Terms of Service, User Agreement and Disclaimer

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

The Agreement is made by and between Building Foundations ("Service" or "Site"), and each user of the Contents, system, or networks ("User"). A "Person" is a natural person, a corporation, proprietorship, partnership, governmental entity, or any other legal person or entity.

Building Foundations (aka TeejerNET) is a privately held non-commercial, not-for-profit website. Building Foundations is accessible worldwide to anyone with Internet access. Access to and use of the Site are subject to the terms and conditions of this User Agreement and Copyright Notice and all applicable laws and regulations, including laws and regulations governing copyright and trademark. BY ACCESSING THE SERVICE AND THE SITES, YOU ACCEPT, WITHOUT LIMITATION OR QUALIFICATION, ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN THIS USER AGREEMENT. Building Foundations reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. By using the Sites, you agree in advance to accept any changes. You must agree to these Terms and Conditions in order to use this site. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions of use, do not use this site!

The Site contains information, facts and opinions from various individuals and organizations. THE SERVICE AND THE SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OTHER THAN THOSE WARRANTIES WHICH ARE IMPOSED BY AND INCAPABLE OF EXCLUSION, RESTRICTION OR MODIFICATION UNDER THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO THIS AGREEMENT. NEITHER BUILDING FOUNDATIONS, INC. NOR ITS AFFILIATES, ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS OR AGENTS ENDORSE OR ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY OPINION, ADVICE OR STATEMENT ON THE SITE.

All Contents, (including the information relating to medical, financial, construction, or other activities that could result in damage, injury, or death) is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, call, consultation, or advice of your physician or other professionals or any information contained on or in any product packaging or labels. Building Foundations does not recommend the self-management of health problems. You should never disregard professional advice or delay in seeking advice because of something in the Contents and you should not use the Contents for diagnosing a health or other problem or prescribing a medication. Information and statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

The Site include bulletin boards/forums, chat rooms, blogs, and other user and member created pages which allow you and other users and members to post information and materials, provide feedback to Building Foundations and interact in real-time. You agree that Building Foundations, and its agents may reproduce, distribute, publish, display, edit, modify, create derivative works and otherwise use all information, text, messages, photographs, member or display name and other materials posted by you (collectively, the "Materials") for any purpose in any form and on any media. You agree not to post or transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful, racially, ethically or otherwise objectionable Materials of any kind, including but not limited to, any Materials which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, violate the copyrights, trademarks, services marks or similar intellectual property rights or other rights, including invasion of privacy or rights of publicity, of others. You will be responsible for, and indemnify and hold harmless Building Foundations, its subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, agents and representatives against any claim arising from any Materials that you post or transmit.

While Building Foundations periodically monitors or review discussions, postings, transmissions, and other user and member generated pages on the site, Building Foundations and its staff are not under any obligation to do so. You acknowledge that Building Foundations does not control the information available on the site. Building Foundations reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on this site. The decision of the site moderators, staff or administrators is final.

You may view or download a single copy of the Contents or Material on Building Foundations solely for your personal, noncommercial use if you include the copyright and proprietary rights notices that are contained in the content. Any special rules for the use of certain software and other items accessible on the site may be included elsewhere within the Site and are incorporated into these Terms and Conditions by reference. The Content is protected by copyright under both United States and foreign law. Title to the Content remains with Building Foundations or its agents. Any use of the Content not expressly permitted by these Terms and Conditions is a breach of these Terms and Conditions and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. Content and features are subject to change or termination without notice in the editorial discretion of Building Foundations. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved to Building Foundations. If you violate any of these Terms and Conditions, your permission to use the Content automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of any portion of the Content.

Your use of the Service and the Sites is at your own risk. Building Foundations, Inc. NOR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, DIVISIONS, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES OR LICENSORS SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY LOSS OR INJURY OR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR SIMILAR DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF, OR YOUR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE, THE SERVICE AND THE SITESAND THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICE AND THE SITE OR ARISING OUT OF ANY ACTION TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO OR AS A RESULT OF ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICE AND THE SITE. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AGAINST BUILDING FOUNDATIONS, INC. AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, DIVISIONS, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES AND LICENSORS ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE AND THE SITE AND THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE THEREON.

You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., user name, email address) on a bulletin board, chat room or on any other user or member generated pages, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other parties.


