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Greetings Where's George?/Geocache User.
If you are interested in using Where's George? with Geocaching, please read this page.
Geocaching.com allows (and even encourages) friends and family
to place and remove Travel Bugs from Geocaches and log each as a separate
event along the way for the Travel Bug. When a family is involved, this can
cause multiple events or logs of the Travel Bug in a very short period of time.
While this is fine for most Travel Bugs, it presents a serious problem for
Where's George? bills placed in Geocaches as Travel Bugs or hitchikers.
The general rules of this site (available here) specifically prohibit trading
or exchanging bills with friends, family or anyone known to the bill distributor.
This rule is to encourage "natural circulation" of the currency, and to prevent multiple
"fake hits" from happening on any bill. Afterall, the purpose of Where's George? is to
track the manner in which currency naturally circulates throughout the country and the
world. Allowing people to arbitrarily enter multiple hits to track that a bill was
traded among a circle of friends and family defeats the entire purpose of this site.
In reality, nobody really needs Where's George? to track that they traded some
bills with friends/family.
When it comes to Where's George? bills being used as Travel Bugs, this rule
conflicts with the Geocache site which allows such exchanging and logging of Travel Bugs.
Therefore, if you are going to use Where's George? bills as Travel Bugs or in any Geocache,
the rules posted below now apply.
In addition, it is apparent that the existence of the "Top 10 Geocache Bills" report
had created competition to get the top bill listed. As it is trivial to log entries
of a bill and make any bill the "Top #1 Bill", the existence of this report was causing
several bills to be hit repeatedly in violation of the general rules of the site.
This is not the purpose of this site, and the report has been removed to prevent the
site from being abused in this manner.
In the future, if this site is abused for this or similar purposes, all Geocache
bills will be removed from this site. I do not want this to happen as there is great synergy
between the sites, so please follow the rules and keep this site "Geocache Friendly".
Thank you.
If you have any questions or comments concerning this policy, please see the Contact Us page.
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| #1 Natural Circulation of bills in a Geocache |
| | The purpose of Where's George? is to track the natural and geographic circulation of currency. This means that any bills you enter should be spent by you in the normal course of everyday life. Giving bills to friends, relatives and/or associates for the purpose of re-entry into the website or simply exchanging any bill though any Geocache violates the whole premise of Where's George?. After you have logged any Where's George? bill you have found in a Geocache, you can either spend it normally or place it in another Geocache. You can not, however, allow any friends, family, or other known Geocachers remove the bill to generate their own entry on the bill. If subsequently found, it must be found by a Geocacher unknown to the previous Geocacher who placed the bill in the Geocache. In general, the Where's George? definition of natural and geographic circulation is spending your cash in the course of any normal transaction with any unknown person/entity. |
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| #2 Bill Marking |
| | Where's George? does not encourage the defacement of U.S. Currency. If you choose to mark your bills, do so in a reasonable and prudent manner. Please see the FAQ page for the legal details, but remember, the bill must not be "unfit to be re-issued." If you deface the bills in such a manner that does render the bills unfit to be re-issued," you may violate the law. |
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| #3 Usage of Bills in Geocaches |
| | Only real, actual U.S. dollar bills can be used as Travel Bugs in Geocaches if they are to be logged on this site. Photocopies or other duplicates of bills will not be allowed and any instances of this will be deleted and blocked from entry. Once any bill has been found in a Geocache, it is marked as such on this site and is removed from the summarizations and other Top 10 reports found on this site. Once a bill is tagged as a "Geocache Bill", it will not be untagged as such, even if it is returned to normal circulation. |
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| #4 Hit Validation |
| | The Where's George? management reserves the sole right to delete or otherwise edit bills and/or hits that it deems violates any or all of these guidelines. Our decision is final and once hits are deleted they will not be reinstated. |
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| #5 Abuse/User Account Termination |
| | Any Where's George? user that abuses this website by entering fake bills, generating fake hits, or entering bills that they don't personally have possession of at the time and place (zip code) of entry, at the sole discretion of the Where's George? Management, can be totally removed from the system without warning. Geocachers who intentionally exchange Travel Bugs or Where's George? in and out of Geocaches to generate hits risk having their accounts terminated. |
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| #6 Copyright/Ownership |
| | All text, pages, data, reports, and images are owned by and copyright © 1998-2008 wheresgeorge.com , and cannot be used or duplicated without prior written consent from wheresgeorge.com. All data entered into Where's George? becomes the sole property of Where's George?. |
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| #7 Legal Disclaimer |
| | THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY WHERESGEORGE.COM AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL WHERESGEORGE.COM OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SITE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. |
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