Terms of Service

Blizzbook.com Terms of Service

Effective Date: As of August 1st, 2010
Updated October 2nd, 2010 - Revised Feb 19th, 2011.

1. Acceptance of Terms of Service

Blizzbook.com and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "Blizzbook.com") operate a network of websites and services (the "Blizzbook.com Network"). These Terms of Service set forth the terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Blizzbook.com Network. From time to time, Blizzbook.com may supplement these Terms of Service with additional terms pertaininig to specific content, including, but not limited to, the uploading of photographs and videos, services, products, digital products, courses or events ("Additional Terms"), which Additional Terms may be placed on the Blizzbook.com Network to be viewed in connection with the specific content, services, products, digital products, courses or events and shall be identified as such. You understand and agree that such Additional Terms are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms of Service. BY USING THE Blizzbook.com NETWORK, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE JUST AS IF YOU HAD SIGNED AN AGREEMENT WITH Blizzbook.com. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Service, please discontinue your use of the Blizzbook.com Network. The Blizzbook.com Network is provided free of charge to you (unless otherwise indicated).

Although portions of the Blizzbook.com Network may be viewed simply by visiting the relevant web site, in order to access the message boards and/or receive additional services from Blizzbook.com you need to sign on as a guest or register as a member of the Blizzbook.com Network. Registering as a member will allow you to access certain services that are not available to guests. Unauthorized access, distribution, reproduction, copying, retransmission, publication, sale, exploitation (commercial or otherwise), or any other form of transfer of any portion of the Blizzbook.com Network, including but not limited to all content, services, digital products, courses, events, tools or products is hereby expressly prohibited.

2. Registration Information/Privacy Policy

When you register for the Blizzbook.com Network, you will be required to provide Blizzbook.com with the following information: your name, e-mail address, zip code, country, gender, birth date, member name and password. In addition, you may choose to provide the Blizzbook.com Network with additional information, including your mailing address, household income, education, marital status and employment status.

Any information provided by you or gathered by Blizzbook.com or third parties during any visit to the Blizzbook.com Network shall be subject to the terms of Blizzbook.com's Privacy Policy.  Blizzbook.com reserves the right to offer third party services and products to you based on the preferences that you identify during the registration process and based on your subsequent preferences.

Blizzbook.com reserves the right to (i) terminate your membership and access to any specific content , services, digital products, products courses or events, and (ii) remove your personal Blizzbook.com website, if Blizzbook.com learns that you have provided Blizzbook.com with false or misleading registration information.

You will not: provide any false personal information on Blizzbook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission, You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser), You will not use Blizzbook if you are under 13, You will not use Blizzbook if you are a convicted sex offender, You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date, You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account, You will not transfer your account to anyone without first getting our written permission, If you select a username for your account we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name).

Reporting Users are Spammers/Fake Profiles: You will not under any circumstances report a user for any infractions again the site due to personal reasons or dissagreements on the site. If you generate a false report, you account may be suspended, banned or deleted. Keep in mind this is a social site.. Socially, users interact and may not always agree with one another. The same goes with online relationships, whether is be gaming or otherwise. Disagreements among guild members must be settled off site in a respectable manner and does not deem account deletion of any kind. Respect each other, and do not turn other members again each other - this doesn't foster a healthy social environment and will not be tolerated.

Log Files
Like many other Web sites, http://Blizzbook.com makes use of log files. Theinformation inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses,type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exitpages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’smovement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, andother such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons
http://Blizzbook.com does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences,record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customizeWeb page content based on visitors browser type or other information that thevisitor sends via their browser.

DoubleClick DART Cookie
.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on http://Blizzbook.com.
.:: Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based ontheir visit to http://Blizzbook.com and other sites on the Internet.
.:: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google adand content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site.Our advertising partners include ....
Google Adsense
Commission Junction
Adbrite

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisementsand links that appear on http://Blizzbook.com send directly to your browsers.They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-partyad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or topersonalize the advertising content that you see.

http://Blizzbook.com has no access to or control over these cookies that areused by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad serversfor more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructionsabout how to opt-out of certain practices. http://Blizzbook.com's privacy policydoes not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisersor web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browseroptions. More detailed information about cookie management with specific webbrowserscan be found at the browsers' respective websites.

3. Termination

Blizzbook.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to immediately, without notice, suspend or terminate (i) these Terms of Service; and/or (ii) your registration(s) with or ability to access the Blizzbook.com Network and/or any other service, tool, specific content, digital products, products, courses or events provided to you by Blizzbook.com, including any personal web site, upon any breach by you of these Terms of Service or otherwise.

4. Modifications of these Terms of Service

Blizzbook.com may modify these Terms of Service from time to time in its sole discretion. Each time you use the Blizzbook.com Network, you will be deemed to have accepted any such changes. Blizzbook.com shall have no obligation to notify you of any such changes other then posting such modifications on the Blizzbook.com Network, but Blizzbook.com reserves the right (at Blizzbook.com's discretion) to provide you notice of such changes to any e-mail address you have provided to Blizzbook.com, or post office address you have provided to Blizzbook.com.

5. Modifications of the Blizzbook.com Interactive Community Site

Blizzbook.com may modify or discontinue the Blizzbook.com Network, any portion thereof, or any services, tools, digital products, products, events or courses related thereto with or without notice to you and without liability to you or any third party, except as otherwise provided herein.

