BE FOREWARNED - This is a family-friendly site. We reserve the right to remove any message containing sexual, violent, or inappropriate content, including, but not limited to, curse words, anti-religious, defamatory words, or suggestive words, with or without a refund. Messages which are unpatriotic and/or offensive to the military, their families, their country, or their leaders, will be removed with no refund.

1. Acknowledgment and Acceptance of Terms of Service and Conditions

MessageintheForest.com (the Website) is operated under the Terms of Service and Conditions contained in this document (referred to as Terms of Service). By completing the registration, sign-up form, and/or by the use of this site, you are indicating your agreement to be bound by all the terms and conditions set forth below. Your agreement to these Terms of Service constitute a binding contract between you and Post It In Pixels, LLC (the Company).

Before purchasing pixel space, and/or uploading text, photos, graphics, drawing, artwork or other media (your Message) to our site, carefully read the following terms and conditions of use. If you agree to the terms as they have been written, click on the "I accept" button to continue.

2. Privacy Policy

The Company respects your privacy. The Company will not sell your e-mail address or any of your other personally identifiable information.
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3. Description of Service

The purpose of this site is primarily to post special messages to loved ones and friends. Your Message is allowed if the user's motives are in accord with this purpose. Your permissible uses include:

1. To post a sentimental message to a loved one or friend.
2. To make a marriage proposal or to make a social invitation to a person or group.
3. To congratulate a loved one, friend or acquaintance.
4. To celebrate special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, births, retirements and other special days or achievements.
5. To honor a hero, member of the military or anyone you believe deserves a tribute.
6. To post a memorial or pay homage to a deceased.
7. To post tributes to a special pet.

Since the Website is a family-friendly site, the Company reserves the right to reject unsuitable or pornographic or violent text, images or graphics. Unsuitable text, images or graphics for this family-friendly site include profanity, anti-religious, unpatriotic, defamatory words, or anything of sexual content, suggestive terms or words, as well as pornographic, and/or nude photos as well as photos of a sexually suggestive or overly violent content.

You are solely responsible for the content of information you display or post on this site.
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4. Public Viewing & Granting of Intellectual Property Rights

Be aware that, if approved for publication, your Message will be displayed to the public.
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5. Copyright Protection

All your Message content must belong to you; all rights in uploaded photos must be belong to you. All graphics must either be your original property, or public domain graphics. Any graphics uploaded without permission of the original artists are strictly prohibited.

6. Our Copyright

7. Advertising

8. Limitations of Liability

9. Your Conduct

10. Maintenance of your Message

11. No Warranty

12. Indemnification

13. Choice of Law

14. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These Terms of Service contain the entire agreement between you and the Company. No verbal agreement shall be considered a part hereof. All prior representations of the Company, if any, are merged into this agreement. All verbal modifications, amendments or additions to this agreement shall be void and of no force or effect.

IF YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS ABOVE AND WOULD LIKE TO UPLOAD YOUR TEXT, MESSAGE, PHOTO(S) AND/OR GRAPHICS, CLICK IN THE "I AGREE" FIELD BELOW AND ENTER OR SUBMIT IT TO CONTINUE.

IF NOT, CLICK IN THE "I DO NOT AGREE" FIELD AND ENTER AND YOU WILL BE TAKEN BACK TO THE HOME PAGE.
 
 

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2b. Privacy Policy

The Company respects your privacy. The Company will not sell your e-mail address or any of your other personally identifiable information. Upon registration your e-mail address is collected for billing and customer service purposes only. Spam is never endorsed by the Company. The Company does not endorse or tolerate unsolicited sales e-mails through our automated contact forms. Our e-mail newsletters are sent to those who subscribe on a volunteer, opt-in basis. However, when the Company contacts you directly, you will not consider such contact unsolicited e-mail.

