Thank you for using The Angelfish Society Web Sites and official forums.  This page states the terms and conditions under which you may use these Web Sites. Please read this page carefully.

By accessing these Web Sites you accept and agree to be bound, without limitation or qualification, by these Terms. If you do not accept any of the Terms stated herein, do not use these Web Sites. The Angelfish Society, (hereinafter known as "TAS") may, in its sole discretion, modify or revise the Terms at any time by updating this web page. You are bound by any such modification or revision and should therefore visit this page periodically to review the Terms.

TAS is committed to providing a reasonably secure environment at these web sites. The following states our policies and gives links to other pertinent information regarding the Web Pages and Forums. Please review it. We reserve the right to periodically update the policies, so please check back periodically to review this page.
 
The Angelfish Society, TAS, does not make any warranties or representations with respect to the content, quality, accuracy or completeness of any information or materials contained on this web site, or through links to any other web sites. We do not assume any legal liability for content, quality, accuracy or completeness of said information or materials.

It is the sole responsibility of the person or persons using any information or materials related this site to ensure it is appropriate for their particular situation.

The information and materials contained on this web site have been compiled from a variety of sources and, as such, are subject to change without notice. In no event will TAS, or any authorized person acting on TAS' behalf, be liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, general, consequential, incidental, exemplary or special, arising from the use of information provided on this site or through links to any other sites.

Communication to TAS via this web site shall in no way be deemed to constitute legal or official notice to TAS, its officers, or members with respect to any existing, pending or future claim or cause of action against TAS, its officers or members where notice is required by Federal, State or local law. Nor shall communications to TAS be deemed to constitute legal or official notice for any other purpose.

To direct any legal communications or official notices to TAS use the New York Department of State Process address: The Angelfish Society, Danielle M. Robinette, Secretary, 806 Superior St, Sault Ste Marie, Michigan 49783.


Copyright Information

All information (text, intellectual properties, concepts, illustrations and pictures) on this site are protected under copyright law of United States of America.

Where noted, articles, intellectual property, illustrations and photographs are copyrighted and the legal property of the person's name they are listed with.

Personal Information
 
When you choose to sign up for Membership or access rights to restricted areas or forums you may be asked to provide your name, email address, address, city, state, country, zip code, phone number, or your personal/ business website links. For more information see the TAS Members Agreement & TAS Forum Registration Agreement.
 
What do we do with this information? We use the name and email address to e-mail you member information or forum information and to provide you with notifications and announcements when necessary. We use this information to verify membership and access rights to member restricted areas.

Information may be given to or allowed to be viewed by other members for the purpose of contacting members. We use some of the optional information to help us provide statistics to guide TAS in developing content of interest to visitors (i.e. who is visiting us, what pages) so that we can better meet peoples interest.
 
What do we not do with the information? We don't sell your identity to any third parties. We don't sell your information that you place on our sites to any third parties.
 
Cookies and IP Addresses
 
There is additional information that can be gathered by an operating web site. One is the IP address (random numbers assigned to individual computers) of the machine you use to reach these sites. This information is used to help diagnose problems with the TAS sites. We can potentially use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer our Web sites. Your IP address may also be used to block your access to areas of these sites if we determine that you are abusing the sites resources.
 
Another way to gather information is to use a cookie (small text file transferred from our Web site to your hard drive). TAS uses cookies to determine if you are logged in and also to save your login information to speed up your access to the sites. Cookies do not damage files or allow anyone to access your personally identifiable information. You may remove them by following your browsers direction. They also provide information to us about site usage to help us improve and update our sites. We may create aggregate (not individual) site usage statistics and demographic information but this information will not include any personally identifiable information.
 
Privacy.

You acknowledge that, if public posting areas are provided, that all postings in forums are public and not private communications, and that therefore others may read your communications without your knowledge. Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your family in any public area. TAS does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any public posting area beyond the statements in the registration, members, legal or usage agreements and, therefore, TAS specifically disclaims any liability with regard to these areas and any actions resulting from your participation. Generally, any communication which you post to any public area (whether in chat rooms, discussion groups, message boards or otherwise) is considered to be non-confidential. For more information see the TAS Privacy Policy & TAS Forum Agreement & TAS Members Agreement.

Links to Other Sites

These Web Sites contain links to third party web sites that are maintained by others. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by TAS of the contents on such third-party Web sites. TAS is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party Web sites. If you decide to access linked third-party Web sites, you do so at your own risk. It is your sole responsibility to check the privacy policies and legal statements of any third-party sites that you chose to visit from hyperlinks within the TAS pages.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless The Angelfish Society, its officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from your use of the materials or information contained on this site, or your breach of the terms of this Agreement.

General

The Angelfish Society is incorporated in the county of Cattarugus in New York State. All legal issues, disputes and matters whatsoever arising from or related to the use of the TAS Web Site, including any applicable public forum area, shall be construed in accordance with and determined by the laws of New York State.

By using these Web Sites, you agree that the exclusive forum for the bringing of any claims or causes of action arising out of or relating to your use of these Web Sites or forum areas is the United States District Court for New York State, or if such court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, the Superior Court of the State of New York for Cattarugus County. It is agreed that New York law will govern remedies for breach or any other claims relating to this agreement. You hereby accept and submit to the jurisdiction [personal and subject matter] of such court in any such proceeding or action, and irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which you may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue for subject matter or personal jurisdiction of any such action or proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such action or proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term. Except as expressly provided in a particular "Legal Notice" on particular web pages, this Agreement constitutes the entire Agreement between you and The Angelfish Society with respect to the use of Web Sites and forums.

Any changes to this Agreement must be made by a resolution of the Board of Directors of The Angelfish Society in accordance with its Bylaws and the laws of New York State under which it operates.

Additional Information

The Angelfish Society reserves the right to alter our Privacy Policy, Legal Notices & Agreements as business needs require. Any changes will be posted to our web site in a timely manner. This statement and the policies outlined here are not intended to and do not give you any contractual or other legal rights.

Adopted by TAS  BOD June 4, 2004

Web Committee Update 01/12/2008 - last automatically updated 01/12/2008

From the TAS Web Team, we thank you for using the Web Site. Enjoy!

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