Terms of Service

Effective Date: November 2024

Welcome to Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates! By accessing or using our website at https://coalitionofrefugefriends.com (the “Website”), you agree to be bound by the following Terms of Service (“Terms”). Please read these Terms carefully before using our Website. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Website.

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1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing, browsing, or using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to comply with these Terms, as well as our Privacy Policy. Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates (“we,” “our,” or “us”) reserves the right to update or modify these Terms at any time without prior notice. Your continued use of the Website constitutes acceptance of any changes.

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2. Description of Services

We provide a platform for:

• Sharing resources and links to external content related to wildlife refuges, conservation, and nonprofit advocacy.
• Hosting social features, including forums, groups, messaging, and community content sharing.
• Offering informal advice and guidance to our community.

While we strive to ensure the accuracy of information provided, we do not guarantee its completeness, reliability, or suitability for any specific purpose.

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3. User Accounts

To access certain features of the Website, users may be required to create an account. By creating an account, you agree to:

• Provide accurate and complete registration information.
• Maintain the security of your account credentials.
• Notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or engage in prohibited activities.

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4. User-Generated Content

4.1 Ownership of Content

By posting or uploading content (including text, images, videos, or other media) to the Website, you retain ownership of your content but grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute your content for the purpose of operating the Website.

4.2 Prohibited Content

Users are prohibited from posting content that:

• Is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, or hateful.
• Promotes violence, discrimination, or illegal activities.
• Violates the intellectual property or privacy rights of others.

We reserve the right to remove any content that violates these Terms or is deemed inappropriate at our sole discretion.

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5. Community Guidelines

To foster a positive and respectful community, you agree to abide by the following guidelines:

• Be respectful of others in forums, groups, and private messages.
• Do not engage in harassment, bullying, or spamming.
• Use the platform for its intended purpose: sharing knowledge and supporting the nonprofit community.

Violations of these guidelines may result in account suspension or termination.

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6. External Links

Our Website contains links to external websites and resources. These links are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement or approval of the linked content. We are not responsible for the accuracy, legality, or content of external websites. Accessing such sites is at your own risk.

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7. Informal Advice Disclaimer

Any advice or guidance provided through our Website, including in forums or groups, is intended for general informational purposes only. It does not constitute professional, legal, or financial advice. You should seek independent professional advice before making decisions based on information from our Website.

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8. Intellectual Property

All content on this Website, excluding user-generated content, is the property of Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates or its content providers and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Unauthorized use or reproduction of any content is strictly prohibited.

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9. Moderation and Reporting

We reserve the right to moderate forums, groups, and other user interactions to ensure compliance with these Terms and our Community Guidelines. Users may report inappropriate content or behavior via the reporting tools provided on the Website.

Moderation actions, including content removal or account suspension, are at our sole discretion and may not be appealed.

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10. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

• We are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of the Website or reliance on its content.
• We do not guarantee the Website will be error-free, uninterrupted, or free of harmful components.

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11. Termination

We reserve the right to terminate or suspend your access to the Website at any time, with or without notice, for any violation of these Terms or other conduct deemed inappropriate.

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12. Governing Law

Any claim relating to Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates web site shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

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13. Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:
Email: coalitionrefugefriends@gmail.com

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14. Changes to the Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The “Effective Date” at the top of this page will indicate when these Terms were last revised.

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15. Deletion of Your Account and User Data

You can delete your account and the data we store about you at anytime by navigating to your account, and selecting ‘Delete Account.’ For example:

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By continuing to use our Website, you agree to these Terms. Thank you for being part of the Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates community!

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Privacy Policy

The Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates (CORFA) operates a website at coalitionofrefugefriends.com. CORFA respects your privacy regarding the information collected via our website. This policy outlines the principles and practices we follow in protecting your personal information and explains the types of information collected and how it is used.

Contact Form

CORFA provides a web form for you to submit private inquiries to ask about our organization, services, and the refuge system in general. The contact form requires users to provide personal information that may include name, e-mail address, phone number, interests, and similar information. We use this information solely to respond to your inquiry. CORFA does not collect any personally-identifying information about you unless you voluntarily submit such information to us.

We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit card or social security numbers.

CORFA does not sell or otherwise make available our website visitors’ private information to businesses or other charities.

Usage Data

We may also collect broad demographic information about how our website is accessed and used. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. CORFA uses this information to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of our website.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. CORFA uses cookies to track website users and access preferences.

You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly.  If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site will not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Aggregated Statistics

CORFA collects statistics about the behavior of visitors to our website. For instance, we may monitor the most popular pages and articles on our site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spammers. However, CORFA does not disclose personally-identifying information. We may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, for example, by publishing a report on trends in the usage of our website.

Followers and Comments

The Site collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) and email addresses for logged in users, subscribed Followers of the Site, and for users leaving comments on published articles. Blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to administrators of the Site. Subscribed Followers’ email address or username is also visible to administrators of the Site. CORFA does not share or disclose this information to other organizations except in the event of suspected fraudulent behavior on the Site.

Other Websites

Our website contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which CORFA has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.

Hosting Services

CORFA’s website is hosted by a third-party organization who may collect information about visitors/users of our site and usage data about our site. We encourage you to review their privacy policy for further information: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Modifications

CORFA may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. We maintain the option to modify this policy at any time.

Questions and Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of our website, you may email us at: CoalitionRefugeFriends [at] gmail [dot] com.

CORFA is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We conduct operations virtually and do not have a physical office location.

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