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Contact Information

• Messages through our Contact Form
• Email us idahofallstoday (at) gmail (.) com account (without spaces)
• Mail donations to PO BOX 50302 IDAHO FALLS, ID 83405

Mission Statement

• IdahoFallsToday.com (formerly IdahoFallz.com) aims to provide Idaho Falls area residents opportunity to engage in local conversations not normally allowed by our traditional big media.
• April 2006 Clarification: IdahoFallsToday.com is open to many alternative and sometimes uncomfortable ideas. However, we will not host any speech that demeans others in a subjective or personal manner, nor will we allow links to sites that promote hate or abuse. Some could say then that we are not true believers in ‘free speech’. eBay is viewed as the world’s marketplace, and yet restricted many items from their site after they decided those items caused more harm than good to the majority population. So the world is not perfect. Life will go on with what good we can manage to do.

Long-Term Visions

• To encourage more communications around southeast Idaho.
• To increase understanding in our local population.
• To enable more connections between area residents.
• To become the virtual public agora in Idaho Falls.

Goals

• Maintain our rank as the primary source of both non-commercial and comercial Idaho links.
• Encourage enough contributors to sign up and write often enough that at least five stories are published daily.
• Encourage nightly chats in the chatbox among locals and tourists.

About www.IdahoFallsToday.com

• IdahoFallsToday.com is tasked with becoming an alternative convergence point for those with interests in the Idaho Falls, Idaho area.
• The successful community orientation of IdahoFallsToday.com is dependent on others interacting and participating.
• The goal of this website is to gather all local links and interests in one convenient location, and to encourage more public discussion, dialog, and participation.
• If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, please feel free to submit via the contact form.
• IdahoFallsToday.com is now a for-profit business in Idaho.

Colophon

• IdahoFallsToday.com is run on open-source solutions, including PHP, Apache, Wordpress, and Wordpress plugins.

Rules for Posts

• IdahoFallsToday.com exercises very little editorial restrictions over registered users and what they write.


• IdahoFallsToday.com does forbid swear words. We are not afraid of bad words, but we do not want IdahoFallsToday.com to be restricted by local school or parental filters. The IdahoFallsToday.com philosophy is that swear words are often a crutch for actual communication, so authors should seek to find alternative expressions than inflammatory swear words. Swear words that are alluded to by punctuation (i.e. sh!t) are allowed).
• If numerous complaints are made about individual posts or writers, site administrators will investigate and discuss solutions with the author. Controversial posts are more likely to be configured so users must click to read rather than outright deleting the words. This is akin to controversial art being displayed inside a gallery where visitors must make the conscience decision to enter and cannot complain if they are offended by what they find.
• Multiple infractions of controversial writings that draw numerous complaints and seem to by written more for the purpose of antagonizing rather than expanding perspectives may cause a writer to be suspended or banned from contributing. This is an extremely rare circumstance, but the option is there to prevent IdahoFallsToday.com from becoming a lawless outpost.
• Content posted to IdahoFallsToday.com is joint-owned by IdahoFallsToday.com and original writers in the following manner: writers can use their work elsewhere, and IdahoFallsToday.com can keep, delete, or restore writers’ publishings on IdahoFallsToday.com. Writers may use only their own publishings to earn money without the permission of IdahoFallsToday.com. IdahoFallsToday.com may use any and all registered writers’ publishings collectively to earn money without the permission of the original writers.
• Since they create them, writers are ultimately responsible for their words in case of libelous actions. Writers are encouraged to proofread their writing to ensure libel charges cannot be brought against them. Writers are encouraged to both research libel definitions and to contact an attorney experienced in libel matters before publishing material that can get them sued.
• Writers are restricted from publishing topics that focus on commercial businesses. The reason is this generates free advertising for that business, and IdahoFallstoday.com sells both advertising and business profiles to businesses. We wish we could profile all local businesses for no charge, but the site has bills and that is our current revenue model.

Rules for Comments and Chatbox

• Constructive critiques and Thank you comments are welcome and are encouraging to the article authors.
• Insulting and offensive comments and general flaming against anyone is however not permitted on this site and your comment will be deleted.
• Multiple infractions of bad netiquette will result in your IP address being banned (you will be shunned from the community and blocked from participating).
• Users leaving comments retain ownership of their remarks. (Hence: You own your comments.) IdahoFallz.com cannot be responsible for what others say. If you find any remarks especially offensive or defamatory, please notify us via the contact form
• We have the ability to see your exact IP address, see where you came from and where you left to, track and screenshot all of your actions across our site, and we even know what you’re doing under the covers. We respect our users and only use this information in cases of people being jerks to others and not following site netiquette or to comply with legal American investigations. We reserve the right to not only ban you, your IP, your name, and your comments, but also to forward collected information showing what a bad person you’ve been to your ISP and ask them to cancel your Internet access (read: you cause us problems and we’ll make sure you can’t even get online anymore.) So let’s play nice, and we won’t tell your mother what you did under the covers.

Privacy Statement and Terms of Use

• I state that I recognize privacy as an undisputed right of the Internet user. The following section outlines the kind of data that is collected when you visit or interact with the IdahoFallz.com web site:

• The web server, on which this site is hosted, automatically records information such as the IP address, browser type, date and time of your HTTP request. This is a typical behavior of all web servers.
• When you interact with this web site in the form of submitting comments, the information you provide in the comment form fields is stored in the WordPress platform database and a cookie is stored in your hard drive. This cookie contains the name, the email address and your web site’s URL (if provided), which you have used in the comment form. This is the WordPress publishing platform default behavior and its only purpose is that you do not have to supply the same information when you submit another comment in this web site. This is the cookie’s only functionality, but can be totally avoided by disabling the storage of cookies in your web browser. This is also the typical behavior of the majority of web sites. By submitting information in the comment form you accept this functionality.
• No other information is collected, if this web site is used according to the guidelines expressed in this document. Additional information is collected in case of violations.