PRIVACY POLICY

* Information Gathered *

Building Foundations gathers information from the people who use our site so that we can offer our users a better, more fulfilling experience. We gather this information in a manner that provides for protection of personal privacy, and with an eye towards maintaining the security of all gathered information. We respect and protect the privacy of our members and registered site users. We begin by requiring as little personally identifiable information about you as possible to adequately serve you, such as email address, username and password. From time to time we may request a real name and ZIP code. This information is kept strictly confidential.

* Web Server Logs *

Like most sites, we keep a running record of what pages are requested on our site. Our web server logs contain information about what pages are most popular, and how many pages are viewed in a given time period.

* Search Engines *

We do not track search engine usage. No records are kept of any searches you might perform on Building Foundations.

* User Tracking and Session Cookies *

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Web site, and to provide us with usage statistics. Our site uses session cookies to save your login information so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.

* Use Of The Information *

We analyze what our members like and don't like about our current offerings so that we can design better services.

* Important Note Regarding Privacy *

THE ABOVE POLICY NOTWITHSTANDING, THERE IS NO REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY ON THIS WEBSITE. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO USE OR DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION WITHOUT NOTICE OR CONSENT AS NEEDED TO SATISFY ANY LAW, REGULATION OR LEGAL REQUEST; TO CONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS OF COMPLAINTS OR POSSIBLE BREACHES OF LAW; TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF OUR SITE AND OUR PROPERTY; TO PROTECT THE SAFETY OF OUR VISITORS OR OTHERS; OR TO COOPERATE IN ANY LEGAL INVESTIGATION.


POSTING GUIDELINES


While we do our best to provide an open and friendly atmosphere, there are some basic guidelines that must be followed.

We reserve the right to edit, modify or remove any topic that is deemed inappropriate.

Please do not openly challenge the decisions made by our staff or moderators. If you disagree with a someone's actions, email admin@teejer.net to settle the problem. Do not post about it in public or disrespect our staff.

We reserve the right to remove any member who violates our community guidelines. However, warning will be provided in most cases. Those who are deemed a threat to the community will be banned immediately.

If you feel that a topic is not appropriate for the forum that it is in, please do not post about it in public, instead, PM a moderator, staff member or admin and inform them of the problem.

Please keep in mind that minors frequent these forums, as well as people of diverse backgrounds, and post appropriately. Excessive foul language and inappropriate images will not be tolerated. Flaming and trolling are also prohibited.

Any other guideline notwithstanding, this site may not be used to support, advocate or promote any of the following:

Any activity that is illegal under local, state or federal law. This includes, but is not limited to, the discussion of illegal drugs or substances.

Any activity that supports, encourages or espouses non-consensual violence or sexual aggressiveness towards another individual or group for any reason.

Any activities that supports, encourages or espouses hatred towards another individual or group based upon any criteria, including race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, beliefs, etc.

Images in signatures are allowed, but are to be no larger than 350x150. A signature with an image may contain up to 3 lines of text as well, a text only signature may be up to 6 lines.

Violations of these guidelines will result in consequences determined on an individual basis, and the Administrators' decision is final.

It is at the sole discretion of the administrators how these guidelines are met. We reserve the right, by any legal means, to enforce these guidelines.



CHAT GUIDELINES
By logging into this site, you explicitly agree to the following guidelines and standards of etiquette. They are for the protection of all the members. Remember, you are always free to log off.

Any disagreements of the guidelines cannot be remedied in the chat room. You need to put your objections in writing and send them to admin@teejer.net and they will be given consideration. Please respect the guidelines and the hosts' decisions.


* Respect is Rule #1 *

This is a community of mutual respect. Every person here with worthy of absolute dignity and respect, and is to be treated as such. You will see this reflected throughout all of our rules. We have tried to set a standard that will keep everyone feeling safe and comfortable.

Respect each other and hosts as we are all here for support

Strong language and vulgarity are prohibited. Use a similar standard of language that you might hear on major network TV, on the radio, or in any other public forum. Please respect that many people find excessive profanity offensive.

No personal insults to others. Teasing, joking, sarcasm or put downs at another person's expense is insulting and will not be tolerated. Sexual, racist, homophobic, religious or any jokes that put down any person or group are not permitted. Please note that racist or homophobic comments are grounds for immediate banning.

