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USER AGREEMENT, DISCLAIMERS AND  COPYRIGHT, SUBMISSION INFORMATION FOR THE FOLLOWING SITES:
The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards
 

LIVE CHAT/MESSAGE CENTER USER AGREEMENT

Views and messages posted on our "Live Chats" or "Message Center" are not necessarily those of The Artistic Forum, The Artistic Forum- Interactive Web site, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards Web pages, or their employees or sister sites. By using or signing onto these free services you agree that The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards or their employees or sister sites are not liable for posted messages or live chat sessions. That The Artistic Forum site has the right to decide what may or may not be posted onto these free services and that these services may be monitored randomly.

Although The Artistic Forum, The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards may occasionally review discussions, chats, hosting, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like on their Sites, The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards are under no obligation to do so, and assume no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations, or for any error, defamation, omission, falsehood, obscenity, profanity, inaccuracy, or other improper information within such locations on these Sites.  You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any material that could be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law, such as material which is threatening, defamatory, obscene, profane, or sexually explicit, (this does not include the Fine Art nude or the discussion of it).  We do not sanction such material and inappropriate material will be deleted.  That misuse of discussions, chats, hostings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like on these Sites, will result barring you from the use of these free areas. 

By accessing the Live Chats or BBS Forum's Message Center offered on these sites you agree that you will indemnify and hold harmless The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards or employees or sister sites from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, damages, causes of action or liabilities that may arise from the use of these free services.

To notify The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards about member violations, please cut and paste the evidence, along with the member name, and e-mail to hostmaster@artisticforum.com.

DISCLAIMER

The Artistic Forum maintains this Site for your personal entertainment, information, education, and communication.  The Artistic Forum makes no warranty of any kind with respect to the materials or services provided on this Site, and they are provided to you AS IS.  You expressly acknowledge and agree that The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards or their employees or sister sites are not responsible for the results of your decisions resulting from the use of the information or techniques given in The Artistic Forum Web pages.

The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards or their employees or sister sites assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable, for any loss or damage to your computer equipment or software which may occur on account of your access to or use of their Sites, or your downloading of materials, data, text, images, audio or video from these Sites, whether caused by a "virus" or otherwise.

The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards or their employees or sister sites do not review all of the sites which are, or may be linked to their Sites, and therefore these Sites or their employees are not responsibility for content or copyright violations found on any off-site exchanged or listed links to The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards.  By linking to any of these off-site exchanged or listed links from within The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards you agree that you release these The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards or their employees or sister sites  from any such responsibility.  If you find an invalid link or a listing that needs correcting or removal please contact us where the offending link is and we will do our best to correct the problem ASAP.

ARTISTIC FORUM SUBMISSION AGREEMENT

Unless prior arrangements are made, any communication or material you send to the Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Corner, including data, articles, questions, comments, ideas, suggestions, written or pictorial art, or the like, shall be considered by The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner as public information which may be used by The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner for publication within their site for free exposure of your communications or materials on their Your Written Works, Your Art Gallery, Kids' Story Place, or Kids' Art Gallery pages.  The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner does not critic work but may refuse any submissions for the reasons stated below.  It is also agreed by you that the Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner may display these communications or materials in their own time frame as they see fit.  Also, you acknowledge and agree that the Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner will be free to use, without compensation to you, these communications or materials for display on their site as stated above.  The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner will not use your communications or materials for any other purposes than those stated above without your prior consent.  By submitting any communications or materials you agree that any communications or materials which you may furnish to The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner is your property to which the copyright or the privilege to copyright has not been granted to any other person or company in respect to such warrants.  All art is displayed in a first come first serve basis.  It is also understood and agreed by you, the artist, that The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner offers this service only as a community service.   In regards to professional artists only,  it is meant to serve as a place where you, the artist, can receive free exposure of your art and offer a place where people who, if interested, can contact the artist on their own via the information posted with your work.  Therefore, we do not track the art or reader’s responses to it.  The Artistic Forum does not encourage its readers to contact them for information about art displayed on their virtual galleries.  Instead, we ask readers to contact the artist themselves via the information posted with the artists work.  In order to ensure our readers privacy we do not forward readers information and it is up to the reader to contact you.  Only during the time and artists art is on display in one of our two our virtual galleries, if a reader should contact The Artistic Forum requesting information about that artist's work, The Artistic Forum will e-mail our reader telling them how they may contact the artist.  In regards to children's art, The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner will not post or share any personal information (please see our children's guidelines).    Due to space limitations, The Artistic Forum  will only keep artists works online for one month or until a new submission is made for that virtual gallery space.  Once a work of art is removed from the virtual gallery space The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner will not archive the artists work for future display nor is it obliged to pass on any information to its readers about works of art  or artists previously displayed on its website.  It is also understood that The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner does not act as your art representative.  This agreement and the displaying of your art on this site does not obligate nor represent any agreement of any kind for representation of your work by our sister site, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts.  Further, you agree that you will indemnify and hold harmless The Artistic Forum & the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner, or their employees or associated sites from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, damages, causes of action or liabilities and will pay all reasonable expenses incurred in the defense thereof, which may result if such material herein submitted.  All remaining rights revert to the individual contributors.  

