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Introduction
The American Social Health Association (ASHA) provides the iwannaknow.org
Web site for your personal education and entertainment, but nothing
on this site constitutes a recommendation for medical care, nor does
ASHA make a warranty of any kind about the appropriateness for individual
online Users. The mission statement of ASHA is to stop sexually transmitted
diseases and their harmful consequences to individuals, families and
communities, and this Web site is intended to provide information
about sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health to help people,
especially teenagers, make healthy choices for themselves.
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The entire iwannaknow.org Web site is protected by copyright by the
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you may download, print out, or send a copy to others so long as each
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Web site is intended or represented either directly or indirectly,
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or concerns about legal issues we at ASHA encourage you to seek the
proper attorney or professional service regarding your needs.
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make, or action you take based on any information found on the ASHA
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liable for any risk for your use of the iwannaknow.org or ASHA Web
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identified as being from the American Social Health Association (ASHA),
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products or services on the Internet, including electronic transmissions
from other Users or materials connected to the ASHA or iwannaknow.org
Web sites through hyperlinks in any way.
Under no circumstances shall ASHA be liable for injury, loss, claim,
damage or any incidental or consequential damages arising either directly
or indirectly out of or in any way connected with the ASHA or iwannaknow.org
Web sites, or any failure or delay in updating or including any information
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site, even if ASHA has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
(Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or the
limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental and consequential
damages, so the above exclusions may not apply to you.)
Your Privacy and the ASHA and iwannaknow.org Web sites
We want this site to be a safe and private place for the Users of
the site. ASHA will do its part by collecting very little information
from you and about you. You do not need to register for anything but
the chat room. When you register, we ask only for your handle or Web
nickname, not your real name or e-mail address. Please read the House
Rules and Safety Tips section of the chat room and follow the instructions
set forth in that section before using it. The Risk Assessment test
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information about you. It will ask a series of questions to help you
assess your personal risk of getting an STD but this information will
not be used in any way to identify you or your location. The iwannaknow.org
site logs IP addresses for systems administration purposes and these
logs may be analyzed to improve the value of the materials available
on the site. But we do not link IP addresses to anything personally
identifiable. This means that a User's session will be logged, but
the User will be anonymous.
We ask that you do your part, too, when writing to us via e-mail or
when participating in the monitored chat room. We ask that you do
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All personal information that could be used to identify you or your
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of where our Users are visiting the most, will be compiled into statistics
to inform us about your needs and interests. We also may share this
statistical information with writers, Web site writers, media and
outside experts, to help us improve the site to meet the needs and
interests of our Users.
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When you submit a question, article or other materials to ASHA through
the iwannaknow.org Web site, you are authorizing ASHA to read it,
edit it and publish it on the iwannaknow.org Web site, where it can
be read all over the world and downloaded and copied. Do not submit
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your question, works or materials posted and read by others. Before
posting any question, work or material to the iwannaknow.org Web site,
ASHA will edit it as we see fit to make the content clear and to also
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could be used to identify you or others in the body of work. ASHA
is not obligated to and makes no representation that it will publish
any particular submission. All material you submit must be original
work. Once a submission is published on the iwannaknow.org Web site,
ASHA may take it down for any or no reason.
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Although ASHA makes every effort to ensure the correctness of data,
ASHA disclaims responsibility for any errors or omissions, such as
unintended inaccuracies or typographical errors, in the materials.
You also understand that ASHA cannot and does not guarantee or warrant
that files available for downloading through the service will be free
of "infection" or "viruses," "worms,"
"Trojan horses," or other code that manifest contaminating
or destructive properties. Users are responsible for implementing
sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy their particular
requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining
a procedure outside of ASHA or iwannaknow.org Web sites for the reconstruction
of any lost data. Use of the ASHA or iwannaknow.org Web sites and
the Internet generally is at the User's own risk.
Legal Actions
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with the laws of the state of North Carolina, U.S.A., and you agree
to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts of the state
of North Carolina. In the event that any portion of these terms and
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shall remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of
any statute of law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising
out of or related to this Web site, or the use of this Web site, must
be filed within one year after such claim or cause of action arose
and must be filed in a court in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
User Rules
In order to maintain an informative and valuable service that meets
the needs of the viewers and avoids harm to others, it is necessary
to establish and for you to follow these User Rules:
a. The User may download, print or transmit information from the iwannaknow.org
Web site for personal, private use. However, the User must make sure
that the proper copyright notice--(c)1999, American Social Health
Association-is included to each copy transmitted or printed and in
no case may the materials be reproduced in bulk or for commercial
use without express, written permission from:
American
Social Health Association
PO Box 13827
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3827
b. Users may not submit or transmit any message that is libelous or
defamatory, or violates any other person's copyrights, privacy or
publicity rights, trademarks, trade secrets, or rights in other confidential
information. The User indemnifies ASHA for any and all damages suffered
by third parties as a result of the User's violation of this paragraph.
c. Users may not submit or transmit any message, data, image, or program
with the intent to threaten the safety of others or to cause others
to feel that they are being threatened.
d. ASHA does not intend to discourage Users from taking controversial
positions expressing vigorously what may be unpopular views; however
ASHA reserves the right to take such actions as it deems appropriate
in cases where the ASHA or iwannaknow.org Web sites are inappropriately
used to disseminate statements or materials that are reasonably construed
as abusive, destructive, harmful, or threatening to the safety of
others.
e. Users may not interfere with other Users' use of the ASHA or iwannaknow.org
Web sites, including, without limitation, disrupting the normal flow
or use of the service.
f. Users may not post or transmit any file which contains "viruses,"
"worms," "Trojan horse" or any other contaminating
or destructive features.
g. It is ASHA's general policy to protect the privacy of the persons
transmitting any messages to ASHA. However, ASHA reserves the right
to reproduce and distribute part of or all of a message without compensation
to the User so long as any identifying information is deleted.
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