Terms and Conditions...

You are granted permission to view this website's content, and to use and to quote from The Stony Man under the following conditions:

DEFINITIONS.

1. In these terms, conditions, and contract, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings defined in this section:
   1. The words "terms", "conditions", and "contract" shall mean these Terms and Conditions for continuing to use this website.
   2. The words "You" and "you" shall mean you, your agents, or anyone acting on your behalf for any reason, or acting in response to any harm they or you allege against us due to your use of this website, including your heirs and estate, or any business, government, or other legal entity you represent in any capacity.
   3. The words "Your" and "your" shall mean any action performed or attempted by you, and anything belonging to you, including but not limited to, rights, permissions, real estate, property, and money.
   4. The words "We", "we", "Us", "us", "Our", "our", and "ourselves" shall mean Matthew G. Collins, his immediate family, his heirs and assigns, and where applicable, any author or contributor of any content on this website, including but not limited to any other person who submits a comment to the website.
   5. The words "Content" and "content" shall mean any file, web page, image, text, audio file, video file, or any other item stored on any computer server containing the domain name "stonyman.com"
   6. The phrases "This website" and "this website" shall mean any content, as defined above, on any server we host or under our control.
   7. The words "Anyone" and "anyone" shall mean anyone, including but not limited to any user of this website other than you.
   8. The word "contract" shall mean these phrases and conditions, and any contract, express or implied, created by these terms and conditions.
   9. The phrase "use of this website" shall mean any action performed by anyone while interacting with this website in any way, including but not limited to, reading, browsing, copying any content, quoting or referring to any content, leaving a comment, sending a link to any other person or entity by any means, clicking or following any link provided on this website, and any reliance upon it for any purpose.
   10. The words and phrases "Users", "users", "Users of this website" and "users of this website" shall mean any person who makes any use of this website.
   11. The word "court" shall mean any court of law or administrative proceedings, including any arbitration entered into by mutual agreement between you and us, or any arbitration ordered by any court.
   12. The word "contributor" shall mean any person or entity who contributes content to this website, in whatever form, including but not limited to comments published on this website.
   13. The phrase "personal information" shall mean any information that can be used in whole or in part to identify a specific human being, including but not limited to the definition of "protected health information" specified in the HIPAA law, address, phone, fax, email address, Social Security Number, bank account information, date of birth, internet or computer passwords, internet usage, Internet Service Provider, etc.
   TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
   
