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You can see that some ads run on this site (SimpleBusiness.org). These ads provide some income and defray cost of keeping this personal site online.

As a requirement of placing these ads, I generated Privacy Policy and Term of Service for SimpleBusiness.org.

I believe these are very standard. Be sure to check them out if you are concerned.

Preliminaries

SimpleBusiness.org is a private, personal website maintained solely out of personal interest without any expressed or implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.

You usage of this site is subject to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service below.

Privacy Policy

This policy covers how personal information that SimpleBusiness.org collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

General

• Personal information is collected when you register to post comment or post entry to wiki.
• The web server also automatically receives and records information from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and the page you request. These information is used to generate anonymous statistic reports.
• These information is use for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising
  and content, fulfill your requests,
  improve service, contact you, conduct research, and provide
  anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• We do not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people, except when

• we believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or as otherwise required by law.or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

Cookies

• Cookies are set and access on your computer.
• Other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one.
• Advertisers or other companies do not have access to our cookies.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• This policy maybe updated any time without notification.
• If you have questions or suggestions, please submit a comment below.

Terms of Service

1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

   SimpleBusiness.org welcomes you. Your visit to SimpleBusiness.org is subject to this Terms of Service ("TOS"), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. In addition, when using particular services (such as wiki), you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services, which may be posted from time to time.

2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE

   SimpleBusiness.org is a personal website providing a collection of resources, including blog, wiki covering content of interest to the owner (the "Service"). You also understand and agree that the Service may include advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary to provide the Service. You understand and agree that the Service is provided "AS-IS" with no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Service, and that access may involve third-party fees (such as Internet service provider or airtime charges).

3. PRIVACY POLICY
   Registration Data and certain other information about you is subject to our Privacy Policy. You understand that through your use of the Service you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to any countries for storage, processing and use.
4. MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY

   You will provide a password and account designation upon completing any required registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account.

5. MEMBER CONDUCT

   You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. This means that you, and not SimpleBusiness.org, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Service. Under no circumstances will SimpleBusiness.org be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Service.

6. SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE
   Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable Content. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws in the country in which you reside.
7. CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE SERVICE With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:
• With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the blog, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Blog solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Blog to which such Content was submitted or made available.

• With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available.
• With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Wiki, according to the Content license for the Wiki.
  "Publicly accessible" areas of the Service are those areas that are available to the general public.
8. INDEMNITY

   You agree to indemnify and hold SimpleBusiness.org and its owner harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Service, your use of the Service, your connection to the Service, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights of another.

9. NO RESALE OF SERVICE
   You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service.
10. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE

    SimpleBusiness.org reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that SimpleBusiness.org shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

    YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

1. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. SIMPLEBUSINESS.ORG AND ITS OWNER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
2. SIMPLEBUSINESS.ORG AND ITS OWNER MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS; AND (v) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.
3. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS ACCESSED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
4. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.
5. A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF USERS MAY EXPERIENCE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES WHEN EXPOSED TO CERTAIN LIGHT PATTERNS OR BACKGROUNDS ON A COMPUTER SCREEN OR WHILE USING THE SERVICE. CERTAIN CONDITIONS MAY INDUCE PREVIOUSLY UNDETECTED EPILEPTIC SYMPTOMS EVEN IN USERS WHO HAVE NO HISTORY OF PRIOR SEIZURES OR EPILEPSY. IF YOU, OR ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY, HAVE AN EPILEPTIC CONDITION, CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN PRIOR TO USING THE SERVICE. IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE USE OF THE SERVICE AND CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN IF YOU EXPERIENCE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS WHILE USING THE SERVICE: DIZZINESS, ALTERED VISION, EYE OR MUSCLE TWITCHES, LOSS OF AWARENESS, DISORIENTATION, ANY INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT, OR CONVULSIONS.