SeaGreenNews.com Comment Policy

The purpose of the SeaGreenNews.com blog is to facilitate an ongoing dialogue on ‘Green Thinking’, Eco-news and wildlife conservation. We encourage your comments; your ideas and concerns are important to ensure that a broad range of people are active and informed participants in the discussion. SeaGreenNews.com reserves the right to modify this policy at any time.

We encourage your comments and hope you will join the discussions. We can't respond to every comment but hope the community can help with questions. We inspect comments and those that are off-topic or clearly promoting a commercial product generally will be deleted. We also expect a basic level of civility; disagreements are fine, but mutual respect is a must, and profanity or abusive language will not be tolerated.

By posting any comments, posts or other material on SeaGreenNews.com blogs, you give SeaGreenNews.com the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display, edit, modify, create derivative works from, and otherwise use your submission for any purpose in any form and on any media. You also agree that you will not:

1. Post material that infringes on the rights of any third party, including intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights.
2. Post material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by Mayo in its sole discretion.
3. Post advertisements or solicitations of business.
4. Post chain letters or pyramid schemes.
5. Impersonate another person.
6. Allow any other person or entity to use your identification for posting or viewing comments.
7. Post the same note more than once or "spam."

SeaGreenNews.com reserves the right (but is not obligated) to do any or all of the following:

1. Remove communications that are abusive, illegal or disruptive, or that otherwise fail to conform with these Terms and Conditions.
2. Terminate a user's access to the blog feature upon any breach of these Terms and Conditions.
3. Edit or delete any communications posted on the blog feature, regardless of whether such communications violate these standards.

Finally, you agree that you will indemnify SeaGreenNews.com against any damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs) arising out of a claim by a third party relating to any material you have posted.

Thank you for taking the time to read this comment policy. We encourage your participation in our discussion and look forward to an active exchange of ideas.