GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. ACCEPTANCE
By using the Products and Services, you are agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by, and to comply with, these Terms and Conditions and any other posted guidelines or rules applicable to any individual Writer’s Block Corner web site, Product or Service. All such guidelines and rules are hereby incorporated by reference into the Terms and Conditions.

2. CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE
Use of the Products and Services is subject to compliance with these Terms and Conditions. You acknowledge and agree that Writer’s Block Corner may terminate your usage of the Writer’s Block Corner website or to any of the Products and Services should you fail to comply with the Terms and Conditions or any other guidelines and rules published by Writer’s Block Corner. Any such termination shall be in Writer’s Block Corner’s sole discretion and may occur without prior notice, or any notice. Writer’s Block Corner further reserves the right to terminate any user's access to the Writer’s Block Corner website or to any of the Products and Services for any conduct that Writer’s Block Corner, in its sole discretion, believes is or may be directly or indirectly harmful to other users, to Writer’s Block Corner or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or business contractors, or to other third parties, or for any conduct that violates any local, state, federal, or foreign laws or regulations. Writer’s Block Corner further reserves the right to terminate any user's access to the Writer’s Block Corner website or to any of the Products and Services for any reason or for no reason at all, in Writer’s Block Corner’s sole discretion, without prior notice, or any notice.

Be aware that the majority of the Writer’s Block Corner website is for general audiences, although there are certain areas on the Writer’s Block Corner website that contain adult or mature content and different areas where content is specifically created for children under 13 years of age. Where there is mature or adult content, individuals who are less than 18 years of age or are not permitted to access such content under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction may not access such content. There are also other (mainly commerce-related) areas of the Writer’s Block Corner website not open to persons under 18 years of age. With respect to general audience content, if Writer’s Block Corner learns that anyone under the age of 13 has accessed the Products and Services, Writer’s Block Corner will require verified parental consent, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"). Certain areas of the Writer’s Block Corner website, however, may not be available to children under 13 under any circumstances.

Writer’s Block Corner does not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected status.

3. REGISTRATION AND PRIVACY
Certain of the Products and Services will require the user to register and provide certain data. In consideration of use of such Products and Services, in registering and providing such data, you represent and warrant that: (a) the information about yourself is true, accurate, current, and complete (apart from optional items) as required by various Writer’s Block website registration forms ("Registration Data") and (b) you will maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Writer’s Block Corner has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Writer’s Block Corner has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Products and Services.

All Writer’s Block Corner website registrations become the exclusive property of Writer’s Block Corner, its affiliates and subsidiaries. Writer’s Block Corner reserves the right to use and reuse all registration and other personally identifiable user information subject to the Writer’s Block Corner website Privacy Policy.

You acknowledge receipt of Writer’s Block Corner’s website privacy policy, including our Notice Regarding the Privacy of Children Under 13 While on the Writer’s Block website.

4. RESPONSIBILITY FOR MINORS
In cases where you have authorized a minor to use the Products and Services, you recognize that you are fully responsible for: (i) the online conduct of such minor; (ii) controlling the minor's access to and use of the Products and Services; and (iii) the consequences of any misuse by the minor. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOME AREAS OF THE LYCOS NETWORK MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL THAT IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR MINORS.

5. MEMBER AND USER CONDUCT
You acknowledge and agree that all information, code, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, pictures, graphics, video, messages, files, or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not the Writer’s Block Corner website, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Services. The Writer’s Block Corner website does not control the user or third party Content posted via the Products and Services, and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such user or third party Content. You acknowledge and Agree that by using the Products and Services, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will the Writer’s Block Corner website be liable in any way for any user or third party Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any such Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any such Content posted, emailed or otherwise transmitted via the Products and Services. As a general matter, Writer’s Block Corner does not pre-screen user or third party Content posted on the Writer’s Block Corner website, except for certain areas where Writer’s Block Corner employs certain automated screening software, although Writer’s Block Corner reserves the right to do so. Writer’s Block Corner does not guarantee that any screening will be done to your satisfaction or that any screening will be done at all. Writer’s Block Corner reserves the right to monitor some, all, or no areas of the Products and Services for adherence to these Terms and Conditions or any other rules or guidelines posted by Writer’s Block Corner.

