The Washington Continent's policy and procedure statement

We welcome you to The Washington Continent, operated by (RCI) Redding Communications, Inc. We ask that you review these terms and conditions, which are intended to constitute a binding license agreement that conditions your use of this site ("agreement"). We have tried to avoid unnecessary legal verbiage and hope that you understand that we are simply trying to protect our rights in order to provide you with access to the free content available at this site. If you do not wish to be bound by this agreement after you have read it, please leave the site. If you remain at this site, or return thereafter, you agree to be bound by the following agreement:

1. Links to other sites. When The Washington Continent provides links to other sites, we are not responsible for those other sites, their privacy policies or how they treat information about their users, and we advise you to check their privacy policies. Links are not intended to imply sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement. If you believe that we have provided a link to a site that contains infringing or illegal content or which makes available cracker tools or other circumvention devices, we ask that you notify us so that we may evaluate whether (in our sole discretion) to disable it.

2. News tips and photos. By submitting any content to The Washington Continent, including photographs, you automatically grant The Washington Continent a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, create derivative works of, distribute, transfer or sell any such content, for any purpose, including commercial purposes, without any payment to you, in any type of media or in any form now known or later developed. In addition, you automatically waive and give up any claim that any use of such content violates any of your rights, including privacy rights, publicity rights, moral rights or any other right, including the right to approve the way The Washington Continent uses such content.

3. Limited license/copyright and intellectual property law restrictions. Except for public domain material, intellectual property laws, including U.S. Copyright laws, protect the content on The Washington Continent. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive license to use the material at this site ("content") while connected to this site (including, where available, to email individual stories to friends directly from this site). You are also granted a limited license to print copies of any content posted at the site, but only for your personal use. Except as expressly provided above, all rights are reserved. Among other things, except to the extent required for the limited purpose of reviewing material on our site, electronic reproduction, adaptation, distribution, performance or display is prohibited. Changes to or deletion of author attribution or copyright notices are prohibited. Commercial use of any of the content is strictly prohibited. Use of any of our trademarks as ‘metatags’ on other web sites also is strictly prohibited. You may not display this website in frames (or any of the content via in-line links) without our express written permission through our world headquarters. You may, however, establish ordinary links to our site without our written permission.

4. Disclaimer of warranties. You expressly agree that use of The Washington Continent is at your sole risk. There is no warranty that your access to or use of this site will be uninterrupted or error free; or that any particular results may be obtained by use of The Washington Continent. The Washington Continent is made available on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or otherwise, other than those which are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction, or modification under the laws applicable to this agreement. Neither we nor any other person or entity providing content via this site shall be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages.

5. Modifications/termination. The Washington Continent employees are not authorized to vary the terms of this agreement. We retain the right, at our discretion, to change any of these policies in the future. Our current procedures will always be disclosed on this page.

6. Jurisdiction. The Washington Continent is hosted on a server located in California and is intended to be viewed by residents of English speaking areas. In the event of any dispute arising out of or relating to this site, you agree that the exclusive venue for litigating disputes shall be in state or federal court in Fulton County, Georgia.

Your privacy & rights

1. What we know about you. Other than what kind of browser you're using, we know practically nothing about you. We have no way of knowing any vital information about you -- not even your name.

2. Cookies. The Washington Continent does not uses cookies to track user activity.

3. Third-party distribution. We do not distribute information about your site usage to any third party. It is simply for internal use.

4. Future plans. At this time, we do not store personalized data about you, but we may do so in the future. You would be asked for your information if you wish, and you would have the option to view the site without submitting this information.

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