Policies and Accords

At cer­tain points in the CircleofSteel.com web­site nav­i­ga­tion, you may be asked to share your email address or oth­er per­son­al iden­ti­fy­ing infor­ma­tion with us. As pro­vid­ed in these Terms and Conditions, such infor­ma­tion will nev­er be dis­trib­uted to a third party.

Your email address will only be used to send you the CircleofSteel.com newslet­ter (should there be one) and/​or to alert you to any infor­ma­tion that you have specif­i­cal­ly request­ed you be noti­fied about, or if the man­age­ment of the Circle of Steel needs to con­tact you per­son­al­ly and privately.

The CircleofSteel.com does not per­mit the post­ing of any­one else’s pri­vate infor­ma­tion, to include actu­al name, address (city, state/​province, or nation­al lev­el, does not con­sti­tute an ‘address), email address, or pri­vate com­mu­ni­ca­tions, or access to said same, on this site.

Violation of any of these terms is suit­able grounds for the mate­r­i­al being removed, along with the violator.

In the event that any vio­la­tion of pri­va­cy does occur, you agree to indem­ni­fy the CircleofSteel.com, it’s own­er­ship and man­age­ment, from any claims of lia­bil­i­ty, so long as every effort is made to remove the vio­la­tion from pub­lic review.

Questions about the Privacy Agreement should be sent to us at this con­tact point;

OVERVIEW

These Terms of Service apply to The Circle of Steel Website. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to The Circle of Steel Website. The Circle of Steel Website offers this access, includ­ing all infor­ma­tion, tools and ser­vices avail­able from this site to you, the user, con­di­tioned upon your accep­tance of all terms, con­di­tions, poli­cies and notices stat­ed here.

By vis­it­ing our site, you engage in our “Service” and agree to be bound by the fol­low­ing terms and con­di­tions (“Terms of Service”, “Terms”), includ­ing those addi­tion­al terms and con­di­tions and poli­cies ref­er­enced here­in and/​or avail­able by hyper­link. These Terms of Service apply  to all users of the site, includ­ing with­out lim­i­ta­tion users who are browsers, ven­dors, cus­tomers, mer­chants, and/​ or con­trib­u­tors of content.

Please read these Terms of Service care­ful­ly before access­ing or using our web­site. By access­ing or using any part of the site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all the terms and con­di­tions of this agree­ment, then you may not access the web­site or use any ser­vices. If these Terms of Service are con­sid­ered an offer, accep­tance is express­ly lim­it­ed to these Terms of Service.

Any new fea­tures or tools which are added to The Circle of Steel Website shall also be sub­ject to the Terms of Service. You can review the most cur­rent ver­sion of the Terms of Service at any time on this page. We reserve the right to update, change or replace any part of these Terms of Service at any time. It is your respon­si­bil­i­ty to check this page peri­od­i­cal­ly for changes. Your con­tin­ued use of or access to the web­site fol­low­ing the post­ing of any changes con­sti­tutes accep­tance of those changes.

SECTION 1 — ACCESS TERMS

By agree­ing to these Terms of Service, you rep­re­sent that you are at least the age of major­i­ty in your state or province of res­i­dence. If you are not of the age of major­i­ty in your state, province, or nation, then you are express­ly pro­hib­it­ed from access to this site.

You may not access this site for any ille­gal or unau­tho­rized pur­pose nor may you, in the use of the site, vio­late any laws in your juris­dic­tion (includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to copy­right laws).

You must not trans­mit any worms or virus­es or any code of a destruc­tive nature.

A dis­cov­ered breach or vio­la­tion of any of the Terms will result in an imme­di­ate ter­mi­na­tion of your access to this site, and pos­si­ble report to the host­ing ser­vice and if applic­a­ble, law enforcement.

SECTION 2 — GENERAL CONDITIONS

We reserve the right to refuse ser­vice to any­one for any rea­son at any time.

You under­stand that your con­tent may be trans­ferred unen­crypt­ed and involve (a) trans­mis­sions over var­i­ous net­works; and (b) changes to con­form and adapt to tech­ni­cal require­ments of con­nect­ing net­works or devices.

You agree not to, sell, resell or exploit any por­tion of the site, use of the site, or access to the site or any con­tact on the web­site through which the ser­vice is pro­vid­ed, with­out express writ­ten per­mis­sion by us.

You agree not to repro­duce, dupli­cate, copy or redis­trib­ute any mate­r­i­al from the CircleofSteel.com with­out meet­ing the explic­it repro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion requirements.

