About Bit-Cast.net

Terms & Conditions

By using, interacting and reading any part of this site in whole or in parts, you agree by and accept the following terms and conditions set on Bit-Cast.net and any of it's sub sites.

Disclaimer

Bit-Cast.net will endeavour to keep all content up-to-date and current where appropriate, however it should be noted that the content and works produced on this site are for general information purposes. We have human contributors who just like everybody else may make mistakes and cause errors while adding content to the site. We therefore at Bit-Cast.net provide no warranties as to the accuracy, accessibility or reliability of work presented on this site. You accept any information as is and without warranty. Despite this we strive to provide as accurate and reliable information as possible. If you feel there is an error in our work we would greatly appreciate you pointing this out to us by contact us.

We can not guarantee that the work produced which includes any images displayed within said work will be permanently available for access by our viewers. As such your reliance on such work is at your own risk. If you are linking to our work we cannot guarantee that the links to our works form your site or organisation will work at a future date or when you may rely on them.

Bit-Cast.net through its contributors may link to and provide information about external sites. We cannot guarantee or be held responsible for the suitability or working order of these sites as they are out of our control. Linking to an external site does not necessarily mean that Bit-Cast.net has a connection, affiliation or endorsement of said web site, organisation or publication.

Bit-Cast.net provides information to our readers that we feel is relevant, helpful and informative. If you decide to take actions based on what you have read on Bit-Cast.net then that is entirely at your own risk. We will not be held responsible or liable for any losses or damages incurred on you or your organisation through what you may have read on Bit-Cast.net. Only you can ultimately take actions on something you read here at Bit-Cast.net - YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

During the development, set up and configuration of Bit-Cast.net every effort that is known to the creators has been taken to ensure this website is available when you navigate to or are directed to this site. However there maybe times where the site experiences technical or other difficulties which are out of our control or that we do not know about which may make this site inaccessible for a period of time. Bit-Cast.net and its owners take no responsibility for this site being inaccessible for this period of time and we will make every effort to restore this site to its proper functionality asap.

Bit-Cast.net may on occasions go into offline mode. This means that site administrators have made the site inaccessible for public access while they provide updates or problem solve a particular issue that has arisen. If this happens a notification will appear on all our pages informing you of this. Again this is part and parcel of maintaining a website and is sometimes essential for the correct working order of the site. Bit-Cast.net will not be held liable should you require our content or services during this period. Linking to and relying on our content being accessible to you or your organization is completely at your own risk.

Copyright

Our Content and Works

All works produced and displayed on this site, unless stated in context or in linking, are copyright of Bit-Cast.net. Where work is not copyright of Bit-Cast.net we will recognize this fact, and provide links and credit to the original content provider and or creator from where we found said work. If you find that we credit a website as the original creator, and this is not the case you should inform us of this error.

By reading, browsing and using this site you agree to the following, simple conditions:

• Other than the conditions presented here you will not copy, reproduce, host, republish, sell, display or download works presented on this site either in whole or part.
• If you are a publisher of web content you may quote only the relevent information and state Bit-Cast.net as the origin of the information. Do not copy the work in whole, please link to it.
• Publishers who make profit by selling physical works whether in books or magazines or other forms of physical media may not at this time copy work from Bit-Cast.net. This stance may change in future updates to this page.
• You will not hot-link any images presented on Bit-Cast.net or copy them in any way shape or form.
• Some of the images displayed within our content will be watermarked with the Bit-Cast.net header logo. No attempt will be made to remove this image.
• If you wish to use images produced by Bit-Cast.net you should contact us and we may send them to you for hosting on your own site. If this is the case then you should credit Bit-Cast.net as providing you with any imagery and provide a link near the image that directs the user to www.bit-cast.net or the relevent article on this site that the image may relate to, if one exists.
• You may reference and quote our work in educational papers if you feel it will enhance your work, but you must credit us (Bit-Cast.net) as the original source of the information, somewhere in your document and you should only use the most relevent parts of the content you are quoting. As above please do not copy the whole work and do not cheat or plagiarise your way through a paper by claiming our work as your own. Referencing is a simple if sometimes time consuming task so please respect our work.

