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1. You have chosen to post, submit, or display User Content (as hereinafter defined) to a magazine published by Grove of Gears or a website owned, controlled, and/or operated by Grove of Gears. These Terms and Conditions govern the submission of User Content to Grove of Gears. “User Content” means any information, messages, suggestions, questions, comments, postings, advertisements, ratings, ideas, techniques, notes, know-how, drawings, concepts, designs, audio visual material, photographs and pictures (including pictures of the user and other representations of the user’s name and likeness), digital images, embedded images and other items or property depicted in the submitted images, or other content in any form submitted by a reader, subscriber, or consumer of a Grove of Gears publication or website.
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3. Grove of Gears reserves the right to review any User Content and remove, delete, redact, or otherwise modify such User Content, in its sole discretion, at any time and from time to time, without notice or further obligation to you. Grove of Gears has no obligation to publish, display, or post any User Content. Grove of Gears reserves the right to disclose, at any time and from time to time, any information or User Content that Grove of Gears deems necessary or appropriate to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, contractual obligation, legal, dispute process, or governmental request.