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Registering as a user on Missouri News Horizon www.monewshorizon.org or using any interactive portion of the site, constitutes the user’s acceptance of the site’s policies and also constitutes acceptance of the terms and conditions for the use of the site.
Registration is not required for visitors to view content, but you will need to register in order to submit text, video, audio, photographs or other media as part of our comment or discussion sections on stories, in our blog or our forums. When you register, you are prohibited from using a name other than your own. Missouri News Horizon will not recognize multiple user accounts coming from a single e-mail address.
Please be aware that Missouri News Horizon does not guarantee to keep confidential your name which has been registered with us. Your registration information may be accessed and used by us for any purpose, including for stories we are posting on our website. We also will not protect the confidentiality of your registration if we receive a subpoena from a court ordering us to reveal this information to a third party.
Because Missouri News Horizon is a not-for-profit organization, we also specifically reserve the right to use your registration information to contact you to provide information regarding becoming a donor to the organization.
On the interactive areas of our site, users are encouraged to express themselves freely. This means using your own words or content to make a point, ask a question or discuss a subject. You may not post any content that was not originally written by you because such action may be a violation of applicable copyright laws.
If you want to tell others about an item found elsewhere on the web, please provide a link rather than copying and pasting the entire article. You may not republish someone else’s copyrighted material on Missouri News Horizon without permission of the copyright holder. You also acknowledge by posting on the site that Missouri News Horizon and its staff will not screen each comment in advance, but we reserve the right to edit, block, remove or move content for any reason, including because it violates this site’s terms of use.
Missouri News Horizon is not responsible for stories and comments posted on this site. Information posted on the site is the responsibility of the individual posters and not Missouri News Horizon. We reserve the right to refuse publication of any story or comment, for any reason. Content may not be illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable. Anyone who believes a comment or story posted on this website is illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable should notify Missouri News Horizon promptly at smcintosh@missouri-news.org.
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Missouri News Horizon reserves the right at any time and for any reason to deny you access to the site or any portion thereof, and to terminate this Agreement. Termination will be effective without notice. Please note that Missouri News Horizon reserves the right to change the Terms and Conditions under which this site is made available to you, upon notice, which may be given by us by posting such modifications on the site, by e-mail, or any other reasonable way. Your continued use of this site following notice of such modifications will be conclusively deemed acceptance of the website’s Terms and Conditions as currently posted here. You agree that notice of changes to this Agreement on the site, delivered by email, or provided in any other reasonable way, constitute reasonable and sufficient notice.
PROVISIONS RELATED TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND IDENTIFICATION OF DESIGNATED AGENT FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 512 OF THE DIGITAL MILLENEUM COPYRIGHT ACT
If you have reason to believe that material in which you (or any person or entity for which you are an authorized agent) hold the copyright has been posted in the user comment sections of Missouri News Horizon without appropriate authorization, please contact Missouri News Horizon’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement:
Sarah McIntosh
1025 Northeast Drive
Jefferson City, Missouri 65109
smcintosh@missouri-news.org
316-305-8640
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