Site Designs

The stylesheets, webpages and scripts used to construct this site which includes the site's designs, layouts, appearance, graphics and overall functionality are copyright of the owners and creators of Bit-Cast.net and of Bit-Cast.net as a whole organisation. Under no circumstances should these aspects of the site be copied, or in effect stolen.

Bit-Cast.net uses a limited amount of third-party materials and scripts to provide enhancements for the end user experience. The copyright of these materials remains that of the original creator or owners and Bit-Cast.net has no involvement in the development of these materials or resources so we cannot guarantee full working order with your particular set up. As such the idiosyncrasies of these enhancements, if any exist are largely beyond our control.

Privacy Policy

In addition to server access logs the only information we may store about you (in our databases) when you use this site is your IP, email and in some circumstances your host address. If the only interaction you have with this site is reading, then none of the fore mentioned data is stored in our database.

With the exception of the above, all other statistical information about you as a visitor to Bit-Cast.net is collected and processed by external services and third-party companies. Our primary method of gaining statistical information is through the Google Analytics™ web analytics service. No personal information such as your name, or address can be used to identify you, however the Google Analytics™ web analytics service maybe able to track your general location to either a country or city.

Bit-Cast.net as previously stated uses third parties to collect statistical information about you as a visitor and to provide an appropriate level of advertisements through the use of cookies, web beacons and other technologies our third-party service providers may use that we are not aware of.

Our use of third-parties and their services may mean that these companies themselves might use and partner with organisations outside of their own to provide certain aspects of their services on Bit-Cast.net. These secondary third-parties may through our primary service providers also use and read data contained within cookies, web beacons and other technologies to provide their services on Bit-Cast.net. They like Bit-Cast.net may have access to and use any data they collect about you as a browser of Bit-Cast.net and use such data in services which may not necessarily be used on Bit-Cast.net.

The information that is processed while these services are in use on Bit-Cast.net is used to provide appropriate and targeted ad content for the page you are viewing and to provide Bit-Cast.net administrators with analytical content regarding the general demographics of our visitors. This information can and will be used to enhance Bit-Cast.net as time goes by and with the exception of our external service providers will not be shared with any company outside of Bit-Cast.net and we certainly won't sell any information collected on to other companies just to make a quick buck.

Bit-Cast.net will not publicly share any information that maybe used to identify an individual user, but we may use information to display data that reports visitor browser usage, and possibly other information reporting certain demographics of our visitors. However we will if legally obliged to or if reporting individuals to authorities of power (ISPs, civil forces) pass any relevant and required information onto these authorities.

We will only report data to an ISP or civil force should we suspect foul play or an attempt to breach our systems by an individual or group of individuals, however this process may ultimately be handled by our hosting provider depending on the severity of the situation. As we use third-parties to gain statistical data about our visitors we our selves cannot guarantee the integrity of any information collected as it is stored on our service provider's systems. For more information please visit the Google Privacy Centre.

Some of these services as stated may use cookies to support their services and also JavaScript. You may wish to turn these features off in your browser, however turning off cookies and JavaScript may degrade your experience whilst interacting with content displayed on Bit-Cast.net. As an example, our contact from makes use of cookies, if cookies are disabled on your browser you will not be able to send us any messages.

Commenting System

Note: Please be aware that this feature is currently in beta (testing) and is provided as is. Where applicable it falls under the same conditions laid out in the disclaimer above. Given that the system is in Beta it could be subject to periods of inaccessibility, changes or amendments to the way it functions.