If you disagree with another member please do not argue with them. Highlight the member's name and click the "ignore" box that can be found below the members' names list, WITHOUT announcing to the room that you are ignoring that person. Members do not have to defend their reasons for ignoring another person. Hosts are not to be ignored at any time.

We strongly encourage all members to chat in the open room as more support is available and it allows for all members to become involved in helping.

Members have the right to refuse to give out any and all personal information. Extreme caution is advised about giving out email addresses, IM nicknames, names, addresses, phone numbers and other private information.

Please respect that this is an English speaking chat and limit the use of other languages to a word or two so that all chatters can be included in the conversation.

Use of the emoticons is fun but it leaves a lot of interpretation up to the reader. To avoid confusion, please keep their use to a minimum in favor of the written word.

Please do not talk about any members who are not present.


* If You're in Crisis *

We are not equipped to properly help people in crisis. We want to keep you safe by encouraging you to seek professional assistance.

Our chat is a support group only. We are not trained or equipped to be a crisis center. Please contact a crisis center, your personal physician, a hospital emergency room, your local 911 or emergency contact number for professional assistance. If a member is overwrought and continually refuses the suggestions of the chat and/or we cannot talk to them, they may be asked to leave the room to protect the rest of the group.

If you give your personal information to a host or other member (although we discourage this) and later threaten suicide we reserve the right to contact appropriate authorities, however, no guarantee is made that someone will contact emergency personnel for you.


* Nicknames *

You may only select one nickname for chat. When members use the same name each time, people can get to know you better and support you and other members feel more secure that they know who they are speaking with. It also allows the opportunity to form deeper friendships because people come to recognize you.

If you learn that your desired name is already in use, please select another that is distinct from that one. This will help avoid confusion. We follow a first come, first served guideline.

Members cannot select names that end with ADM, HOST, or MOD, nor may they use names made up of only numbers or symbols.

Members cannot select names that are offensive or violent in nature. You may be asked to change names that refer to: death, suicide, self-harm, harm to others, violence, sex, bodily functions, put downs to others, drug or alcohol abuse, religious beliefs, negative political beliefs, hatred or prejudice.

Some members like to use variations upon their chosen nickname to express their feelings. This is acceptable as long as a significant portion of the base nick is preserved and it complies with all of our other rules.

* Miscellaneous *

Triggering topics are allowed, provided members are courteous and respectful to each other's needs. Triggering topics include, by are not limited to,: suicide, self-injury, eating disorders, rape, sexual abuse, drug or alcohol abuse and domestic violence. Although we grant quite a bit of leeway with these topics, hosts do have the right to ask members to take a conversation into PC or to discontinue it. Discussions which involve "how to's" or in any way condone hurting oneself or others will not be allowed under any circumstances. Talking about the emotions that lead to these actions is permitted but talking in details, or using graphic descriptions is never permitted.

People in need of support take the highest priority, so we ask that you offer support, if possible in these situations. Casual conversations should be secondary and respectful of those that need support.

Cybersex and picking up dates is not allowed in this chat. Any instances of attempting to cyber with a minor will result in an immediate permanent ban and any information we have being passed to law enforcement.

Talk pertaining to sex is only permitted if it is within the context of your depression or medication side effects

You may be asked to change topics if a subject is controversial and/or creates disagreements. Please respect that other people's views may not agree with yours.

Members who are impaired by drugs or alcohol will be asked to leave the room until they are sober. Please do not condone the practice of drinking or use of illegal drugs at any time.

Self deprecating remarks, put downs, negative nicknames and a resistance to accepting suggestions to seek professional care or call crisis lines seriously detracts from the room's goal of fostering a positive atmosphere. In an effort to promote a healthier and uplifting atmosphere in our community and to help in healing we ask that you try to recognize the benefits of a more positive attitude. If excess negativity affects the room, the chatter may be asked to leave.


In Closing


ALL OTHER RULES, POLICIES OR GUIDELINES NOTWITHSTANDING, THE SITE ADMINISTRATOR RESERVES ALL FINAL RIGHTS TO HIMSELF. ANY DECISION REGARDING MEMBERSHIPS, POSTS, ACCESS OR USE OF THIS SITE AND SERVICE IS IN HIS SOLE DISCRETION.