Hawaiian Style Organization LLC

PROnetworks Technology & Affiliate Sites

Statement of Privacy - Trademark Information - Terms of Service - Ownership of Material
(Last updated: April 05, 2006)

 

PROnetworks Technology - Introduction and History

PROnetworks Technology is a member of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, founded in 2005 by John C. Derrick, and was originally founded as a privately owned company in 1997.

Between the years of 1999-2001, it was constituted as a partnership company known as Derrico C&J Webdesign Systems. In June 2001, the C&J Webdesign partnership officially split and the remaining 'company' was established as the WindowsPRO Network. A year later, after a successful period of rapid growth, WindowsPRO transformed into PROnetworks Technology. During 2006 PROnetworks became a member of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC which owns PROnetworks Technology hosts a variety of different websites including non-competing business sites, personal websites, and other standalone sites originally managed under PROnetworks Technology and subsequently Hawaiian Style Organization LLC. You may email our Owner/Founder: (via our Contact form), for a list of all the sites hosted by or on the servers of PROnetworks Technology.

PROnetworks Technology is a member of Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, a for-profit organization. At this time however, all funds collected by PROnetworks Technology are returned to the site, for the general development of the site and the company itself. Thus PROnetworks Technology itself operates as a non-profit organization.

PROnetworks Technology, as a member of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, is a legal business and entity in the United States of America.

PROnetworks Technology Logos and Trademark Symbols

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC and PROnetworks Technology family has several different logos. These logos are clearly marked with a PROnetworks Technology or Hawaiian Style Organization LLC trademark logo. If there is any doubt about a trademarked logo you should first contact the PROnetworks Technology Board at this email address: (Board@PRO-networks.org). All use of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC and/or PROnetworks Technology family logos are strictly prohibited. Any unauthorized use of these logos by name or emblem without the permission of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC or the PROnetworks Technology Board of Directors may result in legal action by the respective owners of the trademarks.

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PROnetworks Technology Statement of Privacy

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC and PROnetworks Technology are committed to protecting your privacy. This Hawaiian Style Organization LLC Statement of Privacy applies to the PROnetworks family of Web sites and governs data collection and usage at all PROnetworks sites and services. It does not apply to other online or offline Hawaiian Style Organization LLC sites, products or services.

Please read the PROnetworks Technology Statement of Privacy below and also any supplementary information at the end of this statement for additional details about particular PROnetworks Technology sites and services that you may use.

PROnetworks Technology is a general audience website, intended for users of all ages. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Statement of Privacy.

Other company services from third party developers or individuals may have their own privacy policies, including any and all Affiliates or Partners of PROnetworks Technology. The XPMaNiA and VistaMaNiA sites are both sub sites of PROnetworks Technology and also follow the privacy guidelines found herein.

Your privacy is important to us, but we stress the importance of the following line:
Any and all material located, posted, or received at or in the PROnetworks forum, website, or database (in any area or form) is the sole property of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC. Reproduction or distribution of this material without the expressed consent of the Hawaii Style Organization LLC and its owners is strictly prohibited.

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Collection of your Personal Information

At some sites, the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC collects personal information, such as your email address. This information may be used to send you periodic updates, informational emails regarding site updates, downtimes or major projects. The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC may also collect demographic information, such as your location, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. Information collected by PROnetworks Technology may be combined with information obtained from other Hawaiian Style Organization LLC sites or services and other companies that adhere to these policies.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC also collects certain information about your computer hardware and software through our main server along with a third party tracking company, Sitemeter. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC sites and services.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC keeps track of the pages our visitors visit within the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC in order to determine which Hawaiian Style Organization LLC sites and services are the most popular. This data may also be used by the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC to deliver customized content and advertising to visitors whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC site uses phpBB software to provide registration and sign-in services. If you create an account at the PROnetworks site, you do not simultaneously register with the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC. All of the registration information you provide will be stored by the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, and some or all of that information will also be stored by the PROnetworks site in your local profile.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personal information through the PROnetworks site chat, PROnetworks site user groups, or other Hawaiian Style Organization LLC public online forums, this information may be collected and used by others.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC family of Websites.

