Welcome to 7Bends.com. We at 7Bends.com take your privacy, and the privacy of your personal information seriously. This Terms of Service, Privacy Policy Statement describes our policies concerning the information we collect when you visit our Web site and/or register for any of our services. Please read this notice carefully. By using this website you accept the terms set forth in this Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Statement. This is a legally binding agreement between you and 7Bends.com.

7Bends.com does not collect any personal information that the visitor does not expressly provide. 7Bends.com will never sell, rent, give away, or share in any way your personal information, including e-mail address, with any third party, for any reason, without your express written permission. 7Bends.com may use your personal information for the sole purpose of delivering our e-mail newsletter, and occasionally an important update, that your registration information leads us to believe you would want to receive, and any other periodic publication, which you have specifically requested, or as required by law, as the result of a duly authorized court order.

In conjunction with various promotional opportunities that may become available, from time to time on the website, 7Bends.com may request non-personally identifiable information, such as annual income, education level, buying preferences, etc., also known as demographic and profile data. 7Bends.com may use this data, in aggregate, with all other user data collected on the website, to improve our site offerings and offer you, our visitors a more enjoyable user experience. We may, from time to time, share this demographic data with others, such as advertisers interested in advertising on our site. This data, and any derivatives we may develop from this data, will contain NO personally identifiable information about you or any other person.

In addition to collecting personal and non-personal data, 7Bends.com may collect non-personal, aggregated data about subscriber and visitor usage of the site. This data contains no personally identifiable information and will only be used to find out how subscribers, in aggregate, use the web site. The collection of this data allows us to better prepare for traffic on the website and find ways to more efficiently deliver the best in content to subscribers and visitors alike.

The submission of articles, stories, photos, video, and/or any other media is strictly at the discretion of the sender, who will be solely responsible for their submissions and any consequences related to posting or publishing them. In connection with user Submissions, you affirm, represent, and warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use said Submissions, and authorize 7Bends.com to use all patent, trademark, brand mark, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all said Submissions, in order to enable inclusion and use of the Submissions by 7Bends.com website, and/or our print publications, in accordance with this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Statement; (ii) you agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any Submission that you submit to 7Bends.com for publication and (iii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the submission, to use the names and/or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person, to enable the inclusion and use of the Submission by 7Bends.com in accordance with this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Statement. By submitting the Submissions to 7Bends.com, you grant 7Bends.com, and anyone authorized by 7Bends.com, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Submission in connection with the 7Bends.com website and the 7Bends.com (and its successor’s) business, including without limitation, for promoting and redistributing part or all of the 7Bends.com website (and derivative works thereof) in any media format and through any media channels. You also grant each user of the 7Bends.com website a non-exclusive license to access your Submission through the website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such Submissions, as permitted through the functionality of the website and under this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Statement.

In connection with User Submissions, you further agree that you will not: (i) submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant 7Bends.com all of the license rights granted herein; (ii) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage 7Bends.com or any third party; (iii) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; (iv) post advertisements or solicitations of business; or (v) impersonate another person. 7Bends.com does not endorse any Submission or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and 7Bends.com expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with said Submissions. 7Bends.com will remove a Submission immediately, if properly notified that such Submission infringes on the intellectual property rights of another. 7Bends.com reserves the right to remove Submissions without prior notice. 7Bends.com reserves the right to decide unilaterally whether a Submission is appropriate and complies with this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Statement, for violations other than copyright infringement and violations of intellectual property law, such as, but not limited to, defamatory, obscene or pornographic material, or excessive length.

If you receive an e-mail that you did not expressly request, 7Bends.com will provide you with an e-mail address by which you may unsubscribe from future notices. You may at any time cancel your membership to the 7Bends.com mailing list by visiting the unsubscribe page. 7Bends.com does not tolerate any abuse, harassment, or fraudulent activity aimed towards other members.

Some of the ads appearing on this web site may be delivered to you by 3rd party advertising partners. Information about your visit to their site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (based on IP address and without use of any personally recognizable data), is used to serve the most relevant ads to you. This information is never sold, nor is it used for any other purposes.

Our web server automatically collects limited information about your computer configuration when you visit our site, including your IP address, the type of browser software you use (browser type and version), the operating system you are running, the resolution of your computer monitor and the website and/or search engine that referred you. We also use IP address information for systems administration and trouble shooting purposes.

