Members should feel free to express themselves. However, members should keep comments and contributions within the community values of the service and must comply with applicable laws and the terms of service of Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community. Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community is provided as a free service to any member who agrees to abide by the terms of service. Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community may change, suspend or discontinue the service or any other part of the service at any time without prior notice to its members. Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community may also impose limits on certain features or services contained in the service without prior notice.

By using Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community, you agree to the terms and conditions outlined below. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use this site. We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of these terms at any time, whenever we want. If you continue to use Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community after we have posted changes to the terms, it means you have accepted those terms.

Content and Conduct

Software files, text, sounds and/or images posted, linked or uploaded on or through Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community by members should not be abusive, defamatory, obscene, fraudulent, in violation of applicable laws, or otherwise offensive to other Members.

You may post, link or upload image files, text, sounds or other files on or through Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community that is not subject to any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights, or content in which any holder of Rights has given you express authorization for distribution on Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community. By submitting Content to any part of Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community, you automatically grant or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly granted.

You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to distribute your content, Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community is acting as a passive conduit for such distribution and Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community is not taking any obligation or liability relating to any content or activities of its members. Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community cannot prevent members from placing prohibited content on this site. Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community may monitor some, all, or no areas of this site for adherence to these terms of service or other Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community terms of service that may be published from time to time. Upon notification of inappropriate material, Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community reserves the right, but not the responsibility to remove the content. Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community reserves the right to stop a member from accessing this service upon receipt of complaints about the member's conduct.

Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community reserves the right, but not the responsibility, to remove content which we feel is harmful, offensive, inaccurate or otherwise in violation of the terms of service or any rules or policies Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community has in place at the time. You or Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community may terminate your service at any time for any reason. Once your access to this service is terminated, you cannot engage in the service in any manner or for any reason without the express written consent of Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community, and you cannot assist in enabling a terminated member access to Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community via your Account.

Disclaimer of Warranties

Everything on Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community is provided to you "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE." Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community does not make any warranties, representations or endorsements whatsoever. Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community does not guarantee or warrant that any files available for downloading through the Service will be free of infection by viruses or other code that may contain contaminating or destructive properties.

Netiquette

You may not do any of the following:

1. Post, transmit, promote, or distribute content that is illegal.
2. Transmit or facilitate distribution of content that is libelous, harmful, threatening, harassing, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, sexually explicit, obscene, defamatory, or objectionable in a reasonable person's view.
3. Pretend to be anyone whom you are not. You may not impersonate another member, a Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community staff member, or anyone else.
4. Attempt to get a password, other account information, or other private information from a member, or harvest email addresses or other information.
5. Post any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of solicitation.

Pornography, obscenities, and defamatory postings are not allowed anywhere on Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community. Postings of this kind will be removed immediately, and a violation will be issued to the Member responsible for the posting (several violations will result in the termination of your account). If you see any pornographic, obscene or defamatory postings, please notify us immediately.

Usernames that contain obscene words, derogatory or racist remarks, or references to sexual acts or sexual anatomy are not allowed on Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community. Usernames of this kind will be deleted immediately upon discovery. If you see a Username that contains obscene, racist or derogatory references, please notify us immediately.

In the Forums area, please try to keep your postings relevant to the discussion. Postings that are irrelevant to Forum discussions, or that are designed to promote personal pages, voting polls, or third parties may be removed. If you see postings that contain foul language or that are intended to harass other Members, please notify us immediately.

Intentional disruption of the flow of content or discussion by repeatedly posting the same message or image or posting excessively large images is not permitted. Members who cause disruption of this kind will be issued a violation that can result in the termination of their account. If you see another Member disrupting a forum discussion, please Notify Us immediately.

Harassment of another Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community member via Notes, Pages, or postings is not permitted. Harassment means: saying bad things about them; sending them unwanted messages; attacking their race, heritage, etc. Unsolicited "spam" messages are also not permitted unless expressly authorized by the recipient. While we encourage you to introduce yourself to other Members, please respect their wishes if they do not want you to send them mail. If you feel that another Member is harassing you, please notify us by filling out a member violation report.

Please remember that not everyone likes being put on a Friend's list. Please comply with a Member's wishes if they request to be removed from your Friend's list. As a Member, you have the right to refuse being saved to someone else's Friend's list. If another Member refuses to remove you from their Friend's list, please notify us and we will remove your name for you.

We can, whenever we want, edit or delete any content displayed, uploaded to, distributed, or otherwise published through Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community.

We reserve the right to remove content at any time, including any content that violates these standards. We are not responsible for any objectionable material you may encounter while using this service.

Age Restriction

Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community is not directed to children under the age of 13. Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community will prohibit registration by and will not knowingly collect personally-identifiable information from anyone under 13.

The Habesha Friends - Ethiopian and Eritrean Community Terms of Service is our "social contract" of member interaction.

Last Updated: January 2, 2007