PanamaCityBeach.com Content Guidelines
and Terms of Service Agreement.
Please read the following user agreement. After you've read it, if you have any questions please contact support.
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PanamaCityBeach.com
PanamaCityBeach.com Content Guidelines and Terms of Service Agreement. ---------------------------->Introduction<--------------------------- The purpose of the web site is to give the ability to have a presence on the World Wide Web and to help increase our clients customer base. The web site also allows people to communicate their needs or obtain information that will help them in making decisions. Panama City Beach is a beautiful place. More than 5 million people per year from all over the world will come to our area. This web site, created by locals, contains an incredible array of facts and interesting information. We are mindful of our role as stewards of this communities and will do our best to ensure that PanamaCityBeach.com remains a positive contributor to the Bay County community. PanamaCityBeach.com is committed to providing marketing coverage for the diverse types of business in our area. We have established these guidelines and terms of service (see below) to help you achieve a true sense of community and communication through technology. To us, the idea is that a web site for area businesses will help Panama City Beach establish an online sense of community. We appreciate your interest in and support of PanamaCityBeach.com, and we pledge our continued support in building a better online presence for this area through use of technology for the online frontier. The Staff of PanamaCityBeach.com Last modified January 4, 2005. Revision 2.1 ------------------------->Agreement Between Customer And PanamaCityBeach.com<----------------------- This Web site is offered to you, the customer, conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of this Web site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices. ------------------------->Content Guidelines<----------------------- PanamaCityBeach.com has carefully developed the following content guidelines to help promote the presence of your business on the internet, while maintaining standards consistent with our goals, business model and other internet communities around the world. If you have any questions regarding these guidelines, please use our Customer Service Need Help form. PanamaCityBeach.com does not discriminate based on age, gender, creed, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or economic status. Please refrain from using your web site, pages or templates for the following activities: 1. Displaying material containing nudity or pornographic material of any kind. Users that violate this guideline will be barred from the system immediately.; 2. Displaying material that exploits minors. This includes, but is not limited to, posting or disclosing any personal identifying information belonging to any child under the age of 18 years old; This includes, but is not limited to, the following: Real names; Physical and/or mailing addresses; Real phone numbers; E-mail addresses, photos or other personal identifying information on your web site, free pages or templates. Users violating this guideline will be reported to the proper authorities in addition to having their web site deleted and account barred.; 3. Providing material that is grossly offensive to the local community, including blatant expressions of bigotry, prejudice, racism, hatred or excessive profanity.; 4. Promoting or providing instructional information about, but is not limited to, illegal activities, promoting physical harm, injury against any group or individual, promoting any act of cruelty to animals, and promoting a political candidate, party, or ideas; This includes, but is not limited to, the following activities: Providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other weapons; Disseminating personal information about another individual for malevolent purposes; Creating "Warez/Crackz/Serial" sites; Providing computer software viruses or software designed to create a virus; Providing expressions of "hot" topics (i.e. abortion, sexuality); Providing programs to "nuke" or create a denial of service attack against our ISP or server; Facilitating the delivery of "spam" e-mail; Soliciting passwords from other businesses.; 5. Committing acts of copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property infringement; This includes, but is not limited to, the following activities: Providing pirated computer programs or links to such programs (this also includes but not limited to files which are solely intended for game emulation); Providing information used to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or registration numbers for software programs; Providing any type of hacking/cracking utility; Providing pirated music/movies/videos or links to such files. (This includes, but not limited to MP3, Real Audio, Quicktime files); 6. Defaming any person, group, business or web site; 7. Developing restricted or password-only access pages, hidden pages, or images (those not linked to from another accessible page); 8. Using your web site, free pages or templates as storage for remote loading, as a doorway or signpost to another web site, whether inside or beyond PanamaCityBeach.com.; 9. Posting URLs on free web site, free pages or templates. Users may be granted that privilege for a fee. Any URLs posted in free web sites will be removed immediately.; 10. Developing a web site, free pages or templates that consist of hyperlinks to content not allowed in PanamaCityBeach.com. Users with URL privileges: content of linked web sites must comply to PanamaCityBeach.com's content guidelines.; 11. Having multiple web sites, free pages or templates on PanamaCityBeach.com. PanamaCityBeach.com