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Gbase.com, Inc.
("Gbase.com") Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement for Gbase.com
Gbase.com has created this privacy statement in order to
demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices for Gbase.com. We use your IP
address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web
site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and
to gather broad demographic information.
Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart
and to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. We use cookies to save
your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.
Our site's registration form requires users to give us
contact information (like their name and email address). We use customer
contact information from the registration form to send the user information
about our company, promotional materials and offers from our partners. The
customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when
necessary and shared with other companies who may want to contact our visitors.
Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section
below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this
data for other purposes. We use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at
our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and
displaying the content according to their preferences. This information is
shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis.
This site contains links to other sites. Gbase.com is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Our site uses an order form for customers to request
information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information
(like their email address), financial information (like their account or credit
card numbers), and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income
level). Contact information from the order form is used to send orders,
information about our company, and promotional material from some of our
partners to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to
get in touch with the visitor when necessary and shared with other companies
who may want to contact our visitors. Users may opt-out of receiving future
mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information that is
collected is used to bill the user for products and services. Demographic and
profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our
visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might
be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.
This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis.
Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information
(like their email address) and demographic information (like their zip code,
age, or income level). We use contact data from our surveys to send the user
information about our company and promotional material from some of our
partners. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the
visitor when necessary and shared with other companies who may want to contact
our visitors. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the
choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at
our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site,
showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying
the content according to their preferences. This information is shared with
advertisers on an aggregate basis.
We run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for
contact information (like their email address) and demographic information
(like their zip code, age, or income level). We use contact data from our
contests to send users information about our company and promotional material
from some of our partners. The customer's contact information is also used to
contact the visitor when necessary and shared with other companies who may want
to contact our visitors. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see
the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also
collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our
site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and
displaying the content according to their preferences. This information is
shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis.
We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site.
These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web
site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we
do not have access to this information. Some customer data is shared with the
advertising companies.
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or
news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that
is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. NO ONE UNDER THE
AGE OF THIRTEEN IS ALLOWED TO POST ANYTHING TO ANY OF THESE FEATURES.
Children's Guidelines
NO ONE UNDER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN IS ALLOWED TO REGISTER OR
POST ANY INFORMATION ON Gbase.com
Users that are over the age of 12 but are under the age of
18 are permitted to register and participate, however publication of contest
winner information will require parental or legal guardian consent. If consent
is not given, the contract will be deemed voided and a new winner will be
selected. We at Gbase.com caution anyone under the age of 18 to be very careful
to not submit personal information that you do not want the general public to
view
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of
receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request
information about the visitor. This site gives users the following options for
removing their information from our database to not receive future
communications or to no longer receive our service.
You can send email to info@Gbase.com
Corrections/Updates
This site gives users the following options for changing and
modifying information previously provided or if you wish to report some
misinformation on the site.
Email: info@Gbase.com
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact info@Gbase.com
Gbase.com Membership Terms of Service and House Rules
Please Also Read our Disclaimer
Members who are in violation of these policies may have
their membership revoked and their posted information removed without prior
warning.
BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND AND HELD
BY THE TERMS BELOW. You are entering a dealer ("dealer" or
"Dealer") agreement with Gbase.com
("Gbase") and or member (member or Member) agreement with
Gbase.com (Gbase).
House Rules
Gbase Gear Mall has carefully developed the following rules
to provide an open forum for guitar collectors, dealers and enthusiasts, while
maintaining standards consistent with the Internet community and the societies
of the world. If you have any questions regarding these guidelines, please
contact us at info@gbase.com.
Please refrain from using your Gbase.com account for the
following activities:
1.Displaying material that is pornographic, obscene, nude,
graphically violent, and other inappropriate images.
2.Displaying defamatory, libelous, hateful, pornographic,
profane or obscene language.
3.Providing material that is grossly offensive to the online
community, including blatant expressions of bigotry, prejudice, racism, or
hatred.
4.Creating offensive and indecent member names, screen
names, or handles.
5.Harrassing another member online.
6.Solicitation of gambling.
7.Disrupting the flow of a discussion by repeatedly posting
the same message or image (flooding), or by posting excessively large images.
8.Impersonating others, including but not limited to, an
Gbase employee, representative or host.
