Pakistaniz is an Internet community Web site providing a variety of services to users. This document covers the terms and conditions under which these services are provided. Your use of any of the features and services on the Pakistaniz Web site constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions. These terms and conditions apply automatically to any new services or features introduced on the Pakistaniz.

Pakistaniz reserves the right to update the terms, conditions and notices of this Agreement without notice to you. It is your responsibility to periodically review the most current version of this Agreement as your continued use of Pakistaniz signifies your acceptance of any changed terms.

Pakistaniz is a service provider as defined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Pakistaniz is an interactive computer service as defined by 47 U.S.C. § 230. As such, we do not control the truth or accuracy of content posted or the safety, or legality of the items advertised or sold. You may find other users' information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or deceptive. Therefore, please use caution and common sense when using Pakistaniz or any other website on the Internet! The views expressed on the website are not those of Pakistaniz.com, and any errors or omissions in them belong to the respective contributors / copyright holders.

The remainder of this document covers the specific terms and conditions under which each major service category of Pakistaniz is provided for your use. It is your responsibility to make sure you read and understand this document before using any Pakistaniz service. Please do not contribute to Pakistaniz in any manner unless you have carefully read and agree with all of these terms. In the remainder of this document, the term 'Pakistaniz' is used to refer to the Web site itself and to IdealLogics, LLC, the company which owns and operates the Pakistaniz Web site.

All the content available for public access on Pakistaniz is protected by copyright. Your use of this material must adhere to the following terms.

All content is provided for public access free of charge, unless otherwise stated. You may access the content for viewing or listening (in the case of audio content) online. You may download and print a single copy of any content item for your personal, non-commercial use. Content items include, but are not restricted to, articles, columns, photographs, complete Coffeehouse posts and reader comments on articles. You may not modify any content you download or print from Pakistaniz. You must retain all copyright notices and logos on any content item you download or print. You may not make any content item originating from Pakistaniz available for public access by any means without obtaining prior written permission from Pakistaniz. You may forward Internet URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) to third parties for private, non-commercial use, along with brief extracts that do not violate Fair Use guidelines (please read this if you do not understand the term 'fair use'). You may post, or otherwise make publicly available, excerpts from Pakistaniz content items, in any publicly accessible forum, so long as they follow standard Fair Use guidelines and Pakistaniz is cited alongside the excerpt as the original source.

Pakistaniz maintains and operates several publicly accessible electronic forums to foster vibrant discussion and debate within the Pakistaniz community. Content may be added to these forums by any visitor without prior approval. In certain forums, you may be required to register or provide certain information before being allowed to access the forum. Forums of this type on Pakistaniz include, but are not limited to, the Pakistaniz Forums, Pakistaniz Local News etc. . The terms in this Section apply to all such forums, but do not include services that allow users to send private email to each other. While you are on the site and engaged in any form of communication on the unedited forums,

You agree NOT to: Upload or post or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, promotes violence, is invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Pakistaniz official, forum leader, guide or host, 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 the unedited forums; Upload or post otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available, under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside, proprietary or confidential information, learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); Upload or post or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. You may, however, post excerpts of copyrighted material so long as they adhere to Fair Use guidelines (click here for an explanation of Fair Use). Upload or post or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of business solicitation. Repeated postings of a promotional nature is considered abuse of the forums. Businesses or individuals wishing to advertise on the Pakistaniz website should contact us at this address. Upload or post or otherwise make available 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; Disrupt the normal flow of dialogue by repeatedly posting the same or similar material, or otherwise acting in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in exchanges; Violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law; "stalk" or otherwise harass another user; or collect or store personal data about other users either manually or by means of automated software tools; promote illegal activities; Inhibit other users from using and enjoying the unedited forums

You also agree that: Pakistaniz may remove or edit any content added, at our sole discretion. Material, once posted, cannot be retracted. Normally we completely remove any material that we deem objectionable. In the very rare cases where we decide that editing the content is the right decision, we will indicate any editorial action alongside the content. Content you post on our unedited forums, in any other form whatsoever, you do so voluntarily and it constitutes Community Data. Community Data includes, but is not limited to, forum posts, ratings, surveys, topics you suggest or post, any organizational structures you create, trivia, summary information, the public images library, links and products. By submitting or posting Community Data on Pakistaniz, you hereby grant Pakistaniz an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) license to exercise all copyright and publicity rights to your Community Data. This irrevocable license includes, but is not limited to, the right to use , modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, create derivative works of, syndicate, or sell for any purposes whatsoever, in any media now known or not currently known. We are not responsible or liable for loss if visitors to the site violate your copyright and distribute your copyrighted content without your permission. You grant us the right to organize, categorize, collate your contributed content and present it on the website in any manner we see fit. You will NOT receive any monetary compensation for any content you contribute to the unedited sections. The only in-kind compensation we promise is exposure on the World Wide Web. You grant us the non-exclusive right to seek online and offline syndication and publishing opportunities for your content that is posted on Pakistaniz.

Pakistaniz provides this site and related services subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in this document.

All pages within this Internet site are the property of IdealLogics, LLC Permission (which may be revoked at any time) is granted to download the material in this Site without alterations and for private and non-commercial use only so long as the following copyright notice is included:

Although the Site is accessible worldwide, not all products or services discussed or referenced in the Site are available to all persons or in all geographic locations or jurisdictions. Pakistaniz reserves the right to limit the provision of any product or service to any person, geographic area or jurisdiction it so desires, in its sole discretion, and to limit the quantities of any such product or service that it provides. Any offer for any product or service made in the Site is void where prohibited.

Pakistaniz has no obligation to monitor the Site or Site-related services. However, you acknowledge and agree that Pakistaniz has the right to monitor the Site and Site-related services and to disclose any information necessary to operate the Site properly, to protect itself and its sponsors and customers and to comply with legal obligations or governmental requests.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Pakistaniz and its sponsors against any and all claims, damages, costs or other expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from (a) your breach of this Agreement, (b) your activities in connection with the Site or Site-related services.

Pakistaniz retains all rights, title and interest in and to its intellectual property. You may not copy, reproduce, re-publish, distribute, create derivative works of, sell, transfer, display, transmit, compile, collect in a database, or in any manner commercially exploit any part of Pakistaniz that does not belong to you, unless express permission is granted by Pakistaniz or a third party copyright owner. You must abide by all copyright notices, information or restrictions contained on Pakistaniz.

Last updated: March 20 , 2004.