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Security of your Personal Information

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC will never sell or distribute your information to another organization.

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Use of Cookies

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A "cookie" is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize the PROnetworks site pages, or register with Hawaiian Style Organization LLC sites or services, a cookie helps Hawaiian Style Organization LLC to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as log on information, your password, and so on. When you return to Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, the information you previously provided can be retrieved so you can easily use the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC features that you customized. No one but you can access your cookies that are located on your machine.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer (please refer to the user help guides or manuals of your own web browser for instructions on how to set your browser to decline cookies). If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC services or Websites you visit. You may also find yourself having numerous login problems, and that your web browser logs you back off the site continuously.

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Use of Third Party Ad Networks

The majority of the online advertisements you see on Hawaiian Style Organization LLC Web pages are displayed by Google AdSense or the Fast Click Corporation. In addition, Hawaiian Style Organization LLC allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC Web pages. Some of these ad networks may place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the ad network to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.

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Enforcement of this Statement of Privacy

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact the PROnetworks site Board of Directors via e-mail.

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Changes to this Statement

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. When the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC posts changes to this Statement, you will see the date change at the top of this Privacy Statement. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC will use your personal information, the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed as to how the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC is protecting your personal information.

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Contact Information

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Hawaiian Style Organization LLC has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC by email. PROnetworks Technology Privacy Board@PRO-networks.org

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Third Party Logos and Trademark Symbols

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC may use third party company logos and trademarks on the PROnetworks site. We are in no way affiliated with these companies. All trademarks mentioned on any Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site page are the property of their respective owners. Credit is given to these companies when due and when necessary. Some images on the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks, XPMaNiA or VistaMaNiA sites are © Copyright of ibforums, Neowin, and phpBB.

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Content Disclaimer - Terms of Service - Ownership of Material - User Agreement 1

By viewing, visiting, or registering with the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site you agree to be bound by the conditions herein. Failure to comply with one or more of the conditions below may result in suspension or immediate termination of your account or the ban of your IP address.

While the administrators and moderators of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, without notice to you, it is not possible to review every message. Therefore, you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators, host, or Webmaster (except for posts by these people) and the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site hence cannot be held liable.

By viewing or joining the PROnetworks site you acknowledge that you cannot use the content located within PROnetworks to take any legal action against anyone but the poster of the content in question. By posting in and viewing our site you are responsible solely for your posts and actions, and you hereby waive all responsibility to the owners of the site, servers, and software companies of any post and/or content within, except where they posted the content themselves. PROnetworks and its owners are not responsible for the content posted within, or the users within, and you accept this by joining or viewing any area of our site. You can read more about our User Agreement below.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site Owner and Chief Executive has the right to archive, move, read, or delete any thread, post, private message, or file at any time they see fit without prior notification to the poster(s). You agree that the webmaster, officers, vice officers, administrators, and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, read, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC hereby also declares to have ownership rights on ANY and ALL material publicly/privately posted on its board by any member or visitor to the PROnetworks site boards. Use of the Private Message system does entitle a user to privacy from all public view, but the content within any Private Message made or received on PROnetworks is the sole property of Hawaii Style Organization LLC and its owners. By posting any content it becomes the property of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, and is bound by the conditions found herein.

This property may be used for any purpose by Hawaiian Style Organization LLC or its owners as they see fit, including in any legal action or as evidence. Any reproduction of this content requires the written permission of the Chairman of PROnetworks. You can inquire about the use of any content at this email address: Chairman@PROneTworks.org

Any and all material located, posted, or received at or in the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks forum, website, or database is the sole property of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC. Reproduction or distribution of this material without the expressed consent of the Hawaii Style Organization LLC and its owners is strictly prohibited.