The head­ings used in this agree­ment are includ­ed for con­ve­nience only and will not lim­it or oth­er­wise affect these Terms.

SECTION 3 — ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND TIMELINESS OF INFORMATION

We are not respon­si­ble if infor­ma­tion made avail­able on this site is not accu­rate, com­plete or cur­rent. The mate­r­i­al on this site is pro­vid­ed for gen­er­al infor­ma­tion only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for mak­ing deci­sions with­out con­sult­ing pri­ma­ry, more accu­rate, more com­plete or more time­ly sources of infor­ma­tion. Any reliance on the mate­r­i­al on this site is at your own risk.

This site may con­tain cer­tain his­tor­i­cal infor­ma­tion. Historical infor­ma­tion, nec­es­sar­i­ly, is not cur­rent and is pro­vid­ed for your ref­er­ence only. We reserve the right to mod­i­fy the con­tents of this site at any time, but we have no oblig­a­tion to update any infor­ma­tion on our site. You agree that it is your respon­si­bil­i­ty to mon­i­tor changes to our site.

There may be many authors who have pro­vid­ed sig­nif­i­cant mate­r­i­al to the CircleofSteel.com, and as such, the views and opin­ions held by the writ­ers of those mate­ri­als are not nec­es­sar­i­ly the same as the views held by the CircleofSteel.com, but rather, belong to the actu­al writ­ers of the essays, com­ments, and posts.

SECTION 4 — MODIFICATIONS TO THE SERVICE AND PRICES

Site con­tent is sub­ject to change with­out notice.

We reserve the right at any time to mod­i­fy or dis­con­tin­ue the access (or any part or con­tent there­of) with­out notice at any time.

We shall not be liable to you or to any third-par­ty for any mod­i­fi­ca­tion, sus­pen­sion or dis­con­tin­u­ance of access.

SECTION 5 — OPTIONAL TOOLS

We may pro­vide you with access to third-par­ty tools over which we nei­ther mon­i­tor nor have any con­trol nor input.

You acknowl­edge and agree that we pro­vide access to such tools ”as is” and “as avail­able” with­out any war­ranties, rep­re­sen­ta­tions or con­di­tions of any kind and with­out any endorse­ment. We shall have no lia­bil­i­ty what­so­ev­er aris­ing from or relat­ing to your use of option­al third-par­ty tools.

Any use by you of option­al tools offered through the site is entire­ly at your own risk and dis­cre­tion and you should ensure that you are famil­iar with and approve of the terms on which tools are pro­vid­ed by the rel­e­vant third-par­ty provider(s).

We may also, in the future, offer new ser­vices and/​or fea­tures through the web­site (includ­ing, the release of new tools and resources). Such new fea­tures and/​or ser­vices shall also be sub­ject to these Terms of Service.

SECTION 6 — THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Certain con­tent, prod­ucts and ser­vices avail­able via our site may include mate­ri­als from third-parties.

Third-par­ty links on this site may direct you to third-par­ty web­sites that are not affil­i­at­ed with us. We are not respon­si­ble for exam­in­ing or eval­u­at­ing the con­tent or accu­ra­cy and we do not war­rant and will not have any lia­bil­i­ty or respon­si­bil­i­ty for any third-par­ty mate­ri­als or web­sites, or for any oth­er mate­ri­als, prod­ucts, or ser­vices of third-parties.

We are not liable for any harm or dam­ages relat­ed to the pur­chase or use of goods, ser­vices, resources, con­tent, or any oth­er trans­ac­tions made in con­nec­tion with any third-par­ty web­sites. Please review care­ful­ly the third-par­ty’s poli­cies and prac­tices and make sure you under­stand them before you engage in any trans­ac­tion. Complaints, claims, con­cerns, or ques­tions regard­ing third-par­ty prod­ucts should be direct­ed to the third-party.

It is per­mis­si­ble to link to con­tent from this site as long as the orig­i­nal source and author (full Attribution) are clear­ly stat­ed, but the whole­sale repro­duc­tion or par­tial mod­i­fi­ca­tion of con­tent is not per­mit­ted. Exceptions are grant­ed only if you receive pri­or writ­ten con­sent from CircleofSteel.com.

