Note: F4L’s TOS contains different sections that can be appended at anytime.

  • Community Guidelines
  • General Guidelines
  • Mature Content Policy
  • Art Policy
  • Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy
  • Network Usage and Content Agreement

Community Guidelines:

Following are some general guidelines for the Furry4Life (F4L) community.

Furry4Life (F4L)does not intend to censor messages based on the opinions expressed within posts, but will enforce the policies outlined here on profiles, galleries, chat, discussions and forums. F4L reserves the right to remove, modify or move posts upon discretion and without explanation. Please contact the F4L team if you do not understand any of the rules, guidelines or policies outlined below.

A status of Freeze, Suspension or Removal (Banned Member) of your profile is a definite and direct consequence of not adhering to these guidelines. In addition to the rules posted here, by being a member of this community you agree to read any individual forum rules, Terms Of Service and other policies that are posted at the top or in the tabs of specific forums.

By using this network, you further agree to abide by all of the polices set forth by Furry4Life and the Ning Network Terms of Service.

Furry4Life Moderators, Administrators and Community Leaders will assume members have read said terms and will not take ignorance of any rules as an excuse for not following the rules, policies, and guidelines outlined here and/or in the forum specific rules.

General Guidelines

F4L takes the "Be Polite" rule very seriously. Any member who is intentionally unpleasant or disruptive and participates in the following can be banned without warning:

  • Rude or impolite comments, jokes, or discussions
  • Personal attacks of any kind made to any member
  • Racial slurs or comments of any kind
  • Profanity of any kind
  • Do not Spam members with other websites. You may promote other websites or networks, within moderation.
  • Also note, if you SPAM our members in any manner, your account will be disabled.
  • Your account is yours alone. You are responsible for any activity created with it. DO NOT share your profile or password with others. If you choose to ignore this important restriction your account may be removed.
  • You may not post on behalf of any banned member in any public manner.
  • This includes all forums, chat, profiles, private messages, signatures, and e-mail features.
  • You may not link, in any manner, to sites or images containing pornography, sexually explicit, gross violence, or that are determined by the Furry4Life team to be detrimental to the community.
  • Any posts that encourage illegal intent will be removed and the account may be Suspended.
  • You are expected and required to read and follow the rules outlined within Furry4Life News and Announcements.
  • You may not intentionally "trash" or "troll" in another user's thread, violations may subject the acting account to suspension.
  • Any attempts to defraud or deceive our members will result in your account being suspended.

F4L welcomes constructive feedback, but will not tolerate excessive public posts offending or harassing the Furry4Life Moderators, Administrators and Community Leaders.

Keep feedback civil. F4L reserves the right to remove public posts debating these rules and/or moderators' enforcement of such without comment. Feedback on F4L is encouraged and you are invited to contact the team if you have any questions or concerns.

F4L reserves the right to modify and amend these terms at any time without notice. It is your responsibility to remain informed of current Furry4Life and Ning Network policies. Further F4L reserves the right to disable any account at any time for any reason and without notice. If there are any rules or policies you do not understand, please contact a team member for clarification.

Finally, any abuse towards the Furry4Life team, in any form, may result in immediate suspension or a freeze of your account.

Mature Content Policy

Any material uploaded to Furry4Life must follow these guidelines.

Users should be aware that Content found not following these guidelines will be subject to deletion immediately. Content that is not allowed:

Pornographic; Contain nudity intended to sexually arouse the viewer; Unlawful; Harmful; Threatening; Abusive; Harassing; Defamatory; Libelous; Invasive of another's privacy; Harms minors in any way; Fetishes; Generally Offensive.

Any images or videos reported and/or found not following these guidelines will be reviewed and appropriate action will be taken with or without notice given to the user. This policy includes, but is not limited to, User Icons, Gallery Images, Profile Content, Wall Posts, Group Posts, Forum Posts and Links in the Chat Room. Continued abuse may result in a Freeze, Suspension or Removal from the network on the user's account. 

