Terms of Use

Welcome to aFreeCountry.com! By using aFreeCountry.com’s products, software, services or web sites ("aFreeCountry.com services"), you agree to the following terms and conditions, and any policies, guidelines or amendments thereto that may be presented to you from time to time, including but not limited to Program Policies and Legal Notices (collectively, the "Terms"). We may update the Terms in the future, and you will be able to find the most current version of this agreement at http://aFreeCountry.com?q=tos

  1. USE OF SERVICES aFreeCountry.com, its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, including your domain administrator ("aFreeCountry.com") offer aFreeCountry.com services to you, provided that you are of legal age to form a binding contract and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the United States of America or other applicable state jurisdiction. In order to access certain services, you may be required to provide current, accurate identification, contact, and other information as part of the registration process and/or continued use of aFreeCountry.com services. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account password, and are responsible for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to immediately notify aFreeCountry.com of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security. aFreeCountry.com cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to provide us with accurate information or to keep your password secure.
  2. NO MEMBERS OF ANY BAR ASSOCIATION PERMITTED (added 02/15/2016) The member forums at aFreeCountry.com are for the use of non BAR association members. It is strictly for the use of those who have not sworn an oath to the BAR and/or are no longer a member of a BAR association. You agree that should the Administrators of aFreeCountry.com discover that a registered member to the member forum is an active member of a BAR association, said member agrees to pay to aFreeCountry.com $1,000.00 per day from the date the member gained access to the member forum to the date of the discovery. Any member who is a member of the forum at the time of this notice who is also a member of a BAR association must notify admin at aFreeCountry.com so that access to the member forum may be terminated. Contacting admin at aFreeCountry.com within 14 days of the update of these terms of service, wil not result in the fine of $1,000.00 per day against the member so notifying aFreeCountry.com. Failing to notify aFreeCountry.com of a member's association with any BAR association or other association that permits only attorneys who have sworn an oath to a BAR association or any other association, club, or organization, constitutes an agreement by said member to pay $1,000.00 per day from the date these terms of service were update with this clause. Any registered user who was, but is no longer a member of a BAR association may have access by written permission only and access will be approved prior to the payment of the annual member dues unless said register user desiring to gain access is doing so as a contributing member to aid others in conducting their lawful business in a court of law. The registered user desiring to access the member forum must email admin with his name, address, phone number, every BAR association previously a member and the member numbers of each BAR associations to which he belonged. If approved, the registered user will be granted access to the member forum.
  3. APPROPRIATE CONDUCT You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials ("Content") are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. aFreeCountry.com reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to pre-screen, flag, filter, refuse, modify or move any Content available via aFreeCountry.com services. You understand that by using aFreeCountry.com services you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable, and that you use aFreeCountry.com services at your own risk. In addition, there are commercially available services and software to limit access to material that you may find objectionable. You agree that you are responsible for your own conduct and any Content that you create, transmit or display while using aFreeCountry.com services and for any consequences thereof. You agree to use aFreeCountry.com services only for purposes that are legal, proper and in accordance with the Terms and any applicable policies or guidelines. You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts aFreeCountry.com services or servers or networks connected to aFreeCountry.com services. To report any activity or Content that may violate the Terms, please go to send a private message to the administrator through the forum.In addition to this agreement, your use of some specific aFreeCountry.com services is governed by the policies or guidelines specific to those services and which are specifically incorporated into this agreement.You agree to comply with your company's data usage and privacy policies.Users outside of the United States of America agree to comply with their own local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, including laws regulating the export of data to and from the United States of America or your country of residence.
  4. aFreeCountry.com PRIVACY POLICY For information about our data protection practices, please see our Privacy Policy. By using aFreeCountry.com services, you acknowledge and agree that aFreeCountry.com may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and any Content associated with that account if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce the Terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues (including, without limitation, the filtering of spam), or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of aFreeCountry.com, its users or the public as required or permitted by law. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of aFreeCountry.com services, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks, devices or services. You also understand and agree that your domain administrator may have access to your account and its content, and may suspend or terminate your account access and your ability to modify your account.
  5. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS aFreeCountry.com's Rights You acknowledge and agree that aFreeCountry.com services and any necessary software used in connection with aFreeCountry.com services ("Software") contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws and treaties. You further acknowledge and agree that Content contained in sponsor advertisements or presented to you through aFreeCountry.com services is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by aFreeCountry.com or other proper third party rights holders, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on Content, aFreeCountry.com services or Software, in whole or in part except as specifically authorized in a separate written agreement. You are authorized to post copyrighted material to aFreeCountry.com so long as the owner of said copyright is credited for the material posted. Any copyrighted material not crediting the copyright to the owner of said copyrighted material will be remove from aFreeCountry.com servers. Subject to the Terms, aFreeCountry.com grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and license to use the object code of its Software; provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in the Software, unless such activity is expressly permitted or required by law or has been expressly authorized by aFreeCountry.com in writing. You agree not to use modified versions of the Software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to aFreeCountry.com services. You agree not to access aFreeCountry.com services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by aFreeCountry.com for use in accessing aFreeCountry.com services except as specifically authorized in a separate written agreement. Except as expressly authorized by aFreeCountry.com you agree not to use, copy, imitiate, or incorporate any trademark, service mark, trade dress, company name, or product name in a way that is likely to cause confusion among consumers. You also agree not to remove, obscure, or alter aFreeCountry.com's or any third party's copyright notice, trademarks, or other proprietary rights notices affixed to or contained within or accessed in conjunction with or through the aFreeCountry.com services or Software. Your Rights aFreeCountry.com claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through aFreeCountry.com services. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through aFreeCountry.com services and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through aFreeCountry.com services which are intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant aFreeCountry.com a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, modify, publish and distribute such Content on aFreeCountry.com services for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting aFreeCountry.com services. aFreeCountry.com reserves the right to syndicate Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through aFreeCountry.com services and use that Content in connection with any service offered by aFreeCountry.com. aFreeCountry.com furthermore reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Content in its sole discretion. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content submitted.
