FAVOC Magazine Policies

FAVOC Magazine (webzine or e-zine) is completely FREE and is provided to you for as long as you would like.  We have absolutely no fees associated with this magazine for you the subscriber.  We will support this site through donations and  prescreened advertisers who place ads on this site.  You are under no obligations whatsoever to purchase from these advertisers to keep your FREE subscription to the magazine.

FAVOC Magazine provides the content of the magazine as a complimentary service to you the user.  We know that our readers or very intelligent people, with strong ideals and opinions and our forum is designed to  provide many different points of view.  These points of view are not necessarily the points of view of anyone at FAVOC Magazine.  We accept no liability for the contents of any articles.  We just want a variety of faces AND VICES OF COLOR to be heard.   

FAVOC Magazine collects no personally identifying information about individuals except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals.  Your subscription information is private and will not be sold to others.  We may track the sites that you visit within our magazine to see what topics are of the most interest to you.  This is for us to continue our quest for  improvement. We disaggregate this information internally and with the strictest of confidence policies in place.   Please note that this policy applies only to FAVOC Magazine and not to the websites of other companies or organizations to which we might provide links. 

When you submit something to us, a user's personally identifying information may be used for editorial purposes and we may also use such information for marketing and promotional purposes and may share general statistical information (the average age of our readers, the average income of our reader, etc) with others.  Your individual identity will NEVER be included in such information under any circumstances.  

While we will seek to require third parties with whom we have agreements to follow appropriate privacy policies, we do not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties.  If you seek to do business with any third parties, please take the time and read the policies of the parties carefully. Then decide if you would like to do business with them. 

Users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) on bulletin boards or in chat areas on websites, that information may be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties.  We currently are not providing either of those services, but we may in the future if our clients show an interest.  

Children (anyone under eighteen) are required to ask their parents or guardians for permission before sending any information about themselves to us over the Internet.  This should be done at all internet sites to protect tender minds.

Users can send email to us at Feedback@favoc.com with any further questions.

 

USAGE AGREEMENT and GENERAL  PURPOSE:

FAVOC Magazine, is a online magazine (often called an e-zine or a webzine).  Our goal is to publish thought provoking articles and to provide you with useful resources that are reflective of our culture. FAVOC Magazine allows you a forum and opportunity to  voice your opinion(s) and keep informed FREE of charge. 

WHO MAY USE THE SITE:       

If you are 18 years of age or over, you are welcome to a complimentary FAVOC Magazine subscription.   If you are a minor, with parental consent, you are also welcome to use our services.  If you have any questions and/or concerns about the above mentioned usage criteria, contact us at Info@favoc.com.

RESPECT FOR ALL PARTIES: 

FAVOC Magazine Articles that you send to us for publication considerations may not: (a) Be an infringement on any third party’s intellectual property, publicity and/or privacy right(s), (b) Be in violation of any federal, state and/or local law(s) and/or regulation(s), (c) Be defamatory, obscene, offensive, abusive, defamatory, vulgar, threatening, pornographic, harmful, contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, timed bombs, cancellation boots and/or other computer altering programs that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept and/or expropriate any system, data and/or personal information to any user and/or server interacting with FAVOC Magazine you agree, upon registration at FAVOC Magazine or the usage of any of its services to abide by the Usage Agreement terms and conditions.  You also agree that the content of any message or article that you send to FAVOC Magazine may be edited, censored, deleted and/or otherwise modified at any time.  Please be aware that for the safety of all parties concerned, we may use software filters to protect all parties.  In other words, do not send anything to FAVOC Magazine that you would be ashamed to have the general public view. FAVOC Magazine will take any action deemed necessary and/or legally appropriate to protect your privacy and/or the privacy of others interacting with this site.   We supply a complimentary service that we want all individuals to use and enjoy without the fear of their privacy and computer systems being violated and/or compromised in any way.

  YOU  UNCONDITIONALLY STIPULATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR POLICIES, REGULATIONS AND ANY APPLICABLE LAWS:  

You also, hereby grant FAVOC Magazine worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) rights to exercise all intellectual property rights (in any media now known and/or not currently known, as well as, in the future) to any information that you supply to us for possible publication. 

SPAM IS NOT TOLERATED:

FAVOC Magazine does not participate in Spam nor tolerate the use of Spam from our site.  By accessing FAVOC Magazine, you agree not to use any products, features and/or resources of said site for the transmission of Spam.  You are not allowed to post any form of advertising, chain letters and/or solicitations on FAVOC Magazine without going through the proper channels, if you do so, you will indemnify us for all claims, losses, costs, damages, expenses and/or liabilities (both physical and spiritual) we may incur from your breach of the foregoing usage agreement.  

MUTUAL RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY and NON LIABILITY CLAUSE:
You may not impose any unreasonable and/or disproportionately large load (determined at our sole discretion) on the service infrastructure of FAVOC Magazine.  We  DO NOT ASSUME ANY responsibility in any form for the contents, products, advertisings, materials, resources and/or policies of any third party sites that you may elect to visit as a link from FAVOC Magazine. We further express that under absolutely NO circumstances shall we be held liable, directly and/or indirectly, for any loss and/or damages caused by the use of, and/or reliance on any contents, products, advertisings, materials, resources and/or policies available on any third party links from FAVOC Magazine.  All questions and concerns regarding any external links should be directed to the respective third parties site administrators and/or webmasters.  We assume absolutely NO responsibly for any contamination or damages that you sustain as a result of entering a site found through FAVOC Magazine.  You proceed at your own risk.  If you experience problems and/or concerns relative to third party links from FAVOC Magazine please let us know of the problems and/or concerns in a detailed e-mail.  This may seem contradictory to the aforementioned, but if we receive consistent concerns, complaints and/or customer dissatisfactions relative to particular third party link, we need to address it within our corporate infrastructure and possibly drop the third party link from our services.  You are important to us, and we want to help you have a pleasant experience as you enjoy FAVOC Magazine.

REASONS FOR TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT:
We retain the right to immediately terminate your participation in FAVOC Magazine for any breach of our usage agreement.  Laws in the state of Texas, as well as, some U. S. Federal laws govern this agreement.  Both parties agree to the sole jurisdiction of Texas laws, if any action relating to this agreement should be deemed necessary.  This will be set forth in Harris County, TX.  If any provision of this agreement should prove to be invalid and/or unenforceable, then that invalidity and/or unenforceability shall only pertain to said provision(s), with all others provisions of this agreement remaining in full effect.  You further agree to communicate with us via e-mail with any problem(s) and/or concern(s) relative to your participation at FAVOC Magazine, before any legal action is taken on your part.  You further agree to give us a reasonable amount of time to assist you with any problem(s) and/or concern(s) that you may have relative to the services of FAVOC Magazine.

YOUR RIGHTS TO TERMINATE:

If you are dissatisfied with the site, or any portion thereof, your exclusive remedy is to terminate using the site.  You have the right to terminate your usage of the  FAVOC Magazine services at any time.  To unsubscribe to FAVOC please follow this link: Unsubcribe@favoc.com

CREATE A SAFER INTERNET COMMUNITY:
You agree to post a valid e-mail address when registering at FAVOC Magazine.  If you should notice any users of this site violating any portion of the Usage Agreement, you agree for the common good of all who use and/or might want to use the complimentary services of FAVOC Magazine to notify us immediately at our website abuse e-mail address:

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