BUDDYPRESS PRIVACY COMPONENT ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMERS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS, and NOTICES Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Jeff Sayre and SayreMedia.com The original plugin author offers this component (plugin) as a GPL plugin and for zero cost. Furthermore, all CSS, javascript, and any original image files, are licensed under the GNU General Public License 2.0 (GPL) or any later version. This plugin is a release candidate version to be used only in a development sandbox and not in a production environment. Use at your own risk. This plugin is also not being developed or supported anymore by the author. It is released to the BuddyPress community for it to be adopted, forked, and further developed. This disclaimer is compatible with the the GNU General Public License 2.0 (GPL), under which it is licensed. If there is a conflict between this disclaimer and the GPL, the language that provides the most legal protection for past, current, and any future authors, shall be used. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. You use the BuddyPress Privacy Component ("BP Privacy", "this plugin") at your own risk, on your own volition, and "as is". You and your site members have no legal recourse for any data loss, security breach, or other damages or losses that may occur as a result of installing, activating, and/or using this plugin in any way for any purpose. Past, current, or future copyright holders, shall not be liable for any damages, including but not limited to, direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or losses that occur out of the use or inability to use this plugin. This holds true in perpetuity, even in the event that the copyright is transferred to another party, or the copyright is changed in anyway. There are no guarantees that this plugin will be kept up to date. The current, stable version of this plugin, v1.0-RC1, is a release candidate version to be used only in a development sandbox and not in a production environment. Use at your own risk. This plugin is also not being developed or supported anymore by the author. It is released to the BuddyPress community for it to be adopted and further developed. This plugin is designed, but not guaranteed, to function properly when activated on a clean installation of the versions of PHP, WordPress, and BuddyPress indicated in the readme.txt file. It is designed, but not guaranteed, to function properly using the default BuddyPress theme(s). There are no guarantees this plugin will function with any 3rd-party plugin, 3rd-party (custom) theme, or any particular Web browser—although it does require a modern Web browser and you and your users must have javascript enabled. The contents of any included translation files are the responsibility of the party who provided the translation. The translation files are not checked for accuracy, quality, or suitability, so use them at your own risk. You should check any and all translation files that you use for suitability, including inappropriate (rude, vulgar, misleading) language. The included BuddyPress Privacy Manual is a draft version. As such, it may contain typos, inaccuracies, and incomplete information. The manual should be used as a general guideline. Proceed at your own risk. Make sure you fully understand what you are doing before taking any actions that might impact the functioning of your WordPress-based network. You are entirely on your own. I am not responsible for any issues you have with the approaches, steps, and techniques suggested in the manual--including ones that may have been caused by errors in this manual. Do not proceed unless you know exactly what you are doing. Whatever happens, you are on your own. You have been warned. Altering or removal of this or any other usage TERMS AND CONDITIONS associated with BP Privacy will not change the official terms or conditions. The only party that has the rights and jurisdiction to change the TERMS AND CONDITIONS under which this plugin is licensed are the copyright owners. NOTICE OF PRIVACY AS A CORE BUDDYPRESS FEATURE There are no guarantees that any portion of BP Privacy will be merged into BuddyPress core. This plugin was designed as a 3rd-party plugin. It was not designed with the intention of being or becoming a core BuddyPress component. Therefore any migration or conversion of your users' privacy data from BP Privacy to any future version of a BuddyPress-offered core privacy service may be required and is your sole responsibility.