Welcome to WisdomSpace! The following terms of use are designed to encourage an online culture of safety, trust, and mutual respect. The terms are set out in detail in the WisdomSpace Terms of Use below. This summary is to notify you that, by using the WisdomSpace services, you are agreeing to the Terms of Use, which include the following:

 

You agree not to send spam, junk mail, or any other unsolicited advertising of any kind.

 

You agree not to use the site for illegal purposes.

 

You agree not to send harassing, threatening, abusive, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable communication. Please remember that WisdomSpace is designed to appeal to a broad audience, from grandkids to grandparents.

 

You agree to communicate online in the spirit of "LARS": Listen, Appreciate, Respect, and Share. While we support the expression of passionately-held views about community issues, we promote communication in the spirit of respectful dialogue.

 

You agree not to sue other network members for disputes arising from network-related activities without exhausting all reasonable efforts to resolve the dispute using alternative dispute resolution methods such as negotiation and mediation.

 

WISDOMSPACE TERMS OF USE

 

1. Background

WisdomSpace is a wisdom community project sponsored by Wisdom Mountain, a nonprofit community educational service that nurtures wisdom practices in local communities. WisdomSpace networks are collaborative online community spaces that support real-world communities. WisdomSpace networks are co-created by the participation of network members. There are no formal governing bodies. However, there are informal network councils comprised of network members who wish to play a more active role in nurturing the growth of the network.

 

2. Acceptance of Terms

The WisdomSpace Service ("the Service") is provided to you under the terms and conditions of this WisdomSpace Terms of Use ("WST") and any operating rules or policies that may be published by WisdomSpace. By using our services in any way, you are agreeing to be bound by all the terms and conditions of the WST.

 

The WST may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. However WisdomSpace will usually provide notice of materially significant changes to the WST by posting a notice on the WisdomSpace site. You can review the most current version of the WST at any time at www.wisdomspace.net. There may also be additional guidelines or rules relating to particular WisdomSpace services, such as the discussion forums, which may be posted from time to time. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into the WST.

 

Should you object to any term or condition of the WST, including any subsequent modifications, or become dissatisfied with WisdomSpace in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of WisdomSpace.

 

3. Description of Service

WisdomSpace provides a collection of online resources to support community networking and development, including community message boards, discussion forums, community information, and various email services. The Service may include certain communications from WisdomSpace, such as network announcements and administrative messages. These communications are considered part of WisdomSpace membership, and you will not be able to opt out of receiving them. The Service is provided "as-is" and WisdomSpace assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings.

 

4. Children and WisdomSpace

To register in the network, you must be of legal age to form a binding contract. Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from using the service without supervision by a legal guardian. Please remember that the Service is designed to appeal to a broad audience. Accordingly, as the legal guardian, it is your responsibility to determine whether any of the Services and/or Content are appropriate for your child.

 

5. WisdomSpace Privacy Policy

Registration Data and certain other information about you is subject to our Privacy Policy. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent and we only use your information as described in the Privacy Policy. We view protection of users' privacy as a very important community principle. We understand clearly that you and your information is one of our most important assets. For more information, see our full privacy policy at www.wisdomspace.net - Privacy

 

6. WisdomSpace does not provide legal, health or other professional advice

The information and content provided on the WisdomSpace site ("Content") is general in nature and should not be relied on as legal, business, health, or other professional advice. You agree that under no circumstances will WisdomSpace or Wisdom Mountain be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Service.

 

WisdomSpace does not control, and is not responsible for much of the Content made available through the Service. By using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. Furthermore, the WisdomSpace site may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of WisdomSpace. WisdomSpace makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such site. Your linking to any other websites is at your own risk.

 

Although WisdomSpace might not pre-screen or approve Content, WisdomSpace has the right (but not the obligation) to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via the Service, for violating the letter or spirit of the WST or for any other reason.

 

7. Building real community - WisdomSpace Code of Conduct

WisdomSpace is intended to build real community between real people. Accordingly, we place a strong emphasis on the quality of communications between members.

 

To support this goal, we ask you to agree to communicate online in the spirit of LARS: Listen, Appreciate, Respect, and Share. While it is impossible to specify precisely what this means in all circumstances, the following guidelines suggest what this might look like:

 

Listen:	We try to thoroughly understand each other's perspective before responding to a posting
Appreciate:	We supply only positive referrals of local resources
Respect:	We respect everyone's right to participate by not monopolizing the conversation
Share:	We share our creative ideas, local or expert knowledge, humor, talent, buzz saws, etc

 

 

You also agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:

 

that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or harms minors in any way;

 

that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;

 

that impersonates any person or entity or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;

 

that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent.

