OUR TERMS OF USE
The following Terms of Service apply to your use of this
website. You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on the Website and
compliance with these terms. By registering with us or using or browsing this Website, you
acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms.
You agree that you will not post, email or make available any
content or use this Website:
In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual
property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
in a manner that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs
designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or
hardware or telecommunications equipment;
to engage in spamming, ‘chain letters,’ ‘pyramid schemes’, advertisement of illegal or
controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that
violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted
advertising industry guidelines;
in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes
illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or
other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading
purposes;
in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening,
abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive
of another's privacy;
in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion,
nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation
or age or is otherwise objectionable;
to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your
affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to this Website without
authorization;
to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Website or prevent
others from using this Website, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue
with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Website, or that
otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use this Website;
to use any manual or automated means, including agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to
access or manage any user's account or to monitor or copy this Website or the content
contained therein;
to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person
without that person's explicit consent;
in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or
otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted
through this Website or to users; and
in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if
emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products
or commercial interests.
Additionally, you agree not to:
‘Stalk’ or otherwise harass anyone;
Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without
their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other
authentication credentials from any member of this Website or to proxy authentication
credentials for any member of this Website for the purposes of automating logins to this
Website;
Post any content containing child pornography to this Website;
Post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality,
incest, or other similar content;
Post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature.
Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like
to download data from this Website - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google)
and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt
file, or ‘well-behaved’ web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define
what we mean by ‘well-behaved’;
Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose
an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Website's infrastructure;
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity
that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs
the functionality of, this Website;
Use this Website as a generic file hosting service;
Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying,
importing or exporting feedback information off of this Website or for using it for
purposes unrelated to this Website); and
Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with
the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Website.
You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use
this Website to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that
these Website Terms of Service inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our
Website platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your
content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Website
Terms of Service. Technology and hosting for aspects of this Website are provided by this
Website's online service provider. However, the Website Creator of this Website controls the
content, membership and policy of this Website, including those pages served by such service
provider on behalf of this Website. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, by
participating on this Website you agree to indemnify and hold harmless such service provider
on all matters related to your interaction with others using this Website and participation
with this Website.