The Organization for the Protection of Nevada’s Resident Tortoises, Inc.

Las Vegas, Nevada

a non-profit organization since 1982.

Contributing in efforts to protect the wild desert tortoise and its 
natural habitat and promoting responsible care of legally acquired pet desert tortoises.

PROPRIETARY RIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS

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PRIVACY, SECURITY AND PROHIBITED CONTENT

See Tortoise Group’s Privacy Policy for information on the privacy and security practices of Tortoise Group and this Site.

By using this Site, you agree that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer and account, and you accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account and password. If you access this Site on a public computer or use a computer to which multiple people may have access, follow all relevant instructions to sufficiently disconnect and log off of this Site and the computer system you are using to prevent unauthorized access to your Tortoise Group account.

Unlawful activities on this Site are strictly prohibited. This includes tampering with this Site, misrepresenting the identity of a user, using buying agents or conducting fraudulent activities.

Site users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of this Site, including without limitation: (1) accessing data not intended for such user or logging onto a server or an account which the user is not authorized to access; (2) using this Site for unintended purposes or trying to change the behavior of this Site; (3) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (4) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to this Site, overloading, "flooding," "spamming," "mailbombing" or "crashing"; (5) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting; and (6) forging communications on behalf of this Site (impersonating this site) or to this Site (impersonating a legitimate user). Sending unsolicited and unauthorized e-mail on behalf of Tortoise Group, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services, is expressly prohibited. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability.

You agree not to use any device, software or routing data to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Site or any activity being conducted on this Site. You agree not to use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, data or other device or mechanism (including browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search this Site other than the search engine and search agents provided by Tortoise Group or publicly available browsers.


Content that does the following types of things is illegal and/or prohibited on this Site:

  • Is patently offensive to the online community, such as content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
  • Is or could be harmful to minors, including material that exploits persons under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
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  • Solicits passwords, personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
  • Harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
  • Displays pornographic material of any kind;
  • Involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters", or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
  • Promotes information that you know is false, misleading, or promotes illegal activities or conduct, or is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
  • Is or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, provides information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or provides pirated content or links to pirated content files;
  • Contains restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); and
Engages in commercial activities and/or sales relating to Tortoise Group without Tortoise Group’s prior written consent, such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes.

 

 

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