We dislike fine print and long-winded legalese as much as you do. Unfortunately however, conducting business in today's environment, especially over the Internet, carries with it a responsibility to care for the interests and privacy of our guests, members and company. That is our sole reason for providing you with the following: 1. Please do not share your log-in name and/or passwords with others. The system uses technology that is designed to quickly detect this, affording us the option of suspending any account where more than one person signs on using the same user name and password.
2. While we encourage our guests and member to access and use the content provided on our site, we do ask that you do not violate our, or anyone else's, copyright. There is lots of downloadable information on our site for easy reference, but you should not reprint, republish, repost, or otherwise distribute or transmit content or images presented on this site without specific permission.
Remember, downloading content is not the same as owning content. Bottom line: Unauthorized use of or copying of our content, trademarks, and other proprietary material can subject you to civil or even criminal liability.
3. No advertising, trading of goods or services, or other commercial use is allowed except in classified ad forums. No bulk e-mail, junk mail or spam, chain letters, or repeat postings of the same message is permitted anywhere on the forums. In the spirit of creating and maintaining candid, honest and ethical discussion we ask that you abide by the following:
- Please use your own name when posting to the discussion forums. Do not impersonate anyone else.
- Treat other members with courtesy and respect when posting messages to the discussion groups. Name calling; derogatory language and/or abuse toward any member is never allowed.
- Please avoid shouting (using all capital letters) in the discussion forums.
- Do not use vulgarity, obscenity, profanity, ethnic slurs, hate speech, or sexually explicit language, or harass, abuse, or threaten other members in the discussion forums. Do not libel or defame others. Strategic Marketing Advisors strongly disapproves of flaming.
- When you post content in our discussion forums, you permit StrategicMarketingAdvisors.com (hereafter SMA) to display and distribute the content and/or to use it for advertising and promotion. All specific customer testimonials will only be used after expressed permission is obtained. You grant to SMA the complete, perpetual, but non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, sub-license, etc. the content in whole or in part, throughout the world and universe, on a royalty-free basis.
We do not try to edit or to monitor messages posted on the SMA forums, but we do reserve the right to edit or remove objectionable postings. The person posting a message is solely responsible for it, not SMA. Violators may be permanently banned from using the forums, or even have their subscriptions terminated.
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Denial of Access
These Terms of Use constitute an agreement that is effective unless and until terminated by SMA. If in SMA's sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of this agreement, SMA may deny you access to the Site. In the event of denial of access by SMA, you are no longer authorized to access the Site, and the restrictions imposed upon you with respect to material copied or downloaded, and the disclaimers and limitations of liabilities set forth in these Terms of Use, shall continue in force. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and SMA relating to the subject matter addressed herein. Copyright and Trademark Law
All editorial content and graphics on this site are protected by U.S. copyright and international treaties and may not be copied or re-used without the express written permission of Strategic Marketing Advisors LLC, which reserves all rights.
Limitation of Liability
Strategic Marketing Advisors.com (hereafter SMA) Provides the information, services and products on this website "as is" without warrantees of any kind. You also agree that SMA shall not be responsible for any content found on the SMA forums and that your use of the SMA forums and any downloading of materials found on or throughout the SMA forums is done at your own risk. That you will be solely responsible for any damages to your computer or data that results.
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