The Products and Services may only be used for the intended purpose for which such Products and Services are being made available. The intended purpose of site building software on the Writer’s Block Corner website is to maintain, publish and produce web sites on behalf of Writer’s Block Corner that are consistent with these terms and conditions.

Prohibited Conduct

You agree that you will not use the Writer’s Block Corner’s Products and Services to:

a. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content, or select any member or user name or email address, that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, sexually, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
b. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that promotes illegal activity, including without limitation the provision of instructions for illegal activity.
c. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that exploits the images of children under 18 years of age, or that discloses personally identifying information belonging to children under 18 years of age.
d. Harm minors in any other way.
e. Make any sexual request on behalf of a minor or make any sexual request of a minor.
f. "Stalk" or otherwise harass another.
g. Collect or store personally identifying information about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes.
h. Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Writer’s Block Corner website official, employee, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
i. Employ misleading email addresses or falsify information in the header, footer, return path, or any part of any communication, including emails, transmitted through the Products and Services.
j. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or regulation or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, or proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).
k. Upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that facilitates hacking.
l. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, service mark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party, or contributing to inducing or facilitating such infringement. This prohibition shall include, without limitation, the following forms of software piracy:
i. Making available copyrighted software or other Content that has had the copyright protection removed.
ii. Making available serial numbers for software that can be used to illegally validate or register software.
iii. Making available tools that can be used for no purpose other than for "cracking" software or other copyrighted Content.
iv. Making available any software files for which the user does not own the copyright or have the legal right to make available.
m. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas that are designated for such purpose.
n. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any material that contains software viruses, worms, trojan horses, time bombs, trap doors or any other computer code, files or programs or repetitive requests for information designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or to diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of the Products and Services or the Writer’s Block Corner website.
o. Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, or the like to download data from any Writer’s Block Corner database.
p. Conduct your own contests and promotions.
q. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content regarding any raffle, contest or game requiring a fee by participants.
r. Modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, link, display or in any way exploit any Content from any Writer’s Block Corner database, including, without limitation, by incorporating data from any Writer’s Block Corner database into any e-mail or "white pages" products or serviced, whether browser-based, based on proprietary client-site applications, web-based, or otherwise.
s. Sell, distribute, or make any commercial use of data obtained from any Writer’s Block Corner database or make any other use of data from any Writer’s Block database in a manner which could be expected to offend the person for whom the data is relevant.
t. Create and maintain a Writer’s Block Corner web page (including clubs or an Angelfire or Tripod home page) that (i) redirects to another web page or (ii) stores or hosts content for remote loading by other web pages. For example, you cannot create a Writer’s Block Corner Club, post pictures to a Writer’s Block Corner Club, and have other web pages call the Writer’s Block Corner Club or any other connection of misuse without the Writer’s Block Corner proprietor’s knowledge to a page to retrieve those pictures.
u. Create and maintain a Writer’s Block Corner web page that contains hyperlinks to content not permitted on the Writer’s Block Corner website.
v. Interfere with or disrupt the Products and Services or servers or networks connected to the Products and Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Products and Services, including without limitation Writer’s Block Corner’s hosts.
w. Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law.
x. Use the Products or Services to sell, purchase, or offer to sell or purchase any registered or unregistered securities.
y. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any material that is false, misleading, or designed to manipulate any equity, security, or other market.
z. Disobey any Writer’s Block Corner’s rules or other Lycos employee or representative or interfere with any action by any Writer’s Block Corner’s rule or other Writer’s Block Corner employee or representative to redress any violation of these Terms and Conditions.
aa. Access the Products and Services after your account or access has been terminated by Writer’s Block Corner.
bb. Fail to complete any transaction after submitting an order to purchase any goods or services from individual Merchants in Writer’s Block Corner’s Book Shop or other services subject to the individual Merchant's or seller's terms and conditions governing such transactions.
cc. Submit any order to purchase goods or services from individual Merchants in Writer’s Block Corner’s Book Shop or other services from any seller on the Writer’s Block Corner’s website pages where you do not intend to complete the transaction.
dd. Purchase any goods or services that you are prohibited from purchasing or possessing by any law applicable to you in your jurisdiction. The responsibility for ensuring compliance with all such laws shall be the user's alone. By submitting an order to purchase goods or services, you represent and warrant that you have the legal right to purchase such goods or services.
ee. Use any software deployed in connection with the Products and Services to process data as a service to other entities without the express written consent of Writer’s Block Corner or the party from whom such software may be licensed.
ff. Decompile, disassemble, modify, translate, adapt, reverse engineer, create derivative works from, or sublicense any software deployed in connection with the Products and Services.
gg. Advertise, offer for sale, or sell any item you are prohibited from advertising or selling by any applicable local, state, national, or international law, including regulations having the force of law.
hh. Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any material, or act in any manner, that is offensive to the Writer’s Block Corner website or the spirit of these Terms and Conditions.
ii. Advertise, offer for sale, or sell any of the following items:
• Any firearms, explosives, or weapons.
• Any food that is not packaged or does not comply with all laws governing the sale of food to consumers by commercial merchants.
• Any alcoholic beverages.
• Any tobacco products for human consumption, including, without limitation, cigarettes and cigars.
• Any items that are indecent or obscene, that are hateful or racially, sexually, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, that contain child pornography, that are otherwise pornographic in nature, or are harmful to minors.
• Any controlled substances or pharmaceuticals.
• Any items that are counterfeit or stolen.
• Any dangerous items.
• Any goods or services that do not, in fact, exist.
• Any registered or unregistered securities.
• Any items that violate or infringe the rights of other parties.
• Any items that you do not have the legal right to sell.
• Any items where paying Writer’s Block Corner any of the required transactional or listing fees would cause Writer’s Block Corner to violate any law.

