About Us

Schedule Star has been the leader in high school athletic management since our founder, "Sonny" Santorine, introduced the Athletic Director's Big Book in 1964.

Sonny was the athletic director at Midland Park High School in northern New Jersey and saw a need for a standardized method of accurately tracking all the information that is essential to the efficient operation of the athletic department.

Always being on the cutting edge, a software version of the book was introduced in 1988, and by 1992 became "Schedule Star".

The string of firsts continued: 1997 saw the introduction of companion software for the Palm Pilot, and by 1998, schedules were being uploaded to HighSchoolSports.net. The new millennium saw the program go online, and in 2003 was the first completely online offering. That year we also acquired "ACS", Athletic Computing Systems of Indiana, and absorbed our Outlook sync software supplier, Wyncs. In 2008, we welcomed Pontem's All Star Scheduler customers to the Schedule Star family.

Today, Schedule Star is a division of Gannett. Gannett publishes 85 daily newspapers, including USA TODAY, and nearly 850 non-daily publications and operates 23 U.S. television stations. We are taking the next steps in bringing your information to the public and getting your programs and athletes the recognition that they deserve.

Schedule Star Customer Support is available 24/7 at 800-258-8550.

Schedule Star is only part of the total package...our Customer Support is the other.

All Schedule Star users receive unlimited Customer Support and training. We are always available to answer questions, provide assistance, or train you. Call us at 800-258-8550, 24/7.

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Bridgeville, PA 15017

Trusted by thousands of Athletic Directors worldwide!

Our mission is to serve Athletic Directors, just as we have for over forty years. You are our only focus, and we do whatever we can to help you save time.

With a full time development staff, we are on a constant search for new and exciting ways to help you meet the challenges of today so you can be successful tomorrow.

Last Updated: December 20, 2011

We take seriously your interest in how your information is collected and used. Please read the following to learn about our Privacy Notice.

This Privacy Notice discloses the privacy practices of this website (the "Site"). Specifically, it outlines the types of information that we gather about you while you are using the Site, and the ways in which we use and share this information. This Privacy Notice does not apply to any information you may provide to us, or that we may collect, offline and/or through other means (for example, at a live event, via telephone, or through the mail).

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. By visiting and using the Site, you agree that your use of our Site, and any dispute over our online privacy practices, is governed by this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Service. Because the Web is an evolving medium, we may need to change our Privacy Notice at some point in the future, in which case we'll post the revised Privacy Notice on this website and update the "Last Updated" date to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the Site after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Notice as modified.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our customers who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to:

Mark Faris
Online Privacy Coordinator
HighSchoolSports.net
Gannett Law Department
7950 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22107

How We Collect and Use Information

We may collect and store information, including personally identifiable information (such as your name, postal address or email address) or other information, that you voluntarily supply to us while on our Site. Some examples of this type of information include information that you electronically submit when you contact us with questions, information that you post on blogs, discussion forums or other community posting and social networking areas on our Site, and information that you electronically submit when you complete an online registration form to access and use certain features of our Site. We also may ask for information (including a credit card number and other financial information) from those users who make purchases or have payment transactions on our Site. If you decline to supply or provide us with certain information while using the Site, you may not be able to use or participate in some or all of the features offered through the Site.

We collect and may display team rosters and student athlete statistical information on the Site. This type of data is the same type of roster and statistical information that you may see in your local newspaper when it reports on athletic contests. When information is uploaded or provided to us by schools or coaches, then the display of that information on the Site is controlled by the Schedule Star application user administrator for that school or team or by us. When information is uploaded or provided to us by our local media partners, then either we or our local media partners control the display of that information.

We also collect, through a variety of technologies and practices, and store non-personally identifiable information that is generated automatically as you navigate through the Site. For example, we may collect information about your computer's connection to the Internet, which allows us, among other things, to improve the delivery of our web pages to you and to measure traffic on the Site. We also may use a standard feature found in browser software called a "cookie" to enhance your experience with the Site. Cookies are small files that your web browser places on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. By showing how and when visitors use the Site, cookies help us deliver advertisements, identify how many unique users visit us, and track user trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences on certain areas of the Site where you may have entered preference information before. This Site also may use web beacons (single-pixel graphic files also known as "transparent GIFs") to access cookies and to count users who visit the Site or open HTML-formatted email messages.

If you want to limit the non-personally identifiable information that is automatically collected while you use our Site, most Web browsers allow you to disable certain functionality or set certain privacy settings. For example, to disable cookies using Internet Explorer, select "Internet Options" under the Tools menu and click on "Privacy." Select "High" or "Block All Cookies." To disable cookies using Mozilla Firefox, select "Options" under the "Tools" menu. To disable Adobe Flash cookies, you can use the Flash management tools on Adobe's website www.adobe.com. If you choose to disable cookies or turn off other functionality, you may not be able to use or participate in some or all of the features offered through the Site.

The information we collect may be collected directly by us, or it may be collected by a third-party website hosting provider, or another third-party service provider, on our behalf.

We use the information we collect from you while you are using the Site in a variety of ways, including, for example, to process your registration request, provide you with services and communications that you have requested, send you email updates and other communications, customize features and advertising that appear on the Site, deliver our Site content to you, measure Site traffic, measure user interests and traffic patterns, and improve the Site and the services and features offered via the Site.

In addition, we may use any information submitted by or collected from you via the Site for any purpose related to the Site, including to contact you for customer service purposes, to inform you of important changes or additions to our Site or the services offered over our Site, and to send you administrative notices and any other communications that we believe may be of interest to you.

We also may provide your information to our affiliates or to third parties, including our third party service providers and contractors, for purposes related to Site administration and other services. For example, if you use a credit or debit card to complete a transaction on our Site, we may share your personal information and credit card number with a credit card processing and/or a fulfillment company in order to complete your transaction, or such service provider(s) may collect that information from you directly, on our behalf.

If you do not wish your personally identifiable information to be used or shared for these purposes, send a letter to the Online Privacy Coordinator whose contact information is listed at the end of this Privacy Notice.

For information about use of your information by us and by third-party advertising service providers for advertising, see the section "Data Collected in Connection with Ad Serving and Targeting."

Our Site also includes links to other websites and provides access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access another website or purchase products or services from a third party, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting or the provider of such products or services.

We also make some content, products and services available through our Site through cooperative relationships with third-party providers, where the brands of our provider partner appear on the Site in connection with such content, products and/or services. We may share with our provider partner any information you provide, or that is collected, in the course of visiting any pages that are made available in cooperation with our provider partner. In some cases, the provider partner may collect information from you directly, in which cases the privacy policy of our provider partner may apply to the provider partner's use of your information. The privacy policy of our provider partners may differ from ours. If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of one of our provider partners, you should contact the provider partner directly for more information.

Please be aware that we may occasionally release information about our visitors if required to do so by law or if, in our business judgment, such disclosure is reasonably necessary: (a) to comply with legal process; (b) to enforce our [Terms of Service] [insert hyperlink to Terms of Service]; or (c) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our Site, us, our affiliates, our officers, directors, employees, representatives, our licensors, other users, and/or the public.

Please also note that as our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that we sell some or all of our assets, or our Site is acquired by another company, information about our Site users may be among the transferred assets.

Data Collected in Connection with Ad Serving and Targeting

We operate in compliance with the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising, www.aboutads.info.

We may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, and/or a third-party ad serving software, to collect non-personally identifiable information about site users and site activity, and we may use this information to, among other things, serve targeted advertisements on this site. The information collected allows us to analyze how users use the site and to track user interests, trends and patterns, thus allowing us to deliver more relevant advertisements to users.

We also may use third-party service providers to target and serve some of the advertisements you see on the pages of our Site, and these providers may use their own cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information from our Site. These service providers may use that information, sometimes in conjunction with similar non-personally identifiable information gathered through other websites, to deliver advertisements on this Site, and on other websites that participate in our service providers' advertising networks, that are tailored to match the perceived interests of consumers. This information also may be used to help measure and research an advertisement's effectiveness, or for other purposes.

The data collected in connection with the ad serving and ad targeting on our Site does not identify you personally and does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number, but it may include the IP address of your computer.

The use and collection of information by third-party advertising service providers is governed by the relevant third party's privacy policy and is not covered by our Privacy Notice. If you would like more information about the information collection practices of a particular service provider, or if you would like more information on how to opt out of a service provider's information collection practices, please click here.

