Terms of Use

PLEASE REVIEW THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT (THE “TERMS”) BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE - IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.

General Description

Fedthread.org (the “Site”) is a project of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University ("CITP").

The Site displays content from the Federal Register and allows users to submit posts and discuss such content. Users must provide personally identifiable information when users submit posts. This information may include, but is not limited to, a user name, e-mail address, and website. A user must provide a user name in order to submit a post. Providing an e-mail address and/or website is optional. The Site displays Federal Register archives, and it is updated frequently to include recent Federal Register updates. It also allows users to set up feeds in either RSS or email format in order to receive tailored updates based on user-specified search terms. E-mail updates are provided via FeedMyInbox.com, which is subject to its own Terms of Use and Privacy Policy (which you can find on FeedMyInbox.com's website).

The Site is not affiliated with the United States government. The official version of the Federal Register is available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html.

CITP may change the Terms from time to time, at our sole discretion. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of such changes will constitute your assent to all such changes. Please periodically visit this section of the Site to review the current version of the Terms.

Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liabilities

THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. CITP MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE SITE'S OPERATION OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT OR MATERIALS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, CITP HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

CITP WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOU USE THIS SITE SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL CITP OR ITS SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, ECONOMIC OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR LOSS OF USE DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS) ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THE SITE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ITS OPERATION, ITS CONTENTS OR THE INFORMATION OR MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN, OR THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE ANY OTHER SITE LINKED TO THE SITE, OR ANY CONTENT CONTAINED IN ANY SUCH SITE, OR THESE TERMS, OR THE PRIVACY POLICY APPLICABLE TO THIS SITE) EVEN IF CITP, ITS SUPPLIERS, OR LICENSORS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY DAMAGES.

BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU IN SUCH STATES. THE RESPECTIVE LIABILITY OF CITP, ITS SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

Community Participation

Browsing

You understand that the Federal Register information made available on the Site is not directly provided by the United States government. CITP assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, suitability, or completeness of any content provided. Additionally, you understand that user post and discussion threads are products of a community effort and do not necessarily represent the view of the CITP. CITP assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, suitability, or completeness of any content provided through the Site.

User-Posted Content

The Site is not affiliated with the United States government. Posted content on the Site does not constitute a “comment” to the government. Posted content will not be read by the United States government as a matter of course.

User posts should be relevant to the subject scope of the Site. Content may not be illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable.

CITP does not pre-screen or regularly review any contributed content, but CITP has the right (though not the obligation) to remove, without notice, any content posted which CITP considers, for any reason, to violate these Terms or to be outside the subject scope of the Site.

CITP enforces a zero-tolerance spam policy. Spam includes, but is not limited to, excessive multiple posting and posting of advertisements for websites, businesses, etc. It is the sole discretion of CITP to determine what constitutes spam. CITP may terminate any account, with or without notice, for posting such content.

User-posted content does not represent the advice, views, opinions or beliefs of CITP and CITP makes no claim of accuracy of any user-posted material.

User Representations and Warranties

By posting any content, you represent and warrant that you have all right, title, and interest to such posted content, including but not limited to any consent, authorization, release, clearance or license from any third party (such as, but not limited to, any release related to rights of privacy or publicity) necessary for you to post the content, and that posting such content does not violate or constitute the infringement of any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of privacy, right of publicity, moral rights, or other intellectual property right recognized by any applicable jurisdiction of any person or entity, or otherwise constitute the breach of any agreement with any other person or entity. You further represent and warrant that you are who you say you are, that you have not submitted fictitious, false or inaccurate information about yourself, and that all information contained in the posted content is true and your own work or work you are authorized to submit, and that the posted content does not contain any threatening, harassing, libelous, false, defamatory, offensive, obscene, or pornographic, material, or other material that would violate any other applicable law or regulation. You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading information. You represent and warrant that the content you supply does not violate the Terms.

License

By posting content on the Site, you are granting CIPT a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your content in connection with the operation of the Site, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.

Linking

The Site allows for the posting of links to third-party websites. You understand that CITP has not and cannot review all material made available through websites linked or linking to any part of the Site. The linked websites' content, business practices and privacy policies are not under the control of CITP, and CITP is not responsible for the content of any linked website or any link contained in a linked website. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply any endorsement by or any affiliation with CITP. You agree that CITP bears no responsibility or liability for any content accessed or harm caused from any third-party website.

DMCA Copyright Notice

CITP is committed to complying with US copyright laws, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable laws, and requires all of its users to comply with these laws. As part of our response, we may remove or disable access to material on the Site that is claimed to be infringing, in which case we will make a good-faith effort to contact the user who submitted the affected material so that they can make a counter notification, also in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe your material is being used on this website without permission, please notify:

Rita Seplowitz Saltz
Princeton University
87 Prospect Avenue
Princeton, NJ 08544

E-mail: rita@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-6066
Fax: (609) 258-3943

Ms. Saltz, Princeton University Office of Information Technology, is acting in conjunction with Princeton University Office of the General Counsel as the agent designated under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, P.L. 105-304, to respond to reports alleging copyright infringements on Princeton University affiliated website locations, including Fedthread.org.

Members of the Princeton University community who engage in any activity that infringes copyright-protected materials may be subject to disciplinary action. Under circumstances involving repeated instances of infringement through the use of the University's computing network, such disciplinary action may include the termination or suspension of network privileges.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act specifies that all infringement claims must be in writing (either electronic mail or paper letter) and must include the following elements: a) a description of how your copyright or intellectual property has been infringed; b) a description of where the infringed material is located on the site; c) your contact information; d) a statement that you believe that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright’s owner, by its agent, or by law; e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is correct and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is alleged to be infringed; f) your electronic or physical signature. Counter-Notification: If your posted material has been taken down you may file a counter-notification that contains the following details: a) the proof of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location where the material appeared before it was removed or disabled; b) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material in question; c) your contact information; d) a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located or, if your address is outside the US, for any judicial district in which CITP may be found and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted a notice in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Indemnities

You acknowledge and agree to indemnify and hold CITP, their affiliates, officers, employees and agents, harmless, including costs and attorneys' fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Site, your violation of these Terms, or the infringement by you of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.

Privacy

Please read our privacy policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Intellectual Property

CITP or its licensors own all rights to the Site’s content, including but not limited to the Fedthread logo and trademark.

Content on the Site is available for use, including copying and distribution, subject to the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

You agree not to misappropriate the Fedthread name for any use that is inconsistent with the Intellectual Property Rights of CITP or its licensors, including, without limitation, using the Fedthread name to endorse any views. You also agree to not remove, obscure, or alter CITP's or its licensors' copyright notice, trademarks, or other proprietary rights notices affixed to or contained within the Site.

Other Terms

Modification

CITP reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which the Site is offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.

Termination of Service

CITP disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Site. CITP reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Site or access to the Site without any notice at any time and without any liability to you.

Extent of Terms

The Terms apply to use of and contribution to the Site. CITP may operate additional projects or services that require separate or additional terms. Such different terms are made available through the individual project or service and are not addressed further herein.

No Waiver of Terms

Failure of CITP to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision in that or any other instance.

Governing Law and Entire Agreement

These Terms are governed by the laws of New Jersey, without regard to the rules of conflict of law that may cause the laws of another jurisdiction to apply. You agree to the sole and exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the federal or state courts of New Jersey in the event of any dispute of any kind arising from or relating to the Site, or your use or review of it. The Terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of these Terms to be unenforceable, the remainder of the Terms will continue in full force and effect.