You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available any Network, Code, or Content that:

  • Is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or harms minors in any way
  • Harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals
  • Impersonates a Ning employee or User or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity
  • Includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent
  • Is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, or constitutes “bait and switch”
  • Infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships
  • Creates, sends, or enables anything that constitutes or contains “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any advertisement that you are prohibited by law from sending
  • Constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if (1) posted in Content; or (2) emailed to Users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests
  • Advertises any illegal services or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by applicable law, including without limitation items the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by applicable law
  • 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
  • Disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to the Ning Platform, or that otherwise negatively affects other Users' ability to use the Ning Platform
  • Employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Ning Platform

Additionally, you agree not to:

  • “Stalk” or otherwise harass anyone
  • Collect Personal Data about other Users for commercial or unlawful purposes
  • Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from Social Networks and the Ning Platform - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or “well-behaved” web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by “well-behaved”
  • Post non-local or otherwise irrelevant Content, repeatedly post the same or similar Content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Ning's infrastructure
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to Ning's computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the Ning Platform
  • Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of the Ning Platform or any Network

Some examples of topics and content that would NOT be classified as adult include:

· Groups for heterosexual, gay, lesbian or transgender individuals

· Nudist groups

· Groups for educational, medical, or clinical purposes that contain nudity

· Breast Feeding

· Art containing some nudity

· Nudity not intended to arouse the viewer

· Travel groups that include content on nude beaches

· Groups promoting safe sex

 

Note: F4L will not allow is content that illegal. (ie: Drugs, Rape, Abuse, Murder.. etc..)

 

Art Policy

The Furry Fandom relies heavily on it's artists. They are the ones that bring our characters and creations to life, weather it be visually, or by a craft like fursuit design. When you use art from an artist that you did not pay for or receive as a commission, gift, trade, request, or permission, you are stealing that artwork.

When you upload artwork, you are agreeing to the fact that you have the right to upload said art work. This includes and is not limited to instances where you credit yourself, claim that you are the owner of the art or the characters in the art, or claim that the art represents who you are, fursuit images.

In instances where art theft is suspected, the users involved, and artists will be contacted to solve the issue. If found that a user does not have permission to use the artwork, the artwork will be removed and the user will be notified.

If asked, a lot of artists will agree to let you use art in forums like this, it is free marketing for them and helps them generate business. So you may be pleasantly surprised when asking for permission! Don't be afraid to do so. After getting permission, they may forget to ask you to give them credit... So always credit the artist, and give users a link to the artist in your profile or within the description of the image. They are being generous in letting you use their work, so help them out!

This is something Furries take very seriously. Art theft will not be tolerated.

Photo Galleries

The same goes for art posted in Photo Galleries too! If an artist claims that you uploaded artwork that you do not own to your F4L gallery, it will be removed. Remember, F4L, while art is allowed, is not an art gallery.

 

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy

"Furry4Life" is an Online Service Provider under Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Section 512 ("DMCA"). "Furry4Life" respects the legitimate rights of copyright owners, and has adopted an efficient notice and take down procedure as required by the DMCA and described herein. This policy is intended to guide copyright owners in utilizing that procedure, and also to guide webmasters in restoring access to websites that are disabled due to mistake. Notice to Owners of Copyrighted Works The DMCA provides a legal procedure by which you can request any Online Service Provider to disable access to a website where your copyrighted work(s) are appearing without your permission. There are two parts to the legal procedure: (1) Writing a Proper DMCA Notice, and (2) Sending the Proper DMCA Notice to "Furry4Life" Designated Agent. How to Write a Proper DMCA Notice A Proper DMCA Notice will notify YaWo.biz of particular facts in a document signed under penalty of perjury. We refer to this as a "Proper DMCA Notice." To Write a Proper DMCA notice, please provide the following information: 1. Identify yourself as either: 1. The owner of a copyrighted work(s), or 2. A person "authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." 2. State your contact information, including your TRUE NAME, street address, telephone number, and email address. 3. Identify the copyrighted work that you believe is being infringed, or if a large number of works are appearing at a single website, a representative list of the works. 4. Identify the material that you claim is infringing your copyrighted work, to which you are requesting that "Furry4Life" disable access over the World Wide Web. 5. Identify the location of the material on the World Wide Web by providing "information reasonably sufficient to permit "Furry4Life" to locate the material." 6. State that you have "a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agents, or the law." 7. State that the information in the notice is accurate, under penalty of perjury. Sign the notice with either a physical or electronic signature. Sending The Proper DMCA Notice to the Designated Agent To exercise your DMCA rights, you must send your Proper DMCA Notice to the following agent designated by "Furry4Life" (the "Designated Agent".) The contact information for "Furry4Life" Designated Agent is: "Furry4Life Administrator shy.matsi@Furry4Life.org"