If you would like more information on how to opt out of information collection practices, go to
www.aboutads.info.

Information You Post to Blogs, Discussion Forums and Other Community Posting or Social Networking Areas

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information or other private information available for viewing by third parties online - for example on blogs, discussion forums, or other community posting or social networking areas of our Site - that information can be seen, collected and used by others besides us. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third party use of such information.

Children's Privacy Statement

This children's privacy statement explains our practices with respect to the online collection and use of personal information from children under the age of thirteen, and provides important information regarding their rights under federal law with respect to such information.

• This Site is not directed to children under the age of 13 and we do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 as part of the Site. We screen users who wish to provide personal information in order to prevent users under the age of 13 from providing such information. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of 13 as part of the Site, we will delete such information from our records.
• Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 via the Site, we also do NOT knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
• We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of 13 to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information through the Site.
• Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 via the Site, we do NOT condition the participation of a child under 13 in the Site's online activities on providing personally identifiable information.

How To Make Changes to Your Information

If you are a registered member of our Site, you can make changes to your account information by logging in to the Site and using the account tools available via the Site. If you have subscribed to any notifications, alerts, or email newsletters services that may be provided via the Site, you also may change your subscriber information, modify your notifications, alerts, and/or subscriptions, and/or unsubscribe from these services at any time by logging in to your account. If you have any questions about modifying your account or preference information, please visit the "Help" pages of our Site or contact us.

Storage of Information

All information gathered on our Site is stored within a database to which only we and our hosting services provider are provided access. However, as effective as the reasonable security measures implemented by us may be, no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our Site's servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

Questions Regarding Privacy

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, our privacy practices, or your dealings with us, you can contact:

Mark Faris
Online Privacy Coordinator
Gannett Law Department
7950 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22107

Last Updated: June 28, 2010

Thank you for visiting the HighSchoolSports.net and Schedule Star LLC website, a service of Schedule Star LLC ("Schedule Star," "we," "us," or "our").

By using this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and to use the site in accordance with these Terms of Service, our Privacy Notice and any additional terms and conditions that are referenced herein or that otherwise may apply to specific sections of the site, or to products and services that we make available to you through the site ("Supplemental Terms"), all of which are deemed part of these Terms of Service. Accessing this site, in any manner, whether automated or otherwise, constitutes use of the site and your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Service.

We reserve the right to change these Terms of Service or to impose new conditions on use of this site from time to time, in which case we will post the revised Terms of Service on this website and update the "Last Updated" date to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the site after we post any such changes, you accept the Terms of Service, as modified.

We also reserve the right to deny access to the site or any features of the site to anyone who violates these Terms of Service or who, in our sole judgment, interferes with the ability of others to enjoy our website or infringes the rights of others.

Rights and Restrictions Relating to Site Content
Your Limited Right to Use Site Materials.

This website and all the materials available on the site are the property of us and/or our affiliates or licensors, and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. This site is provided solely for your personal noncommercial use. You may not use the site, or any materials, products or services made available on the site, in a manner that constitutes an infringement of our rights or that has not been authorized by us. More specifically, unless explicitly authorized in these Terms of Service or any Supplemental Terms, or by the owner of the materials, you may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, translate, sell, create derivative works, exploit, or distribute in any manner or medium (including by email or other electronic means) any material from the site. You may, however, from time to time, download and/or print one copy of individual pages of the site for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Also, colleges, universities and other institutions of higher education that are making authorized use of "The College Solution" software tool developed by GamePlan Technologies may use that tool to download video content from "The Bleachers" section of this website, and may view, copy, modify, transmit, display, republish, and create derivative works based on such downloaded content solely for the purposes of furthering the recruitment efforts of the institution; provided that any such use must be internal to the institution and must be non-commercial (i.e., the content may not be used in a manner that results in any financial gain to the institution or any third party). For information about requesting permission to otherwise reproduce or distribute materials from the site, please contact us.

You may not modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of the source code used by us or our licensors in providing this site (including, but not limited to, any source code used by us in providing the "Stats" team and event management tool (also referred to as "The Coaches Clipboard" tool), and any source used by us or our service providers in providing the photo- and video-upload tools related to "The Bleachers" and "The Film Room" sections of this site).

Our Right to Use Materials You Submit or Post.

