Green Bank Star Quest

This is the disclaimer for the website of the Central Appalachian Astronomy Club, herein referred to as CAAC.

This document replaces all previous documents including, but not limited to, previous disclaimers and other policies regarding the website located at www.greenbankstarquest.org. This disclaimer applies to: all components of www.greenbankstarquest.org, all members, customers, volunteers, advisors, agents, suppliers and users of the website, and all authorized third parties that are granted access to www.greenbankstarquest.org.

CAAC can be reached by a number of ways on the internet. We have registered multiple domain names (URL?s) that all point to our main page located at www.caacwv.com. These domain names include www.caacwv.com and www.greenbankstarquest.org. We would like to emphasize that we are a publicly-supported non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization. Our main site is and will be www.caacwv.com. We reserve the exclusive rights to these and other domain names that might be wrongfully thought as property of CAAC.

All members, customers, volunteers, advisors, suppliers, agents and users of www.greenbankstarquest.org are required to comply with this disclaimer.

All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos and images (including all photos) are the property of CAAC or its content suppliers and are used by CAAC with permission.

On photos submitted before February 1, 2004, CAAC will, upon request from the supplier, remove any and all content that was supplied by the supplier. The supplier has to provide CAAC with a detailed list of what is to be removed and where it is located on the site. The content will then be checked and approved against the logs of CAAC list of submitted material. It might be necessary for the supplier to show proof that he actually submitted the content, and that he has the copyright on that content. After approval the content will then be removed within three (3) months of approval date.

On photos submitted after February 1, 2004, the copyright of the photo is transferred from the submitter to CAAC. If a photo is submitted to CAAC for posting on the website, CAAC will be granted total copyright to the image. CAAC can use the image on their website or any other fit purpose. The submitter can not request removal of the pictures on the website, as CAAC has the copyright on these images.

If you would like to use any content from this site, such as text, graphics, logos, and images (including, but not limited to, photos) which are the property of CAAC or its content suppliers, you have to e-mail gbstarquest@aol.com for permission. We will respond within an appropriate time span. A late or no response from us does not mean that the content can be used for your purpose.

Any unauthorized use, including, but not limited to, the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display or performance of the content on this site is strictly prohibited and will be prosecuted under law.

This site and the e-mail list (if available) are provided by CAAC on an "as is", "as available" basis. CAAC makes no representations or warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, as to the operations of the site and the e-mail list, the information, content, materials or products included on this site and the e-mail list.

CAAC will not be liable for damages of any kind arising from the usage of this site, including, but not limited to, direct or indirect damages. This also includes viruses. While CAAC uses antiviral software with up-to-date virus definitions, we cannot guarantee that any part of this site or e-mails sent from this site/server or affiliated sites/servers (i.e. the email list) are free of viruses. Also, new threats exist on the internet today. Trojan viruses, worms and others are known and every user should use the necessary precautions to limit access for these harmful programs. This can and will not be the responsibility of CAAC.

CAAC will not be liable for downtime of this site, such as routine maintenance, updates or system malfunctions that may causes problems with the user of this site.

CAAC collects personal information from visitors to its web site on a voluntary basis; however, visitors are not required to give such information to access our web site. Personal information may include, without limitation, name, address, phone number, country of residence, and e-mail address. Other information might be asked in parts of this site. Each time a visitor comes to the www.greenbankstarquest.org site, information is collected to improve the overall quality of our site. CAAC collects the visitor's domain name/IP Address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from netscape.com or yale.edu or 255.255.255.0), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to www.greenbankstarquest.org), and browser/platform type (e.g., a Mozilla browser on a Macintosh platform). CAAC also counts, tracks, and aggregates the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from and how traffic flows within the www.greenbankstarquest.org pages). CAAC will not disclose your individual identity or personal data.

Although CAAC will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of any visitor information collected, CAAC will have no liability for disclosure of any visitor information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorized acts of third parties.

Any/all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with us will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list. An exception is the e-mail list (if available), but you will have to subscribe to this service by clicking on the appropriate link.

CAAC may contain links to other sites; however we cannot assume responsibility for the content or privacy practices employed by these other sites.

Submissions of data, photos or other material to the webmaster or other persons involved with the development and up-keeping of the site will be posted at the discretion of the webmaster. No guarantee can and will be given that material submitted will be used on this site or any other fit purpose.

CAAC reserves the right to change or update this disclaimer, or any other policy or practice, at any time without notice to members, customers, volunteers, advisors, agents, suppliers and users of its web site and related services. Any changes or updates will be effective immediately upon posting to the CAAC web site located at www.greenbankstarquest.org.

Our failure to enforce parts of this disclaimer, for whatever reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to do so at any time.

Any and all questions regarding this statement should be directed to