TERMS OF SERVICE

We don't want your first-born child, your house, or your car, but we do require that you agree to certain terms when you register as a WordPerfect Universe member by clicking the [Agree] button below. Registration is free.

You give up the following rights and can have your registration suspended or cancelled for non-compliance with the rules:

• To violate future Terms of Service provisions, which may be altered at any time with or without notice. We won't make unreasonable changes, but we don't have a crystal ball that allows us to forecast every situation that may arise.
• To be rude in posts to the message boards. No flames allowed. We strive to keep all conversations on a polite footing, to make the experience more pleasant for all concerned.
• In any way to harm minors.
• To upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.
• To upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a legal right to make available, including any content in which you are not the valid holder of the relevant copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights, or in violation of any law, contractual or employment relationship, or fiduciary relationship. You, and not WordPerfect Universe, have sole responsibility for any content you upload, post, or transmit through the WordPerfect Universe service.
• To upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas that are designated for such purpose.
• To upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

You recognize that WordPerfect Universe does not pre-screen content submitted by registrants of the service; therefore, you must take responsibility to evaluate yourself any information you find on the web site before relying upon it, and bear all risks for relying upon it. We reserve the right to remove any content for any reason. If you encounter content on the site that you believe should be removed, please contact us, explaining where the information was found and why you believe it should be removed.

While WordPerfect Universe is operated as an ongoing service, we do not promise to maintain content on the site for any period of time, nor to provide archival services for content. Aging content is routinely removed and discarded as part of maintaining the web site. We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the service, with or without notice. You agree that WordPerfect Universe shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the service.

While you maintain copyright to content you post on the web site, you agree that by posting you provide WordPerfect Universe and its assignees a royalty-free, non-exclusive right to reproduce your posts in whole or in part, with or without attribution, for purposes of maintaining site back-ups, of copying posts to forums other than the one in which you originally posted them, of preparing technical guides that may be freely distributed, and of other reasonable purposes related to the operation of an informational web site devoted to WordPerfect Office. For any files you upload to the site for others to download, you relinquish any claim to copyright for those files.

WordPerfect Universe links to other web sites as part of providing service to its members and visitors. These links are provided for convenience and information purposes only and WordPerfect Universe does not endorse or recommend the information or content found on any external web site. You are responsible for evaluating whether to rely on any information or content on the external web sites, and agree to assume all risks of relying on them.

You agree that WordPerfect Universe may terminate service for you at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, and may in conjunction remove and destroy any content you have posted or uploaded.

PRIVACY POLICY

Your privacy is important to us. Please read this policy carefully.

Like many web sites, we use a tracking utility that uses log files to track users' movements in the aggregate. Information collected includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, and date/time stamp. None of this information is linked to any personally identifiable information. We collect this information to help us administer the site and provide better services to users.

If you register to become a WordPerfect Universe member, you will be required to provide a username, password, and email address. If you post messages in our forums, your username will be visible to others and we may cite your username in our newletter or in compiliations of posts made widely available. Your password is not visible to anyone, including site administrators. It is saved in a database in an encrypted form. While offering some security, it is always possible that this database could be compromised by malicious users. You are urged, therefore, to use a password that would not give someone access to your other Internet uses.

Your email address will not be visible to anyone other than the site administrators. Your email address is used to provide certain automatic notifications related to use of the forums, such as when someone has replied to a message you posted. You may elect to not receive such notifications. The site administrators may also use your email address to notify you of important administrative matters, such as pending termination of membership for inactivity or site downtime. You may not opt-out of such mailings, but we expect that they will be very infrequent. Your email address may also be used to send you our newsletter, if you elect to receive it when you register or any time thereafter. Your email address will not be sold or provided to third parties. Although WordPerfect Universe is user-supported, we do not solicit funds by individual email.

If you register to become a WordPerfect Universe member, you may provide personal information, such as your location and occupation, in your member's profile. This information will be visible to other people. You may elect not to provide this information. This information is not used by the site administrators for any purposes.

If you use our forums, whether or not you register, a persistent cookie will be placed on your computer, unless you have cookies disabled in your browser. You may still browse the forums if you reject this cookie. This cookie is used to keep track of the last time you visited the forums. Depending on options you choose when you register or any time thereafter, a temporary session ID cookie, temporary cookies tracking threads viewed, and a persistent cookie containing your username and encrypted password may be saved on your computer. These options are provided to enhance your use of the forums. Usage of cookies is not linked to any personally identifiable information. (A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user´s computer tied to information about the user. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Help directions of your web browser.)

If you post messages to our forums, any personal information you include in your messages will be visible to anyone browsing the forums. Viewing of messages in the forums is not restricted to members.

If you donate to WordPerfect Universe, you may disclose personal information such as your name and address. We do not retain this information once the transaction is completed or use it for any other purposes.

If you register as a WordPerfect Universe member, you may change any of the information provided and options selected when you register, except your username, by editing your profile and options. You may request that your username be changed for good reason by contacting us. You may not terminate your own membership, but it will be terminated upon your request. Click on the Contact link at the bottom of any WordPerfect Universe page for information on how to contact us.

We provide links on WordPerfect Universe to other sites. Your privacy in such cases is governed by the privacy policies of those sites. Some links may be to sites with which we have an affiliate relationship for the purchase of good and services. Any information you provide to such sites may be used by those sites in accordance with their privacy policies. We do not pass or disclose any information about our members to other sites.

Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law and otherwise necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on our web site.