Notice of The Denver Visual Studio User Group ("User Group"),
a professional association - Terms Of Service

     The Denver Visual Studio User Group (also known previously as the Denver Microsoft^® Visual Studio .NET User Group) is a professional independent user group private volunteer membership association. The views expressed on this web Site, during our Labs, during our Presentation Meetings, during other types of meetings or activities of this User Group, or in messages from this User Group are those of the individual presenters, speakers, authors,  sponsors, and the like. These statements and views do not necessarily reflect the statements and views of the Denver Visual Studio User Group, the User Group leaders, other User Group members, Microsoft, INETA, or other User Group presenters, speakers, authors,  sponsors, affiliates, or others in any way associated with this User Group. The Denver Visual Studio User Group meets at a Microsoft office, but the user group is not operated by Microsoft.

     Information on this web Site, in our Labs, in our Presentation Meetings, and in other types of meetings or events of this User Group or messages from this User Group may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. This information may be subject to changes or updates without specific notice.

     This web Site, statements made during our Labs, statements made during our Presentation Meetings, statements made during other types of meetings of this User Group, or statements made in messages from this User Group are for informational purposes only and are intended for the benefit of the User Group members, the users of this web Site, attendees of our Labs, attendees of our Presentation Meetings, attendees of other types of meetings of this User Group, or readers of messages from this User Group.

     IN NO EVENT WILL THE Denver Visual Studio User Group BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR ANY USE OF THIS WEB SITE, OUR LABS, OUR PRESENTATION MEETINGS, OTHER TYPES OF MEETINGS OF THIS USER GROUP, MESSAGES FROM THIS USER GROUP, OR ANY HYPERLINKED WEB SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE ARE EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. All legal issues or litigation regarding this web Site, our Labs, our Presentation Meetings, other types of meetings of this User Group, or messages from this User Group which are against this User Group, its leaders, or members in regard to this User Group must occur in the City and County of Denver in the State of Colorado in the country of the United States of America.

     INFORMATION ON THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSIONS OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

     Submissions in any form to the Denver Visual Studio User Group may be used at the sole discretion of the User Group. Submissions may be edited, may be used, or may not be used. Use may be in whole or in part. Submitters to the User Group agree to these terms of use pertaining to these submissions.

     The words in the phrase "professional independent user group private volunteer membership association" are used as a general description of this Denver Visual Studio User Group describing a private "club."


Links to Third-party Sites

     The Denver Visual Studio User User Group makes no representations whatsoever about other web sites which you may access through this one or from information you obtain in our Labs, in our Presentation Meetings, or in messages from this User Group. When you access an external web site, please understand that it is independent from the Denver Visual Studio User Group, and that the Denver Visual Studio User Group has no control or responsibility over the content on that web site. The Denver Visual Studio User Group  does not endorse or accept any responsibility for the content, use, or products and services made available through such web sites.


Copyrights, Licenses and Idea Submission

     Domestic and International copyright and trademark laws protect the entire contents of the Site. The owners of the intellectual property, copyrights and trademarks are the Denver Visual Studio User Group, its affiliates or other third party licensors. YOU MAY NOT MODIFY, COPY, REPRODUCE, REPUBLISH, UPLOAD, POST, TRANSMIT, OR DISTRIBUTE, IN ANY MANNER, THE MATERIAL ON THE SITE, INCLUDING TEXT, GRAPHICS, CODE AND/OR SOFTWARE. You may print and download portions of material from the different areas of the Site solely for your own non-commercial use provided that you agree not to change or delete any copyright or proprietary notices from the materials.

     You agree to grant to the Denver Visual Studio User Group a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, sub licensable, perpetual license, with the right to sub-license, to reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works of, publicly display and publicly perform any materials and other information (including, without limitation, ideas contained therein for new or improved products and services) you submit to any public areas of the Site (including but not limited to news item submissions, search engines, forums and newsgroups) or by e-mail to the Denver Visual Studio User Group by all means and in any media now known or hereafter developed. You also grant to the Denver Visual Studio User Group the right to use your name in connection with the submitted materials and other information as well as in connection with all advertising, marketing and promotional material related thereto. You agree that you shall have no recourse against the Denver Visual Studio User Group for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary right in your communications to the Denver Visual Studio User Group.


Copyright Notice

     Copyright © 2000 - 2008 Denver Visual Studio User Group. All rights reserved. Permission to use the Denver Visual Studio User Group content may be granted only after receiving a written request to do so.


Trademarks

     The Denver Visual Studio User Group, and/or other Denver Visual Studio User Group products or services referenced herein are trademarks of the Denver Visual Studio User Group; Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Windows XP, Visual Studio, Visual Studio logo, Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C# .NET, Visual C#, Visual C++, the .NET logo, IntellSense, Microsoft Internet Explorer logo, .NET, Microsoft Press, MSDN, Xbox, and/or other Microsoft products and services or images which are included or referenced herein or used during our Labs, used during our Presentation Meetings, used during other types of meetings or events of this User Group, or in messages from this User Group are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names, services and images which are included or referenced or mentioned herein this entire Site or used during our Labs, used during our Presentation Meetings, used during other types of meeting of this User Group, or messages from this User Group may be the trademarks of their respective owners.


Training

Participation in any training offered by any company or individual is solely up to the member of this User Group, not the Denver Visual Studio User Group. THE USER GROUP PROVIDES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, CONCERNING THE COURSE, MATERIALS, CONTENT OR TEACHING METHODS OR MEANS OFFERED BY ANY COMPANY OR INDIVIDUAL. Warranties, if any, are not provided by the User Group. Each member is solely and exclusively responsible for all aspects of training in which that member participates.


Member and User Conduct

You agree not to use the Denver Visual Studio User Group to:

• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit or present any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

• harm minors in any way;

• impersonate any person or entity, including, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;

• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through or presented through the Denver Visual Studio User Group;

• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit or present any Content that you do not have a right to transmit or present under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);

• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit or present any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party;

• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit or present any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;

• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit or present any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

• interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;

• intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law;

• collect or store personal data about other users.


Comments

     The Denver Visual Studio User Group is a not-for-profit User Group. There are no membership dues. These Terms of Service are subject to change without notice.