When you submit or post any material via the site, you grant us the rights, and agree to the additional terms, set forth below in this section, except that, if Supplemental Terms are presented to you when you submit or post such material, or were presented to you the first time you used the particular feature, service or tool on our site through which you are submitting your material (such as, for example, when you use photo- and video-upload tools related to "The Bleachers" and "The Film Room" sections of this site), you also grant us any additional rights set forth in such Supplemental Terms. If any such Supplemental Terms conflict with any of the terms set forth below, the conflicting Supplemental Terms will control.

You grant us, and anyone authorized by us, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, copy, modify, transmit, sell, exploit, create derivative works from, distribute, and/or publicly perform or display such material, in whole or in part, in any manner or medium (whether now known or hereafter developed), for any purpose that we choose, any and all materials that you submit or post via the site, without compensation to you. The foregoing grant includes the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such posting or submission, including, but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark or patent laws that exist in any relevant jurisdiction. Also, in connection with the exercise of these rights, you grant us, and anyone authorized by us, the right to identify you as the author of any of your postings or submissions by name, email address or screen name, as we deem appropriate. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the site, including content submitted by you, may involve transmissions over various networks, and may involve changes to the content to conform and adapt it to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.

Limitations on Linking and Framing.

You are free to establish a hypertext link to our site so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship of your website or service by us or by our site. However, you may not, without our prior written permission, frame or inline link any of the content of our site, or incorporate into another website or other service any of our material, content or intellectual property.

Limitations on Use of Associated Press Materials.

Some of the material available on this Site is provided by the Associated Press. By using this Site you agree and acknowledge that (1) you will not publish, display, broadcast, or rewrite for broadcast or publication, or redistribute, directly or indirectly in any medium, any Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio, and/or video material; and (2) no Associated Press materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use. The Associated Press will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in its materials or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part of its materials, or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. In addition to those set forth in this paragraph, the Associated Press may impose other terms and conditions on the use of its materials. Please click here for more information.

Registration, User Profile and Account Information

To access and use certain features of our site, such as event schedule and change notifications, event score notifications, discussion forums and blogs, photo-sharing and video-sharing pages or social networking features, you may be required to become a registered user of the site or to complete a registration form for the particular service or feature being accessed. Such registration may require you to provide personally identifying information such as your name, mailing address, date of birth and/or email address, or demographic information such as your gender, zip code and/or country of residence.

If you become a registered user of the site, you will be required to provide your first and last name, a valid email address, your gender and your date of birth, and will be required to create a password. Once registered as a site user, you can elect to provide additional information that will be associated with your account and your user profile, including your mailing address, a cell phone number to receive text messages, or your Twitter account information to receive Twitter updates.

You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by any registration form(s) presented to you via this website. And your registration, profile and account information must describe you, an individual person. You may not sell, share or otherwise transfer any registration information submitted, or any account or user profile created, via this site. If we have reasonable grounds to suspect that any registration, profile or account information that you have provided is untrue, inaccurate, or incomplete, or does not describe you, an individual person, or that your account has been improperly shared or transferred, we have the right to suspend or terminate the applicable registration, profile or account and to refuse any and all current or future use of the site (or any portion thereof). Our use of any information you provide to us as part of a registration process is governed by the terms of our Privacy Notice.

Responsibility for Your Username and Password

To access and use certain features of our site, you may need to create a username and password as part of the registration process described above. We reserve the right to reject or terminate the use of any username that we deem offensive or inappropriate.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account, and are responsible for all activities (whether by you or by others) that occur under your password or account. To protect against unauthorized access to your account, be sure to log out when you finish using the site. Do not disclose your password to any third party. If you believe your account or password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password by logging into your account and accessing the "Change Password" feature.

You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your password or account information.

