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All material © 2008, Major League Bloggers, unless noted otherwise. Use of content prohibited unless through expressed written consent of Major League Bloggers. All Trademarks referred to are the property of their respective owners. All written content belongs to its individual creator, and the views expressed here are solely the views of the poster and do not reflect the views of Major League Bloggers. Major League Bloggers, and the creator both have joint copyright possession (more information below), but Major League Bloggers, is not responsible for content unless notified and given proper time for rectification. (See below for more.)

Major League Bloggers, defines itself as a “distributor” under tort liability for communicators and is therefore not liable for libel, slander, defamatory content, or any other violations of federal law until notified by the offending party and/or the attorney of said party, but does retain copyright to any and all publications jointly with the author. Said “co-copyright” does not include in any form an XML feed of the MLBLoggers.com/writer publications on MLBLoggers being pulled to another website, device or company either upon monetary agreement with MLBLoggers or through more traditional means as a blog reader. Major League Bloggers then by law becomes liable for such content and has a “reasonable amount of time” to either publish a retraction and/or take down the offending material. Major League Bloggers will work closely with those who suspect any illegal content to come to an amicable conclusion. Any and all matters of such should be e-mailed to the President of Major League Bloggers, John Zadrozny, at admin@mlbloggers.com.

TERMS OF USE

IMPORTANT NOTICE: TO BECOME AN AUTHORIZED USER OF Major League Bloggers, YOU MUST AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT, YOU SHOULD NOT ACCESS THE WEBSITE.

THE SERVICE. Major League Bloggers is an online confederation of sports sites featuring columns, news, analysis and comment by writers for Major League Bloggers. The content, services and hours of operation of Major League Bloggers may be expanded, restricted, updated or otherwise changed by MLBoggers in its sole discretion at any time.

PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. All content included on this site is the property of MLBLoggers and it's respective owner and is protected by copyright and other laws relating to proprietary rights, but also is identified as a distributor under tort liability law. All software used on this site is the property of MLBLoggers or its software suppliers and is protected by copyright and other laws. MLBLoggers and its content providers and software suppliers retain all rights in their respective properties worldwide.

LIMITATIONS ON USE. Your use of Major League Bloggers is expressly subject to the restrictions set forth below. If MLBLoggers detects or becomes aware of any failure to comply with any of these restrictions or becomes aware of any actions, which are in violation of its publishing partners’ copyrights, it will take immediate action which can include terminating Your access to Major League Bloggers immediately and banning future access.

You may not reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, license, sublicense, lease, publish, broadcast or circulate any content or other materials accessed through Major League Bloggers, except in accordance with the fair use doctrine under the copyright laws of the United States.

You may not permit the delivery of any content in violation of any applicable United States or Territory export control laws, restrictions and regulations relating to the distribution of technical information, as they exist from time to time, including, without limitation, those promulgated by the United States Department of Commerce; or, with respect to materials which You are allowed to post on the Major League Bloggers website.

USAGE FEES. At present we are pleased to offer access to MLBLoggers free of charge. While we have absolutely no plans for that to ever change, we reserve the right to do so.

Adsense advertising. There is a revenue sharing plan to share a percenmtage of adsense ad revenues with the author of the content. The percentage may change over time and users will be alerted on the website to any changes of this policy. At this time the revenue share will be 75% for the author and 25% for MLBloggers. Authors need to have a valid Adsense account and enter it or they will forfeit their percentage.

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NO AFFILIATION. The presence of a hot link or advertisement by MLBLoggers on another web site does not indicate that MLBLoggers endorses, is affiliated with or bears any responsibility for the content on that site or that the owner of the linked site is affiliated with, or endorses or bears responsibility for MLBLoggers or Major League Bloggers.

LIMITATION ON LIABILITY. IN NO EVENT SHALL MLBLoggers, ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, DIRECTORS, SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING CONTENT PROVIDERS) OR MARKETING PARTNERS BE LIABLE TO YOU, OR ANYONE CLAIMING THROUGH YOU, FOR (1) INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR (2) ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USAGE OF Major League Bloggers OR THE PERFORMANCE OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF MLBLoggers OR THE CONTENT ACCESSIBLE THROUGH Major League Bloggers EVEN IF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES HAD BEEN FORESEEABLE. YOU AGREE THAT THE LIABILITY OF MLBLoggers, ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, DIRECTORS AND SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING CONTENT PROVIDERS) HEREUNDER IS LIMITED SOLELY TO YOUR DIRECT DAMAGES AND IN NO EVENT SHALL IT EXCEED, IN THE AGGREGATE, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100). Some states do not allow the limitations on liability and implied warranties set forth above. Accordingly, not all of the limitations set forth in this section may apply to You.

