Summary

Disclaimer: This summary is neither a legal document nor part of the Terms of Use. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the full terms.

Part of my mission is to share my thoughts and creations effectively and globally, free of charge.

You are free to read and print my pages free of charge, share and reuse them under free and open licenses, or use the contact page to inform me if I need to address something.

On the conditions that you take responsibility for your actions, are civil and do not insult me, do not violate any law or harm anything or anyone, and adhere to the below Terms of Use.

You understand that my site does not constitute what would be officially recognized as professional advice.

My Terms of Use

Welcome to my site! It is a nonprofit personal website that serves to provide the viewpoints, observations, creations, and stories that only I can provide, and disseminates it effectively and globally, free of charge.

To support my site, I give the option to point out things I can do to improve the site by providing a contact page. Before you email me, however, I ask that you please read and agree to the following terms of use.

Overview

These Terms of Use tell you about my public services, my relationship to you, and the rights and responsibilities that guide us both. I want you to know that I provide a large quantity of entertaining and informative content.

You have the option to contact me, but you should follow the policies explained on this page. Please be aware that you are legally responsible for all of your online activity under all applicable laws (which may include the laws where you live or where you use the Internet). This means it is important that you use caution when contacting me. In the light of this responsibility, I have some rules about what you cannot send, most of which is for the protection of us both.

Please keep in mind that I am not a licensed professional of any sort, so you will not find expert advice for most particular questions here. I also include other important notices and disclaimers, so please read these Terms of Use in their entirety.

1. My Services

I am dedicated to writing and distributing free unique content, and to having all of this content hosted for the public free of charge. Because of my unique role, there are a couple of things you should be aware of when considering my relationship to you and other viewers:

1. I have only done here what I can do alone. Although I intend for everything my site tells you to be correct, it can only tell you what I’ve experienced, heard, or read. I do not represent or guarantee how truthful, accurate, or reliable my content is.
2. You are responsible for your own actions. You are legally responsible for anything you type anywhere, so for your own protect you should exercise caution and avoid doing anything that may result in criminal or civil liability. For clarity, applicable law includes at least the laws of the United States of America. Although I may not agree with such actions, I warn that authorities may seek to apply other country laws to you, including local laws where you live or where you view content or contact others. I cannot offer any protection, guarantee, immunity or indemnification.

2. Privacy Policy

I ask that you review the terms of my Privacy Policy, so that you are aware of how I collect and use your information. By using my services, you consent to transfer of information, possibly outside your country.

3. Content I Provide

1. You may find some material objectionable or erroneous: Because I work alone and speak from my own point of view, you may encounter material that you find offensive, erroneous, misleading, mislabeled, or otherwise objectionable. I therefore ask that you use common sense and proper judgment when using my services.
2. This is not a professional site: Although I host a fair amount of information mostly on music, have provided many opinions of mine, and offer advice on how to do amusing activities, this content is all based on projects for which I do not get paid. It therefore should not be taken as professional advice. Please seek independent counseling from someone who is licensed or qualified in the applicable area before making any kind of attempt to use the site to help you make a living.

4. Refraining From Certain Activities

The contact page serves to permit you to send me information my site may be missing, give me corrections if any of my information is incorrect, or suggest improvements or additional content I could make. I happily welcome your submissions, as long as you do not ask me to remove content (only a legal or web hosting issue, both of which are unlikely, would convince me to delete anything). I encourage you to be civil and polite in your interactions with me, to act in good faith, and and to send emails aimed at furthering my mission.

Certain activities, whether legal or illegal, may be harmful to me and violate my rules, and some activities may also subject you to liability. Therefore, for your own protection and that of me, you may not engage in such activities when contacting me. These activities include:

Harassing and Abusing Me

• Engaging in harassment, threats, stalking, or spamming, and
• Transmitting chain mail, junk mail, or spam to me.

Violating the Privacy of Others

• Infringing the privacy rights of others under the laws of the United States of America or other applicable laws (which may include the laws where you live or where you view content or send emails from);
• Soliciting personally identifiable information for the purposes of harassment, exploitation, violation of privacy, or any promotional or commercial purposes that I have not explicitly approved; and
• Soliciting personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18 for an illegal purpose or violating any applicable law regarding the health or wellbeing of minors.

Engaging in False Statements, Impersonation, or Fraud

• Intentionally or knowingly sending me an email that constitutes libel or defamation;
• With the intent to deceive, sending me information that is false or inaccurate;
• Attempting to impersonate another individual, misrepresentation of your affiliation with any individual or entity, or using the name or pseudonym of another person with the intention of deception; and
• Engaging in fraud.

Committing Infringement

Misusing Email for Other Illegal Purposes

• Sending emails that have pornographic images attached or have any other content that violates applicable law concerning pornography;
• Sending emails with obscene content that applicable law makes illegal, and
• Using your ability to contact me in a manner that is inconsistent with applicable law.

Engaging in Disruptive and Illegal Misuse of Facilities

• Sending emails that contain any viruses, malware, worms, Trojan horses, malicious code, or other device that could harm my computer or anything on it;
• Engaging in automated sending of emails that are abusive or disruptive and that I have not approved;
• Disrupting my services by placing an undue burden on a project of mine;
• Sending emails that suggest no serious intention to use the Contact page for its stated purpose;
• Knowingly accessing any of the files for the pages on the site in a way that would allow you to edit or delete them without authorization; and
• Probing, scanning, or testing the vulnerability of any technical system or network associated with the site unless all the following conditions are met:
• such actions are not unduly abusive or disruptive of any technical system or network;
• such actions are not for personal gain (except for credit for your work);
• you report any vulnerability to me (or fix it yourself); and
• you do not undertake such activities with malice or intention of destruction.

Paid emails without disclosing

Under these Terms of Use, acting deceptively, such as by misrepresenting affiliations, impersonating, or engaging in fraud, is prohibited. As part of these obligations, you must make a statement to disclose your employer, client(s), and affiliation(s) with respect to any email for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

Applicable law may further limit the sending of emails for which you are paid, or more detailed disclosure may be required.

I reserve the right to exercise my enforcement discretion with respect to the above terms.

5. Licensing of Content

The site grants broad permission to the general public to re-distribute and re-use my content freely, so long as that use is properly attributed and the same freedom to re-use and re-distribute is granted to any derivative works.

You agree that, if you copy text from my site into a public place, you must credit me in a reasonable fashion. The requirement for a statement that attributes the content to me is sometimes too intrusive for particular circumstances, and there may be instances where it is decided (most likely by me) that text from my site cannot be used for that reason.

I will not revoke or seek invalidation of any license that I grant.

Re-use of my content is welcome, though you must agree to attribute me in any of the following fashions:

• Through a link to the page or pages that you are re-using, since each page has my screen name at the top, or
• Through a link to an alternative, stable online copy that is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and on which credit to the author is provided in a manner equivalent to the credit given on the original source site.

If you modify text that you have obtained from my site, you agree to clearly indicate that you have done so.

6. Other Websites and Resources

You are solely responsible for any research you do inspired by my site. Although there are pages on the site (mostly in the Parodies section) that contain external links, I do not endorse any other site and am not responsible or liable for other sites’ availabilities, accuracies, or the related content, products, or services (including, without limitation, any viruses or otherwise disabling features), nor do I have any obligations to monitor sites that are not my own.

7. Management of Interactions

If an individual becomes problematic because of significant disturbances or dangerous behaviors, I reserve the right, but do not necessarily have the obligation to:

• Determine whether a violation of these Terms of Use or other applicable law or policy has occurred.
• Comply with any applicable law, legal process, or appropriate governmental requests.
• Detect, prevent, or otherwise get fraud, security, or technical issues addressed.
• Respond to user support requests.
• Program my email account to automatically file as junk, move to trash, or delete messages from any individual who violates these Terms of Use.
• Take legal action against anyone whom I know to have violated these Terms of Use (including reports to law enforcement authorities); and
• Manage otherwise my site in a manner designed to facilitate its proper functionality and protect the rights, property, and safety of myself and those who send me emails, licensors, partners, and the public.

See also the disclaimers on the contact page. Unless a temporary notice saying otherwise is added to that page, my policy is to reply to an email within a week of receiving it if it is acceptable. If multiple emails you sent did not get answered, it most likely means I have blacklisted you so that I will not see any emails you send me. This extreme circumstance will only arise if your emails to me were clearly intended to upset me or cause me problems. I will not blacklist an email user for good faith criticism that does not result in any violation to these Terms of Use.

I may also take action if prompted by an email or other activity that violates these policies, including but not limited to warning to or investigation of the individual responsible, or setting parameters in my email account to prevent me from seeing any further emails he or she sends me.

8. Termination

Though I hope you will continue to read and possibly help my site, you can stop using my services at any time. In certain (hopefully unlikely) circumstances it may be necessary for me (as described in Section 7) to terminate part or all of my services, have these Terms of Use terminated, or have any emails coming to me from you blocked. You may always read publicly available content on my site, however. I reserve the right to suspend or end the services at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice. These Terms of Use will always remain in effect with respect to relevant provisions.