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Hawaiian Style Organization LLC User Agreement 2

By viewing, visiting, or registering with the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site, you agree to be bound by the conditions herein. Failure to comply with one or more of the conditions below may result in suspension or immediate termination of your account or the ban of your IP address.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC has a strict NO FLAMING policy. Flaming will be determined by the Administrators of the site in question. The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC prohibits the use of vulgar and offensive language. Vulgar language, as determined by the staff of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site, will be blocked from view on all public pages by default scripts that look for vulgar and offensive words. These scripts will search the site for the words in question immediately after you post and will replace them with a "*beep*".

Violating any of these policies stated herein may lead to your being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed of your unacceptable behavior). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC strictly prohibits the posting of Pornography (photos, pictures, text, etc) or links thereof. By posting any of the objectionable content (as defined by the staff of the site) you may be banned from the site indefinitely.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC strictly prohibits any user from asking for Crack Information, Software Keys, Warez or any illegal software in public forums.

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC prohibits the posting of advertisements or the soliciting of business or any other type of SPAM on the site. The posting of any link to a competitor website of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC sites is also prohibited.

No form of membership is guaranteed and you acknowledge that by joining the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site that you understand that you may be removed or dismissed from the site at any time for any reason. Any and all reasons or motives for the removal or dismissal of any member do not have to be disclosed to that member for any reason.

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Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site Staff Agreement 3

The Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site is composed of staff from throughout the world. Staff is defined by PROnetworks Technology as any registered member with a status higher than that of "base user," "visitor," or "guest." Each member of staff is here on a voluntary basis, and cannot be forced to uphold any position at anytime, under any circumstance. No member of the staff is compensated for their work or effort, or rewarded with any other material for their work on the PROnetworks site.

Any and all funds raised by the PROnetworks site are used for the sole purpose of covering domain fees, hosting services, and other related costs. Any and all donations received by PROnetworks are used for the costs of the site, and any amount in excess of what is needed in any given fiscal year is held separately for the sole purpose of being used for the site it was donated to, and only the site it was donated to.

All staff forfeit any and all rights to ownership of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC site(s) by joining the staff or by leaving the staff. The PROnetworks site is solely owned by John C. Derrick founded 1997.

No staff position is guaranteed and you acknowledge that by joining the PROnetworks staff that you understand that you may be removed or dismissed from the staff at any time for any reason. Any and all reasons or a motive for the removal or dismissal of any staff member does not have to be disclosed to that member for any reason.

The staff of PROnetworks is held to the same User Agreements and Terms of Service as that of any other user as stated herein. The rules by which the staff operate and/or manage the site may be changed at any time without prior notice to any member of the staff by PROnetworks Technology.

The following rules apply to any and all staff of the Hawaiian Style Organization LLC, PROnetworks site:

1. No Staff Member below the Rank of Officer shall ever ban a user without the expressed permission of the Chairman or an Executive Officer.

2. No Staff Member below the Rank of Vice Officer shall ever block access of a user to the site without the expressed permission of the Chairman or an Executive Officer.

3. No Staff Member below the Rank of Officer shall ever access the Administration Panel without the expressed permission of the Chairman.

4. No Staff Member below the Rank of Administrator shall ever promote a user without the expressed permission of the Chairman or an Executive Officer.

5. No Staff Member below the Rank of Administrator shall ever access a user's personal information, including IP address without the expressed permission of an Officer or higher.

6. No Staff Member shall ever delete a post except in dire circumstances. All posts should be moved to the Waste Basket(s) area(s) of the site.

7. No Staff Member below the Rank of Moderator shall ever modify a post in an area other than the Moderator’s assigned area without the permission of a Vice Administrator of the certain area or higher.

8. The Ranking order, total number of positions available (not necessarily filled) per rank, and percent of vote control of the PROnetworks Staff is as follows:

Owner/Founder (1) (25% total vote)
Chairman (1) (25% total vote)
Chief Officers (8) (no vote ... On Board)
Vice Officers (8) (no vote ... On Board)
Board of Directors (15) (50% total vote)
Site Administrator (14) (no vote)
Super Moderator (20) (no vote)
Moderator (28) (no vote)
PRO Team Member (28) (no vote)