From March 2010 Bit-Cast.net has added a feature which allows you the reader to leave feedback, suggestions and opinions to our work and also to the comments of others that participate in the user generated commenting system. If you wish to leave comments, then you will need to register an account with us first and then activate it. Here is some general information about the signup process that you need to know:

Registration Process

• Screen Name:The screen name you choose will be visible to other users, please use your better judgement when deciding on a name i.e avoid offensive and obscene screen names. The name you choose has to be between 3 and 15 characters in length and can only comprise of letters, numbers, underscore, dot and apostrophe characters. You may find that the screen name you want is taken, or is not allowed by our system (doesn't pass our bad word list). If this is the case then please just try another name.
• Passwords: Passwords must be between 6 and 15 characters long and must contain at least one captital letter and one number.
• Email: Your email address is required so that we can email you with an activation code. We do this to make it more difficult for spammers, time wasters and bots to use the service. No one want's to see their crap on any site and neither do we at Bit-Cast.net.
  
  Your email address can be up to 45 characters in length and won't be shown publicly, it is also encryped on our system. We will never disclose, sell, or willingly share this address with anyone.
  
  It should be noted that when you sign up, your activation email may go to your Junk folder, please check this folder if the email does not appear in your Inbox. If you don't get the email after 48 hours then you can contact us to report the issue.

Rules of Engagement

We welcome your feedback and we wish to build a friendly, welcoming community here at Bit-Cast.net. However to do this there a few responsibilities (rules if you like) that we must all adhere to:

• Age restrictions on using the commenting system: This site is not targetted at children. Therefore If you are under 13 years of age then you are kindly asked to not use any part of this site that requires registration, including the commenting system. If we learn that you are posting comments to this site and are under 13 years of age then access to your account will be removed as soon as possible. If you have good grounds to suspect that a member is under 13 then you are encouraged to contact us, to let us know. Those between the ages of 13 and 17 should get permission from their parent(s) or legal guardian(s) before using any part of this site that requires registration.
• No harassing, mocking, flaming, or abusing other members or Bit-Cast contributors. Do not post hatful, threatening, vulgar, obscene, or slanderous comments. Disagreements or even respectful arguments and debates are expected and in appropriate cases even welcomed, but do not step over the line.
• Do not post comments where you are impersonating, imitating or pretending to be someone other than yourself.
• Please do not post personally identifiable information about your self or other members. We consider the following to be personally identifiable information: name, address, age, credit card numbers and email addresses.
• Mild language is acceptible, but don't use exessive, derogitory or obcene language. Use your common sense and be aware that your comments are viewable to the world and to people of all ages and social corners.
• Post constructive comments, don't post pointless jibberish and avoid going off the topic of the parent article.
• No spamming or posting troll content. If you want attention you will get it in the form of your account being banned, if required.
• Try to be as punctual as you possibly can and avoid only posting trashy stuff like lol or FIRST. These kinds of comments just aren't constructive and no one wants to waste their time reading stuff like that.
• If you have something to sell, then seek out eBay or Craigs List. If you try to sell something here you will be considered a spammer and if it is brought to our attention, your post will be removed, possibly without warning.
  
  If you happen to come across a member trying to sell or shift something, even for free then you should report the comment to us. Under no circumstances should you participate in the exchange of financial or personally identifiable information through the Bit-Cast.net commenting system.
  
  We do not endorse or support monetary exchanges within our commenting system by our members. Bit-Cast.net has no contact with our members in a way that can gives us the ability to verify their identity; therefore we cannot vouch for them in this regard and we cannot help you if you get conned out of something. You have been warned, other than reporting such postings, don't get involved or caught up in them.

Reporting Inappropriate or Abusive Comments

To aid in the weeding out of any junk, we have built into every comment a 'Report' link, which is situated towards the bottom right of each comment. You as a member may use this to report any comment that you feel isn't appropriate, but again please don't spam or misues the reporting system, use your common sense when reporting something.

Final Note

To preserve the integrity of this service and security, Bit-Cast.net reserves the right to remove any comment or members access without prior warning and at our discretion. If you don't agree with these guidelines then don't use the commenting system. All user generated comments are the responsibility of the original author of said comments, Bit-Cast.net is not responsible for the viewpoints and opinions submitted by our members and readers. The information presented here maybe amended, updated or changed at any time and without notice. As stated at the top of the Terms and Conditions you should check this page from time to time for any changes there might be.

With the above in mind, we look forward to hearing from you.