9.Displaying material that exploits children under 18 years
of age.
10.Promoting or providing instructional information about
illegal activities, promoting physical harm or injury against any group or
individual, or promoting any act of cruelty to animals; 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; Providing computer software
viruses or software designed to create a virus; Providing satellite TV cracks;
Providing programs to create a denial of service attack against another
individual or ISP; Facilitating the delivery of "spam" e-mail;
Soliciting passwords from other members.
11.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 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 cracker utility; Providing pirated
music or tablature or links to such files.
12.Developing home pages or session posts that consist of
hyperlinks to content not allowed in Gbase.
13.Having multiple Gbase accounts that are within the same
Gbase site or substantially refer to the same unique individual; Each Gbase
account allows that particular individual access to any of the sites on the
Gbase site; any individual found registering more than one account or creating
false accounts to improve contest winning odds or for any other reason may be
removed from the Gbase site without prior warning.
14.Using Gbase for the purpose of gathering personal
identifying information from individuals for commercial or unlawful purposes.
15.Posting or disclosing any personal identifying
information belonging to children [Kids, if you are under the age of 18: For
your safety, please do not put your real name, address, phone number, e-mail
address or other personal identifying information on Gbase.com or give it to
strangers]
16.Violating Internet standards for the purpose of promoting
your user account.
17. Engaging in commercial activities without registering as
an Gbase Commercial Account. This includes, but is not limited to, the
following activities: Offering for sale any products or services; Soliciting
for advertisers or sponsors; Conducting raffles or contests that require any
type of entry fee; Displaying a sponsorship banner or link of any kind,
including those that are generated by banner or link exchange services, with
the sole exceptions of the Internet Link Exchange; Displaying banners for
services that provide cash or cash-equivalent prizes to users in exchange for
hyperlinks to their websites; Promoting, soliciting or participating in
multilevel marketing or pyramid schemes.
Gbase may elect at its sole discretion to monitor some, all,
or no areas of the Gbase site for the adherence to these house rules or other
house rules that may be published in the future. You acknowledge that by
providing you with the ability to distribute your content, Gbase is acting as a
passive conduit for such distribution and Gbase is not undertaking any
obligation or liability relating to any content or activities. It is Gbase 's policy to respect the privacy
of its members. Users acknowledge that Gbase may disclose member information to
third parties as described in our Privacy Policy. Gbase reserves the right to
edit or disclose the contents of your private communications to law enforcement
authorities, if in Gbase 's good faith belief that such action is reasonably
necessary to:
a)
conform
to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Gbase
b) protect
and defend the rights or property of Gbase; or
c)
act
under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Gbase 's members
or the public.
Gbase is not responsible for any user-generated content. We
reserve the right to remove any homepages or other user generated content that
are in violation of the Terms of Service (TOS), House Rules, or any other
content standards, including, but not limited to discussion board standards.
Members are legally responsible for their content and must not use copyrighted
material, or post material considered indecent for minors. You and any person who has access to your
Account must evaluate, and bear the risk associated with, the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness of any message, information, text, data or other
materials. Gbase reserves the right to remove material which is deemed in Gbase
's sole discretion unlawful, harmful, defamatory, hateful, offensive, or
otherwise objectionable in violation of the house rules or any rules or
policies which Gbase has in place at the time. Gbase may also edit any material
submitted by a member for the purpose of conforming the material to meet the
rules of Gbase, clarifying submitted material, or any other legitimate lawful
reason. Member agrees not to use Gbase for chain letters, junk mail,
unsolicited bulk mail, or any type of spam.
Gbase is not responsible or liable for any loss of data
resulting from our deletion of user data or as a result of network or system
outages, file corruption or any other reasons. We urge all members to maintain
backup versions of their home pages to guard against losses of any kind.
You or Gbase may terminate your Account at any time for any
reason or no reason at all. Once your Account is terminated, you cannot engage
in member activities on Gbase without the express written consent of Gbase, and
you can not assist in enabling a terminated member access to Gbase using your
Account. In cases where you have allowed any other individual to use you
Account or have negligently made your password publicly available, you
recognize that you are fully responsible for:
a)
online
conduct for such user;
b) controlling
the users access to and use of Gbase; and
c)
the
consequences of any misuse
You further recognize that you, as the holder of the
Account, are entirely responsible for activities conducted through such
Account.
