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Legal Notice and Terms and Conditions of UseThank you for visiting BWCA.COM! We hope that you enjoy your visit or stay at our site. Please read our entire Legal Notes section because it contains some very important information about BWCA.COM. Your use as a ["user"] of BWCA.COM constitutes your agreement to these terms and conditions. If you wish to contact BWCA.COM, please visit our Contact Us section. Thank you and please enjoy your visit!General InformationUser BWCA.com at your own riskThere may be delays, omissions, inaccuracies, or other errors in posted information, or other problems inherent in electronic communication. As with the internet, there are entities attempting to hack this website to take email addresses or worse place links to viruses or viruses themselves. BWCA.COM is not responsible for anything that occurs as a result of visiting this Web site or the loss of data resulting from a hacking attack.The Legal Notes section of BWCA.COM may be changed or modified at any time. Your continued use of the site after any change or modification to this agreement constitutes your agreement to any changes or modifications in the terms. IN NO EVENT WILL BWCA.COM BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, COMPENSATORY DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA OR ANY FORM OF SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT OR WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF BWCA.COM IS INFORMED IN ADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. PLEASE USE BWCA.COM AT YOUR OWN RISK! BWCA.COM is owned and operated by BWCA, LLC. BWCA.COM Privacy PolicyBWCA.COM strongly believe in the protection of our users' personal privacy. We take the protecting personal information very seriously because we realize that when our users visit BWCA.COM they place their trust in us to uphold their privacy. Therefore, we have established this Privacy Policy so our position on our users' privacy is absolutely clear.Cookies and PrivacyThis website or associated 3rd parties may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. Cookies are necessary to deliver the website in full and provide the website support for analytics, social media, and advertising. You can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website but this will impact your experience.
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Again, we respect the privacy of our users and expect mutual respect amoung members and visitors.Online Messageboard ExtrasWhen a member signs up or message is posted to the BWCA.COM online Messageboard, our servers capture the originating Internet Protocol (IP) Address. This information allows us to identify the origin of posted messages. By having this information, we can track malicious posters and contact their Internet Provider if their posted messages continue to violate our Messageboard Guide. We use this IP address at our discretion to protect the site from what behavior we deem are negative to a productive online community.Copyright InformationUnless otherwise noted, the entire content of BWCA.COM, included but not limited to text, photographs, images, graphics, videos, audios, trademarks, logos and service marks, are owned by BWCA.COM and is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. 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By uploading photos to the photo area, you are allowing these photos to be displayed by BWCA.COM or other sites or applications associated with bwca.com through ownership interest, affiliation, social media, or business partnership. If you wish to denote copyright information on these photos, then please put this copyright in the image itself. Please do not upload photos which are pornographic in nature. Please do not upload photos in violation of a copyright. The administration of this site reserves the right to remove inappropriate photographs and to limit the number and size of photos uploaded to the site by a member. The digital photograph may be automatically modified by BWCA.COM to meet our size limits.Trip ReportsThe trip report area was built to allow members to share their trip reports with others. 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By posting information in the maps area such as campsite ratings, portages reviews, photos, or any other information, you are granting bwca.com unlimited rights to use this data in perpetuity on bwca.com, affiliated or partner sites or tools or apps, or on social media.Online Messageboard InformationUsing our BWCA.COM Online Messageboard constitutes your agreement to our Messageboard Guide. This guide serves as the official rulebook and code of conduct for our BWCA.COM Messageboard. This guide is specific and applicable to only the Messageboard area of BWCA.COM.By using the Messageboard, you agree to abide by these rules. Spamming PolicyBWCA.COM is totally against unsolicited commercial E-Mail messages, collectively known as Spam. We do not support or permit spam to be sent through our servers. If you believe you have received spam from BWCA.COM, please Contact Us. We will address the situation accordingly. Furthermore, in accordance with our Privacy Policy, we do no sell your contact information. We value our visitors' privacy.We do not read or view everything posted by visitors and members to BWCA.COM. If you believe that a message, trip report, photo, review, or any other content posted to BWCA.COM is inappropriate, please contact us at info@BWCA.COM to notify us. Troll PolicyBWCA.COM does not condone the behavior of what we term "trolls". "Trolls" are members or visitors who join or post on BWCA.COM with what we perceive as an intent to bother, harass, annoy, or create continued argument. If we believe a member or visitors is a troll, then we will attempt to block or remove them from the site, or otherwise take action we feel is necessary. "Trolls" have no rights or protection on this site.Disputes
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