Privacy and Publishing Policy

General Use of This Website
The Online Geocacher Magazine is wholly owned and operated by Publisher-In-Chief Joe Acamo, aka Catsnfish. Stock is not publicly owned or sold on a public exchange. The Online Geocacher Magazine is not publicly operated or administrated by the public. The Online Geocacher Magazine is a privately owned company and as such cannot be considered a "public asset" or "public domain" in terms of content, policies or usage. Use of The Online Geocacher Magazine's content and that of our appendant owned websites in any form is implied agreement to conform to the policies listed below, among other policies and disclaimers posted on The Online Geocacher Magazine website(s) and forums by the administrators of The Online Geocacher Magazine.

About content, forum posts, events and news published:
The Online Geocacher Magazine cannot be held responsible for the reliability of content published or posted on our website(s). We do not confirm the accuracy or currency of content submissions from contributing authors but simply provide content as a free community service to our readers. All collaboration or verification of any content is the responsibility of the reader prior to relying on such information for any purpose or action that may be taken on their behalf or on the behalf of others.

We suggest that you confirm the locations and schedule of events before heading out to any event which is published by The Online Geocacher Magazine or our affiliates. We do not advocate one author or event promoter over another, and our "featured" content, events, banners or promotions may be provided by those who have put our logo and link on their website, cross-promoted and supported The Online Geocacher Magazine, have allowed for promotion of The Online Geocacher in their publication or at their events, allowed for press coverage by The Online Geocacher Magazine staff, or have paid for ads or to have their content published in The Online Geocacher or in our forums, among other agreements. Those who support us will see The Online Geocacher Magazine's support in return.

About Content, Photography or any other submitted and published works:
The contents published are the content submissions, opinions and experiences of other people and we do not necessarily approve, agree with, and/or condone any opinions expressed. We publish author’s contact information unless they ask us not to do so. If you have a dispute with anything published you may contact the author directly if we have published that contact information in the author’s biography. Note that The Online Geocacher will not be party to or aware of any direct communication with our content providers.

All content including writings, photography and images submitted for publication is specifically copyrighted by The Online Geocacher Magazine. If you want to use our content for non-commercial purposes please contact us first for instruction on how to properly attribute that work. If we discover that our works are being used without proper notification and our express permission, especially in the cases of photography, images, and entire articles, for commercial purposes, legal action may be taken if the issue is not resolved immediately to our satisfaction. We require proper credit and cross-linking in all cases of commercial usage and royalty fees or flat fees may apply if content is used in whole or in part for commercial purposes. News posting is acceptable only as an introduction or topic statement, followed with a direct link to the article or feature located in The Online Geocacher Magazine or our forums or by link to another site. Copying a complete article or feature from The Online Geocacher Magazine on another web domain, even in a frame window or otherwise, or copying to print for distribution without our express consent is prohibited and in violation of copyright law and this notification.

Please do not use the material or photographs published in The Online Geocacher Magazine without contacting us first. All content, photography and graphics with or without our logo on it and all written works are specifically copyrighted by The Online Geocacher Magazine and/or the owners or providers of that content. We may have usage agreements with our content providers which prevent us from redistributing their work. If no such agreements exist then The Online Geocacher Magazine will be very agreeable in most cases to allowing redistribution of our content.

About our content:
All content published as part of The Online Geocacher Magazine and our community forums and any opinions, advice, statements, views or other information expressed in this magazine are solely provided by, and the responsibility of, the person posting such content and not of The Online Geocacher Magazine. The Online Geocacher Magazine does not certify, endorse, verify or review for accuracy any content published. The Online Geocacher Magazine makes no warranty of any kind, express or implied, with regard to the reliability or useability of content published or information contained therein. The Online Geocacher Magazine is not responsible for defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any author providing content to this magazine and forum. Any user who feels that content posted is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by reporting the content to The Online Geocacher Magazine. We have the ability to edit or remove objectionable content and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that action is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular content immediately. You are responsible for ensuring that any material you submit to The Online Geocacher Magazine (text, images, forum post or other content) does not violate or infringe upon the copyright, patent, trademark or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party, and is posted with the permission of the owner of such rights.

