considerate with respect to their disk usage. Should disk usage become excessive, the User may be required to lower its usage to a set level, said level to be at the sole discretion of the Owner. In extreme cases the Owner may institute a quota. (c) Animeblogger shall provide image hosting to the User. Should it be the User's intention to place a significant amount of images within their posts, the Owner recommends that the User use a free image hosting service such as Image Shack ( http://www.imageshack.us/ ) for the storage and maintenance of said images. This is, however, not a requirement of Animeblogger. (d) Animeblogger shall provide to the User both full POP/IMAP E-mail accounts and forwarding addresses. E-mail usage with respect to disk usage is subject to the same regulations as set forth in Paragraph 12(b). In addition, the Owner recommends that the User download their messages on a regular basis to prevent excessive disk usage. (e) Animeblogger reserves the right to request that the User remove any music, video, zip or other files if said files are determined to be generating excessive bandwidth usage. Failure to comply with this request may result in the file being removed by the Owner. Animeblogger expects the User to execute discretion and consideration of bandwidth usage when using the service to post large files. 13. USER CONDUCT: The User is solely responsible for the contents of his or her transmissions through the service. The User's use of the service is subject to all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations. The User agrees: (a) to comply with US law regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States through the Service; (b) not to use the Service for illegal purposes; (c) not to interfere or disrupt networks connected to the Service; (d) to comply with all regulations, policies and procedures of networks connected to the Service; (e) the service makes use of the Internet to send and receive certain messages; therefore, the User's conduct is subject to Internet regulations, policies and procedures. The User will not use the service for chain letters, junk mail, spamming or any use of distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a process. (f) The User agrees not to transmit through the service any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, or harmful material of any kind or nature. The User further agrees not to transmit any material that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation. Attempts to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems are prohibited. (g) The User shall not interfere with another User's use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's use and enjoyment of similar services. The Owner may, at its sole discretion, immediately terminate service should a User's conduct fail to conform with these terms and conditions of the ATS. 14. ADVERTISEMENTS AND AFFILIATE PROGRAMS: Animeblogger is a free service, and as such Users are prohibited from placing on their web log advertisements which generate revenue for the User. Should the User desire to have advertisements, they must contact the Owner to seek authorization. In the case where advertisements are permitted by the Owner, the User and Animeblogger shall each receive 50% of the revenue of said advertisements, with Animeblogger's portion thereof being applied to the hosting costs of the service. 15. EXCLUSIONS ON ADVERTISEMENTS: Animeblogger does not prohibit the placement of advertisements which benefit registered charities. 16. TERMINATION: Either the User or the Owner may terminate the service with or without cause at any time and effective immediately. The Owner shall not be liable to the User or any third party for termination of service. Should the User object to any terms and conditions of the ATS or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with the service in any way, the User's only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of the service. Upon termination of the service, the User's right to use the service and its software immediately ceases. The User shall have no right and the Owner will have no obligation thereafter to forward any unread or unsent messages to the User or any third party. 17. GOVERNING LAW The laws of the State of Tennessee, excluding its conflicts of law rules, govern this ATS and your use of Animeblogger. Your use of Animeblogger may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws. You expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or dispute with Animeblogger or relating in any way to your use of Animeblogger resides in the courts of the State of Tennessee.