2. You agree and acknowledge that the terms and conditions listed herein constitute a valid and legal contract between you and us, and constitute all the terms, conditions, and contracts, and the only terms, conditions, and contract, governing your use of this website and the obligations and liabilities you assume by continuing to use this website.
3. You agree and acknowledge that any typographical errors in this contract shall not be interpreted or construed to alter the obvious or evident meaning of that part or provision of the contract, or any other part or provision of the contract.
4. You agree and acknowledge that any use of this website is entirely at your own risk, and you agree to hold us harmless for any use of this website. You agree and acknowledge that any harmful or inaccurate information contained or presented on this website is entirely inadvertent. You agree and acknowledge that you may not hold us responsible in any way for any harmful or erroneous information on this website.
5. You agree that we have legal standing to pursue any rights granted to us by this contract in any local, state, federal, national, and/or international court that has jurisdiction.
6. You agree and acknowledge that if any court should determine that any part or provision of this contract is unenforceable for any reason, the rest of this contract remains enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.
7. You agree and acknowledge that if mutually agreeable between you and us, any disputes may be resolved by arbitration. If you and we agree to resolve a dispute by arbitration, the arbitrator shall be a person mutually agreeable to both parties, and that you will pay the full cost of any court fees and arbitration.
8. You agree and acknowledge that any failure(s) on our part to exercise any or all of our rights, or to obtain any compensation agreed to herein, for any reason, or by any date, do not in any way affect our rights to do so against you by any date in the past or the future.
9. You agree and acknowledge that you may find some content on this website to be offensive to you, and that you may not use any offense given by such content to initiate any legal action against us, or to assert any harm risked, threatened, realized, or caused by said content, for any reason.
10. You agree and acknowledge that you will be responsible for any legal or other expenses incurred by anyone for any legal or other action you initiate against them for any harm you believe you have incurred, or any offense you have taken, by your use of this site, whether or not such legal or other action is successful or results in a judgement in your favor.
11. You agree and acknowledge that you will hold harmless the author(s) of any content on this website for: 1) any emotional distress and/or actual damages you believe you have incurred as a result of your use of this website or any website to which this website provides a link; and 2) any expenses incurred for any purpose by said author(s) in defending themselves against any legal or other actions initiated by you.
12. You agree and acknowledge that you may not use this website in any way to threaten or express any wish for any harm of any nature whatsoever upon any person or entity.
13. You agree and acknowledge that you may not publicly publish or reveal, by any means whatsoever, any contributor's personal information in any context, on any public forum, or any website, and that if you do so, you will immediately pay that person $10,000,000.
14. You agree and acknowledge that you will not publish or disseminate by any means (electronic, verbal, or otherwise), any derogatory statements about us, whether or not such statements are true, nor make any threats of any kind whatsoever against us, or against any human being or organization, and that if you do so, you will immediately pay us $10,000,000. You further agree and acknowledge that any such statements do not constitute speech protected by your rights granted by any law, common law, or constitution of any local, state, federal, national, or international jurisdiction, or any jurisdiction, or any organization.
15. You agree and acknowledge that you must agree not to disclose to any person or entity, other than your bona fide legal team, by any means whatsoever, nor even to imply, the existence any legal action you initiate against us, or which we initiate against you, any settlement we reach with you, any proposed settlement you reject or which we reject, or any judgement of any court relating to any legal proceeding in which both you and we are involved. You also agree and acknowledge that we may, at our sole discretion, disclose, publish, and actively make publicly known any legal action we initiate against you, any settlement you and we mutually agree to, any proposed settlement under consideration or which you reject or which we reject, or any judgement of any court.
16. You agree and acknowledge that all content on this website, not including your contributions, is protected speech under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America and under any law of any jurisdiction, and shall not make any claim in any legal context that any content on this website is not protected speech.
17. You agree and acknowledge that you will not plagiarize any content on this website, and will properly attribute any content you use from this website, in any context you use it.
18. You agree and acknowledge that you will not modify any content on this website in any way.
19. You agree and acknowledge that content without context is pretext. You agree and acknowledge that you will present all references to, and quotes of, any material on this website in their proper and accurate context, and will not, under any circumstances, misrepresent them in any way.
20. You agree and acknowledge that you will not attempt in any way to change the evident meaning of any content on this website.
21. You agree and acknowledge that we own all content on this website, including but not limited to any content you contribute (such as comments you submit), and that we may use such content for any purpose and in any context. You further agree and acknowledge that we may delete any content on this website, including any contribution you make, at our sole discretion.
22. You agree and acknowledge that any content you contribute to this website, including but not limited to any comments you submit, are solely your responsibility, and you will hold us harmless for any consequences whatsoever of it being published on this website.
23. You agree and acknowledge that we cannot monitor this website on a continuous basis, and cannot be held responsible in any way for any threats or hateful speech contributed by others (for example, in any comment), or other illegal activity conducted by any other person or entity.
24. You agree and acknowledge that any illegal activity you perform by using this website, of any kind whatsoever, is your sole responsibility and that it is your responsibility to know what the law allows and does not allow.
25. You agree and acknowledge that you will not attempt to obtain unauthorized access to this website, the servers that host it, the files it contains, or any passwords or private keys used by this website, or any other user of this website, and that if you do, you will immediately pay us $10,000,000.
26. You agree and acknowledge that if you use any content from this site in any context whatsoever to argue, imply, assert, contend, promote, or suggest that the abortion of a human zygote, embryo, fetus, or child, or the intentional termination of a human zygote, embryo, fetus, or child should be legal, then you will immediately pay us $100,000,000. You also agree and acknowledge that this clause of this contract does not constitute any limitation of your freedom of speech.
27. You agree and acknowledge that if you take any action to harrass, threaten physical harm against, or threaten to harrass or take legal action against us, or encourage any other person to do the same, including, but not limited to, any action taken to encourage any agent or agency of any jurisdiction, state, federal, or national government, to investigate or charge us with any crime or civil offense, you will immediately pay us $10,000,000. Further, you agree to pay for all legal expenses we incur as a result of your actions, including all expenses incurred by defending ourselves for any crime or civil action resulting from any action taken by you, and any action required to assert our rights under these terms, conditions, and contract.
28. You agree and acknowledge that under no circumstance will you attempt to have us deplatformed or refused any services by any website hosting company, any Internet provider, or any partner or agent of any provider of any internet service. This includes, but is not limited to, any hosting companies, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), banks, credit unions, financial institutions, e-commerce, or government organization.
29. You agree and acknowledge that if you violate any term or condition listed in this contract, you will pay us the specified amount listed in the specific term or condition, or $10,000,000, whichever is more.
30. You agree and acknowledge that any monetary amounts specified in this contract will be paid to us in United States dollars.
31. You agree and acknowledge that in addition to any specific amount listed, you will pay for all legal fees we incur in pursuing legal action against you.
32. You agree and acknowledge that the monetary amounts listed in this contract are reasonable and are not extreme, no matter how high they may be, and you waive any right in any context to assert otherwise.
33. You agree and acknowledge that the rights you are granting us by your use of this website or viewing its content, or by violating any of these terms or conditions, are granted in perpetuity and that we may exercise them any time in the future, whether or not we take any action to exercise them before any specific date.
34. You agree and acknowledge that these terms and conditions are not a joke, nor intended to be humorous, that they are enforceable under applicable law, that they are reasonable even if they are unusual, that you are bound by them, and that by even attempting to engage in any of the activities listed here, you will owe us the greater of $10,000,000 or the larger amount listed in the specific term and condition you violate, and that such debt is due immediately, and does not require any action, bill, or notification from us.
35. You agree and acknowledge that we may and will aggressively pursue you for any violation of any provision of this contract, and that expressly waive all rights and defenses.
36. You agree and acknowledge that any lesser amount we, at our sole discretion, accept under this contract, shall not affect any other right of any other person to any other compensation for the same violation, or for any other violation by the same person or entity, in the past or in the future.
37. You agree and acknowledge that the terms and conditions of this contract are reasonable and fair, whether or not they are supported by case law or precedent in any jurisdiction.