Terms of Service

TERMS OF SERVICE: 1 -Absolutely NO SPAMMING is allowed and absolutely NO sharing of passwords is allowed. Any member spamming or sharing passwords, copying discussions or other nefarious activity will be terminated from LOTH. If a member is here to cause problems, they will be removed. If you are NOT who you say you are, you will be removed. Sorry...don't mean to sound pushy, but this site has no room for anyone causing trouble, lying, or snooping. 2 -Every effort is made to secure this site and to keep confidential the information that is shared here, HOWEVER, because everyone can invite others, and there is limited screening, users are reminded to use discretion when sharing PERSONAL INFORMATION on this site. For your protection: Your email address and home address are HIDDEN from view except to the Administrator of this site. 3 -Spamming, explicit photos, sharing passwords, defamation of character or attempts to harm a person or company by words or actions will NOT be tolerated. Absolutely no males are allowed on this site. Also, no ladies under the age of 21 are allowed. This is for YOUR protection. 4 -Regarding forum discussions, groups, etc., the Administrator has the right to remove any flaming, hurtful content in order to keep a friendly atmosphere within LOTH. Opinions are welcome, but once a controversial topic has been discussed, it will be archived or removed. Please see paragraph below: The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Declaration of Principles adopted in 2003 reaffirms democracy and the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Declaration also makes specific reference to the importance of the right to freedom of expression for the "Information Society" in stating: "We reaffirm, as an essential foundation of the Information Society, and as outlined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; that this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Communication is a fundamental social process, a basic human need and the foundation of all social organisation. It is central to the Information Society. Everyone, everywhere should have the opportunity to participate and no one should be excluded from the benefits of the Information Society offers." Freedom of Speech applies in keeping the friendly flow of LOTH. 5 -As a member, you have the right to invite your friends. Since Ladies of the Hat is a private community, please be mindful of who you are inviting. If you do not know the person, think twice before inviting them. 6 -The Administration/Creator of Ladies of the Hat takes no responsibility for your actions within this site and outside of this site. 7 -Black Hat Divas/Banshees and Kaleidoscopes consist of ladies over the age of 21. Events for these groups are to be labeled separate from any other outside woman's organization/corporation. 8 -Your membership on LOTH is full agreement that you will hold harmless any liabilities, problems, malicious activity from another member, LOTH, Inc., Donna Macauley-Shoemaker and it's successors and assigns. If you do not agree to these terms, please remove yourself immediately. 9 -Black Hat Divas/Banshees and Kaleidoscopes are both copyrighted and trademarked with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Black attire and black hats are the trademark "dress" of the Black Hat Banshees. Bright colors (of any color) is the dress of the Kaleidoscopes. Red and Purple colors together are NOT recognized nor allowed as per an agreement with the red hat organization in 2008. Once you join us here, if you do not like what you see, please remove yourself from this website. Thanks for reading this....now...PARTY ON! Donna

The following Terms of Service apply to your use of this Network. You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on the Network and compliance with these terms. By registering with us or using or browsing this Network, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. This Network is not intended for children younger than 21 and is offered only to users 21 years of age or older. If you are under 16 years old, please do not use this network unless you have received a written permission (consent) from a parent or legal guardian.

You may use this Network provided that you have the power to enter a binding contract with us and are not barred from doing so under any applicable law of your country.

You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use this Network:

In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
in a manner 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;
to engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable;
to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to this Network without authorization;
to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Network or prevent others from using this Network, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Network, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use this Network;
to use any manual or automated means, including agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access or manage any user's account or to monitor or copy this Network or the content contained therein;
to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through this Network or to users; and
in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.

Additionally, you agree not to:

"Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Network or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Network for the purposes of automating logins to this Network;
Post any content containing child pornography to this Network;
Post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
Post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature.
Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from this Network - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or "well-behaved" web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by "well-behaved";
Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Network's infrastructure;
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, this Network;
Use this Network as a generic file hosting service;
Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of this Network or for using it for purposes unrelated to this Network); and
Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Network.

To provide notice of alleged copyright infringement on this Network, please see the DMCA Notification Guidelines.

You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use this Network to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that these Network Terms of Service inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our Network platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Network Terms of Service. Technology and hosting for aspects of this Network are provided by this Network's online service provider. However, the Network Creator of this Network controls the content, membership and policy of this Network, including those pages served by such service provider on behalf of this Network.