TERMS OF USE OF THIS COMMUNITY

You must fully accept and comply to these terms or you must not use any of the coffeeloungegallery.com website..
These Terms of Use are updated from time to time; your continuing using coffeeloungegallery.com implies its acceptance and obligation to comply.

1. GENERAL
1.1. This site, hereafter also referred to as coffeeloungegallery.com, "we", "us", "the community" and "the site", is , owned and managed by Doug Cotterill in Sydney, Australia.

1.2. We want to provide an open, easily accessible and honest community for users on the web. All of our members are encouraged to openly and respectfully communicate on this platform. We don't take breaches to these Terms of Use lightly.

2. BASIC GUIDELINES
Our guidelines are based on the following principles:

2.1. We believe everyone has something to contribute to the community, no matter the level of expertise.

2.2. We believe that each member is basically honest and is capable of showing respect towards other community members.

2.3. Basically, we do not perform censorship of contributed material, but we feel that sometimes it may be necessary to disable certain contributions. This is especially true if the material includes or refers to violence, is of a pornographic nature or if it bashes other community members. Images containing nudity are not allowed.. You should also refrain from contributing material which does not show respect for the living, e.g. pictures of animals being killed. Images of people being murdered are not allowed. Human respect being a keyword here.

2.4. Do not post, anywhere, images not belonging to you. Do not create combined images of pictures not belonging to you. Do not post combined pictures of which you are not the legal owner. If you want to post an image which was not taken by you (i.e. you do not have the copyright), please ask the originator. Failing to abide to international copyright laws is illegal.

2.5. This is a photographic site, no debates will be allowed on political, sexual or religious issues; any message that is considered to incite a debate on such subjects will be considered off-topic and deleted at the sole discretion of moderators and/or administrators. You may have such discussions at Digital Coffee Lounge.

2.6. So, we encourage good discussions and interesting contributions, but reserve the right to disable any contributed material in our sole discretion and without prior notice. That is, even if we often may give a warning in advance, this may not happen.

3. REGISTERING AT COFFEELOUNGEGALLERY.COM
3.1. Registering at coffeeloungegallery.com is a free of charge trial membership. We ask you though to adhere to the rules mentioned on this page when registering. Member registrations not complying with these rules will be removed without prior notice.

3.2. Using an email account in the registration where this account is from a site which is not considered proper, such as sites with content of sex, violence or devil worshipping are not accepted and will automatically terminate the account.

3.3. Using an inaccessible email account when registering will automatically terminate the account.

3.4. Making multiple registrations will automatically terminate all registered accounts.

3.5. It is not allowed to use an offensive or controversial username.

3.6. It is not allowed to use misleading usernames, e.g. "IAmTheModerator" or "NikonCanada".

4. YOUR ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY
4.1. You will receive a password and account designation upon completing the coffeeloungegallery.com forum 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.

4.2. You agree to immediately notify coffeeloungegallery.com of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security. coffeeloungegallery.com cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this.

4.3. You agree to keep your account information current, profile, email address, etc.

If you believe that someone is misusing your account
Please contact Potatis in the forum via PM.

5. MEMBERS CONDUCT
5.1. You understand that all materials, such as data, information, software, photographs, articles, reviews, stories, forum postings or other materials ("content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. This means that you, and not coffeeloungegallery.com, are entirely responsible for all content that you upload, post, email or otherwise make available via the site.

5.2.coffeeloungegallery.com does not control the content posted via the site and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content (see Disclaimer of Warranty below). You understand that by using the site, you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable to you.

6. LICENSES, OWNERSHIP AND COPYRIGHT ISSUES

6.1. If you contribute material (information, data, software, photographs, articles, reviews, stories, forum postings etc.), you also automatically grant us an irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable and worldwide right and license to modify, publish and reproduce that material in perpetuity, for the purpose of operating, displaying, distributing and promoting the site without any compensation to you. This also means that you, as the legal owner of the contributed material, automatically and implicitly - through the submission - declare yourself as the rightful owner of the contributed material and that all so called moral rights which may be raised out of this material have been waived. None of the material shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of coffeeloungegalleries.com and/or it's owners.

6.2. Submitting the property of another, without the consent of that owner, may also subject you to legal liability for infringement of copyright, trademark, and/or other intellectual property rights.

6.3. In the event that coffeeloungegallery.com would like to use the contributed material for anything not related to the purposes mentioned in 7.1, we will contact the owner of the material to negotiate terms of usage beyond the rights already granted through the submission of the material.

6.4. Copyright stays with the legal owner, the contributor.

6.5. By registering, member agrees that although the member retains the copyright of his own images or other works posted on coffeeloungegallery.com forums, all posts belong to and are the property of the coffeeloungegallery.com. coffeeloungegallery.com is not responsible for loss of posts, modifications, copying, republication, distortion, quoting or other use of the posts by other users or third parties. Member hereby waives any right to make any claim against coffeeloungegallery.com or other users for any use of a post, including but not limited to any modifications, copying, republications, distortions, or quoting.

7. NO COPY AND NO RESALE
7.1. You agree not to reproduce, recompile, duplicate, copy, nor sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the site, its content, use of the site or access to the site.

7.2. You must not use the site to violate anyone's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights, including those of coffeeloungegallery.com members .

8. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
8.1.coffeeloungegallery.com contains links to third party web sites ("third party sites"). Since we have no control of such sites, we do not endorse, have not reviewed and are not responsible for the content or availability of such third party sites.

8.2. You acknowledge that you use third party sites at your own risk and that coffeeloungegallery.com is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss which may result of such usage in connection with products or services available on third party sites, nor for the content or the quality of the service(s) provided at such third party sites.

9. RECEIVING EMAILS
9.1. As a registered user atcoffeeloungegallery.com, you will receive emails from us from time to time. We do not send out emails often, but when we do we feel that the information is important and that all registered users should be informed about that specific issue. Typically, these emails are not sent out more than twice a month and are very short. Our emails are only sent out to registered users.

9.2. If you don't want to receive any emails from our community, you may send us an email and we will remove your account. This also means that your registration at coffeeloungegallery.comis canceled completely.

If you have received unsolicited email through the site
Please inform Potatis about it in the forums.

10. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
coffeeloungegallery.com assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in any provided information, software or other data (hereafter referred to as "materials"). ANY MATERIALS LOCATED ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.coffeeloungegallery.com further does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links or other items contained within these materials.coffeeloungegallery.com shall not be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including without limitation, lost revenues or lost profits, which may result from the use of these materials.coffeeloungegallery.com does not provide or support the provision of legal advice. The law of the many jurisdictions represented by the membership vary widely on the legal issues raised in questions and the answers you read on the forums. Accordingly, you should seek authorized counsel for your questions in your specific jurisdiction and not rely solely on the general viewpoints expressed here.

The materials on these sites are subject to change without notice and do not represent a commitment on the part ofcoffeeloungegallery.com in the future. Nikonians does not warrant and disclaims any responsibility or liability in regard to system performance, availability, data protection, or reliability. By using coffeeloungegallery.com you release coffeeloungegallery.com from any liability or loss of, or damage to, or errors in, data, information, images, posts, member records, member status or any information you post, upload or which pertains to you.

ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions regarding these terms, or any other questions, you can contact Potatis via a PM in the forums.