Welcome to the Internet sites of Dead Rhetoric.com.com (“Dead Rhetoric.com”). By using a Dead Rhetoric.com Site, or any of the products or services (collectively the “Services”) available on a Dead Rhetoric.com Site, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by these terms and conditions and such other additional or alternative terms, conditions, rules and policies which are displayed or to which you may be directed in connection with any particular Dead Rhetoric.com Site or Service, all as may be modified by Dead Rhetoric.com from time to time in its sole discretion (collectively the “Terms and Conditions”). If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions, you may not use a Dead Rhetoric.com Site or any of the Services on a Dead Rhetoric.com Site.
Please note that we reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms and Conditions at any time. Please check periodically for changes. Your continued use of a Dead Rhetoric.com Site following the posting of any changes to these Terms and Conditions will mean you accept those changes.
For information on how user information is collected, used and disclosed by Dead Rhetoric.com in connection with your use of a Dead Rhetoric.com Site and any of the Services, please consult the following:
PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have complete control over your personal information. In general, you can visit our website without providing us with any personal information. However, there are instances where we must have your personal information in order for us to grant you an access to our protected and secured sites. This information may include registration data (your name, address, email address, phone number, title, etc.), information request data and response data (“User Information”). When you receive your confirmation email or when you receive any email from the list server, you will be given instructions on how to remove yourself from the list.
USE OF USER INFORMATION
We intend to use such information for purposes of supporting your relationship with Dead Rhetoric.com by designing website content that is suitable to your needs and alerting you to new product and service offerings as they become available. This User Information may be retained by Dead Rhetoric.com to verify compliance with the agreement between you and Dead Rhetoric.com to keep track of the domains from which people visit us, to create a user profile to better serve you, or to simply contact you either electronically or otherwise. If you decide that we should not use your personal User Information to contact you, please let us know and we will not use that information for such purpose. However, please do not submit any User Information if you are less than 18 years of age.
DISCLOSURE OF USER INFORMATION
Dead Rhetoric.com does not sell, trade or transfer User Information to third parties. However, we may share User Information with our business partners for marketing, advertising or product/service offering purposes. For example, we provide User Information to our service providers for direct emailing of our newsletters, online surveys or notifications on Dead Rhetoric.com Offerings to our viewers. We also disclose User Information if: we have your consent; we need to share it in order to provide you with the products and/or services you requested; we respond to a court order or you violate our Terms of Use. You may separately agree to provide your personal information to third parties that provide content for Dead Rhetoric.com Offerings, in order to access and/or use their products and/or services. If you agree to provide such information to these third parties, then your personal information will be subject to their privacy policies.
ACCURACY AND SECURITY
The accuracy and security of the User Information is important to Dead Rhetoric.com. Currently, you may review and request updates to your User Information retained by contacting Dead Rhetoric.com. If you contact us to correct your User Information, we will attempt to correct such inaccuracies in a timely manner. Dead Rhetoric.com is concerned with the security of your User Information and is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect it from unauthorized access and use of that personal information. To that end, we put in place the appropriate physical, electronic and managerial policies and procedures to secure your personal User Information. We also continue to implement procedures to maintain accurate, complete and current User Information.
USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS
Access to certain content on our website may be allowed under a written agreement between you and Dead Rhetoric.com and will require a username and/or password. In some cases, failure to provide personal information may prevent you from accessing certain Dead Rhetoric.com website(s) containing certain confidential information, products, services, or promotional offers. By accessing and using our protected and secured website(s), you agree to maintain the confidentiality of the username and password you selected to access such site(s).
COOKIES
Dead Rhetoric.com uses “cookies”. A cookie is a small data file that a website can transfer to a visitor’s hard drive to keep records of the visits to such site. A cookie contains information such as your username and password that helps us recognize the pages you have visited and improve future visits, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is the information that you provide yourself. A cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Information stored in cookies may be encrypted. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser to warn you before accepting cookies or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser. However, access to some of our secured website(s) may require the use of cookies, which you must enable only cookies that get sent back to the originating server. Otherwise, you can still access most of the features on our website even without accepting a cookie.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Dead Rhetoric.com contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR MINORS
In cases where you have authorized a minor to use a Dead Rhetoric.com Site or any of the Services, you recognize that you are fully responsible for: (i) the online conduct of such minor; (ii) controlling the minor’s access to and use of a Dead Rhetoric.com Site or any of the Services; and (iii) the consequences of any misuse by the minor. You acknowledge that some of the areas of a Dead Rhetoric.com Site may contain material that is inappropriate for minors.
CONTENT SUBMISSIONS
By uploading materials to any chat board or forum available on a Dead Rhetoric.com Site (collectively “Forums”) or otherwise submitting any materials to us through any other content generating or submitting Service on a Dead Rhetoric.com Site, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such materials expressly grants) Dead Rhetoric.com a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable and nonexclusive right and license to use, copy, adapt, transmit, communicate, publicly display and perform, distribute and create compilations and derivative works from such submitted materials, for the limited purposes of publishing and promoting such materials in connection with the Forum or other Service through which the materials were submitted or generated, and for all promotions thereof. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. In addition, you warrant that all “moral rights” in such materials have been waived. When participating in a Forum, never assume that people are who they say they are, know what they say they know, or are affiliated with whom they say they are affiliated. Dead Rhetoric.com cannot be responsible for the content or accuracy of any information, and will not be responsible for any reliance or decisions made based on such information. When using a Forum, you may not post, transmit, link to, or otherwise distribute any information, materials or content that do not generally pertain to the designated topic or theme of the particular Forum. Use of a Forum for commercial purposes of any kind is strictly prohibited. Please note that Dead Rhetoric.com reserves the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that, in its sole discretion, are unacceptable, undesirable, or in violation of these Terms and Conditions.
CONTESTS
Often our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers online will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding contests they have entered.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
From time to time there may be new, unanticipated uses for any collected user information not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will provide you with the ability to opt out of any of these communications by a response in like kind. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be placed here and will supersede this version of our Policy. We will take reasonable steps to draw your attention to any changes in our Policy. However, we suggest that you read this document each time you use the website to ensure that it still meets with your approval. If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above address.