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Lincoln Times-News offers this website, including all information, products and services available from this website or offered as part of or in conjunction with this website, to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all of the terms, conditions, policies and notices stated here. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions and notices.

Personal and Noncommercial Use -Lincoln Times-News Website is for your personal and noncommercial use. As a condition to your continued use of the Website, you warrant to Lincoln Times-News that you will not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms and conditions of use.

No Warranties - Use the website at your own risk. This website is provided to you “As Is,” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. Neither Lincoln Times-News nor its employees, agents, third party information providers, merchants, licensors or the like warrant that the Website or its operation will be accurate, reliable, uninterrupted or error-free. No agent or representative has the authority to create any warranty regarding the Website on behalf of Lincoln Times-News.

Exclusion of Liability - Under no circumstances, shall Lincoln Times-News or anyone else involved in creating, producing, storing or distributing the website be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of or in any way connected with use of the website, delay or inability to use the website, or for any information, products or services obtained through the website, whether such damages are based on contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Featured Links and Linking - The Website may contain hyperlinks to websites offered by parties other than Lincoln Times-News. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only. Lincoln Times-News does not control such other websites and is not responsible for their content; nor does Lincoln Times-News inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.

Trademarks and Copyrights - Lincoln Times-News is a trademark of Western Carolina Publishing and is protected by state and federal trademark laws. Other trademarks appear on the Website with permission from their respective owners.

Except for material in the public domain under United States copyright law, all material contained on the Website (including all software, HTML code, Java applets, Active X controls and other code) is protected by United States and foreign copyright laws. Except as otherwise expressly provided in these terms and conditions, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, modify, rewrite, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any material contained on the Website without the prior consent of the copyright owner. Violation of this provision may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.

You may make single copies of materials displayed on the Website for your own personal and noncommercial use only, provided any copies include the copyright and other notices displayed with the materials on the Website. You may not distribute such copies to others, whether or not a charge or other consideration, without prior written permission from Lincoln Times-News or the copyright owner of the copied material.

Posting Area - You agree not to use the Website to send or submit for public posting and libelous, slanderous, defamatory, abusive, obscene, profane, sexually explicit, threatening, harmful or illegal material, material containing blatant expressions of bigotry, racism or hate, material encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or violate any local, state, national or international law, or material of any kind that Lincoln Times-News finds objectionable.

The public posting areas are for discussion and debate only. You may not use the public posting areas to post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind. You may not post or transmit any material of any nature, including text, audio, software, animation or photographs, belonging to any person or party other than yourself, without the prior written consent of such owner.

Lincoln Times-News shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the posting areas of the Website to determine compliance with these Terms and Conditions and any other operating rules that may be established by Lincoln Times-News from time to time.

By Posting messages or other material in the public posting areas of the Website, you granting to Lincoln Times-News and its licensees a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any posting by you (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed.

Copyright Infringement - Lincoln Times-News will not tolerate copyright infringement of any kind. Lincoln Times-News does not, however, monitor user-submitted materials for copyright infringement. If you believe that any material on the Website infringes your copyright, you may seek to have the material removed by sending written notice to the

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General Privacy - For each visitor to the Website, Lincoln Times-News automatically collect information about which pages are visited and the domain name of visitors. This information is used for internal review, to tailor information to individual visitors and for website traffic audits.

Through your use of the Website, Lincoln Times-News may collect information about you that identifies you or your household. Normally, you would provide such information when specifically asked for it by Lincoln Times-News. Any information in Lincoln Times-News possession solely as a result of your use of the Website and that is associated with you or your household is considered “Personal Information.” It consists of both information supplied by you and information collected about how you use the Website.

Children’s Privacy - Users under 13 years of age may not submit or post information on the Website without the consent of the user’s parent or legal guardian.

 Lincoln Times-News strongly encourages parents and guardians to supervise their children’s online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools also can prevent children from disclosing online their name, address, and other personal information without parental permission.

General - Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and Lincoln Times-News with respect to use of the Website, superseding all prior or contemporaneous communications and/or proposals. Lincoln Times-News reserves the right to make changes to these Terms and Conditions immediately by posting the changed Terms and Conditions in this location. By continuing to use the Website, you are agreeing to all changes made by Lincoln Times-News. A printed version of these Terms and Conditions shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to use of the Website to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

The Website is controlled and operated by Lincoln Times-News from its office at 119 West Water St. in the State of North Carolina. Lincoln Times-News makes no representation that materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access the Website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. The Website is not intended to subject Lincoln Times-News to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than the State of North Carolina and the United States of America.

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Terms and Conditions