 

Furry4Life Chat Room Policy

Here on Furry4Life there are a lot of great features! One of them is a public Chat Room! Please keep in mind that Furry4Life is a family friendly website, on the Safe Surfing Standards ( "http://www.safesurf.com/">http://www.safesurf.com/)

F4L is categorized as SS Level 5: Adult Supervision Recommended.

For a Full List of Chat Room Features, "http://furry4life.ning.com/page/f4l-chat-1">Click Here to view them all!

The F4L Chat Room may be the most popular feature on the site, here is a policy to follow when using this fun feature. Please read it carefully!

Chat Room Abuse

You agree to our Terms of Service when you apply to be a member here on Furry4Life. Members must be at least 13 years of age or older. Abusive, Sexual, Harassing, Profane (including intentional misspellings of profane language), Racist, Violent, Dysphemistic, Idiomatic, Emphatic, Cathartic and Negitive Language WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in the chat room.

If a moderator or administrator sees you using language as described above, they will warn you by asking you to stop. Continued abuse of this rule may result in moderation anywhere from a ban in the chat room or suspending your account indefinitly.

Private Messages

While Private Messages are not moderated, this does not mean that anything goes. Please bear in mind the rules on this site when talking to other members privately. Valid Proof of any Chat Room Abuse will result in a warning. Continued Chat Room Abuse may subject your account to moderation.

Chat Room Moderators/Administrators

Furry4Life has a number of Moderators and Administrators. One of the tasks is to make sure everyone is comfortable in the chat room. The actions of the Moderators and Administrators to ensure the comfort of everyone in the chat room is not subject to debate. If you feel their decisions or actions may be incorrect, send a message to the site creator.

Harassing a Moderator or an Administrator for a moderation task they have performed in the chat room, or for any other issue, could result in a chat room ban up to 24hours, or an account ban.

Spamming

Spamming the chat room is not tolerated. If a moderator or administrator sees you spamming the chat they will warn you by asking you to stop. Continued abuse of this policy may result in moderation anywhere from a ban in the chat room or suspending your account indefinitely.

Chat bans and account freezes

The chat bans last a minimum of 4 hours, and a max of 24hours. You may still be able to interact with the website, however, if you indicate further abuse of site policies in other parts of Furry4Life, a moderator or administrator may freeze your account. Account freezes may last a minimum of one hour to as long as two weeks.

This policy is for you and your comfort in the chat room. It was created by the F4L Community and the Staff. Please be sure to follow it!

Proprietary Rights in Content on Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks).

Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you transmit, submit, display or publish (“post”) on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Network Services. After posting your Content on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, you continue to retain any such rights that you may have in your Content, subject to the limited license herein. By posting any Content on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, you hereby grant to Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, including, without limitation, through the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services to applications, widgets, websites or mobile, desktop or other services which are linked with your Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) account, including, without limitation, distributing part or all of the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services and any Content included therein, in any media formats and through any media channels, except that Content marked “private” will not be distributed by Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) outside the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services and Linked Services. This limited license does not grant Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) the right to sell or otherwise distribute your Content outside of the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services or Linked Services. After you remove your Content from the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services we will cease distribution as soon as practicable, and at such time when distribution ceases, the license will terminate.

