We (the people behind www.strawbale-net.eu) run web site called www.strawbale-net.eu and would love for you to use it. Our service is free and we have volunteered our time and energy to put it all together. Our service is designed to give you as much ownership over what goes on this site as possible and encourage you to express yourself freely. However, be responsible in what you publish. In particular, make sure that none of the prohibited items listed below appear on the site or get linked to from your posts (things like spam, viruses, or hate content). We also hope this website will be a precious and reliable resource for all and for that reason we encourage you to quote all the third party information you publish. This is not only a legal consideration but also makes your posts more credible. Last but not least – if you are following any advice published on this site or want to contract anyone active on this site – do your homework! Check the facts, credibility of the author and get references from the contractor you intend to use. We cannot take any liability for following the advice acquired through this website. Please check the full T.O.S. bellow for more detailed information.

If you find a post on www.strawbale-net.eu that you believe violates our terms of service, please let us know.

(Note, the below Terms of Service are a gift from www.wordpress.com as they decided to make them available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license.)

Terms of Service:

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the www.strawbale-net.eu website and all content, services and products available at or through the website. The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by the www.strawbale-net.eu team.

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by www.strawbale-net.eu, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.

1. Your www.strawbale-net.eu Account. If you create a account on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account (i.e. all the posts that are made from your account). You must not describe or assign keywords to your posts in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and www.strawbale-net.eu may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause www.strawbale-net.eu liability. You must immediately notify www.strawbale-net.eu of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. Www.strawbale-net.eu will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
2. Responsibility of Contributors. If you post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

• the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;

if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;

you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;

the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;

the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);

the Content is not pornographic, libelous or defamatory (more info on what that means), does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;

your posts are not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;

your posts are not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and

• you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by www.strawbale-net.eu or otherwise.

By submitting Content to www.strawbale-net.eu for inclusion on the Website, you grant www.strawbale-net.eu a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your posts. If you delete Content, www.strawbale-net.eu will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, www.strawbale-net.eu has the right (though not the obligation) to, in www.strawbale-net.eu's sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in www.strawbale-net.eu's reasonable opinion, violates any www.strawbale-net.eu policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in www.strawbale-net.eu sole discretion.

1. Responsibility of Website Visitors. Www.strawbale-net.eu has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, www.strawbale-net.eu does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Www.strawbale-net.eu disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which www.strawbale-net.eu links, and that link to www.strawbale-net.eu. Www.strawbale-net.eu does not have any control over those non- www.strawbale-net.eu websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-www.strawbale-net.eu website or webpage, www.strawbale-net.eu does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Www.strawbale-net.eu disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-www.strawbale-net.eu websites and webpages.

Copyright Infringement. As www.strawbale-net.eu asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by www.strawbale-net.eu violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify www.strawbale-net.eu. Www.strawbale-net.eu will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of www.strawbale-net.eu or others, www.strawbale-net.eu may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination.

Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from www.strawbale-net.eu to you any www.strawbale-net.eu or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with www.strawbale-net.eu. Trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any third-party trademarks.

Changes. Www.strawbale-net.eu reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Www.strawbale-net.eu may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Termination. Www.strawbale-net.eu may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately as part of a general shut down of our service. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your www.strawbale-net.eu account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Www.strawbale-net.eu and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither www.strawbale-net.eu nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. If you’re actually reading this, here’s a treat. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.

Limitation of Liability. In no event will www.strawbale-net.eu, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data. Www.strawbale-net.eu shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

1. General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
2. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless www.strawbale-net.eu, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
3. Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between www.strawbale-net.eu and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by the posting of a revised version by www.strawbale-net.eu.