The NICGS website is produced and maintained by the offices of NICGS. The views and opinions expressed on NICGS and linked Internet resources do not necessarily represent those of NICGS. NICGS cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, currency, or reliability of information posted by external parties.

While NICGS strives to make the information on this website as timely and accurate as possible, NICGS makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of its contents and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions. No warranty of any kind—implied, expressed, or statutory, including warranties of non-infringement of third-party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or freedom from computer viruses—is given with respect to this website or its links to other Internet resources.

NICGS makes reasonable efforts to monitor and moderate content posted on its platform, but does not moderate all comments at all times and may not respond immediately to online requests. NICGS reserves the sole right to review, edit, or delete inappropriate comments and to terminate the involvement of those who post such content. Content may be removed or edited for reasons including:

• Abusive or hurtful comments about a user or another participant.
• Off-topic or redundant comments, including spam and promotion or solicitation of events, groups, pages, websites, organizations, products, or programs not related to or affiliated with NICGS.
• Comments containing profanity, foul or abusive language, or hate speech, including racial, ethnic, or gender-based language.
• Private or personal information published without consent.
• Personal attacks or defamatory statements about a participant.
• Plagiarized material or material that potentially violates intellectual property rights.
• Comments that violate an individual's privacy.
• Advertisements and business solicitations.
• Material that NICGS determines is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any person or entity.

Reference to a specific commercial product, process, service, trade, firm, or corporation is provided for public information and convenience and does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by NICGS. Some NICGS pages link to third-party websites that are not under NICGS's control. These links are provided only as a convenience and do not constitute endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation.

This website is offered to the User conditioned on acceptance of the terms, conditions, and notices contained here without modification. Access to and use of this website constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions.

This website is provided as a public service. Users may review and retrieve publicly available information and agree to use the website only as permitted by applicable local, state, and federal laws. Users must not knowingly and without authorization alter, damage, or destroy NICGS's or another User's computer system, network, software, program, documentation, or data; use this service to conduct an activity prohibited by law; or block other Users' access to the website.

Anyone using this system consents to administrative monitoring. System administrators may provide evidence of possible criminal activity identified through monitoring to appropriate law enforcement officials. Users who do not consent to monitoring should exit the system.

If this website contains bulletin boards, discussion pages, chat rooms, or other interactive or communication facilities, the User agrees to use them only to send and receive messages and materials that are proper and related to that forum. Users must not:

• Defaming, abusing, harassing, stalking, threatening, or otherwise violating the legal rights of others, including rights of privacy and publicity.
• Publishing, posting, distributing, or disseminating defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, or unlawful material or information.
• Uploading or downloading files containing software or other material protected by intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights unless the User owns or controls those rights or has received all necessary consent.
• Deleting author attributions, legal notices, proprietary designations, or labels from an uploaded file.
• Falsifying the origin or source of material contained in an uploaded file.
• Knowingly introducing viruses, corrupted files, or similar software or programs that may damage, alter, or destroy this website or another person's computer system, network, software, program, documentation, or data.
• Knowingly accessing or attempting to access NICGS's computer systems or networks to commit fraud, obtain money, property, or services through false pretenses, or commit theft, including theft of proprietary information.

The User agrees to use electronic mail, conferences, chats, file transfers, and other website features only as permitted by these terms, other published NICGS policies and procedures, and applicable law. NICGS reserves the right to remove content that violates these policies or applicable law and to edit notices or postings where their length interferes with other Users' access.

Interactive forums hosted by this website are public, not private communications. Communications from other Users are not endorsed by NICGS and should not be considered reviewed, screened, or approved by NICGS.

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