SECTION 7 — USER ESSAYS, POSTS, COMMENTS, FEEDBACK AND OTHER SUBMISSIONS

If, at our request, you send cer­tain spe­cif­ic sub­mis­sions (for exam­ple doc­u­ments or essays) or with­out a request from us, you send cre­ative ideas, sug­ges­tions, pro­pos­als, plans, essays, posts, com­ments or oth­er mate­ri­als, whether online, by email, by postal mail, or oth­er­wise, you agree that we may, at any time, with­out restric­tion, edit, delete, copy, pub­lish, dis­trib­ute, trans­late and oth­er­wise use in any medi­um any sub­mis­sions that you for­ward to us. We are and shall be under no oblig­a­tion (1) to main­tain any sub­mis­sions in con­fi­dence; (2) to pay com­pen­sa­tion for any sub­mis­sions; (3) to respond to any sub­mis­sions; (4) pub­lish, delete or main­tain any submissions.

We may, but have no oblig­a­tion to, mon­i­tor, edit or remove con­tent that we deter­mine in our sole dis­cre­tion are unlaw­ful, offen­sive, threat­en­ing, libelous, defam­a­to­ry, porno­graph­ic, obscene or oth­er­wise objec­tion­able or vio­lates any party’s intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty or these Terms of Service.

You agree that your sub­mis­sions will fall under the Fair Use clause and will not vio­late any right of any third-par­ty, includ­ing copy­right, trade­mark, pri­va­cy, per­son­al­i­ty or oth­er per­son­al or pro­pri­etary right. You fur­ther agree that your com­ments will not con­tain libelous or oth­er­wise unlaw­ful, abu­sive or obscene mate­r­i­al, or con­tain any com­put­er virus or oth­er mal­ware that could in any way affect the oper­a­tion of the Service or any relat­ed web­site. You may not use a false e‑mail address, pre­tend to be some­one oth­er than your­self, or oth­er­wise mis­lead us or third-par­ties as to the ori­gin of any com­ments. You are sole­ly respon­si­ble for any com­ments you make and their accu­ra­cy. We take no respon­si­bil­i­ty and assume no lia­bil­i­ty for any com­ments post­ed by you or any third-party.

Further, you agree to abide by all Intellectual Property poli­cies of the site, to include the use of prop­er Attribution when quot­ing the copy­right­ed mate­r­i­al oth­ers. You also agree to extend per­mis­sion to any­one on the Circle of Steel site to quote your sub­mis­sions in response form, in com­ments, forum posts, or essays, which remain on the Circle of Steel.

SECTION 8 — PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your sub­mis­sion of per­son­al infor­ma­tion through the store is gov­erned by our Privacy Policy.

SECTION 9 — ERRORS, INACCURACIES AND OMISSIONS

Occasionally there may be infor­ma­tion on our site or in the Service that con­tains typo­graph­i­cal errors, inac­cu­ra­cies or omis­sions. We reserve the right to cor­rect any errors, inac­cu­ra­cies or omis­sions, and to change or update infor­ma­tion or attri­bu­tion or on any relat­ed web­site that is inac­cu­rate or incom­plete, at any time with­out pri­or notice (includ­ing after an essay has been submitted).

We under­take no oblig­a­tion to update, amend or clar­i­fy infor­ma­tion in the Circle of Steel or on any relat­ed web­site, with­out lim­i­ta­tion, except as required by law. No spec­i­fied update or refresh date applied in the site or on any relat­ed web­site, should be tak­en to indi­cate that all infor­ma­tion in the site or on any relat­ed web­site has been mod­i­fied or updated.

SECTION 10 — PROHIBITED USES

In addi­tion to oth­er pro­hi­bi­tions as set forth in the Terms of Service, you are pro­hib­it­ed from using the site or its con­tent: (a) for any unlaw­ful pur­pose; (b) to solic­it oth­ers to per­form or par­tic­i­pate in any unlaw­ful acts; © to vio­late any inter­na­tion­al, fed­er­al, provin­cial or state reg­u­la­tions, rules, laws, or local ordi­nances; (d) to infringe upon or vio­late our intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights or the intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights of oth­ers; (e) to harass or threat­en based on gen­der, sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion, reli­gion, eth­nic­i­ty, race, age, nation­al ori­gin, or dis­abil­i­ty; (f) to sub­mit false or mis­lead­ing infor­ma­tion; (g) to upload or trans­mit virus­es or any oth­er type of mali­cious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the func­tion­al­i­ty or oper­a­tion of the Service or of any relat­ed web­site, oth­er web­sites, or the Internet; (h) to col­lect or track the per­son­al infor­ma­tion of oth­ers; (i) to spam, phish, pharm, pre­text, spi­der, crawl, or scrape; (j) for any obscene or immoral pur­pose; or (k) to inter­fere with or cir­cum­vent the secu­ri­ty fea­tures of the Service or any relat­ed web­site, oth­er web­sites, or the Internet.

