Preamble
feedle dot net, the website that currently operates at http://www.feedle.net, is a personal “blog”-style website. It’s primary goal is to be a creative vehicle for myself, with a
secondary goal of promoting the talents of those I consider friends. Opinions stated on this website are my own, and they’re just that: opinions. I provide feedback mechanisms in most places on my website (and in the few places I don’t, we’re working on it!). If you have seen something you disagree with, please feel free to contribute feedback.
Throughout this document, I refer to the entire network of machines that drives not only this website but other computing resources I control and maintain as “feedle.net”. This is not meant to exclude machines that might be operating under other domain names (like moremayo.com, feedle.com, feedle.org, witchmail.org, etc). Note that some of the services I provide have differing terms of service and scope than this document is capable of covering: for those sites, please see their appropriate webpage. This document is not intended to cover all situations and possibilities. If there is a conflict between this document and the local laws where this website is posted from (Denver, Colorado, USA) the local law will prevail.
Some of the material on this website might be of a frank and adult nature. While we usually don’t post nudie pics or p0rn, it is possible that sites we link to might not have the same standards. Some discretion is advised.
While we used to maintain RSACi ratings on pages on this website, that practice has been depricated.
Specifics:
- “Backstage Pass”: To post comments and to access many advanced features of this website, a “Backstage Pass” account is required. As part of the registration process, we politely request some personally identifiable information (such as your name, location, and E-Mail address) for our records. The only required information is a unique identifier (a ‘user name’) and a verifiable E-mail address. We require this information to ensure that you are not a “robot” or spamvertising engine. We do not use your E-Mail address for any sort of mass mailing.. in fact, the only automated E-Mails you will receive will be when you set up your account for verification (unless you use your Backstage Pass account for other optional services like Mailing Lists). You can delete your Backstage Pass account at any time.
- “Backstage Pass” FOAF: We are currently working on a Friend-of-a-Friend system (FOAF) that will tie into Backstage Pass. For purposes of the FOAF project, you can enter as much or as little information as you want, or opt-out of FOAF completely. The purpose of the FOAF project is to simply provide an affinity space for friends of the website owners: but all are permitted to join.
- Site Logging: The site logs for servers at feedle.net collect a minimal amount of information regarding where you connect from (your IP address), what site referred you here (HTTP_REFERRER), and what pages you access while you’re here. Generally, this data contains little personally identifiable information, other than which ISP you use and how you utilise our resources. These logs are kept only for a minimal amount of time, and are generally only used for general statistical analysis or for debugging site problems.
- Comments System: Posting a comment to pages hosted locally (here at feedle.net and/or moremayo.com) requires a Backstage Pass. When you post a comment, you will be required to log in using your Backstage Pass account, and the comment will be tagged with your feedle.net username.
- Legacy Comment System: The following text is from the previous edition of our Privacy Policy, which covers the “old-style” comments system. It is placed here solely for completeness, and to cover comments left in the old comments database. The comment system currently collects information from users at the time a comment is left. This data is not stored anywhere but in the comment itself, and then only data that is submitted on the form is publically accessible. The logging system for the comments (and karma) system record your IP address for statistical analysis and for responding to abuse incidents. This data is discarded after a short period of time.
- Mailing Lists: Listservs (mailing lists) collect your E-mail address solely for the purpose of sending you E-Mail from others in the discussion group. We never “sell” E-Mail lists to third parties, however it may be possible for others to obtain your E-mail address through the list server. If you have questions about how the listservers operate, and how they handle your E-Mail address, please contact us.
As a blanket policy, we do not sell, rent, give away, lease, purvey, purloin, or otherwise traffick in personally identifyable information. We may, from time to time, share statistical information with other website owners about trends and traffic patterns, but this information will not contain any personally identifyable information.
When responding to spam, abuse, or legal complaints, we may be required to disclose additional information as situations arise. We will make a “best effort” to inform any of our users in advance of such disclosure.
From time to time, we may make updates to this privacy policy. You are encouraged to read it regularly, as well as the privacy policies of other websites.
Copyright and Terms of Use
Content produced by myself (usually noted by a © Archturiat C Baumann statement or words to that affect in the document) produced on this website is typically released under a Creative Commons License.
Under this license, you are permitted to copy any material, provided that any copying is non-commercial in nature, is attributed to the original author, and that any derivative works are similarly licensed. If you would like more details, you can read the Commons Deed, or read the entire license.
For content produced by other users of feedle.net services (such as web site operators, shell account users, volunteer contributors, etc.), and for postings on webboards, etc. operated on feedle.net computing resources:
All original material is considered to be licensed to us by the original creator. We do not claim copyright on this material; and further respect the rights of these individuals to claim copyright. Submission of material to feedle.net is considered granting us a license to use that material under a license similar to the Creative Commons license we use for original content. Users of feedle.net resources should speak to us if they desire differing terms.
