Terms Of Service (v1.14)

This is not a service agreement.

Welcome to nbtsc.org. Here, in no particular order, are a few things you should know if you're going to be a user of this system. Reply

The name nbtsc.org belongs to Not Back To School Camp, which in turn belongs to Grace Llewllyn. She has graciously allowed us to use the name, but is not affiliated with or in any way responsible for this site.
Polis, the server this site resides upon, belongs to Aria. She built it, and maintains it. She doesn't accept donations for running it, though hardware additions are welcome. Nick didn't take money either, when he ran it.

Nick does, however, gladly accepts people making NiftyAdditions to the site. If you have an idea for something you want to build for the community, talk to him or one of the other admins, they'll happily set you up with the tools and space you need. Seriously. Please, someone take me up on this offer!
Wiki is kinda Arianna's thing. She coded, maintains, and continually improves upon it whenever she has time. Dig it.

Anyone is free to join here. The only requirements for an account on the server are that you ask politely and continue to maintain some level of decency while here.
Anyone can join the administrative team, provided you've learned enough to be helpful and have proven yourself trustworthy. We're not an elite ruling class, we're just good at this particular thing.

Having an account on the server gets you an e-mail address (accessible from your favorite mail program, or from not one but two fine webmail clients), any number of additional addresses that forward to your primary address (aliases), unlimited (or rather limited only by the space we have available, which continues to increase) space for a web site with no advertisements or other unasked for additions or limitations, a memorable url for your site, PHP, Perl, and other geeky perks, a chance to learn a bit about Linux without putting your own computer at risk, more reliability than most commercial servers, administrators you can get to know personally and yell at directly, prestige, sex appeal, and, it is rumoured, mysterious super-powers.
Content belongs to those who created it. If you write something and stick it on the site, you own the words. But...

The thing your content is sitting on (this server's hard drive) doesn't belong to you. It's a box in someone else's place, quite possibly in a completely different state or even country, and you really don't have much influence over it. It's conceivable something bad will happen to it, and in such an event the admins will be very sad, but not the least bit legally responsible. If your data is important, keep a copy or two in physical proximity to yourself. However...
We, Nick, Justin, Arianna, Charlie (other admins, feel free to add your names) give you our personal guarantee that we will do everything in our power to protect your personal data and your privacy. That means...

We will not willingly bring about the destruction of any web or mail files belonging to users. We do not have the means to guarantee your data's safety against outside forces such as lightning or the FBI, but we care about it personally and do all we can to make the server a secure and reliable home for it.
We will not make private user data (eg mail) available to anyone but the user, nor will we supply information about users to third parties without your consent (we won't sell your e-mail address to Spam Co).

This is not a democracy. We're not here to settle your disputes, or to implement committee decisions.
This is not a dictatorship. We're not here to settle your disputes, or to implement committee decisions.

Please note that this page is not part of some new attempt to lay down the law or cover our administrative asses. This is basically how we've always thought of nbtsc.org, and it seems to have worked well so far, but it finally ocurred to us that it might work even better as an agreement of the spoken, rather than unspoken, variety. The ideas above exist in some fashion on most well run sites (chalk it up to AdminNature), but tend to work best when the service is free and the admins are users too. Reply

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