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Clarissajeanne.com or related sites and Clarissa J. Markiewicz are not liable and will not be held responsible for any content or conduct resulting directly or indirectly from this site.

In using this site, you understand and agree to all policies stipulated on this site. You understand and agree that I reserve the right to change these policies at any time.

The posting of any links not generated by third-party advertising at any place on clarissajeanne.com or related sites, including within posts, those that are specified under “recommended links,” or in any other promotional placement, does not necessarily constitute endorsement of direct, secondary, or tertiary products, services, or advice, reciprocal acknowledgment or endorsement of Clarissa J. Markiewicz or clarissajeanne.com or related sites, or any business or personal arrangements or agreements.

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You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless clarissajeanne.com or related sites and Clarissa J. Markiewicz from all liability, and be responsible for incurring any and all costs associated with any claim resulting should you breach any policies and/or agreement on this site.


Waiver of Copyright:

By contributing to this site via forum, e-mail submission, or any other method, you agree to waive all claims to copyright on those contributions, and agree that I or this site may reuse, reasonably edit, and/or delete your comments without your notification or additional permission.


New Lit Experiment Submissions:

By submitting contributing information for the New Lit Experiment, you understand and agree to the following:

All material submitted is your own and you've created it uniquely for clarissajeanne.com and the New Lit Experiment. Nothing has been plagiarized, copied, or otherwise replicated from any other source, including other reviews or posts that you have contributed on other sites.

You will not copy full or significant sections of others’ submissions or your own submissions to this site for use on any other site.

You waive copyright of your submission upon contribution. You understand that the material may be posted, reused, changed, edited, deleted, or moved at any time by clarissajeanne.com without additional request for permission or notification. You understand that the content of your submission will not be altered in any significant way that contradicts your original intent, or violates any standards presented in the site policies of clarissajeanne.com.

You agree not to include any attachments to your submission. Attachments will be unopened and may result in any submission being deleted.

You will not submit any link or other material containing potentially destructive code, viruses, or any other software or mechanism that is designed to in any way disrupt this site, violate its policies, or disrupt any e-mail accounts, contributors, users, software, or hardware associated with it.

You understand and agree that any language or other material deemed offensive, abusive, or illegal in any way will either be deleted and ignored or reported to appropriate authorities, if warranted.

Any submission you make to the New Lit Experiment must be relevant, adhering to the guidelines set at www.clarissajeanne.com/new_lit_experiment.html. You understand that if your submission has been rejected for reasons of irrelevancy, if you continue to make multiple similar submissions this may be viewed as spamming and/or harassment.

If your submission is rejected for any reason, you will accept the decision and will not submit the same material again without suggested alterations, if applicable. You will not initiate or participate in any complaint or behavior deemed harassing toward clarissajeanne.com or related sites, its creator, or anyone associated with it.


Code of Conduct for Forums:

I love a hearty debate. Debate can sometimes get passionate, and it can even get personal. But please, keep it civil. I hate to have to spell out the legalese, but I’d hate it even more if someone took advantage and then everyone had to stop playing. So here are the general policies that any contributor or user is agreeing to by being a part of any conversation on or related to this site:

Any abuse of this site or breach of the following or any site policies may result in deletion of posts and/or revocation of access. Any illegal, threatening, or harassing activity will be reported to the appropriate authorities.

You may not post material that is, to a reasonable person, offensive, abusive, harassing, rude, crude, excessively profane, or defamatory.

You may not post any material that is pornographic, or sexually or violently explicit.

You may not post material that is in any way illegal or generally disgusting. This means anything a reasonable person (or, you know, the law) would consider sexist, ageist, racist, homophobic, ethnically offensive, derogatory, hateful, harmful, threatening, discriminatory, or invasive of privacy.

Invasions of privacy include, but aren’t limited to: posting private or personal information about another contributor or user, including contact or identifying information; harassing, stalking, or trolling another contributor or user; posting libelous, defamatory, harmful, or threatening information about another contributor or user.

While privacy should be respected, please note that all user-generated posts on this site are public and waived of copyright. Post at your own risk.

