Terms of Use

Welcome to the YFC Alumni Fellowship website (YFCAF). As part of our service, YFCAF agrees to provide you with newsletter libraries, bulletin boards/news groups, and other computer services that YFCAF may decide to offer (Service), subject to the terms of this Agreement. Upon notice published through the Service, YFCAF may modify this Agreement at any time. You agree and continue to agree to use YFCAF services in a manner consistent with all applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the policies and guidelines outlined below. Please note that you will be referred to as "User" from time to time in this Agreement.

Rules for Online Conduct for Discussion Forums and Extended Services

By using the Service, you agree that you will not post any of the following material on Service or Internet bulletin boards, or other forums ("postings"):

• Material which defames, abuses or threatens others
• Statements that are bigoted, hateful or racially offensive
• Material that advocates illegal activity
• Material that discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them
• Unauthorized copyrighted material
• Material that contains vulgar, obscene or indecent language or images
• Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation

Statements or postings which violate the above terms will be deleted from postings upon discovery. Messages and postings made within the discussion forums and extended services are for the groups themselves and should not be forwarded or reposted without the explicit permission of the poster.

Users who violate the Terms of Service will receive a warning from forum system operators or another agent of YFCAF stating that User has committed a violation and that further violations may result in the termination of User's account. After one or more warnings, depending on the nature of the violation, YFCAF at its sole discretion may terminate User's account.

Non-Transferablility of Membership

User accounts may not be shared, transferred, or sold to other parties, nor are they to be commissioned for use or access by any person or party except the User.

Copyrighted Materials

Only public domain software or graphics files or file where the owner has given express permission for online distribution may e posted to bulletin boards on the Service.  The posting of any other type of file and the posting of links to any other type of file is strictly forbidden.  The following types of files are examples of strictly forbidden postings:

Unauthorized copies of copyrighted photographs, drawings, graphics, text or other writings, computer programs or other software, recordings or designs; files containing advertisements or solicitations aimed at persuading other members to use certain goods or services; material of a sexually explicitly nature, including photographs and text. Copyrighted material, including without limitation text, photographs, sound, video and music, may not be placed on the Service without the express permission of the author or owner of the copyright on the material. User acknowledges that only the owner or someone authorized by the owner to post the material may do so. The downloading of copyrighted material is allowed by Users only for Users' own use. Users may not copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any copyrighted material. The burden of determining that any information, software or any other content on the Service is not protected by copyright rests with the User. User acknowledges that YFCAF and/or third-party content providers remain the owners of the posted materials, and that User does not acquire any of those ownership rights by downloading copyrighted materials.