Terms of Service

The Northland Advertising LLC, NorthlandAdvertising.com, GreenTornado,  GreenTornado.com, and other Northland Advertising owned Web sites are online services operated by Northland Advertising LLC ("Northlandadvertising.com"). Northlandadvertising.com offers users information services and content provided by Northland Advertising LLC

User Agreement. In order to protect the interests of all of our users, as well as those of our information and service providers, we ask that you abide by the following rules. By visiting, using, placing an ad on or by using these NorthlandAdvertising.com sites (the "Service"), you hereby agree to be bound by all of the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service" or "TOS").

Termination of Service. You understand and agree that in NorthlandAdvertising.com's, Northland Advertising LLC's, GreenTornado's, GreenTornado.com's or other owned websites has the sole discretion, and without prior notice, NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com may terminate your access to this web site and the Service or exercise any other remedy available and remove any unauthorized User Content, if NorthlandAdvertising.com or Northland Advertising LLC believes that your use of the Web site, Service and/or any User Content you provided has violated or is inconsistent with these Terms of Service, violated the rights of NorthlandAdvertising.com or Northland Advertising LLC, another User or the law. You agree that monetary damages may not provide a sufficient remedy to  NorthlandAdvertising.com or Northland Advertising LLC for violations of these terms and conditions and you consent to injunctive or other equitable relief for such violations.  NorthlandAdvertising.com or Northland Advertising LLC is not required to provide any refund to you if you are terminated as a User or advertiser because you have violated these Terms of Service.

Copyright Notice and Limitations on Use. All of the information, content and services (collectively, the "Content") within this Service are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. The Content is owned by NorthlandAdvertising.com or Northland Advertising LLC, its other domains/websites or other and its affiliated companies, licensors and suppliers. The Content is intended for personal use only. While you may interact with or download a single copy of any portion of the Content for your personal, noncommercial entertainment, information or use, you may not reproduce, sell, publish, distribute, modify, display, repost or otherwise use any portion of the content in any other way or for any other purpose without the written consent of NorthlandAdvertising.com or Northland Advertising LLC. Requests regarding use of the Content for any purpose other than personal, noncommercial use should be directed to Permissions, Northland Advertising LLC, 4945 Maple Grove Road, Hermantown, MN 55811

You acknowledge that the Content includes certain trademarks and service marks owned by NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC including the names "NorthlandAdvertising.com", "GreenTonado.com"  and any other website owned and operated by Northland Advertising LLC and certain logotypes, as well as trademarks owned by other information providers. You agree not to copy, use or otherwise infringe upon these trademarks or service marks. You further agree that you will not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from any copies of the Content.

If you operate a Web site and wish to link to the Service, you must link to the Service's home pages unless permission otherwise has been granted in writing by NorthlandAdvertisng.com Permissions. NorthlandAdvertising.com reserves the right to reject or terminate any links to the Content or the Service.

 

Interactive Areas. The Service's forums, bulletin boards and chat rooms are provided to give users 18 years of age and older an interesting and stimulating forum in which they can express their opinions and share their ideas. NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com do not endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or information posted on these forums, message boards, bulletin boards or chat rooms. Please use your best judgment, and be respectful of other individuals using these forums. Do not use vulgar, abusive or hateful language. You may not use the Service's message boards, bulletin boards or chat rooms for advertising or promotional materials or other forms of solicitation. Uploading copyrighted or other proprietary material of any kind on the Service without the express permission of the owner of that material is prohibited and may result in civil and/or criminal liability.

Given the nature of the Service and the volume of messages and postings, NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com cannot and does not monitor all of the material posted or transmitted by users and third-party information providers. While you agree that the Service will not be liable for such third-party content, NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com reserves the right to delete, move or edit any communications or content that it deems in its sole discretion to be: violative of this Terms of Service; harmful to individuals or communities; obscene; defamatory; in violation of NorthlandAdvertisng.com's or any third-party's rights; or otherwise unacceptable.

User Content. By placing material on or communicating with NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com web sites and the Service, you hereby grant to NorthlandAdvertising.com and its partners, including, but not limited to NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com and their affiliates and related entities the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable, nonexclusive right and license to use, copy, modify, display, distribute and reproduce all such materials in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future. You also agree to indemnify, defend and hold NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com  harmless against any claims or costs, including attorneys' fees, arising from the use or distribution of those materials. You further grant NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com the right to use your name in connection with the reproduction or distribution of such material.

Unsolicited Materials. NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com does not accept unsolicited materials or ideas for use or publication in its programming or in other digital, electronic or print media except in connection with the forums, chat rooms and bulletin boards on the Service NorthlandAdvertising.com  shall not be responsible for the similarity of any of its content or programming in any media to materials or ideas transmitted to the Service.

Prohibited Activities and Content. The following is a partial list of the kinds of activities and content that are prohibited on or through the Service: (a) submitting content that is patently offensive to the online community, such as content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; (b) engaging in activities or submitting content that could be harmful to minors; (c) engaging activities or submitting content that harass or advocate harassment of another person; (d) engaging in activities that involve the transmission of "junk mail" or unsolicited mass mailing or "spam"; (e) engaging in activities or submitting content that promote information that is false, misleading or promote illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous; (f) submitting content that contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images; (g) submitting content that displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind; (h) submitting content that provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; (i) engaging in activities or submitting content that solicit passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and (j) engaging in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes.

Access to the Service. You agree that you will not: (a) use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy web pages or the Content contained in the Service or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior expressed written permission; (b) use any device, software, or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service and the NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com web sites; and (c) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on  NorthlandAdvertising.com's, Northland Advertising LLC's, GreenTornado's, GreenTornado.com's hardware and software infrastructure. 

Copyrights and Copyright Agents. It is the policy of NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com to respond to claims of intellectual property infringement. NorthlandAdvertising.com, Northland Advertising LLC, GreenTornado, GreenTornado.com will promptly process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2) ("DMCA") and other applicable intellectual property laws.

Pursuant to the DMCA, notifications of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to a Service Provider's Designated Agent. Notification must be submitted to the following Designated Agent for these sites:

 

Northland Advertising  LLC
Peter J. Gould
4945 Maple Grove Road
Hermantown, MN 55811
USA
Phone: 218-729-5725
Fax: 218-729-5725
Email: sales@northlandadvertising.com