Terms of Service

Welcome to Smart Girl Politics! SMART GIRL POLITICS and its associates provide their services to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit this website, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully. ​

PRIVACY

Please review our Privacy Notice, which also governs your visit to our website, to understand our practices.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

When you visit SMART GIRL POLITICS or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

COPYRIGHT

All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of SMART GIRL POLITICS or its content suppliers and protected by international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of SMART GIRL POLITICS, with copyright authorship for this collection by SMART GIRL POLITICS, and protected by international copyright laws.

TRADE MARKS

SMART GIRL POLITICS’ trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not SMART GIRL POLITICSs, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits SMART GIRL POLITICS. All other trademarks not owned by SMART GIRL POLITICS or its subsidiaries that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by SMART GIRL POLITICS or its subsidiaries.

LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS

SMART GIRL POLITICS grants you a limited license to access to make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of SMART GIRL POLITICS. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents: any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices: any derivative use of this site or its contents: any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant: or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of SMART GIRL POLITICS. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of SMART GIRL POLITICS and our associates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing SMART GIRL POLITICSs name or trademarks without the express written consent of SMART GIRL POLITICS. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by SMART GIRL POLITICS. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of SMART GIRL POLITICS so long as the link does not portray SMART GIRL POLITICS, its associates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any SMART GIRL POLITICS logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.

YOUR MEMBERSHIP ACCOUNT

If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. If you are under 18, you may use our website only with involvement of a parent or guardian. SMART GIRL POLITICS and its associates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their sole discretion.

REVIEWS, COMMENTS, EMAILS, AND OTHER CONTENT

Visitors may post reviews, comments, and other content: and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.” You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other content. SMART GIRL POLITICS reserves the right to remove or edit such content. If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant SMART GIRL POLITICS and its associates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant SMART GIRL POLITICS and its associates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post: that the content is accurate: that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity: and that you will indemnify SMART GIRL POLITICS or its associates for all claims resulting from content you supply. SMART GIRL POLITICS has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. SMART GIRL POLITICS takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND GRAPHIC IMAGES

SMART GIRL POLITICS writers do their very best to either purchase stock photography or use creative commons images, but mistakes do happen. If you believe an image of yours was used and not given proper attribution, please let us know and we’ll remedy the situation.

RESPONSIBILITY

Each SMART GIRL POLITICS writer’s content is their own, not their employer, volunteer group, membership organization, church, or other agencies which they might be seen as represented, including that SMART GIRL POLITICS. SMART GIRL POLITICS itself is an outlet for each individual writer’s thoughts and opinions on whatever they wish to write. Each writer writes and each reader reads at their own risk.

PERSONAL VIEWS

All articles on SMART GIRL POLITICS are the views and opinions of the writer. Both the writer and commentator are solely responsible for their own statements.

PROTECTION FROM COMMENTERS

SMART GIRL POLITICS is not responsible, nor will be held liable, for anything anyone says in the comments or groups, nor the laws which they may break in their country or ours

COMMENT POLICY

SMART GIRL POLITICS administrators are the moderators of this site and reserve the right to place in moderation or remove entirely comments they believe are offensive, such as:

  • Personal attacks, slams, flaming
  • Excessive use of profanity
  • Comments that are not addressing the topic of conversation
  • Threats of any kind, innuendo, defamatory statements
  • Spam, excessive linking (more than two), signature links
  • Attacks on commenters

We welcome an open exchange of ideas and opinions on our site, but are at the same time committed to providing a safe online environment. We encourage opinions on all topics and believe open and free dialogue should take place even if a comment is contrary to the post in opinion as we intend to encourage productive dialogue. We fully expect to be trolled, and will not hesitate to take appropriate actions. You’ve been warned.

Think before you post.

APPLICABLE LAW

By visiting SMART GIRL POLITICS, you agree that the laws of the state of VIRGINIA, USA, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and SMART GIRL POLITICS or its associates.

DISPUTES

Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to SMART GIRL POLITICS shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in VIRGINIA, USA, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate SMART GIRL POLITICS’ intellectual property rights, SMART GIRL POLITICS may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of VIRGINIA,USA, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrators award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY

We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time and without warning. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

QUESTIONS

Questions regarding our Conditions of Usage, Privacy Policy, or other policy related material can be directed to our support staff by clicking on the “Contact Us” link in the side menu. Or you can email us at: [email protected].