6. Use of the Blizzbook.com Interactive Community Site

A. Content of Messages

You alone are responsible for the content of your messages or any materials you transmit to others, and any consequences of such messages. Please carefully consider the information you choose to post on the Blizzbook.com Network, including, but not limited to, any message board or blog or any comment, profile or email. Do not continue any conversation online that makes you feel uncomfortable. You should not include your telephone number, street address or last name on any area of the Blizzbook.com Network that is accessible to the general public nor provide such personally identifying information to people you do not know. Do not continue any conversation online that makes you feel uncomfortable. Blizzbook.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit material or information, products or services you may be provided by other users of the Blizzbook.com Network. Blizzbook.com further assumes no responsibility for the deletion of or failure to store e-mail messages.

You further agree that you will not use the Blizzbook.com Network to send emails or instant messages or post on message boards, blogs, profiles, comments or any place on the Blizzbook.com Network, any message or material of any kind or nature that is unlawful, harassing, libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, profane, (unless within the scope of the topic area of a message board as determined by Blizzbook.com in its sole discretion), racially offensive, inaccurate, or otherwise objectionable material or that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation, or encourage the use of controlled substances. For purposes of the immediately preceding sentence, "masked" vulgarity, obscenity or profanity (e.g. "f*ck") is deemed to be equivalent to including the actual objectionable word, phrase or symbol in your post, message or otherwise on the Blizzbook.com Network. Blizzbook.com reserves the right to delete any such material from the Blizzbook.com Network. Blizzbook.com will cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials and/or agencies in the investigation of any person or persons who violate the Terms of Service contained in this Section 6.

You agree not to impersonate any other person or entity, whether actual or fictitious, including impersonating an employee or consultant of Blizzbook.com. You further agree not to use an inappropriate member name of any kind.

You agree not to post or use the Blizzbook.com Network to distribute or send any illegal material of any kind, including but not limited to, illegal material in the form of text, graphics, video, programs or audio. Posting content or participating in any form of discussion with the intention to commit any illegal activity is strictly prohibited.

You acknowledge that (i) content on the Blizzbook.com Network is protected by copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual and proprietary rights ("Rights"); (ii) these Rights are valid and protected in all media and technologies existing now or later developed; and (iii) except as explicitly provided otherwise, the Terms of Service and applicable copyright, trademark and other laws govern your use of such content. You may not post to the Blizzbook.com Network, copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any material that infringes any Rights. You acknowledge that Blizzbook.com may acquire Rights to use any posted materials as described below, and that you will not acquire any of those Rights by downloading such materials.

By submitting content, which shall include your member name, to any "public area" of the Blizzbook.com Network, including message boards, blogs, forums, contests, personal websites, public profiles, comments or chat rooms, you grant Blizzbook.com a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, communicate to the public, perform and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such content. You also warrant that, to the extent that you are not the exclusive holder of all Rights in content you submit, the holder of any Rights, including moral rights in such content, has completely and effectively waived all such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license stated above. You also permit any user to access, display, view, store and reproduce such content that you have made public for personal use. Subject to the foregoing, the owner of such content placed on the Blizzbook.com Network retains any and all Rights that may exist in such content.

Blizzbook.com is not obligated to review content posted by users prior to the content's posting to any area of the Blizzbook.com Network, including any private profile. Content posted by any user to the Blizzbook.com Network does not reflect the opinions or views of Blizzbook.com, its parent, subsidiaries or affiliates. Blizzbook.com makes no warranty, whether express or implied, as to the accuracy of any content or material that you send to other Blizzbook.com members through any Blizzbook.com service.

ANYTHING CONTAINED HEREIN TO THE CONTRARY NOTWITHSTANDING, BY SUBMITTING CONTENT TO ANY MESSAGE BOARDS, BLOG, CHATS, EXPERT AREAS, QUESTION AND ANSWER FORUMS, SWEEPSTAKES, CONTESTS OR ANY OTHER AREA ON THE Blizzbook.com NETWORK, YOU HEREBY EXPRESSLY PERMIT Blizzbook.com TO IDENTIFY YOU AS THE CONTRIBUTOR OF SUCH CONTENT IN ANY PUBLICATION IN ANY FORM, MEDIA OR TECHNOLOGY NOW KNOWN OR LATER DEVELOPED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTENT, UNLESS YOU OTHERWISE NOTIFY Blizzbook.com'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN WRITING AT THE TIME YOU SUBMIT THE CONTENT THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE IDENTIFIED.

B. Non Commercial Use

The Blizzbook.com Network, its products, services, digital products, events, courses, social networking tools (as more fully described below) and any other element of the Blizzbook.com Network are only for the personal use of visitors and members and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or pre-approved by Blizzbook.com in writing. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Blizzbook.com Network, or any portion thereof, including, but not limited to, collecting user names and/or email addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of or linking to the Blizzbook.com Network is prohibited. In furtherance thereof, you agree that you will not use the Blizzbook.com Network for chain letters, research study or survey solicitations, junk mail, "spamming," commercial or non-commercial solicitations, or bulk communications of any kind, including but not limited to distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such list. Occasionally, Blizzbook.com will follow different ventures in web development. During those times, all database, users and content can be utilized for such endevours as Blizzbook.com seems fit for content purposes.

C. Privacy Policy

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.