USAGE

Usage of any/all blogs displayed on PokerPages.com constitutes acceptance of the following:

The thoughts, comments, statements, and opinions expressed in each blog are solely the opinion of the author and do not necessarily represent the thoughts or opinions of PokerPages.com. PokerPages.com provides the blogger an environment in which they have freedom of speech. In return, PokerPages.com requests that the blogger respect, honor, and foster said environment.

Rules and Regulations:

PokerPages will not tolerate blog posts that contain material that has been deemed ‘Offensive Materials’. Posts falling into these categories may be deleted with/without a notice sent to the author.

‘ Offensive Material’ :

• - advertisements for products or services for sale, affiliate links
• - lacking in meaningful content (as determined by Poker Pages staff)
• - defamatory, abusive, harassing, insulting, threatening, that could be deemed to be stalking, or constitute an invasion of a right of privacy of another person
• - generally hateful, bigoted, and/or racially motivated posts
• - content that is violent, obscene, pornographic, and/or otherwise sexually explicit in nature
• - illegal or encourage or advocate illegal activity or the discussion of illegal activities with the intent to commit them
• infringe or violate any right of a third party or any domestic or international law, rule or regulation including, but not limited to:
• (i) copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary or contractual rights
• (ii) right of privacy (specifically, you must not distribute another person's personal information of any kind without their express permission) or publicity
• (iii) any confidentiality obligation
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LINKS

Poker Pages understands that linking to content on other sites is a necessary component of any blog. With that in mind, we do not censor cross-links to other sites, though Poker Pages reserves the right to remove any link that contains any ‘Offensive Material’ (see list above).

PokerPages will not be held responsible for content on any outside site that is linked to from a PokerPages blog.

Users following a link from a PokerPages blog due so at their own discretion, and release PokerPages from any liability that may arise as a result of accessing those links.

PHOTOS

Poker Pages blog users are allowed to post photographs provided the content of the photographs are not of a sexually explicit nature, do not violate any existing copyright law, and/or fall into any category defined under ‘Offensive Material’ (see above.)

RIGHTS

While the writer retains ownership of their work, the writer grants Poker Pages the rights to post, publish, and archive their submission(s) on PokerPages.com, and to redistribute their submission(s) as needed (with authorship noted), for perpetuity.

PokerPages.com also maintains the rights to utilize, reproduce, and promote the writer's name, likeness, photograph, and biography in connection with promoting the features/offerings of PokerPages.com.

The content of Poker Pages blogs may be re-distributed, provided a direct link back to PokerPages.com and/or the blog referenced is provided with the content.

REPORTING A CONCERN

As Poker Pages does not make a habit of censoring its users' blog posts, concerned readers may report content they feel to be in violation of the above terms to blogs@pokerpages.com.

Any comments/complaints/concerns/questions that you may have for a specific author can be directed straight to that author via email. Poker Pages requests that you do not write in to blogs@pokerpages.com to voice opposition to an opinion expressed by an author. As noted, the thoughts and opinions expressed in blogs, though displayed on Poker Pages, do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of PokerPages.com.

E-mails sent to blogs@pokerpages.com should only be in regards to content that is in violation of the above terms as set out in the ‘Offensive Material’ section above.

Those wishing to have content removed as a result of possible copyright infringement should contact editorletters@pokerpages.com.