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Café Utne User Guidelines and Copyright Policy
User Guidelines
Café Utne is a "virtual community." In any community, there are certain expectations of acceptable behavior among its members. Café Utne is no exception. In order to ensure that participants feel comfortable here, we've established a few guidelines. Please abide by them when participating at the Café.
Your Identity at Café Utne
In the interests of open and honest conversation, we encourage you to register under your real name. In no event should you post messages under someone else's name. If Café management suspects an account is being used by someone who is not the authorized account holder, the Café may temporarily disable that account. In all such cases, the Café will contact the member as soon as feasible.
You must have a working e-mail address to register and participate at Café Utne. While Café management has access to this e-mail address, you may choose not to have it accessible to other Café patrons. Café Utne reserves the right to revoke access to patrons for posting with a false e-mail address.
Civility
Café Utne does not screen postings before they appear in our conferences. In order to ensure that the Café remain a welcoming and civil space for our patrons, however, please refrain from posting messages containing gratuitous personal attacks against other Café patrons. Such an expectation does not mean that patrons can not and do not disagree in a spirited, even heated manner, at times. Lively debate abounds in some conferences.
Nevertheless, there is a significant difference between disagreeing with an idea and attacking an individual. We ask all patrons to participate in a civil manner. We recognize that patrons have varied interpretations of civility and that the dynamic interaction of a diverse community of users will present subjective and challenging circumstances for Café management and hosts. In this light, we ask for compliance with the specific requests made by our conference hosts.
Deliberate disruption will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to "hide" or delete posts of an abusive and disruptive nature and/or to revoke access to users who refuse to comply with requests by Café management and hosts.
Café participants have a reasonable expectation to not be bothered by others against their will. For this reason, a filtering tool is available at the Café to filter the posts of specific users. You can utilize this tool at any time. In addition, please do not send e-mail to another patron if that patron has expressed a desire not to receive messages from you.
Conferences and Hosts
The Café is comprised of dozens of individual conferences, and distinct and vibrant online communities emerge from conversations in these separate spaces. Over time, the hosts and users of each conference evolve and establish a particular flavor and cross-section of regular participants You may find yourself more comfortable, more at home, in some conferences than others. We encourage you to take the time to explore a number of different conferences.
All conferences at the Café are tended by one or more hosts. These volunteer hosts may, in the community interest, "hide" or delete a posted comment. They can not edit it. Café management does not impose explicit and precise rules on hosts governing such deletions. We believe the effort to do so would undermine the freedom of hosts to exercise creativity in managing their conferences.
Hosts are not always present online, or aware of all the details of a particular conflict, and they cannot be held responsible for the content of comments that may appear in their conferences.
Copyright Policy
The content of the Café is intended for use only by registered users. All content published at the Café is protected by copyright, and is owned and controlled by the publisher or Utne Reader. The Utne Reader and Café Utne will NOT re-publish Café content without the expressed permission of the original author. Participants shall abide by all copyright notices, information and restrictions contained in any content accessed through the Café.
Patrons grant to Café Utne the right to transmit, display, copy, reproduce and distribute within conferences at the Café any content or other information provided by patrons for display within a public conference at the Café.
Café Utne is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions and other copyright laws. Patrons may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, copy, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display or in any way exploit, any content in whole or in part except as specifically permitted.
Nothing herein is intended to restrict in any way what a patron can do with what s/he has written and posted to Café Utne.
You may download or copy the content posted at the Café for personal use only. Copying, storing or displaying any content for other than personal use is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from Utne Reader, the content publisher or the copyright holder identified in the content's copyright notice, which consent may be withheld for any reason. In essense, if you didn't write it, and you want to reproduce it, ask the author.
Café Utne may, without prior notice to patrons, revoke access to posted items which UR reasonably believes violate any applicable law, rule or regulation or do not comply with Café User Guidelines. Posting unauthorized copies of copyrighted items is prohibited by law and could result in liability for copyright infringement. Neither UR nor any of its officers, directors, employees or hosts shall have any liability to patrons for any action taken in good faith by such person in this regard.
Using your Café Utne account for illegal activity under the laws of Minnesota and the United States is a violation of this agreement. Since the law as to jurisdiction of online systems is unsettled, we urge you to consider the possible effect of laws outside the Café's locality or your own residence. The Café is open to members worldwide, and cannot guarantee that you won't run into legal trouble from other jurisdictions over your works.
Your use of the Café is subject to compliance with all applicable local, state, federal and international laws, rules and regulations and Café Utne's User Guidelines. Café Utne's current User Guidelines are subject to change at any time. Use of the Café after any changes are posted shall constitute your acceptance of the change.
Welcome to the Café Utne community. We hope you enjoy your time here!
