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General Terms and Conditions
WCF offers its visitors advice, opinions, instructions, and other information for informational and educational purposes only. Your use of any information provided by WCF is at your own risk, as this information should never be construed as legal, financial, or any other type of professional advice. WCF, its owner, writers, and anyone else affiliated with the site are not responsible for anything you do or don’t do after reading WCF content. You should consult a professional before you use any of the content provided by WCF.
Disclaimer
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Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances shall WCF or anyone associated with WCF be liable for damages including – but not limited to – damages for loss of data, profit, revenue, privacy, goodwill or any other losses; damages due to business interruption; and damages resulting from a visitor’s use or misuse of WCF. This limitation applies to the performance or non-performance of the products, services, information, or merchandise that appears on, or are linked or related in any way, to WCF. Such limitation shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by law. These limitations of liability may not apply to you in the event that limitations of liability aren’t permitted in your jurisdiction.
Trademarks and Copyrights
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- All content on WCF is subject to intellectual property rights owned by WCF or its licensors.
- No content may be copied, distributed, republished, or transmitted for any commercial or public uses.
- You may not alter, transform, or build upon any content provided by WCF in any way.
- You may use or share content provided by WCF for personal, non-public uses. This includes downloading a copy to read or share with your personal acquaintances. WCF retains the license to all content at all times and never transfers the title to any of its visitors or users.
- You must attribute all content provided by WCF to the author and WCF and never misattribute the content in any way when using the content for personal, non-commercial uses.
Intellectual Property Infringement Claims
WCF is committed to respecting the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your work has been reproduced on the site in a way that infringes on your copyright, please e-mail info@whatcollegeforgot.com. We’ll immediately remove the infringing material from the site in the event that we conclude that your copyright interest has in fact been infringed.
Indemnification
You agree to hold WCF, its owner, writers, and anyone else associated with WCF harmless from and indemnify them for all damages, costs, and other liabilities – including but not limited to legal fees – resulting from any claim related, but not limited to, the following:
- Your access to and use of WCF
- Your violation of these terms and conditions
- Any disputes or claims arising between you and other users of WCF
Privacy Policy
Please see WCF’s privacy policy. This privacy policy is part of and incorporated into these terms and conditions.
User-Posted Content on WCF
You warrant that you own all rights to any content – including but not limited to text, audio, video, images, and personal information – that you publish or post to WCF. You agree to grant to WCF a full, royalty-free, freely transferable license to all content you publish on WCF. You warrant that any of your content posted on WCF has not been posted anywhere else – online or offline – and that you won’t post the content anywhere else in the future. You acknowledge that WCF doesn’t have security features in place to restrict the copying and redistributing of any content; however, we don’t endorse this behavior and hope that it won’t happen. You automatically agree to these terms when you submit a “Reader Story” or a question to “Dear WCF” to be posted on WCF. These terms apply to all content you may post on WCF – including but not limited to “Reader Stories,” “Dear WCF,” and comments. The following terms are also in effect for comments.
Comments
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Links to Third Parties
WCF won’t be held responsible for the accuracy, copyright or trademark compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in the sites linked to or from WCF. Use of any site linked to or from WCF is at the user’s own risk.
Unauthorized Access and SPAM
You agree to not access, tamper with, or use any area of the site that you’re not authorized to access. You may not alter information on or obtained from WCF, tamper with content, or use any automated means or interface to extract or manipulate content or data from any part of the site. You may not reverse engineer any aspect of the site or do anything that might upset the source code. This includes – but isn’t limited to – using viruses, spyware, adware, or any other code that could adversely impact WCF or any of its visitors. You agree not to SPAM the site in any way, including but not limited to the comment interface or “Send Us a Message” functionality.
Revisions to Site Content
The content provided by WCF may contain errors, and WCF doesn’t warrant that any of its content is complete or accurate. WCF may make changes to the content posted on the site at any time without notice. You acknowledge that WCF makes no commitment to monitor the accuracy or reliability of its content.
Site Performance
WCF will not be held liable for any delay or failure in performance of any kind and under any circumstances. WCF reserves the right to temporarily or permanently modify or discontinue, and restrict access to, the website without notice. WCF will not be liable to you or any third party for any such modification, suspension, or removal of content or any change in site performance.
Revisions to Terms and Conditions
WCF reserves the right to modify these terms at any time, including the right to terminate the website. All modifications to the terms and conditions will be in effect immediately upon their posting to this page. Your continued use of the WCF following the posted changes to these terms means that you agree to accept the revised terms and conditions.
Minimum Age Requirement
WCF is intended for use by persons who are at least 18 years old. You represent and warrant that you’re at least 18 years old by visiting and/or using WCF.
Customer Support and E-mail
WCF has no obligation to provide you with customer support of any kind. If you send us an e-mail message, we will try to respond within three business days; however, WCF doesn’t commit to always being able to respond this quickly.
These terms and conditions are effective as of August 17, 2009. Please e-mail info@whatcollegeforgot.com if you have any questions regarding these terms and conditions.
