Terms of Use

Website Terms of Use

Welcome to the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Conference website.

WNCCUMC.org and its affiliated websites are operated by the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Conference (“Conference”).

When using WNCCUMC.org, you agree to the terms and conditions listed on this page (the "Terms of Service Agreement"), which may be updated by us from time to time.

WNCCUMC.org may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because WNCCUMC.org has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that Conference is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that Conference shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.

You may not: (1) modify WNCCUMC.org, (2) publish, display, disclose, rent, lease, modify, loan, distribute, or create derivative works based on data on our website or any part thereof without the express written permission of Conference, (3) remove, obliterate, or cancel from view any copyright, trademark, confidentiality or other proprietary notice, mark or legend appearing on WNCCUMC.org, (4) reverse engineer, decompile, translate, adapt or dissemble WNCCUMC.org, nor shall you attempt to create the source code from the object code for WNCCUMC.org without the express written permission of Conference, or (5) assign the license for the Service.

Personal Information and Interactive Features

Certain features of WNCCUMC.org may require you or your church to register personal information and obtain a username and password from WNCCUMC.org. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account number and/or password. You are responsible for all uses of your account, whether or not actually or expressly authorized by you.

The Conference grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to create an account for and use WNCCUMC.org in accordance with this Terms of Service Agreement. WNCCUMC.org and any associated documentation are and shall remain the sole and exclusive property of the Conference.

To enable the Conference to protect our constituencies and respond to respective needs and complaints, you consent to the Conference employees being able to access your account and records on a case-by- case basis to investigate complaints or other allegations or abuse. The Conference shall not disclose the existence or occurrence of such an investigation unless required by law.

All interactive communications (email, chat, discussion boards, etc.), even though intended for a private audience, are subject to public access. Although we reserve the right to remove without notice any bulletin board posting for any reason, we have no obligation to delete content that you may find objectionable or offensive.

Information and opinions expressed in bulletin boards or other interactive communications are not necessarily those of the Conference. Users alone are responsible for the contents of the messages they communicate when using our services as well as the consequences of any such messages. You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in and to any content you post to WNCCUMC.org and that all content you post to WNCCUMC.org complies with these Terms of Service.

You agree not to use WNCCUMC.org to:

• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to the Conference.
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available content that violates laws or regulations designed to protect minors.
• impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, the WNCCUMC.org webmaster, forum leader, guide or host, of falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person on entity;
• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through WNCCUMC.org;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary right ("Rights") of any party;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation.
• intentionally upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses, or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware on telecommunications equipment;
• disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to scroll faster than other users of WNCCUMC.org are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to engage in real time exchanges;
• interfere with or disrupt WNCCUMC.org or servers or networks connected to WNCCUMC.org, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to WNCCUMC.org;
• intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
• stalk or otherwise harass another, or
• collect or store personal data about other users.

The Conference does not condone copyright infringement and will not tolerate such infringement by its users. Accordingly, the Conference may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be infringing the intellectual property rights of others.

We may modify or discontinue of services or your account with us, with or without notice, without liability to you, any other user or any third party. We reserve the right to terminate your account if we learn that you have provided us with false or misleading registration information, interfered with other users or the administration of the Conference’s services, or violated these Terms of Service.

You understand and agree that the Conference’s services are provided AS-IS. the Conference assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings.

YOU UNDERSTAND AND EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE CONFERENCE’S SERVICES ARE AT YOUR SOLE RISK, THAT ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE CONFERENCE’S SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL AND/OR DATA.

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH ON OUR SITES, THE CONFERENCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY