IPHC Ministries News & Discussion Site Policies

The following are the published policies of the IPHC Ministries (IPHC) regarding its website, IPHC.org and associated domains. This is not an exclusive list of IPHC policies. Inquiries relating to matters not specifically referenced herein should be addressed by emailing IPHC using our contact page.

Copyright
All originally-produced IPHC material appearing on comm.IPHC.org and associated domains is the copyright property of the IPHC Ministries for the year in which it is produced and for all subsequent years allowed by U.S. and International Copyright Law. All rights to IPHC material are reserved. Policies regarding permitted reprinting and republication of IPHC copyright material are outlined below.

Comments in Response to Articles
IPHC appreciates the desire of our viewers to comment on the news reports and articles we produce. We remind you, however, that our primary purpose is to publish news and expert commentary from a Christian perspective.

All comments submitted to comm.iphc.org are reviewed by a moderator before posting.

• Comments must respond directly to the article about which they are submitted.
• Comments may not address, refer or respond to other comments.
• Comments must be your original writing and may not "cut-and-paste" from the work of others, except for short (less than two sentences) quotations.
• Comments may not contain profanity, threats, libel, accusations of wrongdoing (moral or legal) against others, copyrighted material, HTML code or hyperlinks, or violate any part of our Acceptable Use Policy (above).
• Comments may be no more than 300 words (approximately 1500 characters not including spaces).
• Comments written in ALL CAPS will not be published.
• Comments are reviewed and published Monday through Friday. Comments submitted during weekends will be reviewed the following Monday, as time permits.

Any comment in violation of any part of this policy may be edited or deleted at the sole discretion of the moderators. Comments are chosen for publication at the sole discretion of IPHC moderators. We will not respond to inquiries concerning why a particular comment was, or was not, chosen for publication.

Privacy
We do not sell, lease, rent, or give away information, including your email address, that we collect from you.

Any and all information submitted on the various forms on our site is kept in the strictest confidentiality. The information is used only for its intended purpose and is kept on file only long enough to provide the requested service(s). No information is in any way sold or otherwise distributed to companies, organizations or agencies outside of IPHC Ministries. The information collected is not distributed to agencies that are a part of IPHC Ministries without your prior knowledge and consent. Our intentions will be plainly stated on the submission page(s).

IPHC Ministries cannot be held responsible for submitted information that is subsequently published to public web pages as part of the intended service(s). For example, if you submit an employment ad and your email address is published as part of a search results page, IPHC MInistries cannot keep visitors from obtaining that information and using it for their own purposes.

If you feel that information you submitted has been misused by persons or agencies of the IPHC, please report your concerns here.

Links to Other Sites
IPHC.org and associated domains contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.

Contacting Us

We can be reached via U.S. Mail at:

IPHC Ministries
PO Box 12609
Oklahoma City, OK 73157

Or through our Contact Page.

Reprinting or Republication

Incidental Use
Incidental use is defined as one-time, or infrequent and irregular republication or redistribution of news reports for the purpose of informing and/or educating members of a church or denomination, or supporters of some other non-profit organization. For-profit entities do not qualify for incidental use. Incidental print reproduction of IPHC copyrighted material requires that:

• The author's (or authors') byline must be included and "comm.iphc.org" must accompany the byline.
• The article must be reprinted in its entirety, unedited, including any "Editor's Note(s)," disclaimer(s), or other annotation(s) that appear(s) at the end of the article.
• The statement "Copyright 2008 IPHC Ministries - Used by permission." must appear at the end of the reprinted article.

Incidental online or email reproduction of IPHC copyrighted material requires that:

• The author's (or authors') byline must be included and "IPHC Ministries" must accompany the byline. The reference to "IPHC Ministries" accompanying the byline must appear as a hyperlink to http://comm.iphc.org.
• As much as, but no more than the first three paragraphs of the article may be reproduced, and the republished excerpt must be unedited.
• The reproduced paragraph(s) must be followed by a text link to the original article at comm.iphc.org, using the phrases "Read the Full Story" or similar words of identical meaning such as "article" or "story" as the text for the hyperlink. No news item may be referred to as a "column" or "editorial" or by any other word that would reasonably mislead the reader to believe that an IPHC news report is an opinion-editorial column.
• Originally-produced, copyrighted news and opinion items published by IPHC on comm.iphc.org may not, under any circumstances, be reproduced in larger part than described above, including reproduction of entire pieces, on other websites. Fair use provisions of U.S. and International Copyright Law allow excerpts for critical review with proper attribution, as described above. Any use in violation of these policies or laws is subject to civil and criminal penalties.

Recurring Use

Recurring use is defined as:

• Two or more items reproduced within any seven-day period by a publication or website that is updated daily or more often than daily,
• Two or more items reproduced within any 31-day period by a publication or website that is updated weekly or more often than weekly but less frequently than daily,
• Any use by a publication or website that is owned or operated by a for-profit entity or that is funded by advertising or subscription revenue.

All requirements for "incidental use" apply to users of IPHC material who engage in "recurring or commercial use." In addition, those users who qualify under the definition of "recurring or commercial use" above for print republication are also required to do one of the following:

• Place a display ad for comm.iphc.org at least two (2) columns by one (1) inch in size, using the IPHC logo provided by IPHC Ministries, and containing the text "IPHC Discussion Blog - The official blog of IPHC Ministries" in at least 10 point Verdana or similar typeface, in any location on the front page of the publication.
• Place a display ad for comm.iphc.org at least three (3) columns by two (2) inches in size, using the IPHC logo provided by IPHC Ministries, and containing the text "IPHC Discussion Blog - The official blog of IPHC Ministries" in at least 12 point Verdana or similar typeface, in any location on the back page of the publication.

