Fishing-Headquarters.com :: Website Conditions of Use

Conditions of Use

Fishing-Headquarters.com was officially established in 2007 for the purpose to freely exchange relevant information relating to the sport of fishing through postings such as questions, informational posts, fishing tips and tricks, field reports and images. It first began in 2005 as a small homepage for its owner, Andrew Ragas, and has since then grown into a larger-than-expected website to accommodate other fishermen and website members. Our forum membership strives to have fun friendly and civilized fishing discussion for the pursuit of all species of fish, to learn about fishing from others in order to make ourselves better anglers, and to even make new friends and fishing buddies alike.

These conditions of use apply to your viewership and use of this web site. Please read them before continuing to browse this web site.

Fishing-Headquarters.com at any time may vary these conditions of use by altering them on this web site. While the current version of these conditions of use will be maintained on the web site, we have no obligation to notify you of any changes and recommend that you periodically review this web site for changes.

This web site, any information contained on it and these conditions of use shall be interpreted in accordance with, and governed by, the laws of the United States.

Information on this Web Site:

Unless otherwise stated, you are permitted to access, view, copy, print (in limited quantities) or temporarily store textual material published by Fishing-Headquarters.com for your personal use only. Any copyright notice on that information must be retained on the copy. You are not permitted to reproduce, adapt, sell, distribute, or incorporate in any other work, in whole or in part, anything from this web site including its advertisements and graphics without written permission from representatives of Fishing-Headquarters.com and its owner, Andrew Ragas.

Information to be Provided by You:

Some parts of this web site may enable you to provide comments and e-mail addresses relating to this web site or information provided on it. All comments will be regarded as public information and may be treated by Fishing-Headquarters.com as such. If any comments and contributions are made available on a public forum, Fishing-Headquarters.com does not make any representations about nor endorses nor accepts any responsibility for the content or views of those comments.

All Images and Content are Protected Under Copyright:

The internet is not free, neither is taking advantage of any single brand. All content on this web site which includes graphics, logos, services, uploaded images, video, and publications is the property of Fishing-Headquarters.com and its content suppliers and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. This web site or any portion of it may not be reproduced, copied, sold, framed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of Fishing-Headquarters.com and its ownership.

Intellectual Property Rights:

The copyright in all materials (including rights in text, graphics, photos, information, discussion board posts, arrangement and overall design of this web site) displayed or available on this web site belongs to Fishing-Headquarters.com unless otherwise stated. This includes ALL content posted on our discussion boards domain by registered members and users of the website. Any material published or posted on Fishing-Headquarters.com is defined by the copyright law, as principal owner of the material.

Access to other Web Sites:

This web site may contain links to third party web sites such as links and affiliates. Those web sites are not under the control of Fishing-Headquarters.com and most have no affiliation with Fishing-Headquarters. The links are provided for convenience and informational purposes only, and will not be allowed for advertising and promotions.

External Links & Reciprocation Rule:

Fishing-Headquarters allows, to an extent, external links to other websites and outside resources but for informational purposes only. We are tolerant of external links being posted as long as content is acceptable, and is not related to outside advertisements and promotions, competing websites, and conflicts of interest.

Website members and visitors may have personal websites and blogs they link their posts to but only for purposes of advertising, increasing their own web traffic and personal readership. This results in taking advantage of Fishing-Headquarters and using our “paid-for” domain as a free personal advertising platform.

Some links in certain situations are blatantly posted to direct all Fishing-Headquarters website traffic to the link owner domains, which is frowned upon. Continuously made without any form of reciprocation and permission will result in future blockages of links and possible membership termination. Other than Fishing-Headquarters sponsors and advertisers, and other RagasMedia owned media properties and domains, we do not allow outside parties and organizations to be advertised and linked on this website without permission of ownership, and willingly continued reciprocation by the third parties. Preferred means of reciprocation are image banners w/ links, designed and furnished by Fishing-Headquarters, that can be visibly displayed at the domains willing to reciprocate.

According to established rule, personal links are only accepted in membership user profiles in spaces provided such as profile website sections, and post signatures; Accessible in user control panel. External websites and links will NOT be allowed to serve as main contents in posts for purposes of advertising and driving traffic away from Fishing-Headquarters. Postings will be erased and deleted without notice.

Limitation Of Liability:

Your use of this web site is at your own risk. Subject to any terms implied by law which cannot be excluded, Fishing-Headquarters.com and its owner, Andrew Ragas, shall not be responsible or liable in your negligence of website usage, or your participation at website-sanctioned fishing outings and events.

Responsibilities as a Registered Member:

Website ownership holds all members accountable of their words and actions, and failure to comply with the above will result in termination. Please be responsible with your use of words and actions so that discussion forum members and visitors do not feel violated or get offended.

Resulting from the ignorance, lack of consideration and agreement to our rules, offenders of improper website and forum etiquette will receive stern warnings of their poor and irresponsible actions. If continuously repeated, disregarded, and violated, forum staff and administration holds the right to terminate your account and username on a permanent basis. We will not regret our decisions to do so. In addition, your user IP address will be banned from the database as well.

These rules are to be enforced in order to keep a fun friendly, professional, and peaceful environment at the website and its discussion forums, and to cater itself to a large demographic of fishermen and website visitors alike. Being a member of this website is not a right, but a privilege. Treat ones personal piece of property as if it were a piece of your own.