Terms of Service
Users of feedle.net are bound by our terms of service for all activities. If you believe a user of feedle.net has violated these terms of service, please let us know by E-mailing legal@feedle.net.
- Users of computing resources at feedle.net are expected to behave in a fashion that is consistant with promoting good will and continuing the Internet’s standards of cooperation. Users may not harass or threaten other users of either feedle.net’s resources, or other Internet services.
- Users are expected to “keep our neighborhood clean” by maintaining their shell accounts under quota, by stripping binaries they compile, and ensuring that no other user will be impacted by high bandwidth or CPU tasks.
- Users may compile programs locally in their own accounts on feedle.net shell servers. Users are solely responsible for maintaining these programs. If a program behaves in a fashion that is detrimental to other users, it will be terminated.
- Transmission of unsolicited “commercial” e-mail is always prohibited. For purposes of this policy, UCE is considered any E-Mail that is unsolicited by the recipient, and advertises a product, service, webpage, ideology, etc. Note that it does not necessarily need to be “commercial” in nature.
- Transmission of any bulk E-Mail is only allowed by specific permission. All bulk E-mail messages must be 1. opt-in, and 2. can only be performed after permission has been granted explicitly by feedle.net.
- Use of feedle.net’s resouces for “hacking” or “cracking”, that is, the intrusion of systems on the Internet that you do not own or control, is prohibited.
- Users that behave in a manner that gets any feedle.net IP address “k-lined” or banned from servers and the like _WILL_ result in immediate account suspension. We may also send someone over to break your kneecaps.
Policies Concerning “Spam” and “Spamvertizing”
This website is designed and intended to be a creative vehicle for myself and my guests. It is not provided as a method of promoting other commercial websites without re-numeration. As a result, the following activities are specifically prohibited:
- Addition of comments that solely exist to promote non-relevant websites
- Collection of E-Mail addresses to transmit unsolicited E-Mails
- Collection of instant messenger service IDs to transmit commercial messages of any type to users
In addition to these terms, feedle.networks also has the right to remove any URL entered into this website’s public forms at its own discretion, without explanation.
Sites that repeatedly abuse these terms will be banned from posting comments or retrieving content.
Obtaining Permission for Commercial Uses
Note that this only applies to material that bears a (C) [date] Archturiat C Baumann and/or (C) [date] feedle.net(works) copyright indicia.
Permission can be obtained by E-Mailing legal@feedle.net. Include in your E-Mail the following information.
- The full legal name of the individual, company, or corporation that is requesting use
- A physical address
- A telephone number
- A brief description of your organization
- A brief description of your project and/or your content need
You can expect a followup phone call within 72 hours. Note that you will be granted permission to use under similar terms to non-commercial users (that is, non-exclusive rights). Depending on your organization type and your needs, we reserve the right to assess licensing fees as we feel are appropriate. Exclusive rights are never given, except for photographs, where exclusive print rights may be given and all other rights will be reserved.
The GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (or GPL) covers some of the original software offered on this website. Software so distributed will bear a clear “Licensed under the GPL Version 2” statement, as well as a copy of this license in a file called LICENSE in the archive.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
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you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
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We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
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Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
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want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
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authors' reputations.
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
modification follow.
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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
Copyright (C)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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Copyright Notifications, Definition of Agent
I take all allegations of copyright infringment by my users seriously. If you believe that any publically accessible resource or file on feedle.net is infringing on your copyright, please let us know.
Note that we will require some sort of evidence that you are the legitimate copyright holder of the material. Please send all inquiries to legal@feedle.net, or to Archturiat C Baumann, PO Box 371893, Denver CO 80211 USA.
Trademarks
“feedle” is a personal nickname that I have used online and off since at least 1986. It has no connection to the series of “Bagpuss” stories aired on the BBC in the 1970’s. In fact, living in the United States, I had never even heard of these stories until relatively recently, and have never actually seen one. Please stop asking about this.
All trademarks remain property of their respective holders, and are used only in a descriptive manner.
Sale of domain names
Domain names encompassing the feedle.net collection of services are not for sale.
However, for some domain names, I may be willing to transfer some domain names to a third party (and/or be willing to operate reflector services) for non-profits or individuals, typically for very low cost. This will never happen with any domain name that has the word “feedle” in it at the top level (ie. feedle.net, feedle.com, feedle.org). The word “feedle” has been tied with my personal identity since the late 1980’s, and as such, I’m quite attached to these domain names. For the others, drop us an E-mail with some information about what you are intending to use the domain name for and some way of contacting you by telephone and we may be able to work out an arrangement.