Disclosure Policy For TheVegasGeek.com

This policy is valid from 09 October 2009 and is designed to comply the new FTC Guides Governing The Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising which may be found at:

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005endorsementguidesfnnotice.pdf

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact our Compliance GEEK:  Steve_S (geek AT TheVegasGeek Dot com).

This blog does accept a small number of advertiser which are carefully screened and veted. We do not and will not accept sponsorships, paid insertions, or paid to review. We write for our own purposes. However, we may be influenced by our background, occupation, religion, political affiliation or experience.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog.  The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content will always be identified. We are employed by or consult with: N/A. We serve on the following corporate or non profit boards: N/A. We are active in a political party which influences our blog: N/A. We blog about people to whom we are related: N/A. The most interesting such people are: N/A. We have a financial interest in the following that are relevant to our blogging: N/A.

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DMCA Disclosure – DMCA Disclaimer

This site and its owner respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow our Notice and Procedures for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement below.

If you believe that you hold a claim of copyright infringement against this site and its owner, please submit notice as soon as possible. Please use the Contact Me page on this site. Please provide a statement that you are the owner of the exclusive right you claim has been infringed, or a statement that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that has allegedly been infringed. Please provide:

(1) Identification of the material that you claim to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit The owner of this site to locate the material.

(2) Information reasonably sufficient to permit the owner of this site to contact you, including your address, telephone number, fax number and, if available, an electronic mail address.

(3) You can provide contact information for the owner of the exclusive right that you claim has been infringed if you are not the owner, but rather authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

(4) A statement you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

The owner of this site will respond to any DMCA complaints in a timely manner. Should you be the copyright holder of a specific piece of content featured on this site without your permission, the owner of this site will remove it in a timely manner once notified.

Privacy Policy For TheVegasGeek.com

We respect your privacy. Your Email address and any other data you provide us will never be released to a third party. All our Email lists and Membership forms use the Opt-In model. These Emails always include a procedure and instructions to remove yourself from our lists.

This is how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site. If you visit our site we collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account, or princeton.edu if you are connecting from Princeton University’s domain); the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site. We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site,  your actions on this site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. We use the following services/applications to collect this data on your visits to this site:  Google Analytics, Analog, Awstats, Webalizer, and Webalizer Ftp. This data is provided in an aggregated form.

We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.

COPPA – Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We vigourously support this Federal Law:  This site is NOT directed to children under 13 and we do not collect personal information from children; This site may be considered a general audience site however we DO NOT collect personal information from children under 13; and This site may be considered a general audience site however we DO NOT have a separate children’s area and we DO NOT collect personal information from children.
Sources: http://www.ftc.gov/coppa/ and http://www.coppa.org/comply.htm

Editorial Disclaimer

I encourage you to check and verify everything I write on this Blog. Don’t assume that my writings are the final word or 100% fact. I am not an Attorney or Accountant. Always seek reliable professional advice before you make a decision. Don’t take my advice. I speak from first hand experience so I may be wrong.  I am committed to presenting facts and my opinions but I also realize that I can make mistakes and I’m passionate about reading and digesting various views on a given subject.

The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners.

Terms of Use For TheVegasGeek.com

TheVegasGeek.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without any obligation, to make improvements to, or correct any error or omissions in any portion of the Content or the Website. THE WEBSITE AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED BY TheVegasGeek.com ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, AND TheVegasGeek.com EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL TheVegasGeek.com BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE WEBSITE, THE CONTENT AND THE PRODUCTS. We reserve the right, at our sole and absolute discretion, to modify the terms and conditions on this page and our entire website.

EVERYTHING on this site is © 2009-2011 TheVegasGeek.com. Please DO NOT create links and or Frame Sets on another site to any files, pages, or content on our site. You may not use, borrow, or possess any files and or content/data on our site under any circumstances. This includes but is not limited to all our .gif, .html, .htm, .shtml .jpg, .mid, .exe files. You may not use, borrow, or possess any of our content, design, look and feel, or user interface. You may not alter our content in any manner or form without our prior written permission. If we catch you stealing our content we won’t issue a warning. We will invoke our ZERO TOLERANCE policy and lodge formal complaints with your ISP, Web Hosting Company, master domain that hosts your site if you do not own a domain, Upstream Providers, and numerous other federal and state authorities. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change these terms, conditions, and rules.

We do not permit the use of profanity anywhere on this site. We do not permit personnel attacks or illegal activities. We do not permit the display of X Rated material of any kind. We do not permit the solicitation of gambling.

We reserve the right to immediately BAN you from our site and or delete your user account from other services which we offer if you post slanderous, disingenuous, untruthful, or socially unacceptable comments about any of our services on other Bulletin Board systems and or Chat rooms. Please don’t insult our intelligence by making these kinds of statements and then asking us to reinstate your membership and or your account.

We do not permit or endorse “SPAM”. If you use any services on this site to SPAM us or anyone else we will immediately perform the following actions. This includes but is not limited to “harvesting” AKA extracting email addresses from any service, page, script, or member profiles or posts or anywhere else on this site. NO warnings will be issued. We will lodge a formal complaint with your ISP, Web Hosting Company, master domain that hosts your site if you do not own a domain, Upstream Providers, and numerous other federal and state authorities. If you feel our actions are without merit then please discuss this with the authorities and individuals we have lodged a complaint with. We will not engage in discussions with you once our actions are taken. If you respond to any Email we send you with a “sales pitch” or any verbiage about what you can offer us, we consider all of this E-Mail “SPAM” and we will immediately perform all of the actions stated at the beginning of this paragraph. This includes but is not limited to your EMail response, an auto responder, or placing us on your EMail list. If you need our advice and or interpretation on a particular action you may take, please contact us BEFORE you do something. We are happy to help you clarify any actions or polices. If you violate ANY of our Rules, Policies, and Terms Of Use anwhere on this site and we elect to invoke our ZERO TOLERACE policy and or any other actions which we deem necessary, we WILL NOT engage in any dialog with you. This includes but is not limited to answering your Email.

If you engage in any form of harassment via email, form submissions, phone, or FAX we will immediately invoke our ZERO TOLERANCE policy and lodge formal complaints with your ISP, Web Hosting Company, master domain that hosts your site if you do not own a domain, Upstream Providers, and numerous other federal and state authorities.

We currently have a number of security features enabled to insure that TheVegasGeek.com is not abused. Inspite of this fact, there are always a small number of people which will try and abuse our services. If you ABUSE any service on this site we will immediately invoke our ZERO TOLERANCE policy as stated in this document. We strongly suggest that you do not release your user name and or password to any other party or record it. Our system may use cookies to insure that you don’t have to remember it but we still suggest that you memorize your user name and password in case cookies fail or some malfunction occurs. You are responsible for any and all actions performed on our system with your user name and password. No exceptions please. Please insure that all EMail addresses you supply our site works properly. You should always use an address that you check on a regular basis. If your EMail bounces on a regular basis we will delete your account and all privileges. ~ My thanks to my good friend Steve_S for the use of this copy. ~