You acknowledge and agree that the Writer’s Block Corner website and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation), in their sole discretion, to refuse to publish, remove, or block access to any Content that is available via the Products and Services at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all, with or without notice. Without limitation Writer’s Block Corner and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation), in their sole discretion, to refuse to publish, remove, or block access to any Content that violates the Terms and Conditions or is otherwise objectionable as determined by Writer’s Block Corner, in its sole discretion. Writer’s Block Corner may also terminate access to, or membership in, the Writer’s Block Corner website, or any portion thereof, for violating these Terms and Conditions. You acknowledge and agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by or obtained through the use of the Writer’s Block Corner website, including without limitation information in Chat, Message Boards, Clubs, and in all other parts of the Writer’s Block Corner’s Products and Services.

You expressly acknowledge and agree that the Writer’s Block Corner website may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the Terms and Conditions; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Writer’s Block Corner, its users and the public. You acknowledge and agree that the technical processing and transmission of the Products and Services, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. You further acknowledge and agree that other data collected and maintained by Writer’s Block Corner with regard to its users may be disclosed in accordance with Writer’s Block Corner’s Privacy Policy.

Writer’s Block Corner also may suspend or terminate any user account for any Product or Service because of user inactivity. What is considered "user inactivity" varies depending on the Product or Service. If one of your accounts is suspended or terminated for inactivity, your right to use such Product or Service immediately ceases.

6. LICENSE TO USER CONTENT
With respect to any Content posted by or in connection with the Products and Services, you grant Writer’s Block Corner a world-wide, royalty free, perpetual, license to use, copy, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, create compilations including, create derivative works of, and distribute such Content to publish and promote such Content in connection with the particular Products and Services and to publish and promote such Content elsewhere within the Writer’s Block Corner website. Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.

