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BTTR >> About >> Project >> Policy

By using back2roots.org or any of our services you agree to our Acceptable Usage Policy!

BTTR is currently work in progess, services are only partially active. Check our Site-Blog for more info!

Back to the Roots - Acceptable Usage Policy (AUP):

By using back2roots.org or any of our services you agree to our Acceptable Usage Policy (AUP) described on this page. If you do not accept these terms you are not allowed to use, download or store any files or information from this site. See Chapter 9 why this went necessary.

Table of contents:

1 - Software download rules
2 - Website usage rules
3 - Forums and Guestbook rules
4 - Webdir rules
5 - Privacy
6 - Copyrights
7 - Names, trademarks and logos
8 - Disclaimer
9 - Future of our AUP

1 - Software download rules:

Our file collection has been carefully researched to form a high quality and legal file archive, this was years of work. Most of the material is PD, Freeware or Shareware. Besides this freely distributable material we have the limited, non exclusive right to post commercial titles of currently 93 Companies and 6 Coders on this site, who all reserve the right to revoke that permission at any time for any reason by any means. For all files offered here these rules apply:

- Don't download anything which is illegal or not licensed in your country.
- Don't download anything which is not allowed for your age in your country.
- Don't use mass downloading tools or accelerators or you trigger our Robot Defender.
- Don't mirror our file collection unless you are an official mirror site.
- Don't link our files directly unless you are an official partner site.
- Don't redistribute our file collection without express, written permission.
- You use all files at your own risk!

For all commercial software offered here these additional rules apply:

- You are welcome to download and use the licensed software at no cost.
- You are not allowed to redistribute any of the licensed software without permission.
- Unless stated otherwise there is no support for the licensed software.

2 - Website usage rules:

While collecting all files we have researched quite some information for each file into our database, which, combined with the back2roots engine and a text database, forms the dynamically created online content of our site. We tested all files with recent emulators, made screenshots and recorded our experience. For the website content these rules apply:

- Don't make offline versions of our site.
- Don't mirror our site unless you are an official mirror site.
- Don't link into search results unless you are an official partner site.
- Don't extract or reuse any information from our site without express, written permission.
- You use all information at your own risk!

3 - Forums and Guestbook rules:

Our Forums allow users of this site to post anonymous comments about each software title which we have online, our Guestbook allows the same about our project in general. This is an automatted, unmoderated function of the back2roots engine. We can not be held responsible for the content of such third party addition. For the Forums and Guestbook sections at this site these rules apply:

- Follow the netiquette rules and be a kind netizen.
- Don't post just to advertize an URL unless it's on topic.
- Don't post spam or pyramid shemes.
- Don't post links to illegal sites.
- Don't post serial numbers of commercial software.
- Don't post software or crack lists here.
- Don't post using someone else's identity or email adress.
- Don't involve or advocate illegal activities.
- You allone are responsible for the entire content of your posting!

If you notice any posting violating our terms then please use the 'report the above posting' link below each posting, we will review the posting in question and may decide to remove it ASAP.

4 - Webdir rules:

In our Webdir we collect all links to all Makers which we find URLs for, additionally we collect useful topic related sites. Our robot visits each site twice a day to extract meta information such as the site title and the short description, and whether the site was reachable or not. This info is automatically added to each listing as the "author's info" (if any) and the status. By using our webdir you agree to these terms:

- We can not be held responsible for the content of any external site we link to.
- We can not be held responsible for the content of any meta information we extract.
- We can not be held responsible for possible changes of the topic of a specific URL.

For sites listed in our Webdir and for new site suggestions the following terms apply:

- The site should have some unique content and should be original in some way.
- The site must be entirely legal and must not contain any pirated software.
- The site must not contain any links to illegal sites.
- The site must not contain pop up emulation or top-** voting banners at all.
- Sites which link binary files from other sites without permission are not acceptable.
- Advertisement overloaded sites are not welcome (one banner each page is ok).

If you notice any listed site violating our terms then please use the 'report the above website' link below each site's listing, we will review the site in question and may decide to remove it ASAP.

5 - Privacy:

We do normal logging of the site usage for statistical reasons, this is always IP based. The logs are interpreted to evaluate the Usage/Day information present in all download or link listing boxes, to give us some information about the section usage, and to trigger our Robot Defender to first warn then ban users who hammer our server with agressive download robots in realtime, all of this is always anonymous. A special case are the posting forms on this site, which all set a Cookie in the moment when you submit a form to us. This is only done for your convenience so you needn't retype your personal info in each form and is not used for user tracking.

6 - Copyrights:

All third party files offered here, licensed or freely distributable, remain the copyright of their respective holders. The postings in the Forums and Guestbook remain the copyright of their respective author. The meta information in the Webdir remains the copyright of the respective webmaster. The remaining content of the site, unless stated otherwise, as well as the file collection copyright, is (C) 1999-2012 Juergen 'Bobic' Beck and Ralf 'Hippie2000' Steines, all rights reserved.

7 - Names, trademarks and logos:

All names, trademarks and logos used at this site are used for the sole purpose of textual and graphical identification, and still remain the property of their respective owners and holders.

8 - Disclaimer:

Neither any software Company or Coder, nor any Back To The Roots Team Member, nor our host may be held responsible for any damage wich may be caused by using any files or information offered here, use all at your very own risk.

9 - Future of our Acceptable Usage Policy:

It might sound strange, but ALL of these terms are the result of abuse which we noticed while running this project. Lately we even received legal pressure by people who want to enforce us to censor or monitor particular forums on our site, which we will not participate in. It's left up to us to decide whether a linked site or a posting violates our terms or not, and to add further terms in future without further notice. It's a shame that all this is necessary for a NON PROFIT FUN PROJECT.

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