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                       Floodgap Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

  This document may be changed at any time without notice

   Floodgap.com is happy to serve you a wide variety of unique services, sites and
   information resources on the multiple modalities it offers, including Gopher,
   HTTP/WWW and others. Floodgap does not run ads on local pages, and all of the
   services provided to you are funded by the private owners of this site, as well
   as donations of hardware, network services, and location costs. Please respect
   the unique and free services it offers by reading and abiding by these strict
   terms of service, enforceable by immediate and indefinite address blocking and/or
   reporting your system to your upstream service provider for disconnection.

   These terms of service are subject to change without notice. In the below terms,
   "site" shall indicate any server maintained by Floodgap that offers content,
   which may be one or multiple physical machines; these terms of service apply
   equally to any of these systems regardless. Your use of this site indicates your
   full acceptance of these terms without amendment or limitation. If you do not
   agree with these terms, please do not use Floodgap services further.
    1. E-mail and contact addresses are provided for your convenience only. Spamming
       them would be a really dumb idea, as all spam and other unsolicited
       commercial E-mail sent to these addresses will be traced and reported
       appropriately.
    2. Except where specifically allowed by license in writing, any information this
       site may provide is for your private non-commercial use only, and is in no
       way to be sold, rented, hired out or collected in aggregate form for any
       method of distribution, private or otherwise, without the express written
       consent of the administration. This includes but is not limited to: all web
       page content, scripts and images; all multimedia content; any and all Gopher
       and other file access services. Material may be copyrighted and may have
       additional restrictions on its dissemination even if Floodgap permits you to
       use it.
       If you use software packages offered by Floodgap, regardless of whether they
       were authored by Floodgap, allowable usage is entirely determined by the
       license within. This may or may not permit commercial use or redistribution,
       and you are responsible for complying with the license completely under all
       circumstances, whether used commercially or otherwise.
    3. Attempting to compromise this site's security (or any of its component
       servers) in any way is forbidden, and may be illegal in your jurisdiction.
       Attempts are logged, and may be presented to your network administrator
       and/or appropriate authorities without warning, even if allegedly committed
       without malicious intent.
       As a corollary, addresses with defective DNS reverse-lookup may be subject to
       temporary ban. This is not only because a faulty reverse lookup interferes
       with internal threat detection, but also because a misconfigured DNS server
       may generate unacceptable system delays while the site is waiting for a
       response. Sorry. Please tell your ISP to fix this if you think your DNS is to
       blame.
    4. The use of web spiders, web site copy agents, and other robots or robot-like
       activity to download and/or copy this site's content is expressly forbidden,
       other than specifically permitted robots indexing this site for publicly
       available search engines and information resources, the list of which is
       privately and exclusively determined by this site's administrators. Please
       enjoy this site's content online.
       Be forewarned: Floodgap has taken a very hard line against copy agents due to
       their irresponsible proliferation. These programs frequently issue rapid-fire
       requests which increase peak CPU and network load; multiple local copies make
       proper version control impossible; and furthermore, local copies of
       copyrighted material may be in violation of the terms Floodgap was granted
       for its use. Server logs are routinely scanned for robot- and crawler-like
       activity, and such activity may lead to your network address or netblock
       being transiently or indefinitely banned from this site without notice. If
       you are a robot administrator and your robot has been banned from this site,
       it is either overloading this server, or ignoring directives (such as 
       tags, which are used heavily to cordon off areas). Please correct your
       software before you contact the administration.
    5. Proxy or gateway services offered by this site, including but not limited to
       GopherHTTP and Hytelnet, are not designed to offer you any meaningful
       anonymity. You should not assume that your browsing is anonymous when using
       these services, and you may be automatically and/or transparently directly
       connected to the server site without warning. Furthermore, all use of gateway
       and proxy services is fully logged with client address and requests made for
       accounting purposes. The use of these proxy or gateway services to defeat,
       weaken or otherwise circumvent the Internet usage policies of your client
       network or of the remote server site accessed through the proxy or gateway
       service is strictly prohibited, and such activity may lead to network address
       blocks being transiently or indefinitely banned from this site without
       notice. Robots attempting to crawl proxy services, which are clearly marked
       with  tags to block their indexing, will be banned upon discovery,
       indefinitely.
    6. Site use is completely at your own risk. No warranty, express or implied, is
       issued for any content, including but not limited to programs, images and
       documents, that this site may offer. Furthermore, you are granted no
       guarantee considering any aspect of said content, including but not limited
       to the veracity, utility, resemblance to fact, or situational applicability
       thereof.
       That said, this site does endeavour to present factual information at all
       times. Please report specific enquiries or concerns to the administration.
    7. Floodgap.com values your privacy. No personal information is requested of you
       to use this site. Web and gopher server logs are only collected for the
       purpose of verifying system functionality, contain only the actual request,
       the user's IP address and user agent, and are erased every 24 hours. No
       cookies are sent and no session ID is assigned. No permanent record of your
       activity on Floodgap nor any user profile compiled from your activity on
       Floodgap is maintained.
       There is no data to provide to any user who requests it under the European
       Union General Data Protection Regulation as Floodgap lacks the personal
       information to match a specific user to such data, even within the 24-hour
       period prior to log erasure. Aggregate counts may be maintained for longer
       periods for the purpose of historical access statistics, which also contain
       no individual personally identifiable information and have IP addresses and
       user agents removed. Such data is not shared with other entities and is not
       used for marketing or advertising purposes, and similarly cannot be matched
       to any user who may request it under the EU GDPR.
       There is no data to be deleted on any user who requests it under the
       California Consumer Privacy Act as Floodgap lacks the personal information to
       match a specific user to such data, even within the 24-hour period prior to
       log erasure. Aggregate counts may be maintained for longer periods for the
       purpose of historical access statistics, which also contain no individual
       personally identifiable information and have IP addresses and user agents
       removed. Such data is not shared with other entities and is not used for
       marketing or advertising purposes, and similarly cannot be matched to any
       user who may request it to be deleted under the CCPA. Additionally, Floodgap
       is not subject to the CCPA even if such information were available, as it
       does not have annual gross revenues in excess of $25 million, and as it
       neither buys nor sells user information, it therefore necessarily does not
       buy or sell the personal information of 50,000 or more consumers or
       households nor does it earn more than half its annual revenue from selling
       visitors' personal information.

   All legal issues regarding the operation of this server shall be adjudicated in
   accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States of America,
   where the server and Floodgap are physically located.

   Specific questions or concerns may be addressed to the site administration at
   [3]webmaster@floodgap.com.
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    Cameron Kaiser

References

   1. http://www.floodgap.com/
   2. http://www.floodgap.com/
   3. mailto:webmaster@floodgap.com