Terms and Conditions
PLEASE, READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.
Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media offers the tealeafmedia.com web site (the "Web Site"), to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all of the terms, conditions, policies and notices stated on the Web Site. By using the Web Site, you signify your assent to these Terms and Conditions and any subsequent modifications. Tealeafmedia.com may revise these Terms and Conditions from time to time by updating this posting, with the new terms taking effect on the date of posting. You should review these Terms and Conditions every time you use this Web Site as they are binding upon you.
Personal and Noncommercial Use
The tealeafmedia.com site is for your personal and noncommercial use. As a condition to your continued use of the Web Site, you warrant to tealeafmedia.com that you will not use the Web Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms and Conditions.
Disclaimer of Warranties
Neither Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media nor its employees, agents, third party information providers, merchants, licensors or the like warrant that the Web Site or its operation will be accurate, reliable, uninterrupted or error-free. If your use of tealeafmedia.com results in the need for servicing or replacing property, material, equipment or data, Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media is not responsible for those costs. No agent or representative has the authority to create any warranty regarding the Web Site on behalf of tealeafmedia.com. Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media reserves the right to change or discontinue at any time any aspect or feature of the Web Site.
Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media does not assume any liability for the contents of any material provided on the Web Site. Reliance on any information presented on the Web Site, other than that which you provided, is at your own risk. Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media reserve the right to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the Web Site at any time.
You acknowledge that, in connection with the Web Site, information will be transmitted over local exchange, inter-exchange and Internet backbone carrier lines and through routers, switches and other devices owned, maintained and serviced by third party local exchange and long distance carriers, utilities, Internet service providers and others, all of which are beyond the control and jurisdiction of tealeafmedia.com. Accordingly, Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media assume no liability for or relating to the delay, failure, interruption or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the Web Site.
WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON TEALEAFMEDIA.COM IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. LAURA SCROGGINS AND TEA LEAF MEDIAMAKES NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS OR TIMELINESS OF THE WEB SITE CONTENT, SOFTWARE TEXT, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS, OR ABOUT RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USING THE WEB SITE OR TEALEAFMEDIA.COM SERVICES.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL TEALEAFMEDIA.COM OR ANY THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED AT THE WEB SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY COSTS, DAMAGES AND EXPENSES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, HEALTH PROBLEMS, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE TEALEAFMEDIA.COM WEB SITE OR THE CONTENT OF THE WEB SITE WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT LAURA SCROGGINS AND TEA LEAF MEDIA ARE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. LAURA SCROGGINS AND TEA LEAF MEDIASHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU ONLY FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT OF ACTUAL DAMAGES INCURRED BY YOU, NOT TO EXCEED U.S. $100.00 (ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS). BECAUSE SOME STATES AND COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. REMEDIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE EXCLUSIVE AND ARE LIMITED TO THOSE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED FOR IN THIS AGREEMENT.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold tealeafmedia.com, its officers, directors, employees and agents, licensors and suppliers harmless From and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of the tealeafmedia.com Web Site in a manner that violates or is alleged to violate these Terms and Conditions. Tealeafmedia.com shall provide you with prompt notice of any such claim, suit or proceeding and shall reasonably cooperate with you, at your expense, in your defense of any such claim, suit or proceeding.
Links/Advertisements
The tealeafmedia.com Web Site may link to other sites operated by third parties. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media of the sites, but is for your reference and convenience only. Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media has not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Web Site and is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to tealeafmedia.com. Nor do Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media recommend or endorse any specific tests, products or procedures that may be mentioned on or represented in advertisements on the Web Site. Linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk and subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use of any hyper-linked site. For example, tealeafmedia.com provides a link to www.interest.com, which is subject to interests.com's Terms and Conditions of Use, and NOT these Terms and Conditions.
The tealeafmedia.com Web Site also contains advertisements by third parties. Unless otherwise specifically stated on the Web Site, Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media do not endorse or make any representation regarding the liability, quality, or accuracy of any products or services featured in, or linked to any advertisement that appears on the Web Site.
Unless otherwise prohibited under these Terms and Conditions, you are hereby licensed to create hyperlinks to the content on the Web Site, provided that the hyperlink accurately describes the content as it appears on the Web Site. Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media reserve the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to use specific links, at any time. Under no circumstances may you "frame" the Web Site or any of its content or copy portions of the Web Site to a server, except as part of an Internet service provider's incidental caching of pages. Each page within tealeafmedia.com must be displayed in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising and promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border, margin, design, branding, trademark, advertising or promotional materials not originally displayed on the page within tealeafmedia.com.
Copyrights
Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media retains full copyright ownership, rights and protection in all material contained on tealeafmedia.com (including all software, HTML code, Java applets, Active X controls and other code). Except as otherwise expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, rewrite, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any material contained on the Web Site without the prior consent of the copyright owner. You agree not to modify any documents, graphics, images or other material found on this Web Site.
You may, however make single copies of materials displayed on the tealeafmedia.com Web Site for your own personal and noncommercial use only, provided any copies include the copyright and other notices displayed with the materials on the Web Site. You may not distribute such copies to others, whether or not for a charge or other consideration, without prior written permission from Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media or the copyright owner of the copied material.
None of the material contained on the site may be reverse-engineered, disassembled, decompiled, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or computer language, retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photo reproduction, recordation or otherwise), resold or redistributed without the prior written consent of tealeafmedia.com. All content of tealeafmedia.com is Copyright 2008 by Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media.
All rights reserved.
