You are responsible for obtaining access to the Service and that access may involve third party fees (such as Internet service provider or airtime charges). You are responsible for those fees, including those fees associated with the display or delivery of advertisements. In addition, you must provide and are responsible for all equipment necessary to access the Service.

You agree to not use the Service to:

• upload, email, 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
• harm minors in any way.
• impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Care2 official or forum leader, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity
• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service.
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party.
• upload, post, email, 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 (such as shopping rooms) that are designated for such purpose.
• upload, post, email, 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.
• interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service.
• intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law.
• "stalk" or otherwise harass another.
• collect or store personal data about other users.

You acknowledge, consent and agree that Care2 may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the CTS; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Care2, its users and the public.

You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Service, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.

You understand that the Service and software embodied within the Service may include security components that permit digital materials to be protected, and use of these materials is subject to usage rules set by Care2 and/or content providers who provide content to the Service. You may not attempt to override or circumvent any of the usage rules embedded into the Service. Any unauthorized reproduction, publication, further distribution or public exhibition of the materials provided on the Service, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited.

Content available for syndication is denoted with a XML or RSS button.

All content syndicated is subject to the following Terms of Use:

1. All syndication is available entirely as is, with no warranties relating to its use.
2. Care2 reserves the right to cancel this service without notice at any time.
3. Materials available for syndication by Care2 (denoted by XML or RSS buttons) may be syndicated by individuals, organizations or companies for personal or commercial use (see below for additional considerations).
4. Care2.com reserves the right to deny syndication rights to any party.
5. No modifications may be made to any of the materials syndicated. Acceptable changes are limited to typeface, typeface size, typeface color, and line breaks.
6. No individual, organization or company may license, sell or otherwise assign use of Care2.com's materials.
7. All syndication must have a link back to the Care2.com website: http://www.Care2.com. The appropriate reference link is located in the Channel link portion of the RSS feed.
8. All syndication must include proper copyright notification as follows:
   Copyright © [Publication year] Care2.com Inc. All rights reserved.
9. Content that is not made available for syndication (denoted by XML or RSS buttons) cannot be used or syndicated in any manner.

You understand it is a breach of the CTS to send commercial bulk e-mail, also known as spam, containing a Care2 e-mail address as the "From" or "Reply-To" address. As compensation for such a breach of contract, user agrees to pay Care2 US $10,000 each day user sends commercial bulk e-mail, containing a Care2 E-MAIL address as the "From" or "Reply-To" address. Care2 e-mail addresses include any e-mail address ending in @animail.net, @Care2.com, @moose-mail.com, @snail-mail.net, @whale-mail.com, @wildmail.com. Commercial use of the Service that is compliant with this CTS is permitted.

Should You object to any terms and conditions of the CTS or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with the Service in any way, Your only recourse is to immediately: (1) discontinue use of the Service. Upon termination of the Service, Your right to use the Service and Software immediately ceases.

Care2 grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and license to use the object code of its Software on a single computer; provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in the Software. You agree not to modify the Software in any manner or form, or to use modified versions of the Software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to the Service. You agree not to access the Service by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Care2 for use in accessing the Service.

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
   
2. a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
   
3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
   
4. your address, telephone number, and email address;
   
5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
   
6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.