Be respectful of other people’s walks of life. You don’t have to agree (the conversation’s better if you don’t, actually) but don’t demonize, belittle, or bully.

No solicitations or commercial posts. If you’re including info that may be genuinely helpful (like “hey, you’re looking for an eggplant recipe, and I just happened to post one on my Web site”) that’s great, but if it seems like you’re posting strictly to drive more traffic to your site, or if all your posts just push a site, product, or service, or are irrelevant to the discussion, they’ll be deleted.

Similarly, keep your agendas to yourself, please. Go ahead and share your opinion, and by all means share the truth, but if you’re clearly not listening to anyone else and you’re only interested in dumping propaganda and baseless “facts” on people, your posts will be deleted.

Maintain general online rules of conduct. Turn off the caps lock, know when to quit with the exclamation points, etc. Adhere to all rules set forth by Google and Blogger.

Do not post or link to material containing potentially destructive code, viruses, or any other software or mechanism that is designed to in any way disrupt this site, violate its policies, or potentially harm any contributors, users, software, or hardware associated with it.

Do not post material that is plagiarized, or that infringes on any copyright, trademark, slogan, or otherwise protected legal entity. If you are quoting a source, please add proper attributions, including where the quote originated.

Clarissajeanne.com or related sites and its author in no way accept responsibility for the content of any post, the conduct of any contributor, or any outcome or consequence that may ensue. By contributing to and using this site, you agree to do so by your own accord and you agree that the site creator does not assume any such responsibility.

As the author of this site, I reserve the right at any time to delete posts, and/or refuse access to anyone for any reason.


Privacy Policy:

Any ads that may be run on this site are at the sole discretion of third-party advertising programs. Please use your own discretion when clicking on advertisements or links to third parties. Neither clarissajeanne.com nor its author control advertisers' content, or terms of privacy or service, and the site and author assume no responsibility for the actions of any third party or any outcomes or consequences that may ensue. Clarissa J. Markiewicz and clarissajeanne.com or related sites do not necessarily endorse or advocate any product, service, advice, or other information made available by third-party advertising programs or vendors.

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All posts on this site are public, including all user-generated posts in the Vox Populi forum, and all submissions to the New Lit Experiment. Please post and submit at your own discretion.

I reserve the right to delete, edit, move, or otherwise change any information posted on this site in forum, via submission, or any other method. However, the content of any submissions or other information posted will not be altered in any significant way that contradicts the contributor’s original intent or violates any standards presented in the site policies of clarissajeanne.com or related sites.

Please do not post or submit any personal information you do not wish to become public, including your real/full name. Usernames in the forum are encouraged.

While subscription requests and New Lit Submissions require an e-mail address, I will not voluntarily share that or any other personal information any user may submit. However, please be aware that if because of a hack, theft, or other unforeseeable circumstance your information is stolen, neither Clarissa J. Markiewicz nor clarissajeanne.com or related sites assumes any responsibility for this or any ensuing outcome or consequence. Please post and submit your information at your own risk.


Additional Disclaimers:

Any resemblance to persons living or dead of characters appearing in or associated with “Sketches from the CafĂ© Confictura” on clarissajeanne.com or related sites is purely coincidental. Any reference on clarissajeanne.com or related sites to living or dead public figures, entities, places, events, and the like, are of a fictional, opinioned, and/or parodic nature.

Any advice, including diet and exercise advice, given anywhere on or in connection with clarissajeanne.com or related sites is based on experiential knowledge only; no doctors have been specifically consulted for clarissajeanne.com or related sites. Clarissa J. Markiewicz is not a doctor, nor has any doctor, health practitioner, or governmental agency reviewed or approved of the advice on this or related site. Regarding all health and diet advice on this site, these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. No advice or statements on this site are intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Please attempt recipes, exercise, or any other activity referenced by clarissajeanne.com or related sites at your own risk, and consult your doctor before engaging in any activity that may be harmful to your well-being. Clarissa J. Markiewicz, clarissajeanne.com or related sites do not assume responsibility for your use of the site, the public forum, associated accounts, or the information contained therein.

All original material on this site is under copyright ©2017 by Clarissa J. Markiewicz, all rights reserved.