 

that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, or misinformative;

 

that 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.

that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited commercial advertisement.

 

that 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 California law

 

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;

 

that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to the Service, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use the Service; or

 

that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Service.

 

Additionally, you agree not to:

contact anyone who has asked not to be contacted;

collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes.

You agree that WisdomSpace may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the WST; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of WisdomSpace, its users and the public.

 

8. Our remedies if you breach the WST

If WisdomSpace has reasonable grounds to believe that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the WST, we may, without limiting other remedies, limit your activity, warn our community of your actions, issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you

 

WisdomSpace and/or Wisdom Mountain shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service.

 

9. Modification or discontinuance of the Service

WisdomSpace reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. WisdomSpace and/or Wisdom Mountain shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

 

10. Dispute Resolution

The divisive, lengthy, and costly nature of litigation can easily destroy the fabric of trust in our community. If a dispute arises between you and another network member from or about a network-related activity, you agree to use all reasonable efforts to resolve the dispute within the network before resorting to litigation. Filing for litigation without first using alternative dispute resolution methods (as set out below) is grounds for termination or suspension of your network membership.

 

"All reasonable efforts to resolve the dispute within the network" means the following:

 

a) Making a good faith attempt to negotiate a solution with the other party to the dispute. If no mutually-satisfying solution is reached, then

b) Agreeing to attend a mediation session facilitated by a professionally-trained mediator from the local community.

 

Each WisdomSpace Network will determine the specific procedure and details of its own dispute resolution policy. Through using this site you are agreeing to the dispute resolution policy of your WisdomSpace Network.

 

Although WisdomSpace may provide support for the resolution of disputes between network members by encouraging negotiation or by referring the parties to community mediation services, WisdomSpace is under no obligation to become involved in the resolution of such disputes.

 

11. Fees and Services.

Joining WisdomSpace is free, as are all of its basic services. We may partner with other trusted service providers to provide optional services for a fee. We may change the fees for these services from time to time. Our changes to the policy are effective after we provide you with at least fourteen (14) days' notice of the changes by posting the changes on the Site. However, we may choose to temporarily change the fees for our services for promotional events and these changes are effective when we post the temporary promotional event on the Site. We may change some or all of our services at any time. If we introduce a new service, the fees for that service are effective at the launch of the service. You are responsible for paying all fees associated with using our service and the Site and all applicable taxes.

 

11. Copyright

11.1 Our proprietary rights

The Service is protected to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or through the Service is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the Sites or the collective work is prohibited. Copying or reproducing the sites or any portion thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Service.

 

Although WisdomSpace does not claim ownership of content that its users post, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to WisdomSpace an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute that Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, that Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through multiple tiers) of the foregoing.

 

11.2 Your proprietary rights

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please notify us for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement at support@wisdomspace.net.

 

Please provide us with the following Notice:

Identify the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;

 

Identify the material on the Wisdomspace site that you claim is infringing, with enough detail so that we may locate it on the website;

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;

A statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that (a) the above information in your Notice is accurate, and (b) that you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or that you are authorized to act on behalf of that owner;

 

Your address, telephone number, and email address; and

Your physical or electronic signature.

WisdomSpace will remove the infringing posting(s), subject to the procedures outlined in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).

 

12. No Warranty.

WISDOMSPACE, WISDOM MOUNTAIN AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS PROVIDE THE WEB SITE AND SERVICES "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. WISDOMSPACE, WISDOM MOUNTAIN AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

 

13. Liability Limit.

IN NO EVENT SHALL WISDOMSPACE, WISDOM MOUNTAIN OR THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH OUR SITE, OUR SERVICES OR THIS AGREEMENT (HOWEVER ARISING, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE).

 

THE LIABILITY OF WISDOMSPACE, WISDOM MOUNTAIN AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT OF FEES YOU PAY TO US IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, AND (B) $100.

 

14. Indemnity.

You agree to indemnify and hold WisdomSpace, Wisdom Mountain and their respective agents harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of the WST or the documents it incorporates by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.