Members who are in violation of the Gbase Membership Terms
of Service or Content Guidelines may have their membership revoked, services
cancelled , and their information, or portions of their information, suspended
or removed without warning, in which event Gbase will not return the removed
information or website to the offending member.
GBASE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE ANY MEMBER FOR ANY
REASON OR NO REASON AT ALL.
If you have a question and/or complaint about copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual Property infringement,
please contact us at support@gbase.com. For copyright, trademark, patent, trade
secret or other intellectual Property information, please contact us at
support@gbase.com.
Gbase.com thanks you for observing these rules. If you have
a complaint about someone you believe is in violation of any of the terms of
service or any rule, please send us the offending members user name or handle
and cut and paste the relevant content into an email to: info@gbase.com
Gbase Membership Terms of Service
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE carefully
before using any portion of the Gbase.com site. By using Gbase.com, you signify
your assent to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use
please do not use Gbase.com. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to
change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please
check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of Gbase.com
following the posting of changes to these terms (including the house rules,
privacy policy, any other standards including but not limited to, discussion
board standards) will mean you accept those changes.
1.Access to the Gbase network of sites is available to
persons 13 years of age or older. Gbase reserves the right to deny, suspend,
or revoke any membership (without prior notice) in the event that Gbase learns
that a member or person seeking membership is under the age of 13.
2.The opinions and views expressed in any area of the site
supplied by user generated content do not reflect the opinions and views of
Gbase and are not reviewed in any way before they appear in Gbase.
3. Gbase is not responsible for the content of any
user-generated content. Gbase serves a network where buyers and sellers can
meet other people and takes no responsibility for the content generated amongst
private or public conversations between individual members or the related
transactions that occur. Members are solely responsible for everything
contained in their postings. Gbase does not verify, endorse or otherwise vouch
for the contents of any user generated content. Members may be held legally
liable for the content they generate and may be held legally accountable if
their content includes, for example, defamatory comments or material protected
by copyright, trademark, patent or trade secret law without the express
permission of the author or owner.
4. Gbase is not responsible for the delivery of any goods or
services sold or advertised through its sponsors or its members.
5. Gbase does not actively monitor user generated content
areas but will investigate complaints of a violation of the Gbase.com Content
Guidelines and Terms of Service. Please submit any such complaints to
info@gbase.com
6.The member agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Gbase for
any loss, liability, claim, damage, and expenses (including reasonable
attorneys' fees) arising from or in connection with the member's content.
7. Gbase is not responsible or liable for any loss of data,
nor is it required to return any data, resulting from our suspension or
deletion of member user accounts, network or system outages, file corruption or
any other reasons. We urge all members to maintain backup versions of their
information to guard against losses of any kind.
8.By uploading materials to any section or submitting any
materials to us, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such as
expressly granted) us perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right
and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create
derivative works from and distribute such materials or incorporate such
materials into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed. In
addition, you warrant that all 'moral rights' in those materials have been
waived.
9.Search and directory are services offered by Gbase.com.
Gbase.com explicitly disclaims any responsibility for the content or
availability of information contained in our search index or directory. Gbase
also disclaims any responsible for the completeness or accuracy of any
directory or search result.
10. Gbase sites contain links to other sites not under
Gbases control. Gbase explicitly disclaims any responsibility as to the
content of any other site not under our control and is not responsible to
investigate, check, or endorse any site not on the outside of Gbase.com.
