By submitting your story to our website, you give us permission to make any changes we feel are necessary to your story - for instance, fixing misspelled words and blanking out profanity and obscenity - to be determined on a case-by-case basis. However, we always will do our best to preserve the tone and voice of your story. We also reserve the right to remove your story at any time for any reason, reject your story altogether, or ask you to make changes to the text of your story, biography, or accompanying photos before we accept them. Keep a copy of any content you send us as we may delete such content at any time and we are not liable for deleting any content posted on or transmitted to our site.

To submit material to GlobalHometown.com, you must open an account and submit photos to accompany each story you submit. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account, and you are responsible for any activities that occur that can be attributed to your account. All information you submit to GlobalHometown.com must be written in the English language, and you must submit a photo with every story.

We reserve the right to change or modify these terms and conditions at any time. Terms become effective as soon as they are posted on the site. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms and notices. Your continued use of the GlobalHometown.com constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.

Although GlobalHometown.com does not claim to own the content that its users post, by posting content to any public area of the website, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to GlobalHometown.com an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said content. You are responsible for each item of content that you post, email or otherwise make available via our website. Unless otherwise specified, the GlobalHometown.com site is for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or websites obtained from the GlobalHometown.com site.

We are not liable for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of any content (pictures, video, links, files, or other material) posted, emailed or otherwise made available via GlobalHometown.com. This includes third-party content, websites and websites. Any interaction between you and third parties is solely between you and the third party. If there is a dispute between site users or between site users and any third party, you understand and agree that GlobalHometown.com is not obligated to get involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release GlobalHometown.com, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed.

You agree not to publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.

You agree not to upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights or have received all necessary consents to do the same.

You agree not to upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property.

You agree not to use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data-mining tools or the like to download data from the website, unless we expressly give you permission to do so.

You agree not to use any automated computer program or other automated means that allows postings on GlobalHometown.com without each posting being submitted manually by the author.

You agree not to advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or websites for any business purpose, unless GlobalHometown.com specifically allows such messages.

You also agree not to post any content that includes personal or identifying information about any other person without that person?s express consent; contact anyone who has asked you not to contact them; and stalk or otherwise harass anyone.

You agree not to send unsolicited email advertisements to GlobalHometown.com email addresses or through GlobalHometown.com computer systems.

GlobalHometown.com permits you to display on your website, or create a hyperlink on your website to make individual postings on the website, so long as such use is for noncommercial and/or news reporting purposes only (e.g., for use in personal web blogs or personal online media).

Please report any violations of GlobalHometown.com's terms of use by flagging the posting(s) for review, or by emailing us at:

problem@globalhometown.com

You understand and agree that if it becomes necessary for GlobalHometown.com to pursue legal action against you for violating our terms of use, you will be liable to pay GlobalHometown.com one hundred dollars ($100) as liquidated damages, which you accept as reasonable estimates of GlobalHometown.com's damages, each time you commit the following violations of our terms of use:

-- Posting a message that impersonates any person or entity, misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity, or that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's express consent. This of course doesn?t apply to parodies of public figures.

-- Posting to the website after we have terminated your access or use of our website.

-- Spamming GlobalHometown.com email addresses.

-- Using automatic posting websites or devices to post messages to GlobalHometown.com.

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