Responsibility for User-Provided Content

This site may include a variety of features, such as discussion forums, blogs, photo- and video-sharing pages (including "The Bleachers" and "The Film Room" sections of the site), email services and social networking features that allow users to provide feedback to us and to interact with each other on the site and post content and materials for display on the site. This site also may include other features, such as email services, that allow users to communicate with third parties. By accessing and using any such features, you represent and agree: (i) that you have read and agree to abide by our Community Rules; (ii) that you are the owner of any material you post or submit, or are making your posting or submission with the express consent of the owner of the material; (iii) that you are making your posting or submission with the express consent of anyone pictured in or appearing in any material you post or submit, (iv) that the materials do not and will not violate any local, state, national or international laws or regulations, and do not and will not violate the rights of, or cause injury to, any person or entity; (v) that the materials do not and will not violate any credentials issued to you in connection with the event (if any) that your materials relate to or depict, or any terms or conditions applicable to event ticket holders; and (vi) that you will indemnify and hold harmless us, our affiliates, and each of our and their respective directors, officers, managers, employees, shareholders, agents, representatives, contractors, service providers and licensors, from and against any liability of any nature arising out of related to any content or materials displayed on or submitted via the site by you or by others using your username and password. You also grant us a license to use the materials you post or submit via such features, as described above under the header "Rights and Restrictions Relating to Site Content."

Responsibility for what is posted on discussion forums, blogs, photo- and video-sharing pages, and other areas on the site through which users can supply information or material, or sent via any email services that are made available via the site, lies with each user -- you alone are responsible for the material you post or send. We do not control the messages, information or files that you or others may transmit, post or otherwise provide on or through the site.

You understand that we have no obligation to monitor any discussion forums, blogs, photo- or video-sharing pages, or other areas of the site through which users can supply information or material. However, we reserve the right at all times, in our sole discretion, to screen content submitted by users and to edit, move, delete, and/or refuse to accept any content that in our judgment violates these Terms of Service or is otherwise unacceptable or inappropriate, whether for legal or other reasons.

You acknowledge and agree that we may preserve content and materials submitted by you, and may also disclose such content and materials if required to do so by law or if, in our business judgment, such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce these Terms of Service; (c) respond to claims that any content or materials submitted by you violate the rights of third parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our site, us, our affiliates, our officers, directors, employees, representatives, our licensors, other users, and/or the public.

Online Commerce

This site may (now or in the future) offer the ability to purchase one or more products or services offered by us or by third parties. You agree to be financially responsible for all purchases made by you or someone acting on your behalf through the site. You agree to only to make purchases for yourself or for another person for whom you are legally permitted to do so. When making a purchase for a third party that requires you to submit the third party's personal information to us, you represent that you have obtained the express consent of such third party to provide such third party's personal information. You agree to purchase services or products through the site for legitimate, non-commercial purposes only. You also agree not to make any purchases for speculative, false or fraudulent purposes or for the purpose of anticipating demand for a particular product or service.

We are not responsible for the quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or any other aspect of products and services that are provided to you by third party merchants. If you make a purchase from a third party via our site, or on a third-party website that you have accessed via a link on our site, the information obtained during your visit to that third party's online store or site, and the information that you give as part of the transaction, such as your credit card number and contact information, may be collected by both the third-party merchant and us. A merchant may have privacy and data collection practices that are different from ours. We have no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. In addition, when you purchase products or services on or through the site, you may be subject to additional terms and conditions that specifically apply to your purchase or use of such products or services. For more information regarding a merchant, its online store, its privacy policies, and/or any additional terms and conditions that may apply, visit that merchant's website and click on its information links or contact the merchant directly. You release us and our affiliates from any damages that you incur, and agree not to assert any claims against us or any of our affiliates, arising from your purchase or use of any products or services made available by third parties through our site.

Limitation on Use of Company Directories

The information contained in any company directories that may be provided on the site is provided for business lookup purposes and is not to be used for marketing or telemarketing purpose. This information may not be copied or redistributed and is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. In no event will we or our suppliers be liable in any way with regard to such information.

Privacy

We respect the privacy of the users of our site. Please take a moment to review our Privacy Notice.

Modifications to, or Discontinuation of, the Site

We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the site, or any portion thereof, with or without notice. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the site or any portion thereof.

Disclaimers

Throughout our site, we have provided links and pointers to Internet sites maintained by third parties. Our linking to such third-party sites does not imply an endorsement or sponsorship of such sites, or the information, products or services offered on or through the sites. In addition, neither we nor our parent or subsidiary companies nor any of our respective affiliates operate or control in any respect any information, products or services that third parties may provide on or through the site or on websites linked to by us on the site.

A portion of the information contained on our site is created by site users. While we urge users to post only accurate information, we cannot guarantee that user postings are accurate, and we make no assurances or representations as to the veracity of our users or the quality of the information posted to our site. We urge you to use common sense and good judgment in deciding whether to rely on the information contained on our site. You agree that you must personally evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of that content.

THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFERED ON OR THROUGH THE SITE AND ANY THIRD-PARTY SITES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE OR ANY OF ITS FUNCTIONS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY PART OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING BULLETIN BOARDS, OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE IT AVAILABLE, ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

WE DO NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE SITE OR MATERIALS ON THIS SITE OR ON THIRD-PARTY SITES IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE.

You must provide and are solely responsible for all hardware and/or software necessary to access the Site. You assume the entire cost of and responsibility for any damage to, and all necessary maintenance, repair or correction of, that hardware and/or software.

This site is provided for informational purposes only, and is not intended for trading or investing purposes, or for commercial use. The site should not be used in any high risk activities where damage or injury to persons, property, environment, finances or business may result if an error occurs. You expressly assume all risk for such use.

Your interactions with companies, organizations and/or individuals found on or through our site, including any purchases, transactions, or other dealings, and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such companies, organizations and/or individuals. You agree that we will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings. You also agree that, if there is a dispute between users of this site, or between a user and any third party, we are under no obligation to become involved, and you agree to release us and our affiliates from any claims, demands and damages of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such dispute and/or our site.

Limitation of Liability

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, WILL WE OR OUR SUBSIDIARIES, PARENT COMPANIES OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THIS SITE, INCLUDING ITS MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES, OR THIRD-PARTY MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE, EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. (BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY AND THE LIABILITY OF OUR SUBSIDIARIES, PARENT COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES, IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY SUCH STATE LAW.) YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY USER. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE SITE, OR ANY MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES ON THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THE SITE'S TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless us, our parent company and affiliates, and each of our and their respective directors, officers, managers, employees, shareholders, agents, representatives and licensors, from and against any and all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, that arise out of your use of the site, violation of these Terms of Service by you or any other person using your account, or your violation of any rights of another. We reserve the right to take over the exclusive defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification under this section. In such event, you agree to provide us with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by us.

Suspension and Termination of Access

You agree that, in our sole discretion, we may suspend or terminate your password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the site, or any part of the site, and remove and discard any materials that you submit to the site, at any time, for any reason, without notice. You agree that we will not be liable to you or any third-party for any suspension or termination of your password, account (or any part thereof) or use of the site, or any removal of any materials that you have submitted to the site. In the event that we suspend or terminate your access to and/or use of the site, you will continue to be bound by the Terms of Service that were in effect as of the date of your suspension or termination.

Notice of Copyright Infringement

If you are a copyright owner who believes your copyrighted material has been reproduced, posted or distributed via the site in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please inform our designated copyright agent by sending written notice by U.S. Mail to Gannett Co., Inc., 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22107, Attn: M. Faris, or by email to mfaris@gannett.com. Please include the following information in your written notice: (1) a detailed description of the copyrighted work that is allegedly infringed upon; (2) a description of the location of the allegedly infringing material on the site; (3) your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and, if available, email address; (4) a statement by you indicating that you have a good-faith belief that the allegedly infringing use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (5) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, affirming that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf; and (6) an electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized on the owner's behalf to assert infringement of copyright and to submit the statement. Please note that the contact information provided in this paragraph is for suspected copyright infringement only. Contact information for other matters is provided elsewhere in these Terms of Service or on the site.

Other

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between us and you with respect to the subject matter contained in this agreement and supersedes all previous and contemporaneous agreements, proposals and communications, written or oral. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use the products or services of a third party that are provided through the site. In the event of any conflict between any such third-party terms and conditions and these Terms of Service, these Terms of Service will govern. This agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.

This agreement is personal to you and you may not assign it to anyone. If any provision of this agreement is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severable from this agreement and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. These Terms of Service are not intended to benefit any third party, and do not create any third party beneficiaries. Accordingly, these Terms of Service may only be invoked or enforced by you or us. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action that you may have arising out of or related to use of the site or these Terms of Service must be filed by you within one year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

Last Updated: June 28, 2010

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We reserve the right to deny access to the Site or any features of the Site to anyone who violates these Community Rules or who, in our sole judgment, interferes with the ability of others to enjoy our website or infringes the rights of others.