7Bends.com makes use of browser “cookies.” This is a nearly universal practice on the Internet. Cookies are tiny text files sent to your computer by our server. When you return to 7Bends.com, they allow our server software to quickly check your status as a subscriber and serve you pages based on your preferences and previous choices while on the website. 7Bends.com will never use cookies for any other purpose than to retrieve information from a computer that is related to our site and/or services.

As part of our services, 7Bends.com may create links to third party sites in order for you to obtain related information, products and/or services. While we do our utmost to screen all such third party businesses, 7Bends.com is not responsible for the content that appears on these third party sites and does not endorse them. We cannot guarantee the prices, terms, quality, reliability or performance of the information, products or services provided by these websites and/or vendors. Please consult those sites’ individual privacy policies in order to determine how they treat user information, and perform your own due diligence in regards to any dealings you may have with said businesses. You release 7Bends.com from any damages that you may incur, and agree not to assert any claims against 7Bends.com, arising from your purchase or use of third-party supplied information, products and services.

All information described above is stored on restricted, state of the art, database servers in protected, secure environments, however no physical or electronic security system is fail safe. We cannot guarantee the security of our servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

7Bends.com is made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. The materials on this site are the property of 7Bends.com or its licensees, and are protected by U.S. copyright laws, international copyright laws and conventions. Except as explicitly provided in this agreement, you may not distribute, transmit, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any of the materials on this site. You may display and occasionally print a single copy of any page on the site for your personal, non-commercial use, but you may not otherwise reproduce any material appearing on this site without the prior written consent of 7Bends.com. You may not store any significant portion of, nor distribute copies of, materials found on this site, in any form (including electronic form), without prior written permission from 7Bends.com.

You are free to establish a hypertext link to this site so long as the link does not state or imply any endorsement or sponsorship of you, your company, or your site by 7Bends.com or any of its affiliates. Without the prior written permission of 7Bends.com, you may not frame any of the content of 7Bends.com, nor incorporate in any form any intellectual property of 7Bends.com, or its licensees, into another website or publication.

Opinions expressed on 7Bends.com, or in any electronic or print media, do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the staff, management, or ownership of 7Bends.com. All reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the quality and accuracy of all 7Bends.com publications.

IF YOU RELY ON THIS WEBSITE OR ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCT OR SERVICE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MAY BE DELAYS, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, INACCURACIES, AND/OR OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES PUBLISHED ON OR PROMOTED OVER THIS SITE. THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS.” 7BENDS.COM AND ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSEES, CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE ADVICE, OPINIONS, STATEMENTS OR OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE (OR ANY INFORMATION, GOODS OR SERVICES THAT ARE REFERRED TO, ADVERTISED OR PROMOTED ON, OR SOLD THROUGH THIS WEBSITE). NOR DO WE GUARANTEE THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE ERROR FREE, NOR CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE, NOR THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL 7BENDS.COM OR ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR LICENSEES BE LIABLE TO ANYONE FOR ANY DAMAGES OTHER THAN DIRECT DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE LINKED TO FROM OR ADVERTISED OR PROMOTED ON THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING LOST REVENUES OR PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR LOSS OF DATA). YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SOME OF THESE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS 7BENDS.COM, ITS EMPLOYEES, OWNERS, REPRESENTATIVES, AND LICENSEES AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, OF WHATEVER NATURE, THAT ARISE OUT OF ANY BREACH BY YOU OF THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE.

7Bends.com may, at any time, and without prior notice, change the terms of this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Statement. We’ll post the changes to this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Statement on this website and update the reference to the effective date to reflect the date of the amendment. By visiting 7Bends.com, and the use of this website, you agree that your visit is governed by this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Statement, as modified. 7Bends.com may change, restrict access to, suspend, or discontinue this website, or any portion thereof at any time.

This Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Statement have been made in, and will be construed in accordance with the laws of, the State of Virginia. By using this website, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts in Shenandoah County, Virginia, in all disputes arising out of or relating to this Agreement or use of this website.

If you have any questions about this policy, or our site in general, please contact us.

7Bends.com
234 West King Street
Strasburg, Virginia  22657

E-Mail: info@7bends.com
Phone: (540) 335-1732