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Terms & Conditions
This website, including any subsite accessible through the homepage (the “Site”), is published and maintained by subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or related entities of SevenCities. Please note that when you enter any subsite accessible through this homepage or magazine pages, such subsite may have its own terms and conditions of use which are specific to such subsite. When you access, browse, or use this Site you accept, without limitation or qualification, the terms and conditions set forth below and any additional terms and conditions of use set forth in any subsite.

Your Right to Use the Site and Its Contents
This Site is only for your personal use. You may not distribute, exchange, modify, sell, or transmit anything you copy from this Site, including but not limited to any text, images, audio, and video, for any business, commercial, or public purpose. As long as you comply with the terms of these Terms and Conditions of Use, SevenCities grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to enter, display, and use this Site. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of this Site in any way.

Ownership
All materials on this Site, including but not limited to audio, images, software, text, and video clips (the “Content”), are protected by copyright under U.S. copyright law, international conventions, and other copyright laws. You cannot use the Content, except as specified herein. You agree to follow all instructions on this Site limiting the way you may use the Content.

Rules for Comments, Events Postings and Other User-Supplied Material
SevenCities encourages our users to contribute to the site in a wide variety of ways. When using any of these features, you agree not to post, send, transmit, upload, or otherwise publish through this Site, any materials that (1) interfere with anyone else’s use of the Site; (2) are dangerous or threatening in any way; (5) violate anyone’s copyright or other property right; (5) interfere with the privacy of any other user; (6) contain a virus or any other harmful component; or (7) contain false or misleading statements of fact or descriptions of the origin of the material or the communication.

Responsibility for User’s Material
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic, profane, threatening, or unlawful material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. Although SevenCities monitors user-postings on the site, neither SevenCities nor Paper Pixel are obliged to do so nor do they assume liability or responsibility arising from the contents of any such communications or for any defamation, error, inaccuracy, libel, obscenity, or profanity contained in any such communication. SevenCities reserves the right to remove any user content; however we hope and expect users will be responsible with their posts. SevenCities will be stringent with its policing policies-only content deemed threatening or harmful will be deleted. However, SevenCities does not tolerate these behaviors and users can be indefinitely terminated. SevenCities cannot be held responsible in any way for a non-editorial content item. Individual users operate as such on 24SevenCities and are ultimately liable for their contributions.

SevenCities Rights to User Material
Any communications or materials added to the 24Seven technically will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Thus, you give up any claim that any use of such material violates any of your rights including moral rights, privacy rights, proprietary or other property rights, publicity rights, rights to credit for material or ideas, or any other right, including the right to approve the way SevenCities uses such material. That said, SevenCities does not intend to abuse any user’s intellectual or physical property. Contributions to 24SevenCities that are selected for print publication will be compensated. SevenCities is not required to pay for reuse of contributions on the site.

Any material submitted to this Site may be adapted, broadcast, changed, copied, disclosed, licensed, performed, posted, published, sold, transmitted, or used by SevenCities anywhere in the world, in any medium, forever. We mostly included that clause because some other site did and we thought it was funny. We keep your content, Worldwide! Forever. Anyway, SevenCities ’s is free to use, without any compensation to you, any concepts, ideas, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, manufacturing, and marketing products using such information. However, you agree and understand that SevenCities is not obligated to use any such ideas or materials, and you have no rights to compel such use.

Transmitted Material
Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send to this Site may be read or intercepted by others, unless there is a special notice that a particular message (for example, credit card information) is encrypted (sent in code). Sending a message to SevenCities does not cause SevenCites to have any special responsibility to you.

Links
This website contains links to other Internet sites on the World Wide Web. SevenCities provides such links for your convenience only, and is not responsible for the content of any website linked to or from this Site. Links from this Site to any other website do not mean that SevenCities approves of, endorses, or recommends that website.

Contests
This Site may contain contests that offer prizes or that require you to send in material or information about yourself. Each contest has its own rules, which you must read and agree to before you may enter.

Right to Change These Terms and Conditions of Use or Content on the Site
SevenCities may add to, change, or remove any part of these Terms and Conditions of Use at any time, without notice. Any changes to these Terms and Conditions of Use or any terms posted on this Site apply as soon as they are posted. By continuing to use this Site after any changes are posted, you are indicating your acceptance of those changes. SevenCities may add, change, discontinue, remove, or suspend any other Content posted on this Site, temporarily or permanently, at any time, without notice and without liability.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold SevenCities and all of its agents, directors, employees, information providers, licensors and licensees, officers, and parent (collectively, “Indemnified Parties”), harmless from and against any and all liability and costs (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees and costs), incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions of Use or the foregoing representations, warranties, and covenants.