offers one free web site per company, regardless of, but not limited to, the number of employees; only one username and password will be assigned for that company. Each web site will be based on one of the area-related templates provided by PanamaCityBeach.com and chosen by the user. The free web site or templates will be listed under one area (i.e., Entertainment: Arcades or Entertainment: Miniature Golf). Companies desiring a larger web site, more pages, templates or listing under multiple areas can be accommodated at an additional cost or by barter.; 12. Using PanamaCityBeach.com for the purpose of gathering personal identifying information from individuals for commercial or unlawful purposes; 13. Posting extraneous information for the purpose of promoting your web site, free pages or templates; 14. Engaging in online partnering activities without contacting PanamaCityBeach.com; This includes, but is not limited to, the following activities: Offering the sale of any products or services that your business does not offer or are extraneous to your business's primary function; Soliciting for advertisers or sponsors; Conducting raffles or contests; Displaying a sponsorship banner of any kind, including those that are generated by banner or link exchange services, with the sole exceptions of the PanamaCityBeach.com Banner Exchange program; Displaying banners for services that provide cash or cash-equivalent prizes to users in exchange for hyperlinks to their web sites; Promoting, soliciting or participating in multilevel marketing or pyramid schemes. --------------------->Intellectual Property Dispute Policy<--------------------- In the event that PanamaCityBeach.com receives a complaint that the content of a user's web site, pages and templates allegedly infringes intellectual property rights or is otherwise unlawful, PanamaCityBeach.com will request written substantiation of the complaint from the complaining party, for example, proof of ownership in the form of a trademark, service mark, patent or copyright. PanamaCityBeach.com will take the steps we believe to be appropriate under the circumstances. This includes, but is not limited to: Suspending or removing the site (or a portion of the site) immediately and until the dispute is resolved; Providing the accused users with contact information for the complaining party; Instructing the user to contact the complaining party to resolve the dispute; Informing the complaining party of our actions and ask that party to work directly with the business. (Note: All correspondence between the parties must also be sent to PanamaCityBeach.com and PanamaCityBeach.com at 2471 Pretty Bayou Blvd, Panama City, Florida 32405.); The following action can be taken based on the dispute. If the user has not pursued resolution within fourteen (14) days of a notification, the web site (or portions of the site) will be deleted. If the complaining party has not pursued resolution within fourteen (14) days of the users' response, the web site (or the suspended portions of the site) will be reactivated. If legal action is pending or the dispute is not settled, the web site (or portions of the site) may remain suspended or removed until resolution is reached and PanamaCityBeach.com is notified of the outcome by both parties. If a resolution is reached between the parties, the web site (or portions of the site) will be reactivated with any mutually agreed upon modifications. If a copyright, trademark, patent, or other infringement is obvious, PanamaCityBeach.com also reserves the right, to delete all files and remove the user from PanamaCityBeach.com without warning. ------------------------>E-mail Guidelines<-------------------------- PanamaCityBeach.com encourages you to use e-mail as a form of communication. This will saves trees, environment, is less wasteful and provides you with a back-up of communication. Always remember to stay within the accepted use policies that govern e-mail. This includes, but is not limited to: Do not use it for the purpose of "spamming" newsgroups, individuals or companies; Conducting unwanted solicitations of groups or individuals or companies; Harassing or threatening of groups or individuals or companies; Conducting illegal activities; Sending "spam" e-mail through the PanamaCityBeach.com systems is not permitted. Using any PanamaCityBeach.com copyrighted material, trademarks, etc. in connection with sending "spam" e-mail is a serious violation of NETiquette as well as a violation of international, national, state, and local laws. PanamaCityBeach.com will take the appropriate legal action for trademark and copyright infringement and under circumstances we may referring the matter for criminal prosecution. -------------------------->Terms of Service<------------------------ 1. PanamaCityBeach.com business web sites, pages and templates are available to any business with the owner, president, CEO or Board of Directors being at least 18 years of age. Persons under the age of 18 who have provided PanamaCityBeach.com with evidence of their parent's or guardian's express consent to operate a business will also be accepted. Furthermore PanamaCityBeach.com requires that the business' main office be located in the surrounding area of Panama City Beach, unless arranged otherwise through PanamaCityBeach.com. PanamaCityBeach.com reserves the right to deny, suspend, or revoke the access of any user or business. 