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Basic Terms

You are responsible for any activity that occurs under your screen name.
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You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other users of the site.
You may not use ancientworldcities.com for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. International users agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, screen names, graphics, photos, profiles, audio clips, video clips or links that you submit to the site.
You must not modify, adapt or hack ancientworldcities.com
You must not send unwanted messages to any members.
You must not, in the use of ancientworldcities.com, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).
Violation of any of these agreements will result in the termination of your ancientworldcities.com account. While ancientworldcities.com prohibits such conduct and content on its site, you understand and agree that ancientworldcities.com cannot be responsible for the content posted on its web site and you nonetheless may be exposed to such materials and that you use the ancientworldcities.com site at your own risk.

By submitting any content to the ancientworldcities.com site you agree that either the material is not bound by any copyright laws in any jurisdiction, that you own the copyright of the material, or that you have permission from the copyright holder to submit the content to the ancientworldcities.com site.
Content that is submitted to the ancientworldcities.com site remains the property and responsibility of the submitter (as an agent of the copyright holder if the copyright holder and the submitter are not the same).
ancientworldcities.com is moderated and as such certain trusted users have permission to modify content submitted to the site at their discretion. These users will only make substantial changes (that are not a result of violating the basic terms) in consultation with the submitter if the submitter is not able to perform them themselves. If the submitter is not immediately contactable modification may be made without consent, but only if deemed critical. Modifications may be made to formatting without notification.

Articles submitted to ancientworldcities.com earn money for the submitter.
This amount is calculated on a monthly basis by the following formula: monthly_earning=(article_page_views_for_month / site_wide_page_views_for_month) * income_of_site_for_month
Moderators of sections are paid using the same formula, except that the page views used are for the entire empire or city, excluding articles.
Earnings for a month are calculated in US dollars in the first few days of the subsequent month.
When a users earnings exceed US$10 payment will be made via PayPal using the email address that the user signed up to the site with. It is the users responsibility to claim this payment.
For countries for which paypal does not accept payments, users will be paid via bank transfer when their earnings exceed US$100.

We reserve the right to modify or terminate the ancientworldcities.com site for any reason, without notice, at any time.
We reserve the right to alter these Terms of Use at any time.
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
We may, but have no obligation to, remove content and accounts containing content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Use.