IMPORTANT NOTE

The information, materials, and services offered by this ministry or on this website are copyrighted, privileged, and licensed.  All of the Ministry educational services and information offered on this website and through interacting with members or officers of the ministry are subject to the terms of the Disclaimer and Copyright/Software/User License Agreement and the SEDM Member Agreement.  We encourage anyone to do any of the following, and by doing so, they implicitly consent to become a Member and are subject to the terms of the Member Agreement.

1. Participate in the Ministry as a volunteer or agent.
2. Contact us for help with their problems or questions either via email or using our Contact Us Page.
3. Request our services through the ministry bookstore, such as IMF Decoding, paralegal help, etc.
4. Join our Member Forums
5. Join our Member Subscriptions service.
6. Join our Member Mail List that might be connected with this ministry.
7. Sign up for a Member Account.
8. Obtain ministry materials or services offered through the Ministry Bookstore.
9. Make a donation to the ministry.
10. Download any of the free materials or information available on the SEDM website at http://sedm.org.
11. Submit or send any of the materials appearing on this website to any third party in any administrative or legal matter, and especially one involving any Member or Officer of this ministry.
12. Use any of the materials or output of services available through this website as evidence in any legal or administrative enforcement proceeding.

HOWEVER, those who do not consent unconditionally or perpetually, and comply completely with our Member Agreement for the tax years they seek a assistance with may not:

1. "Use" any of our materials.  "Use" includes the following:

   1.1  Attaching to correspondence sent to the government.

   1.2  Attaching to legal pleadings sent to any government.

   1.3  Attaching or incorporating within any tax return or tax collection correspondence sent to the federal or state
          taxing authorities.

   1.4  Incorporating our materials by reference or providing a hyperlink to our website in correspondence or legal
          pleadings sent to any government.

   1.5  Mentioning anything or anyone connected with our ministry website or any member of our ministry as an
          authority or a basis for your beliefs about your responsibilities under the law.

2. Attend any of our meetings or educational events.
3. Contact Us or any member of our ministry seeking help with a tax problem.

We warn users of this website that our Member Agreement also forbids any Member from:

1. Sharing materials they obtained through our Ministry Bookstore or Member Subscriptions with anyone, including family members, who did not already personally obtain said item from our Bookstore.
2. Sharing their username and/or password to the Member Forums, Member Subscriptions, or Ministry Bookstore with anyone.
3. Conducting legal discovery against any member of this ministry.
4. Engaging in litigation against any officer or member of this ministry.

The terms of our Copyright/Software/User License Agreement and Member Agreement are subject to change without notice to Members.  All Members and users of our materials, by using our privileged services and materials, implicitly consent unconditionally to all present and future versions of these agreements.  Caveat emptor.

The main reason for these policies is to:

1. Prevent abuse of our materials or services.
2. Prevent violations of law by those using our materials or services.
3. Avoid bringing reproach on this ministry or the God we serve.
4. Avoid becoming the target of law enforcement activity.
5. Protect governments and the legal profession from ignorant and needless abuse by people who don't know what they are doing and refuse to read or obey the law.
6. Prevent you from blaming us for any of your choices or actions or transfer any responsibility to us for any aspect of those choices or actions.  You can't be sovereign if you have anyone to blame for your own choices or actions.

For additional reasons behind this policy, please read our Frequently Asked Questions, Questions 0.9 and 0.11. 

Please DO NOT contact us to ask us to make an exception to this policy in your specific case.  THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS.