LiquidPlastic.net Terms of Services (TOS)

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LP General and Privacy Policies:

C.O.P.P.A. (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) Statement:
All persons under the age of 13 must have permission from their parent(s) or legal guardian(s) before placing name, email address, and/or other private information anywhere on this web site or electronic mailing list. We adhere to the C.O.P.P.A guidelines. To read more about these guidelines click here.

LP Submission Rules:
All information gathered from the LP submission forms (via web site or snail-mail) poetry, articles, artwork, and/or short stories) are submitted on a voluntary basis. This in return gives LP the right to display this information within its site (profiles, artwork, personal pictures, poetry, stories, etc). None of the information gathered will be sold to a third party such as email addresses or names, etc. We do our best to hide your email addresses on our site so that spammers will not be able to pick up your addresses easily, but with technology being what it is we cannot guarantee that your information will not be gather by web-spiders, etc.

LP is not responsible for visitors to this site that obtain your email addresses or names displayed within these pages. We are not responsible for Spam or any other mail that you might receive as a result of having your information displayed.

LP reserves the right to refuse submissions that are not in keeping with our philosophy. If the work submitted has already been published on another web site, please inform us so that we may link to that site.

LP pages are for members of the sisterhood of LiquidPlastic.net. If you know of anyone desiring to join, feel free to invite them.

LiquidPlastic Members Guidelines:

To be a LP member you must agree to the following:

1. Members are expected to have Internet access and check group e-mail or visit the LiquidPlastic.net forum and or blog at least once a week.
2. Members need to understand that the goals of LP are long-term. Inactive members create a burden. We expect all members to actively pursue the goals and objectives of the sisterhood.
3. Members are expected to comply with the standard guidelines of confidentiality.
4. Members are representatives of LP and are expected to present themselves in a sisterly manner. LP will not tolerate disrespect and backbiting towards anyone, including those who are not a member of LP's sisterhood.

LP Committees:

Each of the following committees will consist of a Chairperson and a Vice-Chairperson, and other members who care to participate in the duties of the committee.

A Blog will be set up for all committees at LiquidPlastic.net as need dictates. These Blogs will not be open to the general membership.

The Welcoming Committee:

To welcome someone means to “receive or accept gladly”, and this is what the welcoming committee will do with each new member. In addition the welcoming committee will ensure that all pertinent information is received from each member and that the Member’s page is set up.

The following information is required of each member:

• Name/Address/Telephone Number
• Business name and address if applicable
• Members Web site or Blog address and/or Logo
• Email address
• Brief Bio/A current photo
• Committee choices

The following information will be placed on each Member’s page:

• First name
• Brief Bio/Current Photo if one is available
• Committee Choice
• Links to Personal or Business Web Site and/or Blog
• Email Address

The Mentoring Committee:

Sisterhood is about networking, and helping each other out if at all possible. Therefore we must all become Mentors. A Mentor is defined as “a wise and trusted counselor or teacher”, but we want to go one step further. As sisters, we desire to help each other any way we can as long as it does not cause any member any duress.

The following is different types of Mentoring:

• Business Support
• Non-Profit Organization 
• Health/Grief Support
• Writing/Editing
• Family/Aging Issues
• Helping to Setup Web Sites or Blogs
• Others (we will add as we go)

Public Relations Committee

The Public Relations Committee is responsible for creating avenues to bring the group’s efforts to the general public. This can be achieved by creating a newsletter that will highlight LP’s efforts and successes, including promoting LP’s agenda. The newsletter will be called LiquidPlastic.net

It is LP's hope to start a “snail mail” monthly newsletter, which will consist of interesting articles and a little poetry written by the members of LiquidPlastic.net on a first come first serve basic, where space allow. In addition we will use it to promote the sisterhood, and the businesses or other ventures of the Membership.

The cost of a subscription to the newsletter will be $35.00 per year. This will be used defray cost of producing and mailing the newsletter. Rules and regulations governing the newsletter will be posted at a later date.


LiquidPlastic.net Terms of Services (TOS):

I. Acceptance of Terms
LiquidPlastic.net (LP) provides its services as an independent advocate for the sisterhood of all women. LP will also works towards raising awareness of the plight of women, and their inhumane treatment of society as a whole. These goals are all subject to the Terms of Service (TOS), which may be updated by the founder of LP at any time without notice.

II. Description of Service
LP currently provides users with access to interactive Blog (intended for educational purposes and/or personal enjoyment).

III. Your Membership Obligations
To use LP’s services you are obligated to abide by the following:
a) Provide accurate registration/submission information
b) Promptly updated registration/submission information
c) Maintain a high level of maturity and respect, and
e) Refrain from any ethnical or racial stereotyping.

IV. LiquidPlastic.net Forum
The LiquidPlastic.net Forum is open to members only. You may post poetry, short stories, essays, and/or articles. You must cite the author and/or website when posting information that is from another source. You can also interact with other members. All members must agree to adhere to LiquidPlastic.net TOS.

V. Member Conduct
Members are solely responsible for the information, photographs, graphics, data, text, posts, messages or other content, that they publicly post and/or privately transmit. This means that you are entirely responsible for all content that you post, email, upload, transmit or otherwise make available through LP’s publication or website services. You must cite the author and/or website when posting information that is from another source. You must also understand that by using LP’s services, you may be exposed to content that is considered offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will LP be held liable in any manner for the content, whether emailed, posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available through LP’s publication or website services.

VI. Newsletter Mailing List
LP's newsletter will initially be published quarterly (4 times per year), and will eventually be published monthly once the project generates the funds to do so.

You agree to not use the Service to;

a) Post, upload, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is vulgar, obscene, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, unlawful, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racist, or ethnically objectionable.

b) Impersonate any persons or entities, such as other members, or LP staff.

c) Upload, email, post, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not own the rights to.

d) Email, upload, post, transmit or make available any content that infringes the patents, trademarks, or copyrights of such material.

e) Upload, post, email, transmit or make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising such as promotional materials, junk mail, or Spam.

f) Transmit, email, or make available any material that contains software viruses, computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any software and/or hardware.

g) Interfere with or disrupt the services LP’s publications provide.

h) Slander or harass other members of LiquidPlastic.net, whether publicly or privately.
You agree that LiquidPlastic.net may:

a) Terminate your membership should you violate any TOS, written or unwritten, without prior notification.

b) Without warning or reply, deny any submissions, posts, email, files, or uploads that violate the TOS.

c) Deny publication in the LP journal should you fail to meet required deadlines or qualifications.

Depending on the severity of violation of LP’s TOS you may be:
1) Warned; 2) Warned a second time and placed on moderated status, including the suspension of submissions/posts, or 3) A third violation will result in termination of membership and/or services of LiquidPlastic.net.

Suggestions & Feedback:
All suggestions and comments are kept strictly confidential between the submitter and LP. Your information will never be given out or sold for any reason.

Copyright Infringement:
All members and contributors is subject to the following copyright rules and regulations:

• All contributors to this web site is responsible for obtaining a copyright from the US copyright office for their material.
• If it is discovered that any contributors to this web site has plagiarized another works, their membership will be deleted without warning, and their names will be given to the person they plagiarized.
• No member shall post others original works without permission, and this permission must be sent via snail mail to the address below. The only exception to this rule is that the original author must email permission to LiquidPlastic.net at liquidplastic@aol.com.
• For COPYRIGHT information click HERE!

To place this Terms of Service (TOS) on your website without permission from the owner, will be considered an infringement on our copyright. Anyone doing so will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. However if you are a member with a website and need to used this TOS in part, you may do so without permission.

For more information please contact:
Web Mistress  at admin@liquidplastic.net