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Data License Agreement

Those who use the resources of thosebeforeus.com to place genealogy records and tributes are required to conform to acceptable standards of decency and behaviour. The standards apply to vulgarity, personal abuse, slander or libel, and the posting of pornographic material.

If the management of thosebeforeus.com become aware of offensive material within any record, they will contact the member or author allowing him/her to remove or amend it. If no suitable response is made within 48 hours of such communication, the offending records will be purged from the database.

It is the program enabling the uploading of your database that is licensed to you. The data remains your property including any copyright. By publishing on this site, you are cognisant of the fact that your personal records will be viewed by others. Records must comply with this agreement. You are in violation of the License Agreement if you breach any of the terms and conditions.

LICENSE AGREEMENT

By uploading records or data to the thosebeforeus.com database, you accept the terms of this license agreement.

The license and the restrictions within this agreement, cover the use of the database program, the placement of data on the website and copyright of the program used by thosebeforeus.com to publish information contained in the resultant database. All rights not expressly granted for the use of the program and the website are reserved by thosebeforeus.com.

The use of the program for the placement of data by you into the database, constitutes a license of use only.

If you fail to comply with any of the terms or conditions of this license, your rights to use this site will end and any records or tributes placed by you can be permanently erased.

You are not permitted to:

  • place records and data onto the site that can be described as vulgar, personal abuse, slander or libel, or of a pornographic nature. The management has the discretion to decide whether the material meets acceptable standards.
  • place copyright material, such as text or pictures, onto the site unless you have acquired permission for such use. The placement of such material can result in you being personally responsible for legal costs or fines and you hereby indemnify thosebefore.com for any legal action and costs that might be associated with your actions.
  • use any of the content of the database for any commercial purpose.
  • copy and republish data obtained on this site without the written approval of the owner of the copyright whose address is published on all records. It is not the incumbent responsibilty of thosebefore.com to obtain such permission for you and complaints against those who use copyright material will be acted on according to this license.

LIMITATION OF USE

Whilst it is the intention of thosebeforeus.com to host you records and tributes permanently and continuously, the legal restraints of such a condition would be impossible to guarantee. Therefore thosebeforeus.com undertakes to host your records and tributes for a minimum of TWO years following the placement on its site. The removal of records or tributes resulting from the breach of the standards applicable to vulgarity, personal abuse, slander or libel, and the posting of pornographic material or the unauthorised use of copyright material, cannot be considered as a breach of contract in respect of this undertaking.

ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS

If you are not completely satisfied with the Online Subscription Service, you may request a refund provided the request is made within 7 days of the date of purchase. After this guarantee period, you are not entitled to a refund of any kind.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

This License and your right to use the thosebeforeus.com website will terminate automatically if you violate or fail to comply with any part of this Agreement.

LIMITATIONS ON DAMAGES

thosebeforeus.com shall never be liable for any consequential or incidental damages arising from the inability to use or access the database as a result of disruption of the World Wide Web, telecommunications or destruction of the database as a result of war or terrorism. Neither shall thosebefore.com be liable for the unauthorised use of copyright material by members on this site which is subject to immediate removal as aforesaid. Further, no liability can be ascribed to thosebeforeus.com as a result of misuse of your logon Username and Password if this was obtained illegally or is a result of your own actions or negligence. In all circumstances, thosebeforeus.com will endeavour to restore the records from backups of the database.

QUERIES OR DISPUTES

All communications relating to this license must be addressed to:

The General Manager

thosebeforeus.com

Email: licenses@thosebeforeus.com

Postal: PO Box 411, Rose Bay, NSW 2029 AUSTRALIA

Physical: 5/39 Onslow Street, Rose Bay, NSW 2029 AUSTRALIA

Telephone: 61-2-9388 1335

 

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