Heart of Wisdom Blogging Terms
Who can blog here?
The Heart of Wisdom blog space was set up for Christian homeschoolers using Heart of Wisdom however you do not need to be a Heart of Wisdom user nor a homeschooler to blog here. You must be agreement our blog goals and terms below.
Heart of Wisdom Blog Goals
- Bring glory to God is all we do and say.
- Be a place to encourage and support one another.
- Promote the Bible as the primary focus of training children.
- Encourage a love of learning in our children.
- Users agree not to post entries that oppose the HOW Statement of Faith.
The Legal Stuff
Sorry to begin with legalese, but we need to make clear our respective rights and responsibilities related to this service.
Robin Sampson and Heat of Wisdom Publishing Inc (“HOW”) offer these free blogging services (the “Services”) to you subject to the terms and conditions of use (“Terms”) contained herein. By accessing, creating or contributing to any blogs hosted at http:/heartofwisdom.com, and in consideration for the Services we provide to you, you agree to abide by these Terms. Please read them carefully before creating any blog.
Rights in the Content You Submit
Unless you specify otherwise, any and all works of authorship copyrightable by you and posted by you to any blog (“Content”) are submitted under the terms of an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons Public License. Under this license, you permit anyone to copy, distribute, display and perform your Content, royalty-free, on the condition that they credit your authorship each time they do so. You also permit others to distribute derivative works of your Content, but only if they do so under the same Attribution-ShareAlike license that governs your original Content.Please read the full text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Amongst other things, this license permits RSS aggregators to copy, distribute, display and perform any Content on your blog that you syndicate using RSS. All Content on your blog is syndicated for RSS aggregation unless you change your settings to indicate otherwise.
Technical Help
IMPORTANT: We can only provide free blog space if everyone agrees to learn how to set up their blog space through reading and researching.
To begin a blog with us you are agreeing to researching online information for help. Try WordPress support or Robin's Blog or ask other bloggers for help. We simply do not have the time to answer emails on how to blog. This doesn't mean we won't help you. Robin's blog has a Blogging 101 category to help you. .
Attribution
When publicly displaying, publicly performing, reproducing or distributing copies of your Content, or Content as incorporated into a collective work, HOW will make best efforts to credit your authorship. You grant HOW permission to use your name for such attribution purposes. You, likewise, agree to represent yourself accurately. You acknowledge that misrepresentation may lead us, in our sole discretion, to cancel your use of the Services and delete any of your Content.
Conduct
This is a Christian site. We reserve the right to remove certain content that you may post. As a general matter, you may post content freely to your blog and to those of others, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable.You may not use the HOW name to endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause or political candidate. Representation of your personal opinions as institutionally endorsed by HOW or any of its organizations is strictly prohibited.
By posting content to any blog, you warrant and represent that you either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, or that your use of the content is a protected fair use. You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading false information. You represent and warrant also that the content you supply does not violate these Terms, and that you will indemnify and hold HOW harmless for any and all claims resulting from content you supply.
You acknowledge that HOW does not pre-screen or regularly review posted content, but that it shall have the right to remove in its sole discretion any content that it considers to violate these Terms or the terms of any other campus user agreements that may govern your use of the campus networks.
Accessing
You understand that all content posted to http:/heartofwisdom.com is the sole responsibility of the individual who originally posted the content. You understand, also, that all opinions expressed by users of this site are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of any HOW institution.You agree that HOW will not be liable, under any circumstances and in any way, for any errors or omissions, loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of use of any content posted on this site. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.
Children
Collecting personal information from children under the age of 13 is prohibited. No Content should be directed toward such children without the express written permission.
Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
This site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. HOW makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the site’s operation or the information, content or materials included on this site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, HOW hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. HOW will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this site. You expressly agree that you use this site solely at your own risk.
Privacy Policy
HOW will never share, trade, or sell names or email address of users.
Modification of These Terms of Use
HOW reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.
Copyright Complaints
HOW respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please report this conduct.
Agree? You Can Now Create Your blog
I understand that by clicking this link to create a blog
I am agreeing to the terms above and Heart of Wisdom's Statement of Faith.
Before starting you may want to read the How to Get Started here
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