3b. Description of Service

You are solely responsible for the content of information you display or post on this site. You will not post or transmit any item that is defamatory, abusive, obscene, profane, offensively sexually-oriented, threatening, harassing, racially offensive or illegal, or any material that infringes or violates another’s rights (including, but not limited to intellectual property rights and rights of privacy and publicity). Posting of sexually explicit photos is strictly forbidden. The Company reserves the right to reject or remove any items it deems unacceptable in its sole and absolute discretion. The Company's staff will review any apparent violations of these rules on a case by case basis. Decisions made by the owners and staff regarding these issues are final. The Company may remove content it deems to violate these rules without notice and without refund.

4b. Public Viewing & Granting of Intellectual Property Rights

Be aware that, if approved for publication, your Message will be displayed to the public. By uploading your Message, you grant the Company a perpetual, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, and otherwise exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your Message at its sole discretion, including storing it on the Company's servers and incorporating it in other works in any media now known or later developed including without limitation published books. In any further publications of your Message, the Company will not include any of your personally identifiable information, except to the extent such information is contained in the Message itself.

6b. Our Copyright

Unless otherwise noted, all photos, graphics, text, and all other media appearing on the Website are Copyright 2006 the Company. All Rights Reserved. No content or photos may be copied or used without written permission from the author or artist who holds copyright of their work. Do not copy other peoples pictures or text without their permission.

7b. Advertising

The Company may advertise, but will not advertise on our Posters sites. The Company does not allow intrusive advertising such as pop-ups or pop-unders. The Company reserves the right to change advertising on the site at any time.

8b. Limitations of Liability

The Company shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages resulting from your use or your inability to use the service or for messages received or transactions entered into through the service or resulting from unauthorized access to or alteration of posters transmissions or data, including but not limited to damages for messages received by an individual or messages or images posted.

9b. Your Conduct

You are solely responsible for the contents of your transmissions through the Website. Your use of the Website is subject to all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations. Therefore, you agree:

(1) to comply with all applicable United States laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the U.S. through the Website;
(2) that you shall not use the Website for illegal purposes;
(3) that you shall not interfere or disrupt networks connected to the Website; and
(4) that you shall comply with all regulations, policies and procedures of networks connected to the Website.

The Website makes use of the Internet to send and receive certain messages; therefore, your conduct is subject to Internet regulations, policies and procedures. You may not use the Website to send chain letters, junk mail or spam (unsolicited bulk email). In addition, you may not transmit or post through the Website any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature. You further agree not to transmit or post any material that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation. Attempts to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems are prohibited.

10b. Maintenance of your Message

Your Message is a permanent mark in cyberspace. It is the intention of the Company to maintain your Message on the Website for as long as the Website remains on-line. The Company agrees to act in good faith towards fulfilling the goal of keeping your Message permanent. However, the Company shall not be liable for your Message being lost, removed or deleted due to circumstances beyond the control of the Company. Further, you understand and agree that the Company may delete or remove your Message should the Company determine in its sole and absolute discretion that your Message must be deleted or removed due to storage capacity limitations or other hardware, software, or technical

11b. No warranty

The Company makes no warranties of any kind regarding the Website or your use of the Website. You agree that the service provided by the Company is accepted as-is and with all faults. The Company expressly DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

12b. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold the Company, its officers, directors, employees, volunteers, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors and assigns, harmless from any third party claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made in connection with or arising out of your use of the Website, your violation of the Terms Of Service, or the infringement by you, or other users of the Website using your membership, of any intellectual property, right of privacy or publicity, or other right of any person or entity.

13b. Choice of Law

This Terms Of Service agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America, State of Michigan, excluding its conflict of law provisions. Both you and the Company agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Michigan, United States of America. Venue for any such actions shall be in the County of Livingston. If any provision(s) of these Terms Of Service are held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect. The Company's failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms Of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by in writing. You and the Company agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to this Service must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action arose; otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred. By agreeing to these Terms Of Service you certify that all information you supply to this service is true and correct to the best of your knowledge.