[introduction]
fen-om (all lower-case) is a virtual organization dedicated to the non-profit diffusion of information.In its Web pages, you will find the following (in order to enjoy all these, you must be able to access Internet on your own, paying all fees associated with such access, and must access by using a computer system capable of such task: computer with modem, for example):
1. Pre-Conferences: Sites dedicated to the exposition of a specific theme, in depth (pre-conferencia1, for example, provides information on the architectural theme of housing, while pre-conference2 diffuses information regarding the theme of Teaching English as a Second Language).
2. Gacetas (Gazettes): Sites dedicated to the critique of some specific 'Mexican' event (for example, gaceta1 reviews what was presented at the First Arquine Contest, in architectural design, while gaceta2 evaluates the happenings at the 6th academic Encounter of the University of Guadalajara's University Program for Foreign languages).
3. Main Sites (fen-om, fen-om1, fen-om2, fen-om3): Apart from the principal fen-om site, which deals with orienting the public within the totality of the 'fenom-enal' pages, the main fen-om sites are focused on the representation of specific themes, myths, and city-cultures. At fen-om1, the theme is Theory of Design, the myth is Madrid's Metro, and the city-culture is Madrid, Spain. fen-om2 deals with the theme of Virtual Reality, the myth of Digital San Diego, and the city-culture of Southern California, USA. fen-om3 deals with the theme of Crafts, the myth of the Villa Duz, and the city-culture of Guadalajara, Mexico.
4. Architectural Sites: These sites were elaborated in order to represent large architectural projects in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico. The large scale of the selected works implies that they are pertinent, not only for architects and urbanists, but for the entire citizenry (they are already catalysts of great polemic, venturing into the local political realm and interweaving within the varios communication media). Examples of these include the JVC Cultural Center, the Arches of the Third Millenium, and the Millenium Tower.
5. CVs for Young Designers: fen-om presents a section for curricula, where it publishes professional data of all fen-om collaborators (if you help us out with something, we'll place your curriculum on-line, free!).
6. Night Clubs, Ciber-Cafés, and Cultural centers in Guadalajara: At fen-om, we are interested in diffusing information on Guadalajara. More and more, some of these sections will transform into a turist-culture section for Guadalajara, mexico. At the moment, we begin with descriptions of various night and daytime 'foci' for public activity.
7. edu: Our organizer, Sandro Alberti, arquitect, digital designer, reporter,and fen-om representative, is also a teacher (he teaches English, Architecture, and Graphic Design). He has begun to diffuse academic information via the edu site (at fen-om3; it includes course texts, digital evaluations, information database, etc.).
8. Theory Lists: fen-om distributes free e-lists (in both English and Spanish). They deal with the following themes: 'actual', 'architecture', 'design', 'Nik', 'Sandro', 'tech', 'theory', 'tips', 'web', and/ or 'ZMG'.
9. Contests: Every so often, in order to popularize our web sites, and thus allow for better diffusion of information throughout our 'global community', we will hold contests, raffles, etc. (typically, related to contemporary objects and events). Visit fen-om every so often in order to review the latest.

Remember that, due to the fact that a large a mount of the information held in these pages is simply re-distributed information, the opinions, facts, comments, references, and ideological postures published in this site do not necessarily reflect the opinion of editors at fen-om.

fen-om does not make itself responsible for the material contained herein, or for any caim, damage, or loss which might develop from the use of aforementioned material and/ or of this service as a whole. Neither does it make itself responsible for opinions voiced by any of its collaborators, moderators, article writers, interviewees, or announcers; but neither will we exert censorship, because we believe in freedom of expression.

By using this medium, you declare and guarantee having all the rights and/ or permits necessary to provide, transmit, and/ or deliver all materials and information provided to fen-om, and allow us the right to change, modify, add, or eliminate portions of this material at any time, whenever we wish, and for an unlimited period of time. We hope you understand, from what you may have seen in our Web pages, that we are not trying to take advantage of any provided information. Our motivation is the imprved distribution of information (we hope that everybody has access to more information, in order to be able to form better opinions).

