Policies
Welcome to the Griffin-Spalding Library
You are allowed 2 computer sessions per day. Each session is two hour longs. At the end of your session, the computer will reboot and clear your history, including any files you have saved to the hard drive. Therefore, you should save your work. 2GB Flash Drives are available at the Circulation desk for $6.50.
Please do not have more than one person at the computer without prior staff approval.
Please do not use your cell phone at the computer because it may disturb other patrons.
Here’s the legal stuff:
Internet Acceptable Use Policy
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
Welcome to Flint River Regional Library's High Speed Internet Access Service (the "Service"). The Service is being provided by Flint River Regional Library. As a condition of accessing this Service, you must agree to the following terms and conditions of use ("Acceptable Use Policy"). If you do not agree to the Acceptable Use Policy you may not access or use the Service. Your Clicking on "I Agree" at the bottom of this Acceptable Use Policy, or your use of the Service, indicates your acceptance of this Acceptable Use Policy.
Editorial Control
Flint River Regional Library does not review nor exercise any editorial control over the content or materials made available over the Internet by third parties, including without limitation any electronic mail transmissions, newsgroups, or the like. However Flint River Regional Library, in compliance with requirements of both the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and Georgia Code (§ 20‐5‐5), filters all Internet computers. Parents and guardians are responsible for supervising their children's Internet sessions and for letting their children know if there are materials children should not use or view. Flint River Regional Library may remove, block, filter, or restrict by any other means any materials that, in Flint River Regional Library's sole discretion, may be illegal, may subject the library to liability, or may violate this Acceptable Use Policy. Flint River Regional Library may cooperate with legal authorities and/or third parties in the investigation of any suspected or alleged crime or civil wrong. Violation of this Acceptable Use Policy may result in the suspension or termination of access to the Service.
Restrictions on Use
You agree to not use the Service to:
(a) transmit any material that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
(b) harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way;
(c) impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any material transmitted through the Service;
(d) transmit any material that you do not have a right to make available under any law;
(e) transmit any material that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
(f) transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation;
(g) transmit 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 or telecommunications equipment; or
(h) use the Service for excessively high volume data transfers, such as those which, in the view of Flint River Regional Library, risk consuming bandwidth to the detriment of other Service users.
Disclaimer of Warranties
THE MATERIALS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE AND THROUGH ANY THIRD PARTY ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY MAKES NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION AS TO THE ACCURACY, CURRENCY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY OR USEFULNESS OF
INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE SERVICE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT SOFTWARE DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY GOODS OR SERVICES OR THE DELIVERY OF ANY GOODS OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE OR ADVERTISED THROUGH THE SERVICE, OR REGARDING ANY TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH THE SERVICE. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU VIA THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HEREIN.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLES, EVEN IF FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, FROM ANY CHANGES TO THE SERVICE, OR FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA.
YOU SPECIFICALLY AGREE THAT FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY THREATENING, DEFAMATORY, OBSCENE, OFFENSIVE, TORTIOUS, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF YOURS OR OF ANY OTHER PARTY OR ANY INFRINGEMENT OF ANOTHER'S RIGHTS, INCLUDING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, ARISING ON, FROM, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN CONDUCT IN USING THIS SERVICE, AND WILL INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY FROM ANY CLAIMS, LIABILITY, DAMAGES OR COSTS THAT RESULT FROM YOUR CONDUCT IN USING THIS SERVICE.
IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE SERVICE, THE MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, OR WITH ANY PROVISIONS IN THIS LEGAL NOTICE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SERVICE.
You are allowed 2 computer sessions per day. Each session is two hour longs. At the end of your session, the computer will reboot and clear your history, including any files you have saved to the hard drive. Therefore, you should save your work. 2GB Flash Drives are available at the Circulation desk for $6.50.
Please do not have more than one person at the computer without prior staff approval.
Please do not use your cell phone at the computer because it may disturb other patrons.
Here’s the legal stuff:
Internet Acceptable Use Policy
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
Welcome to Flint River Regional Library's High Speed Internet Access Service (the "Service"). The Service is being provided by Flint River Regional Library. As a condition of accessing this Service, you must agree to the following terms and conditions of use ("Acceptable Use Policy"). If you do not agree to the Acceptable Use Policy you may not access or use the Service. Your Clicking on "I Agree" at the bottom of this Acceptable Use Policy, or your use of the Service, indicates your acceptance of this Acceptable Use Policy.
Editorial Control
Flint River Regional Library does not review nor exercise any editorial control over the content or materials made available over the Internet by third parties, including without limitation any electronic mail transmissions, newsgroups, or the like. However Flint River Regional Library, in compliance with requirements of both the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and Georgia Code (§ 20‐5‐5), filters all Internet computers. Parents and guardians are responsible for supervising their children's Internet sessions and for letting their children know if there are materials children should not use or view. Flint River Regional Library may remove, block, filter, or restrict by any other means any materials that, in Flint River Regional Library's sole discretion, may be illegal, may subject the library to liability, or may violate this Acceptable Use Policy. Flint River Regional Library may cooperate with legal authorities and/or third parties in the investigation of any suspected or alleged crime or civil wrong. Violation of this Acceptable Use Policy may result in the suspension or termination of access to the Service.
Restrictions on Use
You agree to not use the Service to:
(a) transmit any material that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
(b) harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way;
(c) impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any material transmitted through the Service;
(d) transmit any material that you do not have a right to make available under any law;
(e) transmit any material that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
(f) transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation;
(g) transmit 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 or telecommunications equipment; or
(h) use the Service for excessively high volume data transfers, such as those which, in the view of Flint River Regional Library, risk consuming bandwidth to the detriment of other Service users.
Disclaimer of Warranties
THE MATERIALS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE AND THROUGH ANY THIRD PARTY ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY MAKES NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION AS TO THE ACCURACY, CURRENCY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY OR USEFULNESS OF
INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE SERVICE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT SOFTWARE DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY GOODS OR SERVICES OR THE DELIVERY OF ANY GOODS OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE OR ADVERTISED THROUGH THE SERVICE, OR REGARDING ANY TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH THE SERVICE. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU VIA THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HEREIN.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLES, EVEN IF FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, FROM ANY CHANGES TO THE SERVICE, OR FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA.
YOU SPECIFICALLY AGREE THAT FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY THREATENING, DEFAMATORY, OBSCENE, OFFENSIVE, TORTIOUS, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF YOURS OR OF ANY OTHER PARTY OR ANY INFRINGEMENT OF ANOTHER'S RIGHTS, INCLUDING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, ARISING ON, FROM, OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN CONDUCT IN USING THIS SERVICE, AND WILL INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS FLINT RIVER REGIONAL LIBRARY FROM ANY CLAIMS, LIABILITY, DAMAGES OR COSTS THAT RESULT FROM YOUR CONDUCT IN USING THIS SERVICE.
IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE SERVICE, THE MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, OR WITH ANY PROVISIONS IN THIS LEGAL NOTICE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SERVICE.