We reserve the right to ter­mi­nate your use of the Service or any relat­ed web­site for vio­lat­ing any of the pro­hib­it­ed uses.

SECTION 11 — DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

We do not guar­an­tee, rep­re­sent or war­rant that your use of our ser­vice will be unin­ter­rupt­ed, time­ly, secure or error-free.

We do not war­rant that the results that may be obtained from the use of the ser­vice will be accu­rate or reliable.

You agree that from time to time we may remove the ser­vice for indef­i­nite peri­ods of time or can­cel the ser­vice at any time, with­out notice to you.

You express­ly agree that your use of, or inabil­i­ty to use, the ser­vice is at your sole risk. The ser­vice and all prod­ucts and ser­vices deliv­ered to you through the ser­vice are (except as express­ly stat­ed by us) pro­vid­ed ‘as is’ and ‘as avail­able’ for your use, with­out any rep­re­sen­ta­tion, war­ranties or con­di­tions of any kind, either express or implied, includ­ing all implied war­ranties or con­di­tions of mer­chantabil­i­ty, mer­chantable qual­i­ty, fit­ness for a par­tic­u­lar pur­pose, dura­bil­i­ty, title, and non-infringement.

In no case shall The Circle of Steel Website, our direc­tors, offi­cers, employ­ees, affil­i­ates, agents, con­trac­tors, interns, sup­pli­ers, ser­vice providers or licen­sors be liable for any injury, loss, claim, or any direct, indi­rect, inci­den­tal, puni­tive, spe­cial, or con­se­quen­tial dam­ages of any kind, includ­ing, with­out lim­i­ta­tion lost prof­its, lost rev­enue, lost sav­ings, loss of data, replace­ment costs, or any sim­i­lar dam­ages, whether based in con­tract, tort (includ­ing neg­li­gence), strict lia­bil­i­ty or oth­er­wise, aris­ing from your use of any of the ser­vice or any prod­ucts pro­cured using the ser­vice, or for any oth­er claim relat­ed in any way to your use of the ser­vice or any prod­uct, includ­ing, but not lim­it­ed to, any errors or omis­sions in any con­tent, or any loss or dam­age of any kind incurred as a result of the use of the ser­vice or any con­tent (or prod­uct) post­ed, trans­mit­ted, or oth­er­wise made avail­able via the ser­vice, even if advised of their pos­si­bil­i­ty. Because some states or juris­dic­tions do not allow the exclu­sion or the lim­i­ta­tion of lia­bil­i­ty for con­se­quen­tial or inci­den­tal dam­ages, in such states or juris­dic­tions, our lia­bil­i­ty shall be lim­it­ed to the max­i­mum extent per­mit­ted by law.

SECTION 12 — INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indem­ni­fy, defend and hold harm­less The Circle of Steel Website and our par­ent, sub­sidiaries, affil­i­ates, part­ners, offi­cers, direc­tors, agents, con­trac­tors, licen­sors, ser­vice providers, sub­con­trac­tors, sup­pli­ers, interns and employ­ees, harm­less from any claim or demand, includ­ing rea­son­able attor­neys’ fees, made by any third-par­ty due to or aris­ing out of your breach of these Terms of Service or the doc­u­ments they incor­po­rate by ref­er­ence, or your vio­la­tion of any law or the rights of a third-party.

SECTION 13 — SEVERABILITY

In the event that any pro­vi­sion of these Terms of Service is deter­mined to be unlaw­ful, void or unen­force­able, such pro­vi­sion shall nonethe­less be enforce­able to the fullest extent per­mit­ted by applic­a­ble law, and the unen­force­able por­tion shall be deemed to be sev­ered from these Terms of Service, such deter­mi­na­tion shall not affect the valid­i­ty and enforce­abil­i­ty of any oth­er remain­ing provisions.

SECTION 14 — TERMINATION

The oblig­a­tions and lia­bil­i­ties of the par­ties incurred pri­or to the ter­mi­na­tion date shall sur­vive the ter­mi­na­tion of this agree­ment for all purposes.

These Terms of Service are effec­tive unless and until ter­mi­nat­ed by either you or us. You may ter­mi­nate these Terms of Service at any time by noti­fy­ing us that you no longer wish to use our Services, or when you cease using our site.

If in our sole judg­ment you fail, or we sus­pect that you have failed, to com­ply with any term or pro­vi­sion of these Terms of Service, we also may ter­mi­nate this agree­ment at any time with­out notice and accord­ing­ly may deny you access to our Services (or any part thereof).

