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 Information
User 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 Privacy
This 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.
How We Collect Information:BWCA.COM collects information
from our users in the following ways:
- When users register to become BWCA.COM members,
they submit the following data: E-Mail Address, Name,
Address, City, State, Zip Code, Area Code, and various other information.
- When users register to join the BWCA.COM
Mailing List, they submit their E-Mail Address.
- When users enter a BWCA.COM
Contest, they submit the following data: Name, E-Mail Address, Street
Address, City, State, Zip Code, Phone Number.
- When users visit BWCA.COM,
information regarding their use of BWCA.COM is gathered in
aggregate and is used collectively to determine user trends. Note: None
of this information is personally identifiable.
- When content is submitted to BWCA.com, the ip address may be collected to help us fight spam and abuse of the site.
How We Use This Information:BWCA.COM uses this information
in the following ways:
- When users submit their E-Mail
address to be included on BWCA.COM Mailing List, their E-Mail is placed
on our mailing list as they requested.
- Information supplied during our
BWCA.COM Contest registration is used to contact our contest
winners. Also, this information is added to our internal BWCA.COM
Database.
- Aggregate information collected when
users visit BWCA.COM is used to help analyze and improve the
quality of BWCA.COM.
Users agree that in using BWCA.com that they are engaging in a social media, public activity and in doing so they are exposing information about themselves when they
post to text, images, and other information to the site. If a user chooses to share their name, email, and other personal informational publically on BWCA.COM, that they
are exposing their own information and BWCA.com cannot protect them from this.
Third PartiesWith the exception of our public Member Directory,
BWCA.COM does not release any personal information (including name, email, address, and phone) gathered from
BWCA.COM users to ANYONE outside of the BWCA.COM organization
with the exception being when a member on our Messageboard
is attempting to defraud, damage, harass others or generally cause mischief. BWCA.COM is
very much against anonymous internet behavior which is troublesome in nature. We will not
protect the privacy of individuals ("trolls") who cause trouble or who create multiple member accounts.
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. No portions of BWCA.COM may be
reproduced without the express written consent of BWCA.COM.
Some of the material on this web site or linked to by this site may be copyrighted by others. By using BWCA.COM to upload or share data such as post text content, photos, images,
stories, map data, or any other information, user grants BWCA.COM unlimited rights for perpetuity to use display, modify, transmit, distribute or delete your content
without needing further permission from you. This includes the right to reproduce and distribute this data in any form
necessary to display on BWCA.COM, affiliated or partner sites or apps, social media, newsletters, or elsewhere.
Contact us at info@BWCA.COM for permission to use or reproduce any material on this site.
Photo Journal Area The photo area is built to allow members to
share their photos with others. 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 Reports The trip report area was built to allow members to
share their trip reports with others. By posting trip reports to this site, you are allowing this report and associated photos and content
to be displayed on BWCA.COM or BWCA.COM associated sites, social media such as Facebook.com pages or other social network sites or affiliated/partner sites presenting BWCA.COM material.
If you wish to denote copyright on trip reports, then
do so in the report itself.
Please do not post trip reports which violate copyrights. The administration of this site reserves the right to remove
inappropriate trip reports. Trip reports may be modified by BWCA.COM during display.
Online Maps BWCA.COM provides the online maps as basic information and a data sharing tool. These maps should not be used for detailed
planning or navigation purposes. 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
- You will resolve any claim, cause of action or dispute ("claim") you have with us arising
out of or relating to this Statement or BWCA.COM exclusively in a state or federal court
located in Minnesota. The laws of the State of Minnesota will govern
this Statement, as well as any claim that might arise between you and us, without
regard to conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction
of the courts located in Hennepin County, Minnesota for the purpose of litigating
all such claims.
- If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions,
content or information on BWCA.COM, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against
all damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs)
related to such claim.
- WE TRY TO KEEP BWCA.COM UP, BUG-FREE, AND SAFE, BUT YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
WE ARE PROVIDING BWCA.COM "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT BWCA.COM WILL BE SAFE OR SECURE.
BWCA.COM IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS, CONTENT, INFORMATION, OR DATA OF THIRD
PARTIES, AND YOU RELEASE US, OUR MODERATORS,DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS
FROM ANY CLAIMS AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY
WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY SUCH THIRD PARTIES.
Assignment. BWCA.COM may assign this agreement or any of its rights or obligations under this agreement without users prior written consent.
Last modified: 5/22/2020
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