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2012-11-28 - Update - User Profiles
A user profile module has been added to teh site. This allows you to share your pertinent contact information with your family.
2012-11-06 - BETA Test Begins
Text Of Kin was launched today for a select group of BETA testers. Over the next few weeks, testing will commence to make sure the site is ready for widespread use. At that point, registration will be open to all users.
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Privacy Policy
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Your Conduct on Our Site
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Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that you will not use our site to take any of the following actions:
If you choose a username that, in our sole discretion, is obscene, indecent, or abusive we reserve the right, without prior notice to you, to automatically change your username, delete your posts from our site, deny you access to our Site, or any combination of these options.
Unauthorized access to our Site is a breach of these Terms and a violation of the law. You agree not to access our Site by any means other than through the interface that is provided by the Site. You agree not to use any automated means, including, without limitation, agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access, monitor, or copy any part of our Site, except those automated means that are used by search engines or others that we have approved in advance and in writing.
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Indemnification
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