Before you use EastBayRI.com, please read the following terms carefully because the owner of this web site makes it available to you solely in accordance with the terms listed below. By accessing and using this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by each of the terms listed below. The terms upon which EastBayRI.com is made available to you may change from time to time, which means that you should read the terms carefully every time that you access and use the site. The owner of this site will deem you to have agreed to whichever terms of use are in effect at the time that you access and use the site. If you do not agree to be bound by one or more of the terms of use, please do not use the site.

1. Reproduction or distribution of the contents of EastBayRI.com.
The Phoenix-Times Publishing Company, called East Bay Newspapers in these terms of use, owns and operates the web site EastBayRI.com. For purposes of these terms, this site may be referred to as 'the Site'. You may not copy, reproduce, upload, post, transmit, or distribute (or facilitate someone else in copying, reproducing, uploading, posting, transmitting, or distributing) any part of the contents placed by East Bay Newspapers on the Site for any purpose other than individual viewing of the Site, unless you receive the advance, express written consent of East Bay Newspapers. That includes using in any manner any portion of those contents in messages that advocate the election or re-election of a person for public or private office.

You may download or print one copy of some or all of the downloadable contents displayed on the Site, for personal non-commercial home use only, but only if you keep intact all copyright and other notices contained in the contents. Any modification of the contents, or use of the contents, for any other purpose will violate East Bay Newspapers' copyright and other proprietary rights.

Any use of the contents of the Site via any other web site or other networked computer environment is prohibited.

Nothing contained on the Site intends to grant an implied or express license or right to use anything contained on the Site except as expressly set forth in these Terms of Use. Any other use is strictly prohibited.

2. Linked sites.
East Bay Newspapers has no control over, and is not responsible for, the terms of use, privacy policy, or content of any sites that may be linked to the Site. Those links are provided for your convenience only.

3. Submissions - granting a license to East Bay Newspapers.
If you have some proprietary rights in something that you submit (by posting to a forum or otherwise) to the Site, by making the submission, you grant to East Bay Newspapers free of charge an unconditional, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, copy, modify, publicly display, publicly perform, adapt, and distribute your submission in any manner and in any medium forever and throughout the world, which includes granting East Bay Newspapers the right to charge a fee to others to use, copy, modify, publicly display, publicly perform, adapt, or distribute your submission. If you do not want a submission to become licensed automatically in accordance with these terms, please make no submissions to EastBayRI.com.

4. Submissions -- what East Bay Newspapers prohibits.
You are not allowed to submit to the Site anything that:

1. is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, an invasion of privacy, or that you intend to inflict emotional distress;
2. advocates or facilitates a violation of any law, or that is itself illegal to communicate or transmit;
3. infringes any proprietary right of any person, such as copyright, trademark, trade name, patent right, or trade secret;
4. violates an order of a court or governmental agency;
5. proposes or solicits any commercial transaction, or proposes or solicits any donation or payment of any funds for any purpose, or advertises or promotes any good or service for sale or lease;
6. transmits "spam," "chain letters," "junk mail," or "pyramid schemes";
7. violates a contract or a confidential relationship or relationship to which you owe a duty of loyalty;
8. contains software viruses or any other computer code, file or program that functions to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; or that
9. East Bay Newspapers has determined in its sole discretion to remove from the Site.
You also are not allowed to collect or store personal information or data about other users.

5. Submissions -- monitoring.
Any interactive areas of the sites may not be moderated by East Bay Newspapers. East Bay Newspapers does not read or otherwise monitor every posting or submission made on or to EastBayRI.com.
East Bay Newspapers reserves the sole discretion to remove, edit, or refuse to allow a posting or submission for any reason or for no reason, and has no duty to explain why it has removed or refused to allow a posting or submission.

6. Termination or suspension of your access to any interactive forum of EastBayRI.com for submissions, including postings.
East Bay Newspapers, in its sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to any interactive area of the Site (for making submissions) for any reason or for no reason. East Bay Newspapers has no duty to explain why it has terminated or suspended that access.

7. No warranties.
The contents of the Site are provided "as is" and without any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, East Bay Newspapers disclaims all express or implied warranties of merchantability, warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, and all other express or implied warranties. East Bay Newspapers expressly disclaims any warranty that the functions contained in the contents of the Site will be uninterrupted or free of errors, that defects will be corrected, or that the Site or the server that makes the Site available are free of viruses, worms, or other elements harmful to your computer system. Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the disclaimer of implied warranties may not apply to all users of the Site.

8. Liability exclusions.
East Bay Newspapers shall not be liable to you or to any other person for any actual, special, consequential, or any other kind of damage that results from your use of, or your inability to use, the Site or its contents, including the transmittal of viruses, worms, or other elements harmful to a computer system.

If you post, transmit, or submit to the Site anything in violation of these terms, or in violation of East Bay Newspapers' termination or suspension of your access to any interactive forum of the Site, you agree to indemnify East Bay Newspapers and its agents, successors, and subsidiaries for any and all claims, damages, demands, injuries, or losses arising from whatever it was that you posted, transmitted, or submitted.

If you have an "account" with the Site to post or submit anything to any interactive areas of the Site, you agree to be fully liable for any and all claims, damages, demands, injuries, or losses arising from any posting, transmission, or submission resulting from someone else using your account, regardless of whether you permitted that use.

9. Governing Law; Severability; Entire Agreement.
By proceeding to use EastBayRI.com, you consent to be subject to the territorial jurisdiction of the courts of Rhode Island or the United States District Court for Rhode Island. You also agree that Rhode Island and, if applicable, federal law will govern the interpretation of these terms and the existence of your agreement to them. If any portion of these terms of use is held to be invalid, you agree that such invalidity is not intended to affect any other portion of these terms. Also, these terms contain the entire understanding between you and East Bay Newspapers governing your use of EastBayRI.com and the contents therein.