General

Thank you for visiting dominicacentral.com, an interactive internet service operated by Dominica Today. Access to and use of this site is governed by the terms and conditions specified in this document. If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions please do not access, use, and or contribute to dominicacentral.com.

Everyday, hundreds of users just like you visit and use dominicacentral.com. Our goal is to deliver a rewarding experience to all. We therefore expect that you exercise due deference in your use of the site. Using dominicacentral.com in any way that infringes on the rights of others or restricts and or inhibits their use and enjoyment thereof is strictly prohibited.

If any of these terms are deemed unenforceable by local law in a particular jurisdiction, the remaining terms shall remain in full force and effect. Our delay or failure to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive the dominicacentral.com right to enforce that right.
Please note that dominicacentral.com reserves the right to change the terms and conditions governing access and use of this site at anytime.

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all material and content appearing on dominicacentral.com (including text, images, graphics, photographs, audio, and video) are the property of Dominica Today and are protected by copyright laws. You may not use dominicacentral.com content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. If you need permission to use dominicacentral.com content or believe that we have used your material in a way that infringes your copyright, please contact editor@dominicacentral.com or call us at (767) 440-3257.

Contributions to dominicacentral.com

We solicit and welcome your contributions. Please note however, while you will always retain copyright in your work, whenever you submit a contribution (including text, photographs, graphics, audio, video) to dominicacentral.com, you do so free of charge and thereby confer upon us the right to use, modify and or alter the same in anyway we deem fit in the generation of the dominicacentral.com services. In certain circumstances, we may also share your contribution with trusted third parties.

Please note that you should only submit your own original works. Also, you are to ensure that such work is not defamatory, does not infringe any Dominican laws, and that you have the right to give dominicacentral.com permission to use it for the purposes specified above. Furthermore, before submitting any contribution to dominicacenral.com, you are liable to ensure you have the permission of anyone who is identifiable in your contribution or the consent of their parent or guardian if they are under 16.

Unless otherwise requested, we normally show your name with your contribution. From time to time, dominicacentral.com may need to contact you to clarify or verify a query in relation to your contribution. . .

dominicacentral.com communities

dominicacentral.com allows you to participate in several of our communities including message boards, posts, comments and forums. All contributions must be in good taste, pay due deference to other users and be subjected to the following rules.

(i) About your posts:

• No disruptive, offensive or abusive behavior will be tolerated. Contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or calculated to cause trouble.
• No unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material will be accepted.No multiple submissions of the same or very similar contributions are allowed. Please don’t re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
• No submission of any defamatory or illegal material of any nature allowed. Furthermore, contributing material to a dominicacentral.com community with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited
• No advertising or promotions including the use of URLs are allowed
• No contributions containing languages and dialects other than English, French patois or cocoy are permitted. Contribution in other languages or dialects will be removed
• No impersonation is allowed. Users who pose as other persons or plagiarize other people material will be barred from participating
• No offensive and inappropriate user names or symbols will be allowed. dominicacentral.com strongly disapproves of this behavior and subscribers using vulgar or offensive names and or symbols will be barred from participating in dominicacentral.com communities.

(ii) Your dominicacentral.com Account:

• You may also subscribe to our newsletter, participate in surveys, or we may send you emails from time to time. In order to receive emails from dominicacentral.com,
• Your accounts must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly.
• Accounts registered with someone else’s email address, or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice.
• We may require users to re-validate their account if we believe they have been using an invalid email address.

(iii) Safety:

• You are your first line of defense against cyber crimes and fraud and are fully responsible for your own safety. Under no circumstance should you make available any personal information about yourself or anyone else in any dominicacentral.com community. Examples of such information include telephone numbers, home addresses, email accounts, passwords, social security number, bank accounts etc .

(iv) Breach of Community Rules:

• Failure to abide by these Community Rules will result in swift and decisive action taken against you. Non-compliant contributions will be edited, censored or refused. Subscribers who repeatedly flout the rules will be barred from participating in any or all of dominicacentral.com communities. Dominica Today reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any dominicacentral.com account, at any time, for any reason

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

The views expressed in the dominicacentral.com communities are created by the users and unless specifically stated, are not necessarily those of dominicacentral.com. We do not accept responsibility for any content posted by members of the public on dominicacentral.com or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through dominicacentral.com. We do not endorse these sites and links to third party websites from dominicacentral.com are only provided as a matter of courtesy.

While we will spare no effort in ensuring that all content we provide is correct at the time of publication, dominicacentral.com will not accept responsibility for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.

Furthermore, we cannot and do not guarantee that dominicacentral.com or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. We will do everything in our power to ensure that our site is clean. However, you are fully responsible for protecting your hardware and software against bugs, spyware, adware, trojan horses, viruses and other attacks by installing the necessary anti-virus and security features on your system.