Termination
You agree that Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media may terminate your use of the Web Site, if Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media reasonably believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms and Conditions of Use, or violated the rights of tealeafmedia.com or any third party, or for any reason with or without notice to you. You agree that Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media may modify or discontinue tealeafmedia.com, with or without notice to you. You agree that Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media will not be liable to you or any third party as a result of such modification or discontinuation.
Survival
The provisions entitled "Your Submissions," "Disclaimer of Warranties," "Limitation of Liability," "Indemnification" and "General Provisions" will survive termination of this agreement.
General Provisions
You expressly agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute with Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media, or in any way relating to your use of tealeafmedia.com ("Legal Action"), resides in the courts of the State of Georgia. You further agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the courts of the State of Georgia in connection with any such dispute. Any Legal Action that is subject to the jurisdiction of federal courts shall be instituted in a federal court in the State of Georgia. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to conflict of law principles. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions are found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition. Any cause of action you may have with respect to tealeafmedia.com must be commenced within one year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred.
Contributing Content and Comments to Tealeafmedia.com
Tealeafmedia.com includes various interactive community areas where people can post content to the site. These include (but are not limited to) user profiles, blogs, comments on profiles and blogs, and comments on news stories. All users who live in Humboldt County ages 18 and over are encouraged to contribute information and pictures to www.Tealeafmedia.com. We reserve the right to terminate any accounts that do not fit this description.
You agree to adhere to the following rules when posting content of any type, including text, audio, video and files, in any of these interactive areas on Tealeafmedia.com:
1. You agree not knowingly submit any false, defamatory, abusive, obscene, threatening, racially offensive, sexually explicit or illegal material to the Web site. In posting comments on the contributions of others, you agree not to harass other participants.
2. You agree not to post anything that personally attacks an individual whose identity can be easily learned from what you post. An example of a personal attack is posting negative comments about an individual in a way meant to demean that person. Note that posting your opinion about someone's ideas or actions are not a personal attack.
3. You may not submit information that is libelous or defamatory or that discloses private or personal matters concerning any person.
4. You may not post information or links that are obscene or pornographic. You may not contribute information or pictures that violate the property rights of others, including unauthorized copyrighted music, images or programs, trade secrets or other confidential proprietary information, and trademarks or service marks used in an infringing fashion.
5. You may not use profanity.
6. Content contributions solely focused on the promotion of commercial events or businesses are not permitted.
7. You assert that the information, pictures, music and other files you contribute are your own, are licensed to be uploaded and downloaded by other participants, are in the public domain, or are otherwise free of copyright or other restrictions. You also grant Tealeafmedia.com an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to redistribute or republish the information in any medium or form.
8. You agree not to directly or indirectly solicit responses from minors. A minor is defined as anyone under 18 years of age.
9. You agree not post any item for sale that matches the following conditions:
* Weapons or firearms of any kind.
* Items that infringe on trademark or intellectual property rights.
Tealeafmedia.com does not endorse and is not responsible for any statement, opinion or advice given or made in posts.
Use At Your Own Risk
Your use of the Tealeafmedia.com service is at your own risk. Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media does not intend to engage in any prior review of notes posted to community content areas, but it reserves the right in its sole discretion and for any reason to delete or redirect any information or other content posted to Tealeafmedia.com, regardless of whether the information or other content violates the rules for content described in above policies. Further, Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media reserves the right to limit or terminate service to participants who violate the terms of this Agreement.
In no event will Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media be liable for any incidental, consequential, or indirect damages (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of programs or information, and the like) arising out of the Tealeafmedia.com community content areas, or any information or services provided on Tealeafmedia.com, even if Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim attributable to errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies published on Tealeafmedia.com.
Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media is not responsible for censoring or monitoring community content areas, but it reserves the right to enforce the policies outlined in this document, and reserves the right to move or remove posts at its sole discretion and without explanation. These posting rules may be revised over time. We will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what type of posts we prohibit. We do, however, recommend that you read this notice each time you use Tealeafmedia.com, in case you missed our notice of changes, at this URL:
Transactions
Tealeafmedia.com is not a store or "e-commerce" provider, and it is the SOLE RESPONSIBILITY of buyers and sellers to complete transactions. This Web Site acts as a venue to allow anyone to offer, sell, and buy items from one other. Tealeafmedia.com has no control over the quality, safety or legality of the items advertised, the truth or accuracy of the posts, the ability of sellers to sell items or the ability of buyers to pay for items. Tealeafmedia.com cannot ensure that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction, and Tealeafmedia.com does not transfer legal ownership of items
Real-world Meetings
Tealeafmedia.com offers User Profiles that are designed to allow individuals to meet each other for any purpose. You are advised that Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media cannot vouch for the safety of offline meetings of individuals you meet through Tealeafmedia.com, and such meetings are held at your sole risk. Furthermore, you are advised to be careful not to accidentally divulge personally identifying information about yourself, including but not limited to your full name, telephone number(s), street addresses, URLs or email addresses. If you do provide this information to a third party who you met through Tealeafmedia.com, it is at your risk and you agree not to hold Tealeafmedia.com liable for anything that results from such meetings.
Notice
Laura Scroggins and Tea Leaf Media may deliver notice to you under these Terms and Conditions by means of electronic mail, a general notice on tealeafmedia.com, or by written communication delivered by first class U.S. mail to your address on record in tealeafmedia.com's account information. You may give notice to Jack Reilley at any time via electronic mail to Tea Leaf Media or by letter delivered by first class postage prepaid U.S. mail or overnight courier to the following address:
Tea Leaf Media
POB 901
Athens, GA 30603
Phone: 707-834-0723
