Terms of use for FresnoBee.com
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Effective Feb. 23, 2005

Welcome to fresnobee.com, a news, information and communication service available on the Internet's World Wide Web. The service combines much of The Fresno Bee newspaper with additional material available only on fresnobee.com. Both The Fresno Bee and fresnobee.com are divisions of McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., a subsidiary of The McClatchy Company.

You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in these Terms of Use before you may become a Member of fresnobee.com. By registering as a Member, and/or by accessing and using fresnobee.com, you agree to these Terms of Use.

From time to time, we may make changes to these Terms of Use by posting the changes in the Member Center and sending notice to the e-mail address you provide with registration. Such notice will provide a date upon which the changes will be effective. Should you object to any such modifications to these Terms of Use or become dissatisfied with fresnobee.com in any way, your only recourse is to immediately terminate your Membership and discontinue use of fresnobee.com. Otherwise, continuing to use the service after the effective date means that you agree to be bound by the changes.

Cost
At this time, there is no cost for using the basic or premium services of fresnobee.com. From time to time there may be premium content available via subscription or surcharge, and those areas will be clearly marked. Because this is an advertising-supported service, we encourage you to patronize the advertisers that help to make this service possible. The Fresno Bee newspaper's electronic archives carry a fee of $1.95 per full-text article downloaded. Note that most news articles remain available for seven days in the pages of fresnobee.com. Additional information, including credt card information, may be required to complete this purchase.

Registration
Access to the majority of content, services and features on fresnobee.com requires users to register and become Members of fresnobee.com. Access to "Press Club" special content, services and features on fresnobee.com requires users to be print subscribers to The Fresno Bee and to register and become Members of fresnobee.com. Member registration requires you to provide certain Personally Identifiable Information, such as your name, e-mail address, street address, gender, and date of birth. Please see our Privacy Policy for information on fresnobee.com's information gathering and how we intend to use and share any information we collect. If you become a Member of fresnobee.com, you accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for restricting access to your computer so others may not access fresnobee.com using your username or account in whole or in part. Fresnobee.com reserves the right to terminate Membership and deny access to the site to any person who violates this Terms Of Use.

Copyrights and trademarks
Material published on fresnobee.com, including articles, photos, graphics, bulletin board postings, audio and video clips, and other content, is copyrighted by The Fresno Bee, or by other information providers who have licensed their content for use on fresnobee.com. Additionally, the entire content of fresnobee.com is also copyrighted as a collective work under the United States copyright laws; the owner of the collective work is The Fresno Bee. You cannot reproduce, republish or redistribute material from The Fresno Bee, the Associated Press, the New York Times News Service, the Washington Post-Los Angeles Times News Service, Scripps Howard News Service, Newhouse News Service and other news services and syndicates in any way without the written consent of the copyright owner.

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