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Terms of Service

Terms of Use

Welcome to Elabz.com!

We appreciate your visit today and would like to make clear our respective rights and responsibilities related to this service.
The owners and operators of Elabz.com website (“Elabz.com”) offer these informational and discussion services (the “Services”) to you subject to the terms and conditions of use (“Terms”) contained herein.
By accessing, creating or contributing or commenting to any blog post or forum discussion hosted at Elabz.com, and in consideration for the Services we provide to you, you agree to abide by these Terms.
Please read them carefully before posting or commenting on Elabz.com.

1. Rights in the Content You Submit

Default Creative Commons Public License

Unless you specify otherwise, any and all works of authorship copyrightable by you and posted by you to any blog or forum at Elabz.com (“Content”) are submitted under the terms of an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons Public License.
Under this license, you permit anyone to copy, distribute, display and perform your Content, royalty-free, on the condition that they credit your authorship each time they do so.

You also permit others to distribute derivative works of your Content, but only if they do so under the same Attribution-ShareAlike license that governs your original Content.

Please read the full text of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons Public License.

Amongst other things, this license permits RSS aggregators to copy, distribute, display and perform any Content you have created on Elabz.com to be syndicated using RSS.

More Restrictive License Terms

At this time Elabz.com does not offer an option to create content using terms more restrictive than Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons Public License within the context of the blog comment system and the forums.

By posting your Content using the Services, you are granting Elabz.com a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.

Attribution

When publicly displaying, publicly performing, reproducing or distributing copies of your Content, or Content as incorporated into a collective work, Elabz.com will make best efforts to credit your authorship. You grant Elabz.com permission to use your user name (not your real name unless you provide your real name for the purpose) for such attribution purposes. You, likewise, agree to represent yourself accurately. You acknowledge that misrepresentation may lead us, in our sole discretion, to cancel your use of the Services and delete any of your Content.

2. Conduct

Posting

The stuff at Elabz.com believes deeply in free speech. Given our role in offering this service, however, we must reserve the right to remove certain content that you may post. As a general matter, you may post content freely as a comment to a blog post or as a forum discussion, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable.

You may not use the Elabz.com name to endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause or political candidate. Representation of your personal opinions as endorsed by Elabz.com is strictly prohibited.

By posting comments on Elabz.com blog or a forum message, you warrant and represent that you either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, or that your use of the content is a protected fair use.
You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading false information.
You represent and warrant also that the content you supply does not violate these Terms,
and that you will indemnify and hold Elabz.com harmless for any and all claims resulting from content you supply.

You acknowledge that Elabz.com does not pre-screen or regularly review posted content, but that it shall have the right to remove in its sole discretion any content that it considers to violate these Terms.

Accessing

You understand that all content posted to Elabz.com is the sole responsibility of the individual who originally posted the content.
You understand, also, that all opinions expressed by users of this site are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of Elabz.com.

You agree that Elabz.com will not be liable, under any circumstances and in any way, for any errors or omissions, loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of use of any content posted on this site.
You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.

Children

Content of Elabz.com is not directed toward children under the age of 13 and we do not collect personal information from such children.
You recognize that the content of Elabz.com may be viewed by children and you agree to only post blog comments and forums messages that are suitable for children.

3. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

This site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Elabz.com makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the site’s operation or the information, content or materials included on this site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, Elabz.com hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose.

Note that many projects described here deal with electricity, lasers and heavy machinery and may pose danger to health and life if performed carelessly. We will make our best effort to supply sufficient warning wherever it is appropriate but by using this site you agree that it is ultimately your personal responsibility to perform reality checks on everything you read on this site and verify all safety conditions as well as compliance with your local safety and other laws.

Elabz.com will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this site. You expressly agree that you use this site solely at your own risk.

4. Privacy Policy

Please be sure to read our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.

5. Modification of These Terms of Use

Elabz.com reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.

6. Copyright Complaints

Elabz.com respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same.
If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated,
please visit our copyright page for reporting copyright infringements.

By continuing the use of Elabz.com, you acknowledge that you have read and are bound by this agreement.
Thank you for visiting Elabz.com!
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions.

7. Terms License

This terms of use document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

The staff and the owners/operators of Elabz.com sincerely thank the Hardvard Law School for generously providing content of this heavily legalese document for reuse and adaptation under the Creative Commons 3.0 license.