You may not use the Arctic Progress website unless you read, understand and agree to the website rules and terms and conditions of use in this document.

Throughout this document “Arctic Progress” refers to the website http://www.arcticprogress.com and any discussion forums that may be located on that website.

By using Arctic Progress you acknowledge that you agree to the following terms and conditions of use:

1. You agree to hold sole responsibility for all information you transmit through Arctic Progress, including but not limited to: image files, sound files, video files, text-based logs, articles and/or other written material in whole or in part, as well as links or other direction to any such material. Furthermore, you hereby indemnify the owners and operators of Arctic Progress from any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from your transmission of information through Arctic Progress.

2. You understand that by browsing/using Arctic Progress you might be exposed to objectionable, offensive, indecent and otherwise prohibited material. Additionally, you understand that the owners and operators of Arctic Progress can offer absolutely no guarantee regarding your exposure or potential exposure to unwanted material of any kind. Therefore, you agree to browse/use Arctic Progress at your own discretion and risk.

3. You are responsible for your account, the password to your account and any activities conducted by your account. You are responsible for the confidentiality of the password and the account. You agree to ensure that your account is protected by a non-trivial password.

4. If you do not wish any information to be stored in Arctic Progress’s database, you must not use Arctic Progress. You understand that the publishing of information upon Arctic Progress is the purpose of uploading information to Arctic Progress. By transmitting information through Arctic Progress, you explicitly grant full and irrevocable, royalty-free license for that information to be published upon Arctic Progress whenever you are legally empowered to grant such license. You understand that the owners and operators of Arctic Progress claim no responsibility for the maintenance, upkeep, indexing and/or catalogue of posted information, and you agree to completely absolve the owners and operators of Arctic Progress of any such responsibility.

5. You agree to abstain from any action that might disturb, interrupt or malign the usability of Arctic Progress, or involve Arctic Progress in any such act. You understand this to include but not be limited to: the distribution of material containing viruses or other harmful, malicious, illicit and/or destructive code; tampering or interfering with the functionality of the host network, website software and/or any other software or system constituting a component, accessory or account of Arctic Progress; any attempts whatsoever to gain unauthorized access to preferences, data, or machinery at or through Arctic Progress.

6. Arctic Progress is presented on an “as is” and “as available” basis, and entirely without warranty. You agree to use Arctic Progress at your own risk. The owners and operators of Arctic Progress do not make any claim, advertisement, contract or guarantee to your use being an uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free experience. You understand and accept that the owners and operators of Arctic Progress are neither obliged nor able to be bound to user expectations or requirements; that the owners and operators of Arctic Progress have no obligation to correct errors in Arctic Progress, and nor do they have an obligation to “improve”, “enhance”, or to “update” the functionality or performance of any aspect of Arctic Progress.

You further understand and accept that the owners and operators of Arctic Progress have the right to modify, cancel, or add function(s) to the site at any time, with or without prior warning or notice to you, the user. You understand that the owners and operators of Arctic Progress are in no way obligated to continue the existence of Arctic Progress, for any duration, and that they are not liable to any party under any circumstances in the event that the decision is made to add or discontinue any or all function(s) of Arctic Progress.

7. Arctic Progress owners and operators may decide to terminate any or all of Arctic Progress at any time, with or without cause. You agree that Arctic Progress owners and operators will not be liable to you the user or any other party following the termination of any or all of Arctic Progress.

8. You understand that the owners and operators of Arctic Progress may suspend or terminate your access to Arctic Progress at any time, with or without notification or cause. You agree to your account and all information thereby transmitted through Arctic Progress being left “as is”, edited, dumped, banned or deleted regardless of your current access status.

9. Arctic Progress owners and operators are not responsible to the user’s computer system or any data stored on such computer system for any damage that may occur as a result or presumed result of use of Arctic Progress, nor the downloading of data and software from (or linked to from) Arctic Progress.

You agree Arctic Progress owners and operators will not be liable for any loss of use, interruption of business, or any indirect, or consequential damages of any kind (including but not limited to lost profits) regardless of the form of action.

10. You acknowledge that all the information on Arctic Progress, including all content, data on any software, sound, photographs and any text, video, or any other information presented to the user by any of Arctic Progress, or any of the advertising materials, or materials presented by other users of Arctic Progress, may be protected by copyrights, trademarks or patents. You agree that you are permitted to use said protected content only as authorized by the owners of such content and are not allowed to reproduce, copy, distribute or use in any other content without an explicit authorization by the owners of such content.

11. Arctic Progress owners and operators reserve the right to modify the website rules and terms and conditions of use at any time and at their sole discretion. The updated and current version of this document will be posted on the website and the continuation of your use of Arctic Progressconstitutes an agreement by you the user to be bound by the new website rules and terms and conditions of use. It is your responsibility to check this document regularly. You MUST immediately discontinue use of Arctic Progressif at any point you do not agree to any part of the blog or website rules, or terms and conditions of use.

12. Arctic Progress owners and operators have the option to give notices to users via online announcements or email. Arctic Progress owners and operators may post administrative messages or contact you by email to inform you of changes to the website rules, terms and conditions of use or any other matters of importance; such announcements constitute a notice to you the user.

13. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California and of the United States which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.