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Welcome to the CentralPets.com Forums. You are invited to use these forums to exchange ideas, information, and resources that pertain to animals that are kept in captivity. Please note that posting messages or URLs to these forums constitutes acceptance of these terms and policies.

Please note that these are public forums. Users should always remember that anything posted here is likely to be viewed by others.

The Central Pets Educational Foundation staff does not monitor the messages on these forums on a regular basis. Those who wish to contact The Central Pets Educational Foundation should use the e-mail links contained here.

Anyone with access to the CentralPets.com web site may read the messages posted in these forums. However, to post messages users are required to register with the forums. Whenever you post a message in the forums, your screen name and IP address will automatically appear with your message. You may choose a name to use in connection with your messages in the forums. However, you may not use a user name (or e-mail address) that attempts to impersonate another person; that belongs to another person, without his or her prior consent, that violates the intellectual property rights of any person; or that CentralPets.com deems to be inappropriate or offensive. The Central Pets Educational Foundation encourages users to use their real names when registering with these forums in order to promote a quality atmosphere.

The Central Pets Educational Foundation uses cookies to retain your identification and preferences when using these forums. In addition, your username and IP address is stored with all messages.

Flames, insults, and personal attacks will not be tolerated. It is fine to disagree strongly with opinions, ideas, and facts, but always with respect for the other person. In addition, you agree not to post or transmit, via either public or private messages, through CentralPets.com any defamatory, threatening, obscene, harmful, pornographic or other material which would violate or infringe in any way upon the rights of others, or which would give rise to criminal or civil liability and/or violate federal or local law or regulation. You may not transmit materials which encourage conduct that constitutes a criminal offense.

You further agree not to upload, post, or otherwise make available on these forums any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of such copyright, trademark or other proprietary right.

You further agree not to post messages containing personal phone numbers or addresses. In addition, since encryption and other security protocols are not in effect within these forums areas at this time, please refrain from posting material of a potentially sensitive nature (i.e., credit card numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers, etc.).

You hereby waive any and all rights to any stories, ideas, drawings, opinions, and other creative submissions posted to the CentralPets.com forums. You further authorize The Central Pets Educational Foundation to utilize, in any manner it sees fit, the submissions posted on these forums, which shall be considered to be the property of The Central Pets Educational Foundation. You release The Central Pets Educational Foundation from any and all claims or liability (now known or hereafter arising) in connection therewith, and agree to indemnify The Central Pets Educational Foundation in connection therewith. You agree and acknowledge that participation in the CentralPets.com forums shall not give rise to any confidential, fiduciary, implied-in-fact, implied-in-law, contractual or other special relationship between yourself and The Central Pets Educational Foundation (other than the contractual relationship between The Central Pets Educational Foundation and you entered into by virtue of your agreement to these forums policies and other policies posted elsewhere on this site).

CentralPets.com forums are for the exchange of ideas. You may not use these forums to post or transmit advertisements or business solicitations of any kind.

The Central Pets Educational Foundation is a distributor only (and not a publisher) of these forums. The content is supplied by users such as you with occasional responses from The Central Pets Educational Foundation. The Central Pets Educational Foundation shall not be responsible for policing, monitoring, or editing such content, exercises no more editorial control over such content than other distributors of content such as public libraries or bookstores, and accordingly, shall not be responsible for exercising editorial control over such content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, The Central Pets Educational Foundation shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor such content in order to respond to or comment upon communications by users and in order to determine compliance with the foregoing terms and policies. The Central Pets Educational Foundation shall have the right and sole discretion to delete any messages that are defamatory or profane in nature or violate these terms and policies or which it determines to be otherwise objectionable for any reason.

The opinions expressed in the message boards are not necessarily (and in some cases not at all) those of The Central Pets Educational Foundation. The Central Pets Educational Foundation is not responsible for any materials provided by users that are deemed harmful or offensive to others. The Central Pets Educational Foundation is not responsible in any way for any injury, loss, or damage which occurs as a result of an opinion expressed or information provided in these sections of the site.

The Central Pets Educational Foundation makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the content in the CentralPets.com forums or the accuracy or reliability of any information or statements contained therein. All statements, advice and opinions made by users of the CentralPets.com forums are those of such users only, and The Central Pets Educational Foundation neither endorses nor shall be held responsible for the reliability or accuracy of same.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless The Central Pets Educational Foundation, its parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims, losses, costs, and expenses (including attorneys fees) arising out of your use of these forums, or arising out of any violation of these terms and policies by you including, without limitation, any communication by you which is claimed to be defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful, which is claimed to violate the copyright, trademark, proprietary or other rights of third parties, or which constitutes a submission of materials.

The Central Pets Educational Foundation shall have the right to immediately terminate any user's use of the CentralPets.com forums if The Central Pets Educational Foundation determines, in its sole discretion, that any user has violated the terms and policies set forth herein or otherwise breached this agreement, or has engaged in conduct which The Central Pets Educational Foundation determines in its sole discretion to be unacceptable.

Last updated 19 September 2002

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