www.BlackViper.com: Legal Information and Disclaimer

Introduction

I am not a lawyer, nor do I claim to be.

What you will find here is plain, easy to understand English.

Agreement

By using this site for whatever purpose you intended, you agree to abide by the rules set forth on this page.

If you do not agree, please leave and do not access my network again.

Network

The internal network contents serving this domain is privately owned and maintained by me, Charles "Black Viper" Sparks. At my discretion, I reserve the right to allow and disallow IP addresses access to my network at any time. This will never happen "randomly." After reviewing the server logs, firewall logs and other network monitoring devices, I may determine that traffic directed to my network is hostile and will be blocked at the IP or domain level. Access to my information is a privilege, not a right, and abuse will not be tolerated.

Abusive behavior that I have logged and currently ban are:

• Ping (ping.exe) and trace route (tracert.exe) commands are not allowed access to my internal network and servers. As a result, "request timed out" will be displayed.
• "Offline Browsing" or syncing my domain is not allowed. It puts way too much stress on my connection for many people to be downloading my total domain (1000+ pages), including many MegaBytes of images every 24 hours.

Copyright

Whatever information I place here is on my spare time, drafted by me and offered free of charge to the end user (you). As a result, I will not authorize anyone to make money off the information contained on my sites by redistribution. This includes posting any of my content, including images, on an "ad supported domain" or forums.

All content, including pictures, screen shots and images on www.blackviper.com are Copyright 1999-2009 by Charles "Black Viper" Sparks. All Rights Reserved.

Fair Use and Permissions

• Link to whatever HTML page you wish. These pages have a .htm, .html or .php extension.
• I do not have a page for links to your web site/blog/twitter page/etc. I will, however, select links and content that I have found on my own and provide them to my readers as I discover them.
• You may print a copy of any HTML page, or the preformatted PDF files for personal use, educational use, or professional use as a guide to provide technical support.
  • "Educational use" does not include copying, removing my Copyright notice, and claiming it as your own for any school project.
  • Verify the accuracy of all information in your support environment before using as a guide for technical support.
• Do not link directly to any image file located anywhere on the domain or inline my images on your web site.
• Give credit when and where credit is due.

Privacy

My policy is simple: I will not disclose or make money from your private information, such as your E-Mail address. The only disclosure exception would be unless a legal authority, meaning local, State of California, US Federal Court, foreign office or other official directs it.

I may take selected quotes from an E-Mail that was directed into my inbox and repost it on my domain. However, without your permission, I will not say "where" or "whom" that quote came from. This is to protect the innocent as well as the guilty.

Standard HTTP server logs are maintained and contain data, such as requesting IP address, "referer," (sic) OS and browser information. I may archive this data forever.

If you are so generous as to send items or money via PayPal or USPS, the information collected by these services and publicly viewed is beyond my control and cannot be protected by me. However, any personal data that is viewed by me and under my control will not be shared with third parties.

Cookies

Cookie functions for tracking are not and will not be in use. The web site currently uses a cookie only to remember your visual color preferences between pages. 3rd party cookies are beyond my control and offered up by my advertisers throughout the domain.

The banners:

• Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on my sites.
• Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to my readers based on their visit to my sites and other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Trademarks

All trademarks are property of their respective owners. I claim/own no Trademarks.

Disclaimer

You have ultimate control over what you do and what happens with your computer system.

I, Charles M. Sparks, AKA Black Viper, cannot be held responsible for something you did on your own free will. Nothing that appears on this domain comes with a guarantee or warranty of any kind.

My opinion of products and services are drafted from experience and observation. All information is true to the best of my knowledge at the time of writing.

Take great care when using any information provided by anyone on the internet.

Conclusion

Thank you for getting this far. I hope that you will find something that interests you as you wander around my domain.

As always, kind words (but not technical support questions) in my inbox are welcome.