Terms

All information and/or data that GayPoetry.com™ provides to you, or receives from you, will be subject to all said in this document.

The most current version of the TOUPAPS™ can be reviewed by clicking on the "Terms of Use, Privacy & Policy Statement™" hyperlink situated at the bottom of our web pages.

Your Copyright License to Gay Poetry Online™

By using any service offered by Gay Poetry Online™, you grant to Gay Poetry Online™ a worldwide, royalty free license to use the copyrights, trademarks and logos that you provide to us (“Marks”) for the purpose of providing you with branded services, including poem exposure, e-mail and instant messaging.

You warrant that the Marks you have provided are original and do not infringe any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right held by any third party in any country. You also warrant that you are not aware of any claims regarding the Marks in any country.

You agree to indemnify us for third party claims that result in any breach of your Marks warranties and claims that our use of the Marks violates any third party rights in any country.

We have the right to suspend or cancel your use of the service or any services if you violate any part of this agreement.

You acknowledge and agree that all GayPoetry.com™ provided content, and the compilation of GayPoetry.com™ provided content, is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property and proprietary rights in effect in Canada, the United States, Europe and elsewhere, and that these rights are valid and protected in all forms, media and technologies that exist now or are developed or created in the future.

GayPoetry.com™ content is intended for personal use; it may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcasted for any other purpose without prior written permission of GayPoetry.com™ (aka Gay Poetry Online™, aka GPO™.

Submitted poetry published at Gay Poetry Online™ (URL aka www.gaypoetry.com™) are original works (as agreed by the poem's author) and each submitted poem remains the property of the author and remains their copyright.

Liability Statement

While every care is taken in the compilation of the material, content and information contained within this website, and every effort is made to ensure that it is both accurate and up to date, GayPoetry.com™, nor any other party involved in any way with this website, cannot be held responsible for any loss, cost, damage, inconvenience or expense caused through the use of this website or as a result of any inaccuracy or error contained within the website or any information or material displayed on or contained within it.

Parental Responsibility

Gay Poetry Online™ encourages parents and guardians to be fully familiar with the sites visited by their children.

No information should be submitted to or posted on GayPoetry.com™ by users 16 years of age or younger.  Minors and children are not permitted to use our service.

Anti-Ad, Anti-Link Policy

All members must adhere to Gay Poetry Online™'s anti-ad, anti-link policy.  The policy is simple - do not place any links what-so-ever (which include email or website addresses, or anything that may redirect computers and/or users electronically) at GayPoetry.com™ unless asked to do so.

By using this policy, you help to continue Gay Poetry Online™'s efforts to provide a free, and safe environment for our community to voice itself.

Control over and access to your information

You control the quantity and quality of the information we receive from you about you. If you provide us with information, you agree to provide only truthful, accurate, and non-misleading information.

At anytime, if you wish to have any information removed regarding you at GayPoetry.com™, you may notify us at our e-mail address or mailing address provided in the Contact Us portion of this website.

Cookies

We may use cookies to remember your information which allows you to access this site more easily. We may also use cookies to conduct polls and surveys to limit multiple responses and registrations.

We will never use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent by us to you in a cookie. We do not use information transferred through cookies for any promotional or marketing purposes.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts of GayPoetry.com™, such as Member Services, will not function properly if you do so.

Feedback

GayPoetry.com™ will keep a record of feedback that users of GayPoetry.com™ send to us. This feedback is used to improve and refine the GayPoetry.com™ Site.

Security of Private Information

Any personal information you provide is kept in secure files. No computer security system is entirely foolproof. The most any web site can do is make reasonable efforts, which is what we do at GayPoetry.com™, to protect your information from theft, misuse and alteration.  As a member, no such person is allowed to use any information provided by GayPoetry.com™ for their own personal profit and/or gain.  Anyone doing so, will be immediately removed and denied access to GayPoetry.com™, and may be subject to legal actions.

Virus Checking

While all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure that this website is free from computer viruses, GayPoetry.com™ accepts no liability in respect of any loss, cost, damage, inconvenience or expense suffered as a result of accessing this website or any of its attachments. Please ensure that you take any steps you regard as necessary to protect your computer system from virus attack.

Changes to the TOUPAPS™ (This Agreement)

We may update this, our TOUPAPS™ (Terms of Use, Privacy and Policy Statement) from time to time. Should we make any major changes to this agreement in how it may involve you, we will inform you of such changes via e-mail or by posting a notice on relevant sections of the website.