The name and the web site URL (if provided), which you submit with your comments, are made publicly available by the WordPress Personal Publishing Platform.
Your email address is not.

I state that:

• I will never reveal your email address to the public.
• I will rarely use it to contact you, unless you ask me to do so.

I reserve the right though to disclose all the information you have submitted in a comment, accompanied by all the information the web server has automatically recorded for your HTTP requests, to any third party or authority worldwide, but also ask any third party worldwide for the disclosure of such information, in the following cases:

• You abuse this web site, by submitting comments that contain:

• Links to any kind of pornographic material.
• Links to any kind of illegal material.
• Links to any kind of online marketplace, legal or illegal.
• Information totally irrelevant to the presented blog post (as judged by a normal and totally sane person’s objective evaluation).

I am enforced to proceed to this action by the law.

Your interaction with this web site violates my rights or the web site’s license.

Generally, self promotion, company promotion, product or service promotion are strictly prohibited. You may provide a link to your personal web site in the “Website” comment form field, only in the case it complies with the above guidelines.

I reserve the right to commit any of the previously mentioned actions and also to block any range of IP addresses from accessing this web site without warning or notice.

I reserve the right, in case of violation of these guidelines, to collect and keep detailed files about the violator’s information, personal or not. This information may include:

• All the HTTP headers that are exchanged between the web server and the HTTP client in the most extreme detail.
• All the information contained in the submitted comment, including detailed whois information about remote hosts or IP addresses that are included.
• All the information, which third parties may disclose to me about the violator’s identity.

Interaction with this web site using an HTTP client that does not comply with the internet standards is strictly prohibited. You are free to visit, read, browse and interact with this web site as long as your actions stay inside the boundaries of legality.

By submitting a comment you explicitly accept all the functionality, all the reserved rights and the general policy which is expressed in this document.

If for any reason you have difficulties in accepting these terms and conditions or this web site’s general policy and purpose of existence, you are encouraged to leave this place as soon as possible and never come back again.

This page is under continuous construction and maintenance, so check back often for updates.

Legal

Advertising

• Advertising rates are available for many different advertising scenarios. Banner ad locations are offered on the main page as well as the sub-pages. Advertising may be purchased in time block amounts or page view amounts (CPM).
• We would be pleased to discuss any of your advertising needs. Feel free to contact us at any time.
• Advertising on IdahoFallsToday.com may only be arranged by a site administrator. Writers and commentators do not have permission to represent IdahoFallsToday.com in any way or to arrange any deals on behalf of IdahoFallsToday.com. Official and valid IdahoFallsToday.com communications can be made via idahofallstoday @ gmail [dot] com or PO BOX 50302 IDAHO FALLS, ID 83405

Pop-Up Policy

• We do not use pop-up advertising because we hate them ourselves. We do use pop-up functionality on external links. This means when you click most external links on idahofallstoday.com, a new window or tab will open and load the clicked link’s URL, and idahofallstoday.com will still be available in the background (or another tab). IdahoFallsToday.com is intended to be a local resource to engage Idaho Falls citizens in online discourse, using several online methods.

Disclaimer

• The materials on this web site are provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind either expressed or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that the functions or materials on this web site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this web site or the servers that make such materials and functions available are free of viruses or other harmful components. We do not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials on this web site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You assume the entire cost of all-necessary maintenance, servicing, repair, or correction to the equipment and software you use to access this web site. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusions may not apply to you.

Privacy Policy

• IdahoFallsToday.com takes the issue of your privacy very seriously. To the extent we collect from you through this web site any browsing information, we do not share your information with anyone else.

Terms and Conditions

• This web site is owned and operated by IdahoFallsToday.com. By using this web site, you signify your agreement to these terms and conditions of use (“Terms of Use”). If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not use this web site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add to, or remove portions of these Terms of Use at any time. We suggest that you review these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your use of this web site after the posting of changes to these Terms of Use will mean you accept the changes.

Copyright and Restrictions on Use of Materials

• All materials contained on this web site are the copyrighted property of IdahoFallz.com. All trademarks, service marks and trade names are protected by state, federal and international trademark laws.
  The textual, photographic, video, audio and combined audiovisual programs and products, including the material contained in this web site, are protected under United States and international copyright laws as copyrighted works. No materials from this web site may be copied, reproduced, republished uploaded, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way without the express written permission of IdahoFallsToday.com, except that you may download one copy of the materials on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided that (1) you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices; (2) you do not modify any of the materials; (3) you do not use any materials, without the express written permission of IdahoFallsToday.com, in a manner that suggests an association with any of IdahoFallsToday.com’s products or services. For purposes of these Terms of Use, the use of any such materials on any other web site or computer environment is prohibited without the express written permission of IdahoFallsToday.com.
  Anyone who displays, reproduces, copies, creates derivative works or sells our textual, photographic, video or audiovisual programs for commercial or non-commercial purposes without permission from IdahoFallsToday.com violates the copyright laws and is liable for copyright infringement.

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