The Online Geocacher Magazine reserves the right to remove any postings from this magazine and forum at its discretion; this reservation creates no affirmative duty in The Online Geocacher Magazine, and failure to exercise this power shall not subject The Online Geocacher Magazine to any liability of any sort. The Online Geocacher Magazine reserves the right to publish, edit or delete content at any time for any reason, and we will ban content submitters as the publishers and forum moderators deem necessary to combat trolling, defamation, and unnecessary personal drama or attacks on an individual, place, business entity or thing. We do not do this very often but if a post is a blatant attack or unsubstantiated accusation or contains private information that was obviously not meant to be posted and not constructive to the community it will be removed.

Be advised that we may post IP addresses and host provider names as well as any other identifying information of content providers who we deem to be trolling or otherwise misbehaving at any time and without notice to the person who is deemed to be a troublemaker. Persons submitting content to The Online Geocacher or posting to our forum hereby agree to abide by all applicable laws both National and International and to accept legal responsibility for the contents of their submissions. The Online Geocacher Magazine insists that you do not post pornographic photos, use lewd or vulgar language, or post personal drama.

All content will be family-friendly; If you would not say it to your Grandmother, Spouse, Pastor or Boss do not post it here!

Definition:
Troll: A troll is a person who posts inflammatory or controversial dialogue on the internet simply to upset people in the community. They often do not believe in what they are posting and often will hide behind a special handle or false name or register on a forum or such public site solely to defame a person or criticize a person’s viewpoint. They may post to appease a vendetta they have with a person that they could not solve intelligently or by honorable means and are usually very frustrated. They also post about personal issues usually not related to the topic at hand.

This definition will be applied to submitters of all content. While criticism will not be stifled it will be watched carefully. You can disagree without being disagreeable. Basically, if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say it!

About our links cited:
The Online Geocacher Magazine does not assume any responsibility for the content of any of the links we cite. You are browsing our website and the Internet at your own risk and if you find anything offensive or objectionable on other sites which we link to first contact them directly to express your concern. If they will not modify their content to your satisfaction please contact us. The Online Geocacher Magazine reserves the right to determine what links and content are suitable for this magazine and to remove those deemed to be offensive.

Privacy Statement:
The Online Geocacher Magazine may use outside advertising companies to display banners on this site. The advertisements may use cookies. Cookies received with banner ads are collected by our web hosting company, and we do not have access to this information. Our forums may also use cookies for login ease and new topic listings to help with browsing, among other such utility purposes. This site also contains links to other sites. The Online Geocacher Magazine is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. We may also log and use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site(s).

The Online Geocacher Magazine does not sell or share contact or identifying information about our subscribers, content providers or staff. The compilation, gathering or distribution of any such information or the use of such information is expressly prohibited. Any personal or private information provided to us will be used solely in the conduct of The Online Geocacher’s business and publications.

The Online Geocacher Magazine posts many pictures of people in our magazine. If your name is listed in relation to a picture and you would prefer anonymity, please contact us. We will remove the identifying information upon request. If you find something published about you that you believe to be offensive or misquoted, it was most likely done in a humorous manner or is unintentional but will be removed upon request.

Please note that if you are present at an event or appear in content we publish that there is an implied consent to being photographed by the press or written about in content when you are in public. If you are depicted we will always attempt to be honest and fair in our use of such depictions, yet any observation and/or critique will always be very subjective. We do not intend our images, features or presentations to be tabloid or intrusive, and in fact take pride in our efforts towards journalistic integrity and industry standard protocol.

The staff of The Online Geocacher Magazine has received numerous accolades for high achievement in journalism and is dedicated to publishing our work in that manner.

The Online Geocacher Magazine reserves the right to modify or develop additional or revised statements to our policies or disclaimers at any time as deemed necessary for any reason to better serve our magazine or our readership, the forum community, our visitors and subscribers. Please check this statement prior to submitting content, posting to our forum or browsing The Online Geocacher Magazine to ensure that you are in agreement and compliance with our policies at any given time.