The license you grant to Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks)), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that Furry4Life is not required to pay you or anyone else deriving rights from you for the use on the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners such as Internet content delivery networks and wireless carriers to provide the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services are global in reach).

You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in these Terms Of Service, and (ii) the posting of your Content on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services and/or Linked Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person or entity. You (the Member using Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services) agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person or entity by reason of the use of any Content posted by you on or through the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services and/or Linked Services. Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) will not be responsible for content that the Members post.

The Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services contain Content of Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) ("Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Content"). Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) owns and retains all rights in the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Content and the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services. Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Content (excluding any software code and Ning Services) solely for your own use in connection with viewing the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Website and using the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services.

The Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services contain Content of Users and other Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) licensors. Except as provided within this Agreement, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, sell or otherwise use any Content appearing on or through the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services Member areas (collectively Member's Posted Content).

Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) performs technical functions necessary to offer the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, including, but not limited to, the technical processing and transmission of email communications to perform the email service, and transcoding and/or reformatting Content to allow its use throughout the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services. In addition, you agree and acknowledge that Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) may send messages including, but not limited to, notifications, special offers, promotions, commercial advertisements, and marketing materials, in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services. You can control what type of communications you receive from the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services by logging into your account and choosing the appropriate e-mail notifications settings or by following the unsubscribe instructions within the network or contained at the bottom of commercial emails.

Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) reserves the right to limit the storage capacity of Content that you post on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services.

Content Posted.

Please choose carefully the information that you post on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services and that you provide to other Users. Your Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) profile may not include any form of Prohibited Content, as outlined below. Despite this prohibition, information, materials, products or services provided by other Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Members (for instance, in their profiles) or Linked Services may, in whole or in part, be unauthorized, impermissible or otherwise violate this Agreement, and Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) assumes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services by any person or Linked Service, please click on the "Contact Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks)” or the “Report Abuse” link at the bottom of the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Website pages.

Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) may reject, refuse to post or delete any Content for any or no reason, including, but not limited to, Content that in the sole judgment of Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights of any person or entity, or harm or threaten the safety of any person or entity. Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content.

You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on, through or in connection with any of the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions with other Users.

Content/Activity Prohibited. The following are examples of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services. Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks)'s sole discretion, violates this provision, including, without limitation, removing the offending Content from the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, terminating the Membership of such violators and/or reporting such Content or activities to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in the sole discretion of Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks):

-is patently offensive or promotes or otherwise incites racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

-harasses or advocates harassment of another person;

-exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;

-contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;

-solicits or is designed to solicit personal information from anyone under 18;

-publicly posts information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person;

-constitutes or promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;

-constitutes or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated files;

-involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";

-contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);

-furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to, making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;

-solicits or is designed to solicit passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;

-involves commercial activities and/or sales without prior written consent from Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;

-includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent;

-for band, comedy, filmmaker and other profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any unfair, misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the profile; or

-violates or attempts to violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.

The following are examples of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Website and through your use of the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services. Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks)'s sole discretion, violates this provision, including, without limitation, terminating your Membership and/or reporting such activity or Content to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:

-criminal or tortious activity, including, but not limited to, child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, defamation, stalking, spamming, spimming, sendingof viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;

-advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send or cause to send (directly or indirectly) unsolicited bulk messages, status or mood updates, bulletins or other unauthorized commercial communications of any kind through the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks), but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) reserves the right to take legal action against you and freezing your account indefinitely.