7. DOWNLOADING
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, PUBLIC DISPLAY, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, OR CREATION OF DERIVATIVE WORKS FROM SUCH WORKS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED

8. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS, ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, AS WELL AS FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OR THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER SIMILARLY DISCLAIMS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY WARRANTIES FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE OBTAINED THROUGH THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT WRITER’S BLOCK CORENR DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, CONTENT, COMPLETENESS, LEGALITY, RELIABILITY, OR OPERABILITY OR AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION OR MATERIAL IN THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DELETION, FAILURE TO STORE, MISDELIVERY, OR UNTIMELY DELIVERY OF ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL. WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY HARM RESULTING FROM DOWNLOADING OR ACCESSING ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL THROUGH THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR HARM CAUSED BY VIRUSES OR SIMILAR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE RELIABILITY OR ACCESSIBILITY OF MEMBER WEB PAGES OR ANY STORAGE FACILITIES OFFERED BY WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER.

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS IN THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.

9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO ANY USER ON ACCOUNT OF THAT USER'S USE OR MISUSE OF AND RELIANCE ON THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO PREVENT RECOVERY OF DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES (EVEN IF WRITER’S BLOCKC CORNER OR ITS LICENSORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF AND RELIANCE ON THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, OR FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (INCLUDING SUCH DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES).

SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY WITH RESPECT TO THE PERFORMANCE OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OR ANY INFORMATION OR MERCHANDISE THAT APPEARS ON, OR IS LINKED OR RELATED IN ANY WAY TO, THE WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER WEBSITE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL ALSO APPLY TO ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY LOSS OF ACCESS TO, DELETION OF, FAILURE TO STORE, FAILURE TO BACK UP, OR ALTERATION OF MEMBER WEB PAGES OR OTHER CONTENT STORED THROUGHT THE WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER WEBSITE.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER OR ITS LICENSORS BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DELAY OR FAILURE IN PERFORMANCE RESULTING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ACTS OF NATURE, FORCES, OR CAUSES BEYOND ITS REASONABLE CONTROL, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INTERNET FAILURES, COMPUTER EQUIPMENT FAILURES, TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT FAILURES, OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURES, ELECTRICAL POWER FAILURES, STRIKES, LABOR DISPUTES, RIOTS, INSURRECTIONS, CIVIL DISTURBANCES, SHORTAGES OF LABOR OR MATERIALS, FIRES, FLOODS, STORMS, EXPLOSIONS, ACTS OF GOD, WAR, GOVERNMENTAL ACTIONS, ORDERS OF DOMESTIC OR FOREIGN COURTS OR TRIBUNALS, NON-PERFORMANCE OF THIRD PARTIES, OR LOSS OF OR FLUCTUATIONS IN HEAT, LIGHT, OR AIR CONDITIONING.

In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.

10. SUBMISSIONS
All information you submit in registering must be true, accurate, current, and complete (apart from optional items).
• Do not rely on any information relating to investments or professional advice without first reading the Investment Information Disclaimer and Professional Information Disclaimer below. Remember that people on the Internet are not always who they say they are and do not always publish truthful statements. Writer’s Block Corner cannot and does not ensure the accuracy of such statements.
• Do not upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content, or select any member or user name or email address, that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, sexually, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
• Do not stalk or otherwise harass other users.
• Do not upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that promotes illegal activity, including without limitation the provision of instructions for illegal activity.
• Do not upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that exploits the images of children under 18 years of age, or that discloses personally identifying information belonging to children under 18 years of age.
• Do not impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Lycos Network official, employee, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
• Do not upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas that are designated for such purpose
• Do not disobey any Writer’s Block Corner staff, moderators, or other Writer’s Block Corner employee or representative or interfere with any action by any or other Writer’s Block Corner employee or representative to redress any violation of these Terms and Conditions.
• Do not submit, post, email, or otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that facilitates hacking.
• Do not interfere with or disrupt the Products and Services or servers or networks connected to the Products and Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Products and Services, including without limitation Writer’s Block Corner’s website.

11. WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER SHOPPING
Writer’s Block Corner Shopping is made available only to those users who are of the legal age of consent in their jurisdiction. You may not use Writer’s Block Corner Shopping if you have not reached that age or, in any event, if you are less than eighteen (18) years old. You may only use Writer’s Block Corner Shopping if you are a United States resident and may only use Writer’s Block Corner Shopping from locations within the United States for transactions to be completed within the United States. Or rules associated with a country’s rules of purchasing. By accepting these Terms and Conditions, you represent and warrant that you are a United States resident and are using Writer’s Block Corner Shopping at a location within the United States for a transaction to be completed within the United States or by those laws governed by your country of residence.

Users are obligated to submit information that is true, accurate, current, and complete. By accepting these Terms and Conditions, you represent and warrant that all such information submitted by you is true, accurate, current, and complete. Users are also required to maintain and update all such information in order to ensure that it remains true, accurate, current, and complete. Each time you update such information, you represent and warrant that such information is true, accurate, current, and complete.

By submitting an order to purchase any goods or services from individual Merchants, users are obligated to complete such transactions, subject to the individual Merchant's terms and conditions governing such transactions. Users are prohibited from submitting orders to purchase goods or services where they do not intend to complete such transactions.

Users may not purchase goods or services that they are prohibited from purchasing or possessing by any law applicable to them in their jurisdictions. The responsibility for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws shall be the user's alone. By submitting an order to purchase goods or services, you represent and warrant that you have the legal right to purchase and possess such goods or services.

Writer’s Block Corner has no partnership, joint venture, employer-employee, or franchisor-franchisee relationship with any Merchant accessible through Writer’s Block Corner Shopping or with any user of Writer’s Block Corner Shopping. Writer’s Block Corner cannot confirm that any particular Merchant is who that Merchant claims to be. Nor can Writer’s Block Corner confirm the truth or accuracy of any statements made by Merchants or control whether Merchants who post statements through Writer’s Block Corner Shopping will act in accordance with those statements. Writer’s Block Corner will not get involved in any dispute between users of the Service and Merchants accessible through Writer’s Block Corner Shopping.

LIKE OTHER AREAS OF THE WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER WEBSITE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, YOUR USE OF WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER SHOPPING IS SUBJECT TO THE CAPITALIZED LANGUAGE SET FORTH ABOVE REGARDING DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. PLEASE RE-READ THOSE PROVISIONS CAREFULLY.

As with all other aspects of the Products and Services, by using Writer’s Block Corner Shopping, you hereby agree that you shall be responsible for all tax obligations and costs that arise from or relate to your use of Writer’s Block Corner Shopping, including, without limitation, tax obligations and costs for any transactions that arise from or relate to your use of Writer’s Block Corner Shopping.

12. WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER IMAGE GALLERY
LIMITED LICENSE: Use of the Writer’s Block Corner Image Gallery indicates your acceptance of the following terms and conditions and the Writer’s Block Corner Terms and Conditions. The images made available through the Writer’s Block Corner Image Gallery are copyrighted images which may also be subject to certain other legal rights. You may only utilize each image for personal, home use or for any of the following purposes: criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (includes multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship or research. You may not create derivative works from an image, display or distribute copies of it, publish it, use it in a performance, or modify it in any manner except size. You may not distribute or sublicense the images nor use the images in any commercial, advertising, marketing or professional manner whatsoever. Neither Writer’s Block Corner nor our photo providers will be responsible or liable to you for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages that result from your access to or use or misuse of the images displayed on the Writer’s Block Image Gallery.

13. TAX GUIDES DISCLAIMER
The Writer’s Block Corner website does not give tax or investment advice and Writer’s Block Corner in no way endorses any of the information on the Tax Guides.
WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER STRONGLY SUGGESTS THAT YOU CONTACT YOUR OWN TAX ADVISOR IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TAX LAWS OR REGULATIONS, OR ABOUT YOUR PARTICULAR TAX LIABILITY.

14. PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION DISCLAIMER
The Writer’s Block Corner may make available certain information provided by third parties related to various professional fields such as medicine, law, and accounting. The Writer’s Block Corner website does not give advice in any such fields and in no way endorses any of the information provided in this manner. IF YOU INTEND TO USE ANY SUCH INFORMATION, YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY RE-READ THE CAPITALIZED WORDS SET FORTH ABOVE IN THE DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. Those provisions will have special importance for you. All information made available through the Writer’s Block Corner website is made available subject to Writer’s Block Corner website Terms and Conditions, including the Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability set forth above.

THE WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER WEBSITE STRONGLY SUGGESTS THAT YOU SEEK ADVICE FROM A COMPETENT PROFESSIONAL REGARDING ISSUES IN ANY PROFESSIONAL FIELD.

15. ADVERTISERS AND CONTENT LINKED TO THE LYCOS NETWORK

Writer’s Block Corner may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other sites or resources located on the World Wide Web by allowing a user to leave the Writer’s Block Corner website to access third-party material or by bringing the third party material into this site via "inverse" hyperlinks and framing technology. Writer’s Block Corner has no control over such sites and resources. You acknowledge and agree that Writer’s Block Corner is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that Writer’s Block Corner shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.

Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Writer’s Block Corner website Products and Services, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that Writer’s Block Corner shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Product and Services.

Writer’s Block Corner encourages you to exercise discretion while using the Products and Services to browse the Internet. Writer’s Block Corner may otherwise link you to sites containing information that some people may find inappropriate or offensive. Writer’s Block Corner makes no representations concerning any effort to review the content of any of the sites, or of any of the sites otherwise linked to the Writer’s Block Corner web sites. Writer’s Block Corner shall not be held responsible for the accuracy, copyright or trademark compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in sites, or otherwise linked to the Writer’s Block Corner web sites or provided to the Writer’s Block Corner website by third parties.

16. NO LICENSE; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF LYCOS AND OTHERS
Except as expressly provided, nothing within any of the Products and Services shall be construed as conferring any license under any of the Writer’s Block Corner web sites or any third party's intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication, waiver, or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that certain Content available through and used to operate the Writer’s Block Corner website and the Products and Services is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, or other proprietary rights of Writer’s Block Corner and its affiliates, licensors, and service providers. Except as expressly provided to the contrary, you agree not to modify, alter, or deface any of the trademarks, service marks, or other intellectual property made available by Writer’s Block Corner in connection with the Products and Services. You agree not to hold yourself out as in any way sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Writer’s Block Corner, or any of Writer’s Block Corner’s service providers. You agree not to use any of the trademarks or service marks or other Content form the Writer’s Block Corner website of any purpose other than the purpose for which such Content is made available to users by Writer’s Block Corner. You agree not to defame or disparage Writer’s Block Corner, the trademarks or service marks of Lycos, or any aspect of the Products and Services. You agree not to adapt, translate, modify, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer the Products and Services or any software or programs used in connection with the Products and Services or the Writer’s Block Corner website.

17. INDEMNITY AND RELEASE
By using the Writer’s Block Corner web sites you agree to indemnify Writer’s Block Corner. and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, and licensors and hold them harmless from any and all claims and expenses, including attorney's fees, arising from your use of the Writer’s Block Corner web sites, your use of the Products and Services, or your submission of ideas and/or related materials to Writer’s Block Corner or from any person's use of any account you maintain with any portion of the Writer’s Block Corner website, regardless of whether such use is authorized by you. By using the Writer’s Block Corner website, using the Products and Services, or submitting any ideas and/or related materials to Writer’s Block Corner, you are hereby agreeing to release Writer’s Block Corner and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, and licensors from any and all claims, demands, debts, obligations, damages (actual or consequential), costs, and expenses of any kind or nature whatsoever, whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, that you may have against them arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and/or to the Products and Services or to any disputes regarding use of ideas and/or related materials submitted to Writer’s Block Corner. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO WAIVE ALL LAWS THAT MAY LIMIT HE EFFICACY OF SUCH RELEASES. FOR EXAMPLE, YOU SPECIFICALLY AGREE TO WAIVE THE PROVISIONS OF CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH PROVIDES

"A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IS KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR."

18. LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
You acknowledge and agree that, regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action you may have arising out of, or relating to, your use of the Writer’s Block Corner website or the Products and Services must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arises, or forever be barred.

19. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT CLAIMS
It is the policy of Writer’s Block Corner to respond expeditiously to claims of intellectual property infringement. Writer’s Block Corner will promptly process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other applicable intellectual property laws. Upon receipt of notices complying or substantially complying with the DMCA, Writer’s Block Corner will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any material claimed to be infringing or claimed to be the subject of infringing activity and will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any reference or link to material or activity that is claimed to be infringing. Writer’s Block Corner will terminate access subscribers and account holders who are repeat infringers.
When Writer’s Block Corner removes or disables access to any material claimed to be infringing, Writer’s Block Corner may attempt to contact the user who has posted such material in order to give that user an opportunity to respond to the notification, although Writer’s Block Corner makes no promise to do so. Any and all counter notifications submitted by the user will be furnished to the complaining party. Writer’s Block Corner will give the complaining party an opportunity to seek judicial relief in accordance with the DMCA before Writer’s Block Corner replaces or restores access to any material as a result of any counter notification.

20. ARBITRATION, GOVERNING LAW AND FORUM FOR DISPUTES
Unless expressly stated to the contrary elsewhere within the Products and Services, all legal issues arising from or related to the use of the Products and Services shall be construed in accordance with, and all questions with respect thereto shall be determined by, the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts applicable to contracts entered into and wholly to be performed within said state. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions or any user's use of the Products and Services shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted in Boston, Massachusetts, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into in any state or federal court in Massachusetts having jurisdiction thereof. Any party seeking temporary or preliminary injunctive relief may do so in any state or federal court in Massachusetts having jurisdiction thereof. Except as set forth above, the state and federal courts of Massachusetts shall be the exclusive forum and venue to resolve disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions or any user's use of the Products and Services. By using the Products and Services and thereby agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, users consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts in Massachusetts with respect to all such disputes.

21. CHANGES IN TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND CHANGES IN PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
The Writer’s Block Corner website reserves the right to modify the Products and Services from time to time, for any reason, and without notice, including the right to terminate the Products and Services. The Writer’s Block Corner website reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions from time to time, without notice. Please review these Terms and Conditions from time to time so you will be apprised of any changes.

22. NON-WAIVER AND SEPARABILITY
Writer’s Block Corner failure to exercise any right or provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If a court of competent jurisdiction holds any provision of these Terms and Conditions to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and agree that the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions remain in full force and effect.

22. RELATIONSHIP OF PARTIES
You acknowledge and agree that you and Writer’s Block Corner are independent contractors under these Terms and Conditions, and nothing herein shall be construed to create a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship. Neither party pursuant to these Terms and Conditions has authority to enter into agreements of any kind on behalf of the other and neither party shall be considered the agent of the other.

24. NO RESALE, ASSIGNMENT, OR SUBLICENSING
You agree not to resell, assign, sublicense, otherwise transfer, or delegate your rights or obligations under these Terms and Conditions without prior express written authorization of Writer’s Block Corner.

25. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Without in any way limiting the prohibition on your resale, assignment, sublicensing, or other transfer of rights or obligations, these Terms and Conditions shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, successors, and assigns.

26. TERMINATION; SURVIVAL
These Terms and Conditions shall continue in effect for as long as you use the Products and Services, unless specifically terminated earlier by Writer’s Block Corner. All provisions of these Terms and Conditions which impose obligations continuing in their nature shall survive termination of these Terms and Conditions.

