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1. Visitor's agreement and rules of conduct for the web site

Use and participation in this web site is contingent upon your acceptance of the following terms and rules. By using our Web site, you accept these terms. In addition, your continued use of our Web sites after a change has been made to the policies of our web site implies your assent to those changes.

2. Links to Other Sites

We choose our links to other web sites carefully. However, thsi website is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of web sites operated by third parties that are linked to or from this web site. These links are meant for the visitor's convenience only. Links to third party web sites do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by this website of any content, policies or practices of such sites. Once you have left this web site via such a link, you should check the applicable terms of use and privacy policy of the third party site. This web site may also be linked to or from web sites operated by companies affiliated with this web site. Visitors to those sites should refer to their separate terms of use, privacy policies and practices.

3. Rules of conduct

This website is not responsible for any material posted on our message boards, reviews system or other forums.

You shall not post or transmit through this web site any defamatory, threatening, obscene, harmful, pornographic or other material which would violate or infringe in any way upon the rights of others, or which would give rise to criminal or civil liability and/or violate federal or local law or regulation. This web site will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing this website to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such emails or materials. Further, you shall not post or transmit through this web site any material which advertises or otherwise solicits funds or is a solicitation for goods or services.

You shall not upload, post, or otherwise make available on this web site any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of such copyright, trademark or other proprietary interest.

You shall not upload, post or transmit through this web site any advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or spamming of the same message to multiple boards.

By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication through this web site, you hereby waive any and all rights to any stories, ideas, drawings, opinions, and other creative "materials" posted to this web sites. You authorize this web site to utilize, royalty-free, in any manner it sees fit and for eternity, the materials posted on the site, which shall become the property of this web site and shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such communication, including, but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark, service mark, or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction. You release this web site from any and all claims or liability (now known or hereafter arising) in connection therewith, and you agree to indemnify this web site in connection therewith pursuant to the terms of paragraph 4 below. You agree and acknowledge that your participation in this web site shall not give rise to any confidential, fiduciary, implied-in-fact, implied-in-law, contractual or other special relationship between you and this web site (other than the contractual relationship entered into between you and this web site by virtue of your agreement to the Terms and Conditions of Use).

4. Visitor's indemnification / oblications

In consideration for your use of and access to this web site, you agree that in no event will this web site, its affiliated or related entities, its content providers or any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering this web site or any site linked to or from this web site, be responsible or liable to you or entity in any manner whatsoever (including, but not limited to, persons who may use or rely on such data or materials or to whom such data and materials are furnished) for any loss, damage (whether actual, consequential or punitive), injury, claim, liability, or other cause of any kind or character whatsoever based upon or resulting from any information provided in this web site, or arising from any decision made or action or non-action taken by you or any other person in reliance upon the information provided through this web site, even if you advise this web site of the possibility of any claims or damages.

You, as a visitor and/or user of this web site, agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless this web site, its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims, losses, costs, and expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the BPportal Web site, or arising out of any violation of laws or these Rules of Conduct committed by you, including, without limitation, any communication by you which is claimed to be defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful, or which is claimed to violate the copyright, trademark, proprietary or other rights of third parties, or which constitutes a submission of materials.

5. TERMINATION

This web site shall have the right to immediately terminate your use of this web site if this web site determines, in its sole discretion, that you have violated the Rules of Conduct set forth above in Paragraph 3 or otherwise breached this agreement, or have engaged in conduct which this web site determines, in its sole discretion, to be unacceptable. While this web site recognizes that its message boards and review system may be regarded as a public forum, it is not applicable under the American First Amendment as a venue of free speech. This website reserves the right to remove any postings to our message boards at our sole discretion.

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By empowering the weak as well as the strong through information and dialogue HDN continues to contribute significantly to reversing the devastating impacts of HIV and TB.

- Father Michael J Kelly, Irish Jesuit priest and renowned expert in HIV and education in Zambia

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