Content Guidelines

Guidelines

Updated: January 3, 2015

These guidelines cover your use of the Everyone’s Apostolic service

By registering with Everyone’s Apostolic, creating, or using this Social Network you are agreeing to these guidelines (“Guidelines”).

The vision of Everyone’s Apostolic (EA) is to provide a clean, modest and fun place for Apostolics to socially network. The apostles were oneness, Spirit-filled and Godly men. The culture we want to promote and foster is a fun, social, supportive, encouraging, informative, and Godly one. We also want the culture to be unified. For this reason we have resolved to the following guidelines regarding the content of EA. We pray that you understand our vision and will work to support it. Please understand that if a photo or video is rejected/deleted for a certain reason that we are not judging or condemning that person or their personal beliefs or convictions. We are only enforcing the below guidelines that we have prayed about and set forth. If for some reason, someone disagrees or does not want to share in this vision or culture, EA may not be for them and they should seek another forum or social network.

Pictures: We ask that all tops have a sleeve of some sort, not be too low cut or be see-through. We ask that everyone have on a skirt below the knee or pants, no shorts. We make allowances for children and may make allowances for wedding photos and special occasions. We also ask that any photos hinting at evil, vulgarity, or sexuality not be posted. We do realize that these are YOUR page decorations, we only ask for modesty and respect for others viewing them.
Videos: We ask that videos with Christian “rock or rap” not be posted along with videos where immodest photos will be shown. We also request that videos containing evil or demonic (story lines) not be posted. Please remove the referral videos that may be attached at the bottom of your video. They sometimes contain videos that are not in line with the EA culture. These requests pertain to 3rd party widgets that might be added to your profile as well.
Groups: Please do not duplicate groups. Please conduct yourselves as Apostolics – don’t create a group that is purposefully antagonistic, argumentative, bashes a particular group of people or a person or for the intent of causing harm to anyone. Do not create a group that has the purpose to advertise or promote a business without the expressed permission of Everyone’s Apostolic.
Blogs: Please conduct yourselves as Apostolics – don’t create a blog that is purposefully antagonistic, argumentative, bashes a particular group of people or a person or for the intent of causing harm to anyone. Do not create a blog that has the purpose to advertise or promote a business without the expressed permission of Everyone’s Apostolic.
Chat: Before one posts or replies to a discussion in the chat room please take care to review our guidelines so as to not risk having oneself removed from the site.; ****Should Violations Occur**** and the chat room not be used in a positive manner, we will remove it from the site. It is not part of our plan to facilitate and monitor conversations in the chat room. Our effort is to facilitate networking among the saints. Should the chat room begin to degrade our efforts, we will remove as this is not part of our bigger vision for the EA site. We added the chat room as an additional benefit to the EA members.; Why do we specify limitations? The primary reason for limiting discussions is to protect the culture of EA and the members that participate. In our experience, we have seen that chat rooms can degrade the network experience if let to be free and open to any and all conversation.
Forums: Before one posts or replies to a discussion please take care to review our guidelines so as to not risk having the discussion or oneself removed from the site.; Everyone’s Apostolic is now the most trafficked site among Apostolics. We don’t say this boastfully, we say this with the understanding that we have a huge responsibility to facilitate unity. We have Apostolics ages 13 and older and at various stages in their walk with God. With this said, we take great care to provide an online culture that fosters spiritual growth and fellowship.; The mission of Everyone’s Apostolic is to facilitate the need for us to connect with the body of Christ across the globe in such a way that brings us together in a spirit of unity and fellowship. We do this by sharing our lives with each other, the good and the bad. Everyone’s Apostolic helps facilitate this need by creating a viable channel of communication that anyone who has a computer and Internet can plug into.; In order to protect the culture we ask that all members, without exclusion, follow these guidelines. Check back often, as we may make adjustments as we continue to develop the site.
The guidelines are as follows:

Discussions should be clearly titled, meaning the title should represent the theme or idea of the discussion.
Check grammar and spelling before posting.
Discussion summary should clearly identify the scope of the topic, limitations, and purpose.
Discussion admin is responsible for keeping topic on point and removing comments that are not relevant to topic scope and purpose.
Discussions are not to include the following topics:
- Doctrinal topics (these are a pastor’s responsibility)
- Holiness topics (these are a pastor’s responsibility)
- Christian rap, rock, and country (these are topics that are known to cause disagreements and are better left to the counsel of a pastor)
- Defaming any organization, group, ministry, or person(s) is not permitted.
- Discussions on demons and witchcraft are not permitted.
- Business opportunities
- Advertising
- Check back often as we may include more
Discussions that ARE encouraged
- Testimonies of God’s grace
- Healing miracles
- Faith building topics
- Church growth
- Outreach ideas
- Spiritual development programs for saints
- God’s involvement in ones life
- Prayer requests
- Devotionals

We can see the idea here…positive topics and prayer requests.

