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TERMS & CONDITIONS

This website (the "Site") is owned and operated by ZINSKINET, LLC d/b/a "bluecrab.info" ("COMPANY," "we" or "us").

Please read through the Terms and Conditions below. When you click "I Agree" to indicate your agreement to these Terms and Conditions, you are entering into an agreement with this Site.

This Site's Discussion Forum ("Forum") is a service provided to you free of charge whereby participants can share information on a variety of crabbing topics. You agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions by accessing and using the Forum in any way, including submitting or posting to the Forum any information, advice, data, files, ideas, images, links, opinions, recommendations, software, or any other form of content (individually or collectively, "Content"); or by browsing, using or downloading any Content from the Forum.

1. General

  a. You must register to use the Forum by completing all fields on the registration form designated as "required."

  b. This Site reserves the right, in its sole discretion:

    i) to change these Terms and Conditions, effective immediately, upon written notice posted to the Forum;

    ii) to modify any aspect or feature of the Forum, or terminate the Forum at any time, with or without notice; or

    iii) to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Forum at any time for any reason with or without notice.

2. Content

  a. No Liability. Any Content posted by users of the Forum (including Content posted by the Forum moderators) is that of the Content's author(s) or poster(s) and not of this Site, and you acknowledge that any reliance on Content is at your own risk. You expressly understand and agree that this Site shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused by reliance on the information in any Content posted in the Forum. It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness, suitability or usefulness of Content available through the Forum, and this Site does not endorse, warrant, or guarantee the accuracy, completeness, suitability or usefulness of any Content. Further, this Site does not endorse, warrant or guarantee any product or service offered by a third party through the Forum, and this Site will not be a party to, or in any way monitor any transaction between Forum users.  

  b. Monitoring. You acknowledge that this Site does not screen Content posted to the Forum, but that this Site has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor and/or screen Forum Content to determine compliance with these Terms and Conditions and any other Rules of Conduct established by this Site. This Site shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit or remove any Content submitted to or posted in the Forum. Without limiting the foregoing, this Site shall have the right to remove any material that this Site, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of these Terms and Conditions, outside the scope of the Forum, or otherwise objectionable. Notwithstanding this right of this Site, you shall remain solely responsible for any Content you post to the Forum and you acknowledge and agree that this Site shall not assume nor have any liability for any action or inaction by this Site with respect to any conduct, communication or posting to the Forum or any of its Content.

  c. Submissions by User. You may post Content owned by you, Content for which you have received express permission to do so from the owner, or Content that is in the public domain. Any Content you post to the Forum will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any Content that is unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, offensive, or otherwise in violation of the Forum Rules of Conduct. You represent and warrant that any Content you post is not subject to any copyright, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others. You shall be solely liable for any damages resulting from any infringement of copyrights, or other intellectual property rights, or any other harm resulting from Content you post to the Forum. You grant this Site the worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and perpetual license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish and create derivative works from all Content posted to the Forum, and you represent and warrant that you are authorized to grant all such rights to this Site. You may edit and/or delete your Content posted to the Forum for a period of one day (24 hours) after the Content is submitted. After this time period passes, the Content becomes a permanent addition to the Forum and cannot be changed or deleted. You may not post an obfuscated/anonymized/shortened URL to the Forum.  

3. Privacy

This privacy policy sets out how this Site uses and protects any information that you provide when you use this website. This Site is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.

• Information Collected - This Site may collect the following information when you use this website: Username, email address, date of birth, and other data that could directly or indirectly identify you. It is strongly recommended that you choose a Username that consists of a nickname, pseudonym, handle, or a word that cannot be used to personally identify you. This Site does not require your full or legal name. The use of a date of birth is purely optional and is used by the Site to display your age to other users.


• Cookies and other tracking scripts - This Site uses cookies to store information on your computer. Some are essential to make this Site work; others help us improve the user experience. By using this Site, you consent to the placement of these cookies. This Site also utilizes Google services for analytics and advertising. By using this Site, you consent to Google's Privacy & Terms found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.


• How we use information that we collect - This Site uses the information for the creation of a unique personalized account that is used for posting content to the Forum, internal record keeping, usage statistics, and to send email notifications related to new messages, announcements, password changes, etc.


• Sharing with trusted third parties - This Site may share your personal data with trusted third party service providers as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as: serving advertisements (Google AdSense), mobile integration (Tapatalk), and performing analysis of our Services and customers demographics (Google Analytics).


• Usage of Services - Data is automatically collected when you use and interact with this Site, including metadata, log files, cookie/device IDs, and location information. This information includes specific data about your interactions with the features, content and links (including those of third-parties, such as social media plugins) contained within the Services, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and settings, the date and time the Services were used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data, information about devices accessing the Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and error data, and some of this data collected may be capable of and be used to approximate your location.