Further, we will not post or transmit any material that could be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law, such as material which is threatening, defamatory, obscene, profane, or sexually explicit, (this does not include the Fine Art nude or the discussion of it).  By submitting any written or pictorial works you agree that all works will be reviewed to ensure they meet the above guidelines and that the refusal to publish any work is at the discretion of the aforementioned websites and that they are under no obligation to publish any submitted materials.

ARTIST SUBMISSION FORM:

We can only post one image for four different artists each issue.  With that in mind we ask that you do not submit more than one piece each year!  You are welcome to resubmit new art on a yearly basis.  Please keep in mind that we will only review one work per submission and can only post art on the website when there is available space.  Multiple submission will not be considered!  Do not refer us to a web page to select a work from multiple images, we will not consider art submissions of this type either.

Due to the great response we have received we will now only be able to respond back just before we are to publish your work in an upcoming issue.  At that time we will let you know which gallery your art will be found in and the publication date.  Because of the large volume of art received this process can take several months.  Please don't be discouraged if you don't hear back from us right away.  We do ask that you verify you have sent us all the required information.  Also, be sure that if you submit your art via a URL that you be sure to keep that URL active until you hear back from us.  If it is necessary to change the URL where the art is located then be sure to let us know as soon as possible what the new URL for that art is.  Missing information and inactive or wrong URL's will cause you to lose your place for upcoming issues.

(NOTE: Please copy this and place an “X” in the appropriate space.  This must be included with your e-mail in order to publish your work.)

I  am 18 or older, a professional artist and have read, understand, and agree to the Artistic Forum's artist submission agreement, and that I give permission to publish my art work, URL, and e-mail address, or any other personal information I have submitted for display on Artistic Forum's Your Art Gallery:

YES: _______ (By placing an X next to the Yes you accept the terms written above.)

If you like to e-mail attached art rather than use our form then please follow these attached art guidelines:  .jpg image with a file size no larger than 96K and pixel size of apx. 650 x 450

Include: URL, E-mail, Title, size, medium, galleries where work is displayed, and your bio or artist statement about your art submission (please limit this to 4 to 6 lines).

CHILDREN'S GUIDELINES

The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, and Masterfulart Online Postcard is primarily used by adults who have an interest in the Fine Arts. Our newsletter is strictly for our adult readers who wish to be updated with the latest events on the Artistic Forum and our sponsors.  We do not offer a children's newsletter and ask that children under 14 do not sign up or that parents do not sign up to our newsletter for their children.  We have created the Artistic Forum's Kids' Art Corner so parents may share the joys and fun of the fine arts with their children. We recommend that parents monitor the use of this or any other site with their children. Parents are required to include their e-mail or mailing address so we may contact them if we feel we need to verify the parent's permission.  Any information sent in with a child's submission will not be used to add the parent or child to our mailing or e-mail list unless the parent request to be added to our mailing/e-mail list. Please Note: We will not post children's submissions without prior parental consent nor will we post children's last names.  Parental permission is also required for us to link to a site created by a child.  All other submission guidelines apply.  

OUR COPYRIGHTS

Reproductions in whole or part in any form or medium without express written permission of The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards is prohibited.  Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts logo, The Artistic Forum  and The Artistic Forum logo, The Artistic Forum Interactive Web site, Masterfulart Online Postcards, Masterfulart Digital Postcards logo, and all related titles are all copyrighted and the property of The Artistic Forum, The Artistic Forum Interactive Web site, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards.

The reproductions of original works of art/off-set limited edition lithographs/photographs/line-drawings created by all artists represented by Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts hereby displayed at The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, and Masterfulart Online Postcard are copyrighted and may not to be duplicated for distribution, personal use, nor for sale, or inclusion in any CD, DVD or any other collection without the prior consent of the artists, their agent, or The Artistic Forum.  All rights reserved.

FURTHER AGREEMENTS

The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards may revise these terms of your use of the Sites by updating this posting.  You are bound by any such revisions and therefore advised to regularly visit this page.

The foregoing shall constitute an agreement between The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards and each user of these Sites, and may not be modified in any fashion without the advance written consent of The Artistic Forum, Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Masterfulart Online Postcards.  This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Massachusetts.  If any provision of the Agreement is deemed or declared to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed removed from this Agreement, and all other terms shall remain in full force and effect.
 

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