Terms and Conditions
By accessing our sites and using the services offered, you (the 'User') accept the conditions and terms contained in this contract, and you declare expressly the acceptance of the following conditions:
1. The information, concepts, and opinions emitted via these Internet sites do not necessarily reflect the position of fen-om or any of its subsidized corporations, branches, or related entities, or of its employees, officers, directors, stock-holders, or license/ concession holders (overall, 'fen-om'). For this reason, fen-om does not make itself responsible for any of the information, opinions, or concepts emitted through its Internet sites.
2. fen-om does not assume responsibility for the edition, review, or censorship of information, and neither does it compromise itself to verify the content of pages or sites to which the User may connect via fen-om's search engines or directories. Thus, fen-om, its officers, employees, and associated personnel, do not assume responsibility for the verification of Rights of Authorship norms, the legality, or the decency of the content of any pages which may be accessed through its search engines or directories.
3. The User accepts that fen-om does not guarantee the truthfulness of information, content, articles, propaganda, or ads (the 'Information') which may appear published or be distributed, directly or indirectly, through these Web sites, any linked site, or any of the services linked or related to these pages (the 'Services').
4. At the same time, the User accepts that neither fen-om, nor its officers, employees, or associated companies will be responsible for the delivery, quality, vices, or any other defect which might present itself in its products, Services, Information, or other presented materials (the 'Products') acquired or obtained by means of Information, publicity, invitations, and offerswhich may be made through Information or Services.
5. By accepting the terms of this contract, you expressly declare that (i) you are a person capable of dicerning; (ii) that you have accessed these sites by your own will and have not been forced to do so; (iii) that you recognize and understand that the content of many of the pages that can be located via the search engines or directories at fen-om may contain images, sound, or text that might be considered offensive or inadequate, and that might conspire against moral values and good manners; (iv) that the selection of Products or Services that the User might wish to acquire is made by his/ her sole and only responsibility and risk; and (v) that you have read the terms and conditions of this contract, accepting them through your sole and only responsibility and risk.
6. The User accepts that fen-om may, when considered convenient, realize corrections, improvements, or modifications in the Information and Services, without allowing this to allow for any claim or indemnization, or implying recognition of any responsibility.
7. The User gives up any claim or gain for damages, direct, indirect, or consecuential that might derive from the loan and use of Information or Services, or from the contracting, aquisition, and utilization of Products.
8. Neither does fen-om assume any responsibility (and the User frees it from any responsibility) regarding events, lotteries, or raffles that might be realized via its Internet sites, regarding to the truthfulness of declarations realized in relation to these same events, as well as the delivery of prizes or following-through with the dispositions relative to said events anywhere in the world.
9. The User will indemnify and protect fen-om from any claim, including reasonable lawyer's fees, made by any third party and originating or caused by content provided or transmitted by the User, the use of the service by the User, or violation, by the User, of the rights of third parties.
10. The Terms and Conditions and the relationship between User and fen-om will be subject to the laws of the State of California, United States of America, without affecting its principles over conflict of laws. The User and fen-om agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the City of Los Angeles, in the State of California.

fen-om, fen-om.com, the fen-om logotype, and all brands and designs of fen-om are registered trademarks of fen-om.

These Terms and Conditions may by modified by fen-om without prior notice.

Privacy Policy
At fen-om, we are conscious of the enormous reach which Internet allows our users. By accessing our sites, you will be able to obtain tremendous amounts of information and enjoy diverse technological and community services.

At fen-om, we are determined to carefully protect the private and personal information of our users. It is vitally important that we respect and protect aforementioned information.

fen-om will be able to request personal information from its users, as part of their registration process. This information, that includes your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, profession, country of origin, and personal interests, will be used in order to provide you with a 'fen-om ID', that will identify you as user of our services any time you request some specific service or enroll in a raffle or contest. In order to gain access to these services, it will be your responsibility to provide truthful, precise, and current personal information, updating it when necessary. If you present information that does not meet these prerequisites, fen-om will be able to suspend or terminate your fen-om ID, refusing you future access to any specialized service.

Upon preparing any fen-om ID account, you will be provided with a user name and password. It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of these. If at any moment you feel the the security of your password has been compromised, you must contact us immediately. In the everyday use of your username and password, remember to exit your account completely (log-out) at the end of every session. fen-om cannot and will not assume responsibility for any loss or damage that might arise from the irresponsible use of user names and passwords.

fen-om will also be able to request personal information in other ocassions, such as, for example, when you participate in a contest or promotion sponsored by fen-om, upon sending us a classified ad, when sending a list to a Web site, or when informing us about a problem related to our sites or services. We will also be able to send out questionnaires every so often, in order to evaluate internal traffic and services offered. fen-om will allow you, as much as possible, to review and verufy that this information be the most correct and recent, and, at the same time, will allow us to inform you regarding new services and products in our Web sites.

fen-om will be able to employ 'cookies' in order to control and hold your personal data. A 'cookie' is a small volume of data that our server sends to your browser. The 'cookie' is stored in the hard disk of your computer. All fen-om sites that request the use of your fen-om ID, or that are able to be personalized, need that you be able to accept 'cookies'. 'Cookies' are commonly used to remind us who you are and to be able to access your account information (stored at our computers), in order to offer you a better and more personalized service. We also use these 'cookies' to measure the size of our audience, in order to measure some traffic parameters, and to know what areas of the fen-om sites you have visited. You control the option to accept 'cookies', by changing the preferences of your browser. You are able to re-program your browser to not accept 'cookies', or to indicate the times when 'cookies' are being used. If you choose not to accept 'cookies', you Web site experience will diminish, and some services and options will not work as expected.

fen-om will never provide this information directly to other companies (for secondary use).

It is important for you to realize that, in some cases, other Web sites with links to fen-om (as well as publicizers in our sites) might request personal information. The use to be made of this information does not fall within the range of fen-om's Policy of Cofidentiality.Also, you must understand that, through the use of our services, you might encounter information that you consider to be offensive, indecent, or questionable. fen-om does not assume responsibility for this.