SECTION 15 — ENTIRE AGREEMENT

The fail­ure of us to exer­cise or enforce any right or pro­vi­sion of these Terms of Service shall not con­sti­tute a waiv­er of such right or provision.

These Terms of Service and any poli­cies or oper­at­ing rules post­ed by us on this site or in respect to The Service con­sti­tutes the entire agree­ment and under­stand­ing between you and us and gov­ern your use of the Service, super­sed­ing any pri­or or con­tem­po­ra­ne­ous agree­ments, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and pro­pos­als, whether oral or writ­ten, between you and us (includ­ing, but not lim­it­ed to, any pri­or ver­sions of the Terms of Service).

Any ambi­gu­i­ties in the inter­pre­ta­tion of these Terms of Service shall not be con­strued against the draft­ing party.

SECTION 16 — GOVERNING LAW

These Terms of Service and any sep­a­rate agree­ments where­by we pro­vide you Services shall be gov­erned by and con­strued in accor­dance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States of America.

SECTION 17 — CHANGES TO TERMS OF SERVICE

You can review the most cur­rent ver­sion of the Terms of Service at any time at this page.

We reserve the right, at our sole dis­cre­tion, to update, change or replace any part of these Terms of Service by post­ing updates and changes to our web­site. It is your respon­si­bil­i­ty to check our web­site peri­od­i­cal­ly for changes. Your con­tin­ued use of or access to our web­site or the Service fol­low­ing the post­ing of any changes to these Terms of Service con­sti­tutes accep­tance of those changes.

SECTION 18 — CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions about the Terms of Service should be sent to us at this con­tact point;

The Circle of Steel site is a non-prof­it com­mu­ni­ty site which has as one of it’s pri­ma­ry pur­pos­es, to edu­cate and share knowl­edge about Gor, the Gorean phi­los­o­phy and the Gorean Lifestyle. As such, it is a repos­i­to­ry for numer­ous schol­ar­ly works and ref­er­ences for the above purpose.

To this end, it is nec­es­sary to under­stand the Circle of Steel’s poli­cies on Copyright, Fair Use, and Attribution.

Copyrighted mate­r­i­al may only be used in terms of Fair Use (in gen­er­al, about 10% or less of a sub­mis­sion) and should dis­play com­plete Attribution (orig­i­nal title, author, source, license, and your modification).

Responding here means that you agree to extend full per­mis­sion to oth­er writ­ers to quote your work, on this site, in part, or in whole (with­in the mar­gins of good taste) if they choose to respond to your words.

Any re-post­ing of the works of anoth­er author, artist, or oth­er cre­ator, requires that oth­er per­son­’s per­mis­sion, or that they have marked their mate­r­i­al as being avail­able for re-dis­tri­b­u­tion for non-com­mer­cial purposes.

In sum; if it isn’t yours, get per­mis­sion to use it, or con­fine your use of things to which pri­or per­mis­sion was grant­ed, or stay with­in the lim­its of Fair Use.

If you find some­thing on the site which you believe was post­ed with­out per­mis­sion or in error, please con­tact the cre­ator and ask the cre­ator to con­tact the Circle of Steel for ver­i­fi­ca­tion and appro­pri­ate resolution.

More detailed infor­ma­tion can be found in the Authoring sec­tion of the site.

Questions about the Intellectual Property Policy should be sent to us at this con­tact point;

All works on the Circle of Steel belong to their respec­tive cre­ators. Those cre­ators who post­ed their works on the Circle of Steel have, by that act, grant­ed the Circle of Steel the irrev­o­ca­ble right to dis­play them on the Circle of Steel web­site, at the dis­cre­tion of the Circle of Steel management.
If any­one wish­es to share or re-dis­play the works by the fol­low­ing cre­ators, they may do so under the fol­low­ing conditions;
1) Full attri­bu­tion is main­tained — The shared work shows the copy­right and name of the creator
2) The work is unmod­i­fied — The shared work is whole and com­plete (for­mat­ting may be changed), you can’t re-write the words of the cre­ator as make them appear to be dif­fer­ent or your own
3) Link-back — Somewhere on that new page, there is a link back to the orig­i­nal doc­u­ment on the Circle of Steel
4) Non-Commercial — You’re not allowed to charge a fee for access to the creation
The above is a stan­dard agree­ment and if you can fol­low that, there is no need to con­tact the cre­ator for per­mis­sion (although a cour­tesy note is often appre­ci­at­ed, just to let the cre­ator know where his or her words have trav­eled). If you wish to mod­i­fy these terms, con­tact the cre­ator direct­ly for an indi­vid­ual agree­ment of terms.