Appendix C. Web site and comment system usage and policies

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Using the comment system
Why do we want your name?
How we review comments
Subscribing to feeds
User Agreement
Your use of our services
We do not endorse anyone's comments
Comment ownership and licensing
Merchandise sold on or through the Site
Indemnification
Response, deletion, and editing
Disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability

Thank you for your interest in commenting on our book! We are excited to have made it possible for you, our readers, to submit comments at the level of detail of every single paragraph and code example. Please feel welcome to make liberal use of the commenting system; we want to produce the best book we can. (Yes, your use of the comment system is subject to our User Agreement; see the section called “User Agreement” for details.)

[Warning]We require Javascript and cookies

Our comment system makes extensive use of Javascript, and it helps to have cookies enabled. If you don't have Javascript enabled in your browser, you won't even see a hint of the existence of the comment system. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to spare to write a Javascript-free alternative. Patches welcome!

Using the comment system

Every paragraph ends with an unobtrusive anchor. When you click on it, it reveals the comments submitted by other readers. Click on the anchor again to hide the comments.

At the end of each list of comments sits a small form where you can enter comments of your own. We ask for just one piece of information in addition to your comment, which is your name. You're also welcome to provide a URL for your home page, blog, or what have you.

Why do we want your name?

We'd love to credit people who give particularly good feedback, and to do that, we need to know who to thank. You don't have to give us your real name, but if you don't, we can't credit you, no matter how helpful you may be.

[Note]We can't spam you, nor can anyone else

Notice that we don't ask for your email address? Nobody's going to spam you as a result of commenting on the book (unless for some reason you explicitly enter your email address somewhere).

How we review comments

After we've read a comment, we may mark it as “reviewed”; when we do this, you'll see a note next to a comment's title. Due to the huge volume of comments, we may not have time to mark all of them as reviewed.

When we do mark a comment as reviewed, it indicates that we've read and acted upon the comment, but that we haven't published an update yet. When a comment no longer applies to a particular paragraph, we'll hide it from view.

Subscribing to feeds

Our comment system isn't just a dead dump for snippets of text; it's a conversation between us and you. You'll notice that you can subscribe to an Atom feed for each web page, letting you see the latest comments, and there's also a feed for the book as a whole. Each comment published through the feed comes with a link that lets you see that comment in context, and respond to it.

User Agreement

The following User Agreement (“Agreement”) governs the use of all realworldhaskell.org sites (“Site”, “Sites”), including without limitation participation in their comment systems, forums, chats, and all other areas (except to the extent stated otherwise on a specific page) as provided by the authors and publishers of “Real World Haskell” (“us” “we”, or “our”).

Please read the rules contained in this agreement carefully. Your use of and/or registration on any aspect of this Site will constitute your agreement to comply with these rules. If you cannot agree with these rules, please do not use the Site.

Your use of our services

  • Unless otherwise specified, the Site is intended for your personal use only. You may not authorize others to use the Site, and you are responsible for all use of the Site by you and by those you allow to use, or provide access to, the Site.

  • The Site contains material that is protected by state, national and international copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way any material, including code and software, from the Site. You may download material from the Site and may use the Site for your personal use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.

  • The Site is not intended for users under the age of 13, and We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from users under the age of 13. Such users are expressly prohibited from submitting their personally identifiable information to us, and from using our forums and comment systems; any information submitted by such users will not knowingly be used, posted, or retained by us.

  • You agree not to place on the Site any material that is abusive, harassing, racist, or hateful. Further, you may not place on the Site any material that is encrypted, constitutes junk mail or unauthorized advertising, or commercial offers, invades anyone's privacy, or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any local, state, federal, national or international law or regulation. You agree to use the Site only for lawful purposes and you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability.

  • You are responsible for ensuring that any material you provide to the Site or post on a bulletin board or forum or elsewhere, including but not limited to text, photographs and sound, does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party or is posted with the permission of the owner(s) of such rights.

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  • You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorized use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching, or otherwise, of material obtained through the Site, except as permitted by the Copyright Act or other law or as expressly permitted in writing by this Agreement, Us, or the Site.

  • You agree not to disrupt, overwhelm, attack, modify or interfere with the Site or its associated software, hardware and/or servers in any way, and you agree not to impede or interfere with others' use of the Site. You further agree not to alter or tamper with any information or materials on or associated with the Site.

  • Other than connecting to Our servers using a Web browser, you may not attempt to gain access to Our servers by any means - including, without limitation, by using administrator passwords or by masquerading as an administrator while using the Site or otherwise.

  • You acknowledge that We have not reviewed and do not endorse the content of sites linked to from this Site and are not responsible for the content or actions of any other sites linked to from this Site. Your linking to any service or site is at your sole risk.

We do not endorse anyone's comments

We do not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify, or agree with the comments, opinions, or statements posted on forums, blogs or otherwise contained in the Site. Any information or material placed online, including advice and opinions, are the views and responsibility of those who post the statements and do not necessarily represent our views or those of our third party service providers.

You agree that we and our third party service providers are not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to any information or materials posted by others, including defamatory, offensive or illicit material, even material that violates this Agreement.

Comment ownership and licensing

You retain ownership of, and copyright on, your own comments. You agree that by posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication with or through the Site, you grant Us a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, enhance, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, display, or sublicense any such communication in any medium (now in existence or hereinafter developed) and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.

In addition, be aware that information you disclose in publicly accessible portions of the Site will be available to all users of the Site, so you should be mindful of personal information and other content you may wish to post.

Merchandise sold on or through the Site

Neither We nor our third party service providers make any warranties with respect to any of the merchandise, products, and/or services featured, mentioned, or sold by others on or through the Site. Transactions for any such item shall be between the user and the third party seller, without any involvement of us or our third party service providers. You agree that We and our third party service providers are not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to merchandise, products, and/or services featured, mentioned, or sold by others on or through the Site, including illegal, offensive or illicit items, even items that violates this Agreement.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify Us and our affiliates, employees, agents, representatives and third party service providers, and to defend and hold each of them harmless, from any and all claims and liabilities (including attorneys fees) which may arise from your submissions, from your unauthorized use of material obtained through the Site, or from your breach of this Agreement, or from any such acts through your use of the Site.

Response, deletion, and editing

We reserve the right, but undertake no duty, to review, respond to, edit, move or delete any material provided for display or placed on the Site or its comment systems, in our sole discretion, without notice.

Disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability

You acknowledge that you are using the Site at your own risk. The Site is provided “as is”, and we, our affiliates and our third party service providers hereby expressly disclaim any and all warranties, express and implied, including but not limited to any warranties of accuracy, reliability, title, merchantability, non-infringement, fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, condition, guarantee or representation, whether oral, in writing or in electronic form, including but not limited to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained therein or provided by the Site. We, our affiliates, and our third party service providers do not represent or warrant that access to the Site will be uninterrupted or that there will be no failures, errors or omissions or loss of transmitted information, or that no viruses will be transmitted on the Site.

We, our affiliates and our third party service providers shall not be liable to you or any third parties for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or punitive damages allegedly sustained arising out of this Agreement, the providing of the Site hereunder, the sale or purchase of any goods or merchandise, your access to or inability to access the Site, including for viruses alleged to have been obtained from the Site, your use of or reliance on the Site or any of the merchandise, information or materials available on the Site, regardless of the type of claim or the nature of the cause of action, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above exclusions or limitations may not apply to you. You may also have other rights that vary from state to state.

You hereby agree to release us, our affiliates and third-party service providers, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed (“claims”), arising out of or in any way connected with your use of this site. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which states, in part: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor”.

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