In accordance with the contents of our terms and conditions, fen-om will be able to release personal information for any users when required by law, or when we consider, without prejudice, that such action may be necessary to carry-on the letter or spirit of the law, and/ or in order to protect and/ or defend the operations and intelectual property rights of fen-om, its sites, and/ or users. fen-om also maintains world-wide, free, eternal, irrevocable, sub-licenseable, and non-exclusive license for the reproduction, translation, creation of derivative works, distribution, modification, adaptation, and publication of all information (complete or partial) that you might provide to fen-om (this also includes the incorporation of this content in other works, in any form, medium, or technology, known or yet to be developed).

You must assume responsibility of all information you deliver to or through fen-om. fen-om is not able of controlling all information received from its users. You promise that you will not use fen-om services in any inappropriate manner:
1. You will not deliver any information that may be considered as illegal, harmful, dangerous, abusive, diffamatory, vulgar, obscene, or intrusive.
2. In no way will you attempt to affect underage users in a negative manner.
3. You will not falsely impersonate any entity or person (including, but not limited to, members of fen-om or other users).
4. You will not falsify ID information in order to distort the origins of any information.
5. You will not send any information that may be subject to contractual restrictions.
6. You will not send any information that conflicts with rights of authorship.
7. You will not deliver any ptomotion or publicity, unless previously requested.
8. You will not send any information containing software viruses (or any type of code, file, or program designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the potential of any computer or telecommunication equipment).
9. You will not affect the capacity of other users to access all information in real time.
10. You will not interfere with the diffusion of fen-om services, and will follow all requirements and procedures of the various fen-om services.
11. You will not intentionally violate any local, state, national, or international law.
12. You will not bother other users.
13. You will not request or store personal data of other users.
14. You will not sell any information contained in the fen-om Web sites.

You will indemnify and free fen-om, its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, members, employees from any accusation or legal claim (related to information you may have sent to or through fen-om).

If you have any questions regarding these declarations, please contact us at:
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Rights of Authorship
If you believe that any work of yours has been copied in a manner that conflicts with authorship rights, please send us the following information (to fenom@fen-om.com):
1. Signature (electronic or physical) of the author (or authorized representative) of the protected piece.
2. A description of the work that you believe has been copied in an illegal manner.
3. A description of the 'legitimate' and/ or 'original' location of the work.
4. Your physical address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
5. A written statement expressing the manner in which the work is being used in a non-authorized manner.
6. A written statement, written under penalty of perjury, that expresses that all information provided is truthful and that you are the author (or authorized representative) of the work.

FAQs Regarding Our Use of Your Personal Information
1. What personal information is being stored?
Some of the information received is obtained when you register to specialized services at fen-om. In that registration process, fen-om asks for the following: name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code, profession, employment, personal interests. The more (correct) information you provide us with, the better we will be able to personalize your experience. Once registered, we will provide you with a user name and password, so that you may enjoy the various services, in depth. Also, we will ask you for information in other ocassions (for example, upon registering to contests and specific promotions). We also maintain copies of your communications with fen-om. We also send out questionnaires every so often. You decide what information you wish to provide us with.
2. What are the famous 'cookies', and how are they used?
fen-om uses 'cookies' in order to offer personalized services. 'Cookies' are used in order to access specific information. A 'cookie' is a small amount of data, stored in your computer. In general, we use 'cookies' to remind us of who you are and what type of services you have requested. 'Cookies' are constantly modified, during the course of your 'browsing'. We also use 'cookies' to estimate the size of our audience (and which are the most visited sites).
3. How is my personal information used?
Ou primary purpose is to provide you with a personalized experience. We are also interested in investigating demographic, interest, and action aspects, based on any information you have provided us with.
4. Who is storing all of my personal data?
All information obtained via fen-om Web sites is stored by fen-om (they are not shared with anyone else).
5. Where is my personal information being distributed?
As a general rule, fen-om will not share your information, except in special cases (because the law requires it, etc.) or with your consent.
6. Do I have a choice as far as the storage, use, and distribution of my information?
If you do not wish to receive promotional offers related to your personal information, you can request that these not be delivered. You can also modify the preferences of your browser, in order to limit the effectiveness of 'cookies' (although this will limit the quality of service personalization).
7. How can I access, modify, or erase my information?
regarding your initial registration information, this can be accessed with your user name and password. this information can be erased or deactivated, but that will limit your ability to reach fen-om pages.
8. What about financial and health-related information?
This is the type of information we would never rent or sell (but we do not rent or sell any information). This type of information will always be handled in a classified manner.
9. How is the privacy of children protected?
At fen-om we are interested in protecting the privacy of children. Due to this, all underage users will only be able to register through a Family Account. Only the adult responsible of the Family Account will be able to add the names of underage users to the services (upon doing so, the minor will be allowed access to services focused to underage users, such as gerardilla.com). All minors must obtain his/ her parents' (or guardians') permission before engaging in any sort of transfer via Internet. Remember that fen-om does not share any personal information with third parties.
10. What other information could you provide me with, regarding privacy 'on-line'?
Remember that at any moment in which you share information via Internet, that information could be stored or used by a variety of people, unknown to fen-om. In the end, it is your responsibility to maintain the security of passwords and any information you wish to maintain confidential. For additional information: fenom@fen-om.com