USAGE INFORMATION. MLBLoggers complies with a published Privacy Policy. SPECIAL NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA SUBSCRIBERS. As required by California Code Section 1789.3, this notice is to advise You of the following:

Major League Bloggers is a service provided by Major League Bloggers, 577 Bei Men Road Section 2, Lane 577 No. 1 Building I 10F-1 Tainan, Taiwan. MLBLoggers’s telephone number is + 86 0933924240.

MLBLoggers is a free service. MLBLoggers reserves the right to change the amount of any fee or charge and to institute new fees or charges.

If You have a complaint regarding Major League Bloggers or desire further information on Your use of Major League Bloggers please contact MLBLoggers by email: admin@mlbloggers.com or by telephone at +886 0933924240.

MISCELLANEOUS

In the event any of the provisions of this Membership Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall not be deemed impaired and a similar, enforceable provision shall be substituted in the place of the invalid or unenforceable one.

Notices or questions to MLBLoggers shall be made by electronic mail addressed to admin@MLBLoggers.com or conventional mail at the address for MLBLoggers set forth above.


PRIVACY POLICY

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
Major League Bloggers, is committed to respecting your privacy, and providing a secure environment in which you can access our content and participate in the MLBLoggers community is important to us. This Privacy Policy discloses our privacy practices and expresses our commitment to keeping you informed of the information we collect and how it is used. We ask that you take time to read it carefully. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect new uses, rules, regulations or technologies that impact your privacy. We recommend that users review our Privacy Policy on a routine basis to view any changes. This Privacy Policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies and business practices. This Privacy Policy applies to this site and governs data collection and usage at this site. Please read it in its entirety. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR PRIVACY POLICY, THEN DO NOT USE THIS SITE.

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices MLBLoggers has put forth.

TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED AND HOW IT IS USED; SHARING OF INFORMATION
MLBLoggers uses cookies to maintain user sessions with the site. Cookies allow us to both store and retrieve login and session information through a user’s browser. We also use non-personally identifiable information aggregated across our user base for marketing purposes. Users may opt not to accept cookies and still enjoy MLBLoggers.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web site. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information. We track user activity on the site such as recent accesses, session failures, and other non-personally identifiable information in order, among other things, to help us manage and improve our site. We may use such non-personally identifiable information, among other things, to analyze trends, promote and market our site, products and/or services, administer the site, and gather broad demographic and other non-personally identifiable information for aggregate use at our site or otherwise. We may also share non-personally identifiable information with third parties, including, without limitation, our business partners, vendors, distributors, advertisers and marketers.

Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we will keep your personally identifiable information private and will not share it with third parties, unless such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with legal process (such as a court order) or other legal requirements of any governmental authority; (b) protect our rights or property; (c) protect the interest of users of the site, other than you, or any other person; (e) protect the interests of MLBLoggers’s content providers; or (f) operate or conduct maintenance and repair of our services or equipment, as authorized by law.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may transfer, sell or assign information concerning your use of this site, including without limitation, personally identifiable information, to third parties, as a result of the sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization or liquidation of MLBLoggers. In the event of such transfer, sale or assignment, notice will be given in accordance with Section 8, Notification of Changes, below.

LINKS

This site may contain links to other sites. MLBLoggers is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. MLBLoggers does not endorse them or make any representations about them or any information, services, products or materials found on them. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of any site to which you link since the site’s privacy policy may differ from MLBLoggers’s Privacy Policy.

PUBLIC INFORMATION

This site allows posting of comments that may be viewable by other users. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personally identifiable information, including name and email address. MLBLoggers will never reveal your e-mail address to any person not in an administrative position with MLBLoggers or a writer. All other persons who request such contact information will be rejected that privilege, unless it comes into direct conflict of the law.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES

MLBLoggers reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make any changes that result in the use of personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, a notice will be posted on our web site notifying all users of the change. Unless otherwise agreed, we will use personally identifiable information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected. In the event there is a material change in our privacy practices that does not affect user information already stored in our database, no such notice will be posted.

ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY
By using the site, you signify your assent to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of this site following posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.