9. Disputes and Jurisdiction

If you seek to file a legal claim against me, you agree to file and resolve it exclusively in a state or federal court whose location is in Adams County, Colorado. You also agree that the laws of the State of Colorado and, to the extent applicable, the laws of the United States of America will govern these Terms of Use, as well as any legal claim that might arise between you and me (without referring to conflict of laws principles). You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of, and agree that venue is proper in, the courts whose locations are in Adams County, Colorado, in any legal action or proceeding related to me or these Terms of Use.

To ensure that disputes are dealt with soon after they arise, you agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action you might have arising out of or related to use of my services or these Terms of Use must be filed within the applicable statute of limitations or, if earlier, one (1) year after the pertinent facts underlying such claims or whatever caused action could have been discovered with reasonable diligence (or be forever barred).

10. Disclaimers

I do my best to provide entertainment and information to a wide audience, but your use of my services is at your sole risk. I provide these services on an as is and as available basis, and I expressly provide disclaimers on all express or implied warranties of all kinds, including but not limited to the implications of warranties of merchantability, fitnesses for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. I make no warranty that my services will meet your requirements, be safe, secure, uninterrupted, timely, accurate, or devoid of erroneous content, or that any information involved will be secure.

I am not responsible for the content, data, or actions of third parties, and you have me released from any claims and damages, in my knowledge or not, that may have arisen out of or are in any way connected with any claim you have against any such third parties. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from me or through or from my services creates any warranties not expressly stated in these Terms of Use.

Any material obtained through your use of my services is done at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damages to your computer system or loss of data that resulted from the download of such material. You agree that I have no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or transmit, any content or communication maintained by the service. I retain the right to create limits on use and storage at my sole discretion at any time with or without notice.

Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the types of disclaimers in this section, so they may not apply to you either in part or in full depending on the law.

11. Limitation of Liability

I will not be liable to you or to any other party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, which include but are not limited to, damage for loss of profit, goodwill, use, data, or otherwise intangible losses, regardless of whether I received advising of such damages being possible. In no event shall my liability exceed one thousand U.S. dollars (USD 1000.00) in aggregate. In the case that the law that applies may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, the above limitation may not apply to you, although my liability will be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

12. Modifications to these Terms of Use

User input via email is potentially helpful for these Terms of Use to properly serve my audience. It is also essential for a fair contract. Therefore, if any substantial revisions to these Terms of Use are considered, it will be mentioned in a noticeable part of my home page for at least thirty (30) days, calling attention to the proposal and encouraging contact with me to give your opinion. For changes for legal or administrative reasons, to correct an inaccurate statement, or changes in response to communication via email, I will provide at least three (3) days’ notice.

Because it may be necessary to modify these Terms of Use from time to time, I will provide notice of such modifications and the opportunity to contact me about them via my home page. However, I ask that you please periodically review the most up-to-date version of these Terms of Use. Your continued use of my services after the new Terms of Use become official following the notice and review period constitutes a decision on your part that these Terms of Use are acceptable. For the protection of me, you, and possibly others, if you do not agree with my Terms of Use, you cannot use my services.

13. Other Terms

These Terms of Use do not create an employment, agency, partnership, or joint venture relationship between you and I, Buccaneer Blue. If you have not signed a separate agreement with me, these Terms of Use are the entirety of the agreement between you and me. If there is any conflict between these Terms of Use and a signed written agreement between you and me, the signed agreement will control.

You agree that I may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to these Terms of Use, by email or posting on my site.

If in any circumstances, I do not exercise enforcement of or apply any of the provisions of these Terms of Use, it is not a waiver of that which is provided.

You understand that, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by me, you have no expectations of compensation for any actions or ideas that you provide to me.

Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in these Terms of Use, I (Buccaneer Blue) and you agree not to modify the applicable terms and requirements of any free license that is employed on the site when such free license is authorized by these Terms of Use.

These Terms of Use were written in U.S. English. While I hope that any translation anyone makes of these Terms of Use is accurate, in the event of any different meaning between the original English version and a translation, the original English version takes precedence.

If any provisions or part of a provision of these Terms of Use are/is found unlawful, void, or unenforceable, said piece the Terms of Use provides is deemed severable from it and will be kept enforceable to the maximum extent permitted, and all other provisions of these Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect.

Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to read these Terms of Use. I hope you enjoy reading my site.