2. The opinions expressed in business web sites, pages and templates do not reflect those of PanamaCityBeach.com, PanamaCityBeach.com, its associates, sponsors and partners. The contents of the business web sites, pages and templates are not thoroughly reviewed before they appear in PanamaCityBeach.com. 3. PanamaCityBeach.com, Blue Skies FZC, its associates, sponsors and partners are not responsible for the content of any web sites, pages and templates. Users are solely responsible for everything contained in their own business web sites, pages and templates. PanamaCityBeach.com, PanamaCityBeach.com, its associates, sponsors and partners does not verify, endorse or otherwise vouch for the contents of any business web sites, pages and templates. Businesses may be held legally liable for the contents of their business web sites, pages and templates and may be held legally accountable if their web site, pages and templates includes, but not limited to: Defamatory comments or material protected by copyright, trademark, patent or trade secret law without the express permission of the author or owner.; Offering good or services at a false price (False Advertising); Lie, falsify, alter, or fraudulence information to obtain but not limited to: (Obtaining business, a free web site, pages and templates.) 4. PanamaCityBeach.com, Blue Skies FZC, its associates, sponsors and partners are not responsible for the delivery of any goods or services sold or advertised by its sponsors, associates, partners, or its users' commercial or noncommercial web sites, pages and templates. 5. PanamaCityBeach.com does not actively monitor the content of web sites, pages and templates but will investigate complaints of any violation of the PanamaCityBeach.com Content Guidelines and Terms of Service. Please submit any such complaints using our Content Violation Form. 6. The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless PanamaCityBeach.com, Blue Skies FZC, its associates, sponsors and partners for any loss, liability, claim, damage, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from or in connection with the contents of any businesses web sites, pages and templates, including use of the businesses e-mail account whether affiliated with PanamaCityBeach.com, PanamaCityBeach.com, its associates, sponsors and partners or not. 7. PanamaCityBeach.com, Blue Skies FZC, its associates, sponsors and partners are not responsible or liable for any loss of data, nor are they required to return any data, resulting from (but not limited to) the deletion/removal of web sites, free pages, templates or information through network or system outages, file corruption or any other reasons. We urge all users to maintain backup copies of their web sites, free pages, templates, or page information to guard against losses of any kind. 8. PanamaCityBeach.com has taken due care and responsibility to verify and check all information on our web sites as at the time of compilation, however, as this information is supplied by the relevant accommodation and service provider, we accepts no responsibility for any inaccuracy contained in the publications. 9. PanamaCityBeach.com does not accept responsibility for any change in prices or variation of services as shown, and all services and prices are subject to change without notice. 10. PanamaCityBeach.com does not accept any liability of whatever nature for the acts, omissions or default, whether negligent or otherwise, of those service providers in connections with your convention pursuant to a contract between them and yourselves and over whom we have no direct control. We do not accept liability in contract or in tort (actionable wrong) for any injury, damage, loss, delay, additional expenses or inconvenience caused directly or indirectly by force or other events which are beyond our control, or which are not preventable by reasonable diligence on our part including, but not limited to war, civil disturbance, fire, floods, unusually severe weather, acts of God, acts of Government or of any other authorities, accidents to or failure of machinery or equipment or industrial action. ------------------------>Copyright And Trademark Notices<--------------------- All contents of this Web site are: ©2003 PanamaCityBeach.com, 2471 Pretty Bayou Blvd, Panama City, FL 32405 USA. All rights reserved. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. ------------------------>Liability Disclaimer<--------------------- THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES PUBLISHED ON THIS WEB SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. IN PARTICULAR, PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, AND ITS AFFILIATES DO NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY OF, AND DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR INACCURACIES RELATING TO THE INFORMATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE HOTEL, AIR, CRUISE, CAR AND OTHER TRAVEL PRODUCTS DISPLAYED ON THIS WEBSITE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PHOTOGRAPHS, LIST OF HOTEL AMENITIES, GENERAL PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS, ETC.), MUCH OF WHICH INFORMATION IS PROVIDED BY THE RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, ITS AFFILIATES, AND/OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES ON THIS WEB SITE AT ANY TIME. PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, ITS AFFILIATES, AND/OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES CONTAINED ON THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE, AND THE INCLUSION OR OFFERING FOR SALE OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ON THIS WEB SITE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ANY ENDORSEMENT OR RECOMMENDATION OF SUCH PRODUCTS OR SERVICES BY PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, OR ITS AFFILIATES. ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, ITS AFFILIATES, AND/OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. THE CARRIERS, HOTELS AND OTHER SUPPLIERS PROVIDING OTHER SERVICES FOR PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, ARE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS AND NOT AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES OF PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, OR ITS AFFILIATES. PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, AND ITS AFFILIATES ARE NOT LIABLE FOR THE ACTS, ERRORS, OMISSIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, BREACHES OR NEGLIGENCE OF ANY SUCH SUPPLIERS OR FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURIEIS, DEATH, PROPERTY DAMAGE, OR OTHER DAMAGES OR EXPENSES RESULTING THEREFROM. PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, AND ITS AFFILIATES HAVE NO LIABILITY AND WILL MAKE NO REFUND IN THE EVENT OF ANY DELAY, CANCELLATION, OVERBOOKING, STRIKE, FORCE MAJEURE OR OTHER CAUSES BEYOND THEIR DIRECT CONTROL, AND THEY HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ADDITIONAL EXPENSE, OMISSIONS, DELAYS, RE-ROUTING OR ACTS OF ANY GOVERNMENT OR AUTHORITY. IN NO EVENT SHALL PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, ITS AFFILIATES, AND/OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH, THE USE OF THIS WEB SITE OR WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEB SITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS WEB SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF PANAMACITYBEACH.COM, BLUE SKIES FZC, ITS AFFILIATES, AND/OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. ----------------------->INDEMNIFICATION<--------------------- You agree to defend and indemnify PanamaCityBeach.com, Blue Skies, its affiliates, and/or their respective suppliers and any of their officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claims, causes of action, demands, recoveries, losses, damages, fines, penalties or other costs or expenses of any kind or nature including but not limited to reasonable legal and accounting fees, brought by (i) you or on your behalf in excess of the liability described above; or (ii) by third parties as a result of (a) your breach of these Web Site Terms, Conditions and Notices or the documents referenced herein; (b) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or (c) your use of this Web site. ----------------------->We Reserve the Right<--------------------- We reserve the right to suspend or remove any web site, page, templates or user account and password from the system that violates any of these content guidelines or otherwise is in violation of national, state, or local laws. PanamaCityBeach.com does not actively monitor the content of web sites, templates, pages, usage of user name and password. We will investigate complaints of violation of these guidelines. Please submit any such complaints using our Content Violation Form. Users who are in violation of the PanamaCityBeach.com Content Guidelines or Terms of Service may have their user name and password revoked, services canceled and their web site, or portions of their web site, free pages or templates suspended or removed without warning, in which event PanamaCityBeach.com will not return the removed web site, free pages, templates or any information to the offending user. PanamaCityBeach.com, PanamaCityBeach.com, its associates, sponsors or partners are not responsible or liable for any loss of data nor is it required to return any data resulting (but not limited to) from our deletion/removal of web sites, free pages, or templates, through network or system outages, file corruption or any other reasons. We urge all business to maintain backup copies of their web site, free pages, templates and information to guard against losses of any kind. ------------------------>Other Rights Reserved<----------------------- PanamaCityBeach.com also reserves the following rights. This includes, but not limited to: To amend or change the Content Guidelines or Terms of Service at any time and without notice; To change the web site, pages, or templates at anytime; To release current or past business information if PanamaCityBeach.com believes that a user's account is in violation of the PanamaCityBeach.com Content Guidelines or Terms of Service is being used to commit unlawful acts, or if the information is required by subpoena and/or if PanamaCityBeach.com deems it necessary and/or appropriate; To deny a user name and password, web site, pages or templates; To remove businesses for conduct that PanamaCityBeach.com believes is harmful to other users, to non-businesses or to PanamaCityBeach.com or PanamaCityBeach.com as a business; To remove businesses who interfere with the design and operation of the navigation menu, banner ads, web site or other PanamaCityBeach.com technologies, without warning; To utilize third parties to provide services to PanamaCityBeach.com businesses; To use images or information on web sites, pages or templates for promotional of other related or unrelated businesses for commercial and noncommercial purposes. ------------------------->Page Content Requirements<----------------------- In return for all the great services we offer, there are only two main requirements that we ask of the user: 1. We ask that you place useful information about your business for the consumer and that you maintain your information within our Content Guidelines. This information helps make your web site, free pages or templates possible. 2. We ask that you not interfere with the navigation menu that resides on the bottom of all PanamaCityBeach.com pages. The navigation menu functionality will be that, if, for example, you're on a great accommodation page, clicking on the PanamaCityBeach.com navigation menu can take you to great dining page associated to Panama City Beach and the surrounding area. This increases your chances of being found by visitors. We think the navigation menu greatly improves our service to you in that we can bring more traffic to your site. For copyright information, please contact PanamaCityBeach.com. We appreciate your interest and support of PanamaCityBeach.com and we welcome you to PanamaCityBeach.com.
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