Terms of Service and Rules

1. Terms of Use
   1. By using This Nation you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of This Nation. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to This Nation.
   2. This Nation may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of This Nation will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on This Nation(including house rules) then the latter shall prevail.
   3. You agree to use This Nation only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of This Nation. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within This Nation.
2. Intellectual Property
   1. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use This Nation content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any This Nation content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of This Nation content requires the prior written permission of This Nation.
   2. The names, images and logos identifying This Nation or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of This Nation and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright of the This Nation or any other third party.
3. Contributions to This Nation
   1. This Nation does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post on or through This Nation. After posting your Content to This Nation, you continue to retain any such rights that you may have in your Content, subject to the limited license herein. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through This Nation, you hereby grant to This Nation a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on or through This Nation, including without limitation distributing part or all of This Nation in any media formats and through any media channels and you hereby waive all so-called moral rights you may have in the content. This limited license does not grant This Nation the right to sell or otherwise distribute your Content outside of the This Nation Services.
   2. The license you grant to This Nation is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to This Nation), irrevocable (meaning you are not able to revoke this licence), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that This Nation is not required to pay you for the use on the This Nation Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that This Nation is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners such as Internet content delivery networks to provide the This Nation Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the This Nation Services are global in reach).
   3. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the This Nation Services or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in Section 3-1, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the This Nation Services does not violate any applicable laws, including but not limited to the privacy rights, publicity rights, intellectual property rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person or entity. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing to any person or entity by reason of any Content posted by you on or through the This Nation Services.
   4. Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may share with This Nation.
   5. If you do not want to grant This Nation the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to or with This Nation.
   6. In order to participate in and contribute to This Nation you may be required to register with This Nation. Any personal information supplied to This Nation as part of this registration process and/or any other interaction with This Nation will be collected, stored and used in accordance with the This Nation Privacy Policy.
   7. You agree to use This Nation (including message boards) in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all This Nation sites and services.
      1. About your posts:
         • Contributions must be civil and tasteful.
         • No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
         • No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
         • Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant This Nation community.
         • No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
         • No advertising or promoting.
         • Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed.
         • No impersonation.
         • No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
         • Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.
      2. Your This Nation Account:
         1. If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting a community or annoying other users you may have action taken against all of your accounts.
         2. All accounts must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly so that moderation emails can be sent to you.
         3. Accounts registered with someone else's email address, or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice.
         4. We may require users to re-validate their account if we believe they have been using an invalid email address.
         5. This Nation reserves the right to close accounts if any user is seen to be using proxy IPs (Internet Protocol addresses) in order to attempt to hide the use of multiple This Nation accounts, or disrupts any of our services in any way.
      3. Safety:
         1. We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, postal address, home address or email address or any other details that would allow you to be personally identified).
      4. Legal requirements:
         1. You may not submit or share any defamatory or illegal material of any nature on This Nation. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio. Contributing material to a This Nation with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
         2. You agree to submit to or share with This Nation only contributions which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of This Nation or third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.
      5. If you breach these Community Rules:
         1. If you fail to abide by these Community Rules (and/or any variations in relevant local house rules) when taking part on This Nation, you will be sent a notification which informs you why your contribution has been refused or edited. This email will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts. This action may include any content posted by you being checked before allowed to go on the site or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of This Nation.
         2. If you submit or share offensive or inappropriate content on This Nation or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on This Nation, and This Nation considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, This Nation may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement(s).
4. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
   1. The majority of content posted on This Nation is created by members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of This Nation. This Nation are not responsible for any content posted by members of the public on This Nation or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through This Nation. Any links to third party websites from This Nation do not amount to any endorsement of that site by This Nation and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.
   2. This Nation content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to This Nation, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the extent permitted by law, This Nation excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. This Nation does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by This Nation is correct at the time of publication no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of This Nation for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.
   3. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes This Nation's liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject to the previous sentence, This Nation shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of This Nation regardless of the form of action.
   4. This Nation do not warrant that functions available on This Nation will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that This Nation or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output. General
   5. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.
   6. The failure or delay of This Nation to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive the This Nations right to enforce that right.

Information Collection and Use by This Nation
This Nation collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the This Nation service. This Nation also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other. This Nation also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes. User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the This Nation website. We may use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. From time to time, This Nation or a partner may sponsor a promotion or contest on This Nation. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
This Nation members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system, This Nation does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders (up to three (3) per email address). Recipients of invitations from This Nation may contact This Nation to request the removal of their information from our database.

Use of Cookies
This Nation uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from This Nation in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that This Nation allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the This Nation Privacy Policy.

Cookies Used by This Nation

• Social media: Facebook, Twitter and other social websites need to know who you are to work properly.
• Analytics: This Nation uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of This Nation and compile reports for us on activity on the site. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using This Nation, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. How to reject or delete this cookie. http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html
• Advertising: Adverts will be chosen for you automatically based on your past behaviour and interests.
• Session:Used to identify user sessions on This Nation.