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"Us", "The Fume Cupboard Facility", "The Underground Zone", "Site owners" "Cyan", "Cyan Helkaraxe", "Bane", "Bane Singollo", "we", "the site", "this site", "our productions", "our material", "the authors" and other similar words or phrases refer specifically to the members of "The Fume Cupboard Facility", which by default definition extends to Cyan Helkaraxe and Bane Singollo. Other members may or may not be affiliated with this site.
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"Using", in the context of the site, or material available from this site, includes (but is not limited to) the actions of reading, viewing, downloading, caching, printing, hacking, reverse-engineering, or loading / storing into any media, artificial "intelligence", or physical brain.
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By using this site you are agreeing to be bound by the terms, conditions, and acceptable use policies in this document. By using this site you warrant that these terms and conditions are legal in your jurisdiction. By using this site you certify that you are not a government worker, law enforcement agent, copyrighted material owner, or a representative of any other such authority seeking to examine the content of this site with or without a view to take action against the site owners.
By using this site you certify that you do not intend and will not take any form of action against us or any involved party.
All material on this site, including but not limited to this document, the HTML pages, HTML techniques, all images, downloadable material, and textual content is copyrighted unless specifically stated otherwise.
The copyright and ownership of all original material, creative and technical, found on this site is solely our property. In addition, we claim full ownership of the artistic material involved in fanworks displayed here.
We do not claim ownership of intellectual property owned by third parties unless said parties have agreed to sign copyright and/or ownership over to us.
In the case of "fanworks" (pieces of work incorporating ideas, depictions, or content from other parties, and used without permission), the works are intended purely as a tribute, parody, review or research/educational material, and not a deliberate attempt to violate copyright and/or profit out of others' work. We have no intentions of profiting out of other party's material.
In addition, in the case of said fanworks, we claim full ownership and copyright over the production, excluding claiming ownership over previously copyrighted ideas, concepts, material or situations which the content was inspired by.
All entirely original non-parody/tribute/review material on this site is copyrighted by their respective creators or owners, and is not compromised in any way by the existence of fanwork on said website.
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The copyright, ownership, and other rights of all original material, creative, technical, or otherwise, found on this site is solely our property, except where noted otherwise. In addition, we claim full ownership of the artistic and technical ideas and material involved in fanworks displayed here. We do not claim ownership of intellectual property owned by third parties.
In no way can ownership of our original material be claimed, even if said material features third party creations, ideas, situations, concepts, characters, or other material, used in a fanwork, review or parody context, without permission.
Any material, artistic or otherwise, that is our property (excluding as discussed above any claim to the intellectual property of third parties which we do not make, although by definition, in the event of our original material being combined with a third party's copyrighted material, the combined work must fall under this section due to the inseparable nature of the works) may be viewed online. It may also be stored to a medium of the user's choice, including but not limited to silicate, magnetic, optical, foul bio-AI, stone, or wax-based, for personal use.
Content may only be re-hosted, re-broadcasted or transferred between third parties with our express written permission. Direct linking to files is prohibited, but main sections of this site may be linked to IN A NON-COMMERCIAL CONTEXT without permission. A main section is defined as a point on the site where the main navigation mechanism is visible, and from which this document can be accessed.
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The creators of this site also disclaim, to the fullest extent possible under applicable law, all responsibility for the content of this site, and the consequences of the use or mis-use of any information or material found herein. This site is provided "as-is" and all warranties, implied or otherwise, are expressly disclaimed; this applies to but is not limited to the warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, legality, completeness, or any other guarantee of quality, or any other warranty. This disclaimer includes any and all guarantees, implied or express, of service kind or quality, none of which are made.
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We reserve the right to start, stop, or neglect entirely to keep logs as we see fit, and without notice to any involved or uninvolved party. We reserve the right to publish, or protect any logs that exist using any technology, including experimental one-way encryption.
In accordance with the disclaimer of warranties, no service guarantees are made, and we reserve the right to adjust the content on this site, change its location, change its name, remove the site temporarily or permanently, or otherwise make any adjustments to the site, at any time, without any prior notice to any involved or non-involved parties.
At any point we may terminate your access to the site without warning, consultation or reason, for any length of time.
We reserve the right to direct you to various sites, scripts, or other internet entities by sending you links, including for the purpose of information extraction or damage. By using this site you agree to allow data extraction or damage to your computer equipment, and any other biological, electrical or mechanical bodies involved.
We reserve the right to connect to your computer(s), and extract data that you have allowed us to access. By accessing this site, you are giving permission for us to access any data which can be accessed, via any method, over the internet or otherwise, on your computer. You also accept that the process of accessing this data may involve manipulation of your computer('s) hardware or software settings, and may result in data loss, damage, personal injury, death, or hardware damage. In addition, you accept that any consequences which occur through this procedure are entirely your responsibility, including but not limited to your machine being opened as an illegal SMTP relay or proxy server, etc.
At any time, and without warning or notification we may treat the site as "private" property, and any attempt to access the site will be deemed a hack attempt.
This site, Emulationzone, and any other related parties (with the exception of commercial upstream providers) operate as not-for-profit parties. No profit is made in the process, and all advertising revenues are used for further server and service improvements, and not profit. The authors of this site do not have any involvement with the advertising revenues.
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In addition to legal action, we reserve the right to terminate your access to this site and/or inform upstream and affiliated hosts of this site and/or your ISP of your misconduct.
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