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<title>System Policy</title>
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<h2>Our Policy on Message Copyright and Privacy</h2>
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<p><i>This is a "sample" policy page, intended as a default. Amsterdam sites are encouraged to provide their
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own version of the policy page. To do this, set the <code>externalResourcePath</code> in the <code>resources</code>
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section of the configuration file to a host directory, then place a file named <code>policy.html</code>
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in that directory.</i></p>
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<h3>Message Copyright and Ownership</h3>
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<p>Your messages are your words, and you are responsible for them, as well as your overall behavior as a
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member of the community. As a member of the community, you agree not to post messages that harass, solicit,
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threaten, offend, embarrass or impersonate any other person or that disrupt the dialogue in the community,
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or use this site to do any of the above. In addition, you agree not to post messages that violate other
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persons' intellectual property, privacy or other rights.</p>
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<p>When you post a message to this site, or to any community hosted on this Amsterdam server, you
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grant the site the right to display your message on the page on which it was posted by you. It may
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also be displayed on other pages on the site, or be reachable through searches or other means, but it will
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always and only be here, on this server, and we have no intention of ever reusing, reprinting, or recreating
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your message anywhere else. You lose no copyright to your words, and you are not beholden to us in any way,
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shape, or form.</p>
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<p>By posting here, you also grant us (the moderator(s) of the conference to which you post, the host and
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cohost(s) of the community in which that conference is located, or the administrators of the site) the
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right to remove your message if we choose not to want it here. We do not edit messages, except in extreme
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cases of messages which include HTML or other characters that damage the usability of the site. We do
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remove messages that are inappropriate or offensive to the admins. However, in the case of messages or
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message attachments that contain copyrighted information or data that has been distributed in violation of
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copyright, we are required by law to delete these messages if and when the legitimate copyright holder
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contacts us, gives us the name and/or type of information that was posted and the location it was posted
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to on this site, and requests that it be removed. This policy is the direct result of the United
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States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and neither this site nor the Amsterdam team is responsible
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for this law or its effects.</p>
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<p>The administrators of this site are not responsible for the accuracy or integrity of the information
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contained in any messages posted to the site, and will not be held liable for any damages of any kind
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incurred as the result of any message posted on this site. Some messages and site content may contain links
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to sites on the Internet and World Wide Web other than this site itself. The administrators are
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not responsible for the content of these other sites, and will not be held liable for any of their content.</p>
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<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
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<p>When you create an account on this site, you supply us with certain pieces of personal information,
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only some of which are required.</p>
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<p>One of the most important of those is your E-mail address, which must be a functional Internet E-mail
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address. This E-mail address is used by us to send a "confirmation number" that confirms that that E-mail
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box is owned by you before granting you full privileges on the site. We also use it to send you "password
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reminder" messages at your request. It may also be used by other registered site users to send you "quick
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E-mail" messages, as a convenience. E-mail may also be sent to all members of a community, or all
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participants in a conference or topic, by an administrator of the community, conference, or topic; each
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of these E-mail messages contains these instructions as to how to stop receiving these mass E-mailed
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notices:
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<blockquote>To stop receiving mass E-mailed notices from all Amsterdam community and conference hosts,
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visit Amsterdam, click on the "Profile" link, check the box labeled "Don't send me mass E-mail from
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community/conference hosts," and click Update to save this preference.</blockquote>
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<p>In no event will we sell, rent, or transfer your E-mail address to any third party, or link your E-mail
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address to your other personal information, except through our own site (such as on your "user profile"
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page, if you elect to display it).</p>
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<p>Other personal information is only used to form your "user profile" page on the site. We
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have no way of verifying the accuracy of this information, so you may enter anything you like. Beyond the
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minimum required information, which is clearly identified on the account creation form, you may fill in
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the fields or not, at your discretion.</p>
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<p>To prevent unauthorized access, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the correct use of information, we
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have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the
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information we collect online.</p>
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<p>This site will, in particular, not collect or maintain any personal information from individuals that
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are known to us to be under the age of 13 years, and we do not design or structure this site to attract
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anyone under the age of 13 years. Any account that is created by a person that we later determine to be
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under the age of 13 will be deleted. This policy is a direct consequence of the United States Children's
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Online Privacy Protection Act, and neither this site nor the Amsterdam team is responsible for this law
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or its effects.</p>
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<p>You can access all your account information by logging into the site and clicking on the
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"Profile" link in the upper bar of the site. You can use the same page to modify, correct, or remove any
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information in your profile, except that you may not remove any information marked as "required." (You
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must be logged in to access your profile information.)</p>
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The site also logs "audit" information about certain actions that are performed on the site; these
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audit records contain a timestamp, the user ID of the user performing the operation, the community in
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which the operation was performed (where applicable), the Internet Protocol (IP) address from which the
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request originated, and information identifying the specific nature of the audited action. These audit
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records are accessible only to system administrators, and to community hosts (for actions performed within
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their community only). They are intended to monitor the site operation and to provide administrators and
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community hosts with a means of tracking actions that cause permanent modifications to the site or its
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contents, including modifications that result in loss of data. They may also be used to trace disruptive
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or malicious users to specific IP addresses.</p>
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<h3>Use of Cookies</h3>
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<p>This site uses browser "cookies" for precisely two purposes:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>When you access the site, the Amsterdam software uses a cookie
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to associate your browser with a "session" on the server, for the duration of your session.
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This cookie is non-persistent, meaning it is not recorded to your computer's hard disk, but kept in the
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memory of your browser, and it disappears when your browser session is closed.</li>
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<li>If you elect to have the site remember your login (by explicitly checking the "Remember me for next
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time" check box on the "Log In" dialog), the Amsterdam software will send you a persistent cookie that
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contains authentication information to allow Amsterdam to recognize you on future site visits. This
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cookie, in particular, does <b>not</b> contain your password; it uses a different authentication mechanism.
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It is a persistent cookie, meaning that it <i>is</i> saved to your hard disk, but it has a maximum lifespan
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of one year from the date on which it was issued, and you may remove it at any time by clicking the "Log Out"
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link in the top bar of the site (which logs you out and removes the cookie; you may then log back in without
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clicking "Remember me for next time," if desired). If you turn off persistent cookies in your browser,
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or your browser does not support persistent cookies, you will not be able to use this feature, but that
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will not affect the rest of the site's usability.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>Electric Minds does not share these cookies with any other site, and they contain no information which
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would be meaningful to any other site.</p>
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</body>
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