27. COMMUNICATIONS WITH USERS
You consent to receive communications from Writer’s Block Corner concerning your use of the Products and Services ("Communications"). The Communications may be those that Writer’s Block Corner is required to send to you by law concerning the Products and Services ("Required Communications"). The Communications may also be those that Writer’s Block Corner sends to you for other reasons. You consent to receive Communications electronically. Writer’s Block Corner may provide these Communications to you by sending an email to the email address you provided in connection with your account or by posting the Communication on the Writer’s Block Corner website. You also consent to receive Communications by telephone or by postal mail sent to the postal address you provided in connection with your account. You may change the email or postal address to which Writer’s Block Corner sends Communications by contacting Writer’s Block Corner.

For a period of 120 days from the date that Writer’s Block Corner first provided a Required Communication to you in electronic form, you may request a paper copy of such Required Communication by sending a request to Writer’s Block Corner. Lycos may charge a reasonable fee for providing paper copies. You may, without payment of special fees, withdraw your consent to receive Required Communications electronically by sending a notice to the Customer Service Address that identifies your full name, user name and postal mailing address. However, if you withdraw such consent, then Writer’s Block Corner reserves the right to terminate your right to use the Products and Services, including, without limitation, by terminating your account and any subscription services that you may have.

In order to receive Required Communications, you must provide Writer’s Block Corner, upon registration with the Writer’s Block Corner website, a valid email address to which Writer’s Block Corner may send electronic mail. Your computer must also have a modem or other means of Internet access, an Internet browser such as Internet Explorer version 5.x or above or Netscape Navigator version 6.x or above, email communications software capable of receiving and storing electronic mail, and a printer, if you wish, for printing electronic communications.

28. SUBMISSIONS OF IDEAS
The Writer’s Block Corner website is always improving its Products and Services and developing new features. If you have ideas regarding improvements or additions to the Writer’s Block Corner website, we would like to hear them -- but any submission will be subject to these Terms and Conditions. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL ANY DISCLOSURE OF ANY IDEA OR RELATED MATERIALS TO WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER BE SUBJECT TO ANY OBLIGATION OF CONFIDENTIALITY OR EXPECTATION OF COMPENSATION. BY SUBMITTING THE IDEA AND/OR ANY RELATED MATERIAL TO WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER, YOU ARE WAIVING ANY AND ALL RIGHTS THAT YOU MAY HAVE IN THE IDEA OR ANY RELATED MATERIALS AND ARE REPRESENTING AND WARRANTING TO WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER THAT THE IDEA AND/OR RELATED MATERIALS ARE WHOLLY ORIGINAL WITH YOU, THAT NO ONE ELSE HAS ANY RIGHTS IN THE IDEA AND/OR MATERIALS AND THAT WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER IS FREE TO IMPLEMENT THE IDEA AND TO USE THE MATERIALS IF IT SO DESIRES, AS PROVIDED OR AS MODIFIED BY WRITER’S BLOCK CORNER, WITHOUT OBTAINING PERMISSION OR LICENSE FROM ANY THIRD PARTY.

29. EXPORT CONTROLS
Certain software, and related documentation or technical information, available through the Writer’s Block Corner website is subject to applicable laws and regulations of the United States pertaining to export controls. By using such software or related documentation or technical information, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, or under the control of, or a national or resident of any embargoed country or any country on the U.S. Department of Commerce's Table of Denial Orders. You agree not to export or re-export such software or related documentation or technical information directly or indirectly to any countries that are subject to United States export restrictions.

30. VIOLATIONS OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Should you violate these Terms and Conditions or any other rights of Writer’s Block Corner and the Writer’s Block Corner website, Writer’s Block Corner reserves the right to pursue any and all legal and equitable remedies against you, including, without limitation, terminating any and all user accounts on any and all of the Writer’s Block Corner web sites.

We hope your enjoyment of Writer’s Block Corner’s Products and Services will be enhanced by the application of these Terms and Conditions. It is our belief that your understanding of the guidelines we have set forth will allow the Writer’s Block Corner to continue to be a place where each of us can prosper, grow, and enjoy ourselves within an open and non-threatening environment. Thank you for taking the time to read these Terms and Conditions and we hope you enjoy our Products and Services.

Last updated March, 2004