The following User Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal Agreement between you, the user (“User” or “Participant”) and BarnRaising.Org ("Service Provider") and governs the use of Barn Raising’s services as posted on its Web site(s) ("Site"), including participation in its bulletin boards, forums, if any, and other services, as provided by Service Provider from time to time (collectively the “Services”).

PLEASE READ THE TERMS AND RULES CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. IF YOU DON'T AGREE TO THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR FEEL YOU CAN NOT ABIDE BY THEM OR THE RULES NOTED HEREIN OR OTHER SUCH RULES AS MAY BE ESTABLISHED BY SERVICE PROVIDER FROM TIME TO TIME, PLEASE EXIT THE SITE AND DO NOT USE THE SERVICE. PLEASE CLICK THE BACK BUTTON ON YOUR BROWSER TO RETURN TO THE PREVIOUS PAGE.

Service Provider reserves the right to post, from time to time, additional rules of usage that apply to specific parts of the Site. Such additional rules will be posted in the relevant parts of the Site, and will be clearly identified. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to comply with these additional rules.

This Agreement may be modified from time to time by Service Provider; the date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. Continued access of the Site by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Agreement. Your failure to follow these new terms or any new rules, whether listed below or in bulletins posted at various points in the Site, may result in suspension or termination of your access to the Site, without notice, in addition to Service Provider's other remedies.

USE OF PASSWORD:

Your right to use the Site is personal to you -- you may not authorize others to use the Site, and you are responsible for all use by you and those you allow to use the Site. You may not sub-license, transfer, sell or assign this Agreement or any Services provided under this Agreement to any third party without our written approval. Any attempt to do so will be null and void and shall be considered a material breach of this Agreement.

You will be solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You are also solely responsible for all usage or activity on your account including, but not limited to, use of the account by any person who uses your subscriber ID and password.
If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure (for example, in the event of a loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure or use of your ID, password or any credit, debit or charge card number stored on the Site), you must promptly change your password and notify Service Provider of the problem by contacting our Customer Service department at: 508-358-2299.

USE OF THE SITE BY YOU:

Service Provider does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from users. Users are expressly requested not to submit or post their personally identifiable information on this Site; any information that is submitted by such users will not knowingly be used, posted or retained by Service Provider.

You agree not to use any obscene, indecent or offensive language or to place on the Site any material that is defamatory, abusive, harassing or hateful. Further, you may not place on the Site any material that is encrypted, constitutes junk mail or unauthorized advertising, invades anyone's privacy, or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any local, state, national or international law or regulation. You agree to use the Site only for lawful purposes, and you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability.

You are responsible for ensuring that any material you provide to the Site or post on a bulletin board or forum, including but not limited to text, photographs and sound, does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party, or is posted with the prior written permission of the owner(s) of such rights.

Material on the Site is for your personal use only. The Site contains copyrighted and other confidential/proprietary information of Service Provider or other third parties. You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorized use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching or otherwise, of material obtained through the Site, except as permitted by the Copyright Act or other law or as expressly permitted in writing by Service Provider.

You agree not to disrupt, modify or interfere with the Site, or its associated software, hardware, and/or servers in any way, and you agree not to impede or interfere with others' use of the Site. You further agree not to alter or tamper with any information or materials on or associated with the Site. You shall not attempt to gain access to Service Provider's servers by any means - including, without limitation, by using administrator passwords or by masquerading as an administrator while using the Site or otherwise.

You acknowledge that Service Provider has not reviewed and does not endorse the content of all sites linked to/from the Site and is not responsible for the content or actions of any other sites linked to/from the Site. Your linking to any service or site is at your sole risk and liability.
Service Provider has the right to terminate your ability to access the Site, for any reason, without notice.

USE OF MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY YOU:

For information regarding use of the material and information you supply or communicate with the Site, please see our Privacy Policy posted elsewhere on the Site. By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication through the Site, you grant us, including any commercial enterprise of Service Provider, a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, enhance, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, display, or sublicense any such communication (including your identity and information about you) in any medium (now in existence or hereinafter developed) and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.

COPYRIGHT OBLIGATIONS:

Service Provider respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. Service Provider may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, suspend or terminate the access of and take other action against users, subscribers, registrants and account holders who infringe the copyright rights of others.

MATERIALS POSTED BY OTHERS:

You agree that the Service Provider and its third party service providers are not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, or any third party, with respect to any information or materials posted by others, including defamatory, offensive or illicit material, even material that violates this Agreement.

COMMENTS BY USERS ARE NOT ENDORSED BY SERVICE PROVIDER:

Service Provider does not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or necessarily agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted on bulletin boards, forums or otherwise contained in the Site. Nor does Service Provider or its third-party providers make any warranties with respect to any of the merchandise featured or mentioned in the Site or any linked site. Any information or material placed online, including advice and opinions, are the views and responsibility of those who post the statements, or those who actually sell any merchandise, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Service Provider or its third-party providers.

INDEMNIFICATION:

User understands that the tools, programs, suggestions and materials included on this Site are for guidance only and do not guarantee that you will achieve any anticipated results. Accordingly, User, including its heirs and assigns, agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Service Provider, its affiliates, and its/their officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, and consultants, harmless from and against any and all claims, suits, losses, demands, damages or expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees, court costs and expert witness fees and expenses) arising out of User’s use, or inability to use, the tools, programs, suggestions and materials or any updates provided by Service Provider, or out of any breach of this Agreement.

EDITING AND DELETIONS:

Service Provider reserves the right, but undertakes no duty or obligation, to review, edit, move, or delete any material provided for display or placed on the Site or its bulletin boards, in its sole discretion, without notice.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER. SERVICE PROVIDER AND ITS AFFILIATES AND THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS ALL HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR ANY OTHER WARRANTY, CONDITION, GUARANTEE OR REPRESENTATION, WHETHER ORAL, IN WRITING OR IN ELECTRONIC FORM, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN OR PROVIDED BY THE SITE. SERVICE PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES AND ITS THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT ACCESS TO THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR THAT THERE WILL BE NO FAILURES, ERRORS OR OMISSIONS OR LOSS OF TRANSMITTED INFORMATION, OR THAT NO VIRUSES WILL BE TRANSMITTED ON THE SITE.
THE SERVICE PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES AND ITS THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ALLEGEDLY SUSTAINED ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE PROVIDING OF SERVICES HEREUNDER, THE SALE OR PURCHASE OF ANY GOODS OR MERCHANDISE, YOUR ACCESS TO OR INABILITY TO ACCESS THE SERVICE, INCLUDING FOR VIRUSES ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN OBTAINED FROM THE SITE AND/OR THE SERVICES, YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICES OR ANY OF THE MERCHANDISE, TOOLS, INFORMATION OR MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON THE SITE OR THROUGH THE SERVICES, REGARDLESS OF THE TYPE OF CLAIM OR THE NATURE OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY OR TORT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THESE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.

JURISDICTION:

You agree that this Agreement, for all purposes, shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and any action based on or alleging a breach of this Agreement must be brought in a state or federal court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the Commonwealth.

FORCE MAJEURE:

Service Provider shall not be liable for delays in performing or failure to perform the Services under this Agreement or any obligations hereunder, which are directly attributable to causes beyond its reasonable control, including, but not limited to, acts of God, fires, strikes, labor disputes, war, terrorist acts or intervention by any governmental authority, failure of a common carrier or the internet, supplier, hardware, software, browser, or communications equipment, or network failure, congestion, or malfunction.