Intellectual Property Dispute Policy
In the event that Gbase receives a complaint that a member's
generated content allegedly infringes intellectual property rights or is
otherwise unlawful, Gbase.com may request written substantiation of the
complaint from the complaining party, for example, substantiation of proof of
ownership in the form of a trademark, service mark, patent or copyright. Gbase
will take the steps it believes to be appropriate under the circumstances,
including, for example:
1.Suspending the site, or a portion of the site, immediately
until the dispute is resolved;
2.Providing the member with contact information for the
complaining party;
3.Instructing the member to contact the complaining party to
resolve the dispute;
4.Informing the complaining party of our actions and ask
that party to work directly with the member;
Note: All correspondence between the parties must also be
sent to:
Gbase.com
PO BOX 290
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Or
info@gbase.com
5.Taking the following action based on the progress of the
dispute: If the member has not pursued resolution within 30 days of a
notification, the site, or portions of the site, will be deleted; If the
complaining party has not pursued resolution within 30 days of the member's
response, the site, or portions of the site, will be re-activated; If legal
action is pending or the dispute is not settled, the site, or portions of the
site, may remain suspended until resolution is reached and Gbase is notified by
both parties as to the outcome; If a resolution is reached between the parties,
the 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 (such as when pirated computer programs or information used to
circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or
registration numbers for software programs or any type of cracker utility, is
being distributed), Gbase also reserves the right, instead of following the
above stated procedures, to delete all files and remove the member without any
warning.
Other Rights Reserved
Gbase.com also reserves the following rights:
To amend or change the Gbase House Rules or Terms of Service
at any time and without notice; To release current or past member information
if Gbase believes that a member's account is in violation of the Gbase House
Rules or Terms of Service, is being used to commit unlawful acts, if the
information is subpoenaed and/or if Gbase deems it necessary and/or
appropriate; To deny membership to serious or repeat offenders of the Gbase Membership
Terms of Service or House Rules; To remove members for conduct that Gbase
believes is harmful to other members, to non-members or to Gbase as a business;
To remove members who interfere with the design and operation of Gbase devices,
without warning; To utilize third parties to provide services to Gbase members.
These third parties may require limited access to members' personal identifying
information in order to perform the services. Notice may be given to members of
the need to share information at the point of collection or a reasonable amount
of time before sharing begins; To use images of member submitted content for
promotional and other commercial purposes.
For copyright information, please contact us at info@gbase.com with Copyright as the subject
header.
We value your support of Gbase.com and we look forward to
serving you!
Gbase.com Legal Disclaimer
By accessing, viewing, using and/or subscribing to Gbase
Gear Mall, the user agrees to all of the following conditions:
Gbase Gear Mall provides an open forum for guitar
collectors, dealers and enthusiasts.
While Gbase Gear Mall reserves the right to edit
submissions to these pages for content, Gbase Gear Mall is not responsible
for the accuracy of any information posted or advertised here.
The advertisements, articles and commentary in Gbase Gear
Mall are entirely the responsibility of the authors, dealers or individuals
who have made each posting.
By accessing these pages, the user or subscriber agrees
that Gbase Gear Mall shall not be held liable for any losses or damages, of
any kind or type whatsoever, resulting from the inaccuracy of any information
or advertisements posted on Gbase Gear Mall or otherwise linked to these
pages.
Users of and subscribers to these pages further understand
and agree that Gbase Gear Mall is not a party to or beneficiary of any
agreement or contract for the sale of any merchandise advertised on these
pages or otherwise linked to Gbase Gear Mall.
Buyers and sellers of musical equipment and other
merchandise offered for sale by dealers and individuals on Gbase Gear Mall
assume any and all risks of loss as amongst themselves.
Gbase Gear Mall expressly disclaims any and all warranties
to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Gbase Gear Mall is not an actual or implied agent of any
of the dealers or individuals who have submitted or posted advertisements,
articles or comments on these pages.
Gbase Gear Mall makes every reasonable effort to remove
material deemed offensive or inappropriate from these pages.
Decisions to edit or remove material from the pages of
Gbase Gear Mall are within the sole and complete discretion of Gbase Gear
Mall.
Users and subscribers agree, understand and stipulate that
none of the advertisements, articles and commentary posted on or linked to
Gbase Gear Mall represents the opinions or statements of Gbase Gear Mall and,
accordingly, Gbase Gear Mall shall not be held responsible or liable for
losses or damages, of any kind or type whatsoever, associated with the
posting of any alleged defamatory or offensive matter on Gbase Gear Mall.
Users of and subscribers to Gbase Gear Mall agree,
understand and stipulate that the availability of access to Gbase Gear Mall
via Internet, modem and other worldwide telephonic or other connections does
not and shall not subject Gbase Gear Mall to jurisdiction in any court or
similar tribunal in any state or forum other than New York.