• How we store and secure the information we collect - This Site is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. This includes, but is not limited to, server hardening, firewalls, encryption (SSL), and the use of CDN services such as Cloudflare. While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.


• Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests - This Site cooperates with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (such as subpoena requests), to protect our property and rights or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.
  
• Communicating with you - This Site may contact you directly, via email, such as necessary to deliver website related communications. You can control your comminucation preferences from your Profile Settings page.


• Transfer of personal data abroad - If you utilize our Services from a country other than the United States, your communications with us may result in transferring your personal data across international borders.


• Links to other websites - This Site may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and review the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.


• Controlling your personal information - This Site will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

4. Rules of Conduct

This Site strives to be a friendly place and encourages camaraderie, discussion, and spirited debate. Everyone is expected to act in a courteous and respectful manner. While disagreements are sure to arise, please exercise restraint and civility when responding to such posts. Profanity, name-calling, personal attacks, rudeness, etc., will not be tolerated here. Personal attacks are defined as (but not limited to): abusive, defamatory, or derogatory phrases based on race, sex, sexual orientation, age, religious or political beliefs, disabilities, ethnicity, nationality, etc., directed against another member or a group of members; using someone's affiliations as an ad hominem means of dismissing or discrediting their views (an example could be "you're not from Maryland, so what would you know about crabbing?"); linking to external attacks, harassment, or other material, for the purpose of attacking another member; comparing members to Nazis, dictators, or other infamous persons; accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence (serious accusations require serious evidence); and threats of any kind (both online and offline). Violators will have their posting privileges revoked.  

5. Disclaimer of Warranty
This Site makes no warranty that the Forum will meet your requirements, or that it will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; nor does this Site make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Forum or as to the accuracy, suitability or reliability of any Content. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY CONTENT DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE FORUM 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 FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH CONTENT. THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

6. Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL THIS SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, RELIANCE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL, COSTS OF COVER, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF INFORMATION) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE FORUM OR THE CONTENT, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORTIOUS ACTION, EVEN IF THIS SITE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

7. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold this Site, its affiliates and subsidiaries, and their respective officers, directors, shareholders, agents and employees harmless from and against any claims, liability, losses, costs and expenses (including attorney's fees) arising out of any of your conduct related to the Forum or Content you post to the Forum.

8. Subscriptions/Donations
Paid subscriptions and/or donations are non-refundable.

9. Amazon Links
As an Amazon Associate, this Site earns money from qualifying purchases.

PLEASE NOTE: You must post a brief introduction of yourself in the New Forum Members board before you will be allowed to post elsewhere in the forum. Please include your first name, the region where you live, and your interest(s) in crabbing. Spammers will not be tolerated.

PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy sets out how BLUECRAB.INFO uses and protects any information you provide when using this website.

BlueCrab.info is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

BlueCrab.info may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective on May 25, 2018, to comply with GDPR requirements.

Information Collected

We may collect the following information when you use this website:
- Username (NOT your full name since we don't collect that)
- Email Address
- Date of Birth (optional)
- IP Address
- Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.

Cookies and other tracking scripts

This site uses cookies to store information on your computer. Some are essential to make our site work; others help us improve the user experience. By using this site, you consent to the placement of these cookies.

This site also uses Google services for analytics and advertising. By using this site, you consent to Google's Privacy & Terms found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

How we use information that we collect

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping including service optimization, and website stats.
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information that we think you may find interesting using the email address that you have provided.  

Sharing with trusted third parties

We may share your data with third parties with which we have partnered to allow you to integrate their services into our Services, and with trusted third-party service providers as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as:
- Serving advertisements
- Performing analysis of our Services and customers' demographics

Usage of Services

Data is automatically collected when you use and interact with our website, including metadata, log files, cookie/device IDs, and location information. This information includes specific data about your interactions with the features, content, and links (including those of third parties, such as social media plugins) contained within the Services, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, and settings, the date and time the Services were used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data, information about devices accessing the Services, including the type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and error data, and some of this data collected might be capable of and be used to approximate your location.

How we store and secure the information we collect

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. This includes but is not limited to, firewalls, encryption (SSL), and CDN services such as Cloudflare.

While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is safe from intrusion by others.

Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests

We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal processes (such as subpoena requests), to protect our property and rights or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.

Communicating with you

We may contact you via the forum or Email as necessary to deliver transactional or website-related communications. We may also contact you with offers for additional services we think you'll find valuable if you give us consent, or where allowed based upon legitimate interests.

You may also update your account preferences for receiving communications from us from your profile settings.

Transfer of personal data abroad

If you utilize our website from a country other than the United States, your communications with us may result in transferring your data across international borders.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. You may request details of personal information that we hold about you by visiting your profile settings page. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.