  6. POLICIES REGARDING COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the United States of America’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act or other applicable law and to terminating the accounts of repeat infringers. Any use of aFreeCountry.com's trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features must be in compliance with the Terms.
  7. GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE You agree that aFreeCountry.com has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content and other communications maintained or transmitted by aFreeCountry.com services. You acknowledge that aFreeCountry.com may have set no fixed upper limit on the number of transmissions you may send or receive through aFreeCountry.com services or the amount of storage space used; however, we retain the right, at our sole discretion, to create limits at any time with or without notice. Upon the termination of your use of aFreeCountry.com services, including upon receipt of a certificate or other legal document confirming your death, aFreeCountry.com will close your account and you will no longer be able to retrieve content contained in that account.
  8. PERSONAL NON-COMMERCIAL USE You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of aFreeCountry.com services, use of aFreeCountry.com services, or access to aFreeCountry.com services except as otherwise expressly provided in the Terms or as specifically authorized in a separate written agreement.
  9. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE aFreeCountry.com reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, aFreeCountry.com services (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that aFreeCountry.com shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of aFreeCountry.com services.
  10. TERMINATION You may discontinue your use of aFreeCountry.com services at any time. You agree that aFreeCountry.com may at any time and for any reason, including a period of account inactivity, terminate your access to aFreeCountry.com services, terminate the Terms, or suspend or terminate your account. In the event of termination, your account will be disabled and you may not be granted access to aFreeCountry.com services, your account or any files or other content contained in your account. Sections 9 (Termination), 12 (Indemnity), 13 (Disclaimer of Warranties), 14 (Limitations of Liability), 15 (Exclusions and Limitations) and 19 (including choice of law, severability and statute of limitations), of the Terms, shall survive expiration or termination.
  11. ADVERTISEMENTS Some aFreeCountry.com services are supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions on the service. Such advertisements may be targeted to the content of information stored on the aFreeCountry.com services, queries made through aFreeCountry.com services or other information. The manner, mode and extent of advertising by aFreeCountry.com on its services are subject to change. As consideration for your use of aFreeCountry.com services, you agree that aFreeCountry.com may place such advertising and that aFreeCountry.com shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred by you as a result of the presence of such advertisers on aFreeCountry.com services or your subsequent dealings with advertisers.
  12. LINKS aFreeCountry.com services may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. aFreeCountry.com may have no control over such sites and resources and you acknowledge and agree that aFreeCountry.com is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that aFreeCountry.com shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such Content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.
  13. INDEMNITY You agree to hold harmless and indemnify aFreeCountry.com, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, advertisers, licensors, suppliers or partners, (collectively "aFreeCountry.com and Partners") from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to your use of aFreeCountry.com services, violation of the Terms or any other actions connected with use of aFreeCountry.com services, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys' fees, of every kind and nature. In such a case, aFreeCountry.com will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action.
  14. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
    1. YOUR USE OF aFreeCountry.com SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. aFreeCountry.com SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, aFreeCountry.com AND PARTNERS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
    2. aFreeCountry.com AND PARTNERS DO NOT WARRANT THAT (i) aFreeCountry.com SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) aFreeCountry.com SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF aFreeCountry.com SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH aFreeCountry.com SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.
    3. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF aFreeCountry.com SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
    4. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM aFreeCountry.com OR THROUGH OR FROM aFreeCountry.com SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS.
  15. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT aFreeCountry.com AND PARTNERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF aFreeCountry.com OR PARTNERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE aFreeCountry.com SERVICES; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM aFreeCountry.com SERVICES; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON aFreeCountry.com SERVICES; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO aFreeCountry.com SERVICES.
  16. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT IS INTENDED TO EXCLUDE OR LIMIT ANY CONDITION, WARRANTY, RIGHT OR LIABILITY WHICH MAY NOT BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR BREACH OF IMPLIED TERMS, OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, ONLY THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS IN SECTIONS 14 AND 15 WHICH ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL APPLY TO YOU AND OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
  17. NO THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided in the Terms, there shall be no third party beneficiaries to the Terms.
  18. NOTICE You agree that aFreeCountry.com may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on aFreeCountry.com services.
  19. GENERAL INFORMATION Entire Agreement. The Terms (including any policies, guidelines or amendments that may be presented to you from time to time such as Program Policies and Legal Notices) constitute the entire agreement between you and aFreeCountry.com and govern your use of aFreeCountry.com services, superseding any prior agreements between you and aFreeCountry.com for the use of aFreeCountry.com services. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other aFreeCountry.com services, affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software. Choice of Law and Forum. The Terms and the relationship between you and aFreeCountry.com shall be governed by common law without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and aFreeCountry.com agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the court of record located within the parish of Claiborne, Louisiana. Waiver and Severability of Terms. The failure of aFreeCountry.com to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect. Law of Limitations. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of aFreeCountry.com services or the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section headings in the Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

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