The idea is not to stifle the forum but rather to move it in a positive and empowering direction.

Termination:

Everyone’s Apostolic has the right (at its sole discretion) for any reason to delete, disable or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to the Social Network, with or without notice, and with no liability of any kind to you.

If you terminate your account, we will have no obligation to refund you any fees you may have paid except as may be required by applicable law.

1) Eligibility.
Membership in the Service where void is prohibited. By using the Website and the Service, you represent and warrant that all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate and that you agree to maintain the accuracy of such information. You further represent and warrant that you are 13 years of age or older and that your use of the Everyone’s Apostolic shall not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your profile may be deleted without warning, if it is found that you are misrepresenting your age. Your Membership is solely for your personal use, and you shall not authorize others to use your account, including your profile or email address. You are solely responsible for all Content published or displayed through your account, including any email messages, and for your interactions with other members.

2) Term/Fees.
This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Website, the Service, and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership at any time. Everyone’s Apostolic may terminate your membership for any reason, effective upon sending notice to you at the email address you provide in your Membership application or other email address as you may subsequently provide to Everyone’s Apostolic. By using the Service and by becoming a Member, you acknowledge that Everyone’s Apostolic reserves the right to charge for the Service and has the right to terminate a Member’s Membership. Member should breach this Agreement or fail to pay for the Service, as required by this Agreement. Please note that Everyone’s Apostolic does not offer refunds for paid memberships.

3) Non Commercial Use by Members.
The Website is for the personal use of Members only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by the management of Everyone’s Apostolic. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Website, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website will be investigated. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from member profiles without notice and may result in termination of membership privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken by Everyone’s Apostolic for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.

4) Proprietary Rights in Content on Everyone’s Apostolic.
Everyone’s Apostolic owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of Everyone’s Apostolic and its licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given written permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.

5) Content Posted on the Site.

a. You understand and agree that Everyone’s Apostolic may review and delete any content, messages, Everyone’s Apostolic Messenger messages, photos or profiles (collectively, “Content”) that in the sole judgment of Everyone’s Apostolic violate this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any Member.

b. You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, “post”) on the Service or any material or information that you transmit to other Members. c. By posting any Content to the public areas of the Website, you hereby grant to Everyone’s Apostolic the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, publicly perform and display such Content on the Website. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Website.

d. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. Everyone’s Apostolic reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Service and terminating the membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes Content that:

i. is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

ii. harasses or advocates harassment of another person;

iii. involves the transmission of “junk mail”, “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing or “spamming”;

iv. promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;

v. promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;

vi. contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);

vii. provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;

viii. provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;

ix. solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;

or x. involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes.

e. You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations. f. You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. Although Everyone’s Apostolic cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Website, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, Everyone’s Apostolic reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which Everyone’s Apostolic deems appropriate in its sole discretion.

g. You may not cover or obscure the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any Everyone’s Apostolic page via HTML/CSS or any other means.

h. Any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends, is prohibited.

i. You may not attempt to impersonate another user or person who is not a member of Everyone’s Apostolic.

j. You may not use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time nor may you disclose your password to any third party or permit any third party to access your account.

k. You may not sell or otherwise transfer your profile.

6) Copyright Policy.
You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of Everyone’s Apostolic to terminate membership privileges of any member who repeatedly infringes copyright upon prompt notification to Everyone’s Apostolic by the copyright owner or the copyright owner’s legal agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf. Everyone’s Apostolic’s Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached via email address.

7) Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Everyone’s Apostolic Members. Everyone’s Apostolic reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.

8) Disclaimers.
Everyone’s Apostolic is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Website or in connection with the Service provided, whether caused by users of the Website, Members or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service. Everyone’s Apostolic is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the Service. Everyone’s Apostolic assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any user or Member communication. Everyone’s Apostolic is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Website or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to users and/or Members or to any person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the Website and/or in connection with the Service. Under no circumstances shall Everyone’s Apostolic be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the Website or the Service or from any Content posted on the Website or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the Website, whether online or offline. The Website and the Service are provided “AS-IS” and Everyone’s Apostolic expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Everyone’s Apostolic cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Website and/or the Service.

9) Limitation on Liability.
IN NO EVENT SHALL EVERYONE’S APOSTOLIC BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE WEB SITE OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF Everyone’s Apostolic HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, EVERYONE’S APOSTOLIC.S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO EVERYONE’S APOSTOLIC FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.

10) Disputes.
If there is any dispute about or involving the Website and/or the Service, by using the Website, you agree that any dispute shall be governed by the laws of the area in which we are based without regard to conflict of law provisions and you agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the area in which we are based which is Harris County, TX.

11) Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold Everyone’s Apostolic, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above.

12) Other.
This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the Website and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member of the Service. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Everyone’s Apostolic regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service. The failure of Everyone’s Apostolic to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. Please contact us with any questions regarding this Agreement.

I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.

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