-circumventing or modifying, attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or software that is part of the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services;

-activity that involves the use of viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorized use of or access to a computer or a computer network;

-modifying, copying, distributing, downloading, scraping or transmitting in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, any Content from the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services other than your Content which you legally post on, through or in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services;

-providing or using “tracking” or monitoring functionality in connection with the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services, including, without limitation, to identify other Users’ views, actions or other activities on the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services;

-covering or obscuring the banner advertisements and/or safety features (e.g., report abuse button) on your personal profile page, or any Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) page via HTML/CSS or any other means;

-any automated use of the system, such as, but not limited to, using scripts to add friends or send comments, messages, status or mood updates, blogs or bulletins;

-interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services or the networks or services connected to the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services;

-impersonating or attempting to impersonate Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) or a Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) employee, administrator or moderator, another Member, or person or entity (including, without limitation, the use of email addresses associated with or of any of the foregoing);

-using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;

-selling or otherwise transferring your profile, your email address or URL;

-using or distributing any information obtained from the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person or entity, or attempting to do the same;

-displaying an unauthorized commercial advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on your profile, links to e-commerce sites not authorized by Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks), posting status or mood updates, blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting a profile with a commercial purpose as one of your top friends, or sending messages with a commercial purpose;

-relaying email from a third party's mail servers without the permission of that third party;

-using invalid or forged headers to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted to or through Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks)’s computer systems, or otherwise misrepresenting yourself or the source of any message or Content;

-using any automated system, including, but not limited to, scripts or bots in order to harvest email addresses or other data from the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Website for the purposes of sending unsolicited or unauthorized material;

-engaging in, either directly or indirectly, or encouraging others to engage in, click-throughs generated through any manner that could be reasonably interpreted as coercive, incentivized, misleading, malicious, or otherwise fraudulent; or using the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all Applicable Law.

using the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all Applicable Law.

Protecting Copyrights and Other Intellectual Property. Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same. You may not upload, embed, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that infringes any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any person or entity. It is Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks)’s policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the membership of repeat infringers.

If you believe your work has been copied and posted on or through the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks)'s Creator or one of the Administrators a notification of claimed infringement with all of the following information: (a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works; (b) identification of the claimed infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material on the Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks) Services (providing the URL(s) of the claimed infringing material satisfies this requirement); (c) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address; (d) 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; (e) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf; and (f) your physical or electronic signature. Furry4Life (SocialFurryNetworks)'s Staff for notification of claimed infringement can be reached as follows: TheAdministrator/Moderator'sUserName@furry4life.org, 732-l0v-paws (508-7297)

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The following Terms of Service apply to your use of this Network. You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on the Network and compliance with these terms. By registering with us or using or browsing this Network, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. This Network is not directed to children younger than 13 and is offered only to users 13 years of age or older. Any person who provides their personal information through this Network represents that they are 13 years of age or older.

You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use this Network:

  • In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
  • in a manner 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;
  • to engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
  • in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
  • in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
  • in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
  • in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable;
  • to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to this Network without authorization;
  • to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Network or prevent others from using this Network, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Network, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use this Network;
  • to use any manual or automated means, including agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access or manage any user's account or to monitor or copy this Network or the content contained therein;
  • to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
  • in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
  • in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through this Network or to users; and
  • in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.
  • Additionally, you agree not to:

  • "Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
  • Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
  • Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Network or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Network for the purposes of automating logins to this Network;
  • Post any content containing child pornography to this Network;
  • Post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
  • Post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature.
  • Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from this Network - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or "well-behaved" web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by "well-behaved";
  • Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Network's infrastructure;
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, this Network;
  • Use this Network as a generic file hosting service;
  • Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of this Network or for using it for purposes unrelated to this Network); and
  • Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Network.

To provide notice of alleged copyright infringement on this Network, please see the DMCA Notification Guidelines.

You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use this Network to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that these Network Terms of Service inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our Network platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Network Terms of Service. Technology and hosting for aspects of this Network are provided by this Network's online service provider. However, the Network Creator of this Network controls the content, membership and policy of this Network, including those pages served by such service provider on behalf of this Network. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, by participating on this Network you agree to indemnify and hold harmless such service provider on all matters related to your interaction with others using this Network and participation with this Network.