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"Congress.org" is a public-use web site operated by Capitol Advantage LLC ("Capitol Advantage"). "Users" are any individuals who access Congress.org through the World Wide Web. "Subscribers" are organizations or individuals under contract with Capitol Advantage for on-line advocacy services, which may choose to post alerts (issue summaries and calls to action) on Congress.org. "Advertisers" are organizations under contract with Capitol Advantage to post advertisements on Congress.org.

Background
The purpose of Congress.org is to enable Users to contact public officials, media and other important figures, as well as to enhance public knowledge of government, public policy and current public issues. Congress.org includes information provided by Capitol Advantage and by third parties.

User Conduct
Certain sections of Congress.org allow Users and Subscribers to post their opinions about issues and/or public officials. Users and Subscribers shall not post or transmit through Congress.org any material which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law, or which, without Capitol Advantage's express prior approval, contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. Capitol Advantage retains the right to exclude or remove any material that is deemed by it to be inappropriate according to these standards.

Monitoring
Capitol Advantage shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of Congress.org and to exclude or remove any material that is deemed at its sole discretion to be inappropriate according to the above standards or otherwise objectionable.

Third Party Content
Congress.org contains content about public officials, government bodies, procedures to contact public officials and the media, election information and other information supplied by third parties. Capitol Advantage does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content.

In many instances, material posted on Congress.org represents the opinions and judgments of the respective User, Subscriber or Advertiser. Congress.org does not endorse or take responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on Congress.org by anyone other than authorized Capitol Advantage employee spokespersons while acting in their official capacities. Under no circumstances will Congress.org be liable for any loss or damage caused by a User's reliance on information obtained through Congress.org. It is the responsibility of User to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through Congress.org.

Copyright Notice
This Service (including, but not limited to text, content, photographs, video and audio) is protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other laws. You must abide by all additional copyright notices or restrictions contained in this Service.

YOU MAY NOT COPY, REPRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, PUBLISH, DISPLAY, PERFORM, MODIFY, CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS, TRANSMIT, OR IN ANY WAY EXPLOIT ANY PART OF THIS SERVICE, EXCEPT THAT YOU MAY DOWNLOAD MATERIAL FROM THIS SERVICE FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL, NONCOMMERCIAL USE AS FOLLOWS: YOU MAY MAKE ONE MACHINE READABLE COPY AND/OR ONE PRINT COPY THAT IS LIMITED TO OCCASIONAL ARTICLES OF PERSONAL INTEREST ONLY.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, YOU MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE ANY PART OF THIS SERVICE OVER ANY NETWORK, INCLUDING A LOCAL AREA NETWORK, NOR SELL NOR OFFER IT FOR SALE. IN ADDITION, THESE FILES MAY NOT BE USED TO CONSTRUCT ANY KIND OF DATABASE

Additional information
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