Those users who qualify under the definition of "recurring or commercial use" above for online reproduction are, in addition to the requirements for "incidental use" listed above, required to do the following:

• Place the text link "IPHC Discussion Blog - The official blog of IPHC Ministries" on the home page of the website engaging in the recurring or commercial use. If the site engaging in recurring or commercial use includes text links to other news websites on its home page, the blog.iphc.org link must be co-located with those links.

Acceptable Use
Unless otherwise specified, all content produced by IPHC Ministries and published online at www.iphc.org and associated subdomains is the copyright property of the IPHC Ministries and all rights to that property not otherwise granted, herein, are reserved. Any use of IPHC copyright content that does not conform to the policies stated herein is a violation of U.S. and/or international copyright laws and may be subject to criminal and/or civil prosecution.

Prohibited Activities
Neither IPHC content, nor any links to www.iphc.org or related subdomains, may be posted on any website, transmitted through any electronic delivery system (i.e. "email"), or published in any print publication that engages in any of the following:

• Any behavior or speech, or advocacy of any behavior or speech that, in the sole opinion of the management of the American Family News Network, is contrary to biblical standards of morality (Example: encouraging sex outside of marriage);
• Any display of pornography or obscenity; racism or "racialism" including, but not limited to, race-based supremacist and/or separatist advocacy;
• Any activity that encourages or advocates the violent overthrow of the government of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; discrimination; speech designed to incite violence, or threats to cause bodily harm;
• Any activity designed to defame, abuse, stalk, harass or physically threaten any individual; including any attempt to link to, post, transmit or otherwise distribute any inappropriate or defamatory material;
• Any violation of intellectual property laws including materials protected by local, national, and/or international copyright, trademarks and trade secrets;
• Any violation of the individual's right to privacy, including any effort to collect personal data of third parties without their consent;
• Any fraudulent activity whatsoever, including dubious financial practices, such as pyramid schemes; the impersonation of another without their consent;
• Any activity that results in the sale, transmission or distribution of pirated or illegal software;
• Failing to respond to a request by a recipient of unsolicited mail to be removed from any mailing or direct marketing list and continuing to send unsolicited mail following such a request for removal;
• Any efforts to attempt to gain unlawful and unauthorized access to IPHC computer network servers or to circumvent any of the security measures established to protect the IPHC network;
• Forging of any TCP-IP packet header (spoofing) or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting;
• Any effort to breach or attempt to breach the security of another Internet user or attempt to gain access to any other person's computer, software, or data without the knowledge and consent of such person;
• Any activity that threatens to disrupt the services offered by IPHC through "denial of service attacks"; flooding of a network; or overloading a service or any unauthorized probes ("scanning" or "nuking") of the IPHC or others' computer networks;
• Any activity that in any way threatens the security of the IPHC computer network by knowingly posting, transmitting, linking to or otherwise distributing any information or software that contains a virus, Trojan horse, worm, lock, mail bomb, cancelbot or other harmful, destructive or disruptive component;
• Any unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on the IPHC computer network without IPHC's explicit, written consent;
• Any unsolicited mass mailing activity including direct marketing; spam and chain letters for commercial or other purposes, without the consent of the recipients of those mails.

Reservation and non-waiver of rights

• IPHC reserves the right to amend or alter this policy at any time, and without notice to you.
• IPHC reserves the right to take action against any individuals, companies or organizations that violate any of the prohibited activities set out herein, or engage in any illegal or unlawful activity while accessing our services, to the fullest extent of the law.
• IPHC reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to act against other types of abuse not listed in this document and to investigate or prevent illegal activities being committed.
• IPHC reserves the right to monitor user and network traffic for site security purposes and prevent any unauthorized attempts to tamper with our site or cause damage to our property.
• IPHC reserves the right to suspend, revoke or cancel blog.iphc.org services to any or all customers/users if the safety and integrity of blog.iphc.org's resources are placed at risk in continuing to provide service to the subscriber/user.
• IPHC reserves the right to remove any information or materials in whole or in part, that, in IPHC's sole discretion, is deemed to be offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate.
• IPHC does not undertake to guarantee the security of any data passing through its networks.

Third Party Web Pages and Sites
IPHC offers access to numerous third-party web pages. You acknowledge that we exercise absolutely no control over such third-party content, or sites and in such cases, www.iphc.org and associated subdomains are merely conduits or means of access and transmission. This includes, but is not limited to, third-party content contained on or accessible through www.iphc.org and associated subdomains and web pages or sites displayed as search results or contained within a directory of links on www.iphc.org. It remains your responsibility to review and evaluate any such content, and that any and all risk associated with the use of, or reliance on, such content rests with you.

Conducting Business over the Internet
IPHC cannot be held liable for any business dealings you have with any third parties on the Internet, including any vendors, or advertisers found on, or through, www.iphc.org and associated subdomains. Further, IPHC assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any charges you or any person acting on your behalf incurs when making purchases or other transactions in this manner. Further, the responsibility for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, including payment of applicable taxes and/or user fees in connection with any such transactions shall be the customer's.

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