1. Conduct Required for use of the Sites: It is a condition of your use of the Community Areas that you do not: (i) restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Community Areas; (ii) post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law; (iii) post or transmit comments containing harassing or offensive language, including sexual references, sexual nicknames, racial slurs or rude or deliberately offensive comments or engage in disruptive activities online, including excessive use of scripts, sound waves, scrolling (repeating the same message over and over), or use viruses, bots, worms or trojan horses; (iv) post or transmit any information, software or other material which violates or infringes the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder; (v) post or transmit any information, software or other material which contains a virus or other harmful component; (vi) post or transmit content that encourages or provides instructional activities about illegal activities, in particular hacking, cracking or phreaking; (vii) post, transmit or in any way exploit any information, software or other material for commercial purposes or which contains advertising; (viii) solicit other users to join, become members of, or contribute money to any online service or other organization, advocate or attempt to get users to join in legal or illegal schemes or plan or participate in scams involving other users; (ix) impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your professional or other affiliation with any person or entity; (x) resell, redistribute, broadcast or transfer the information or use the information in a searchable, machine-readable database; or (xi) use the Sites to collect personally identifying information about users of the Sites in violation of our Privacy Policy. You agree that you will not use the Sites, including the information provided therein and all related equipment, networks and network devices (specifically including Internet access) for any unlawful purpose. We, at our sole and absolute discretion, shall determine whether any information transmitted or received violates this provision.
2. Monitoring. You understand that we have no obligation to monitor the Community Areas. However, we reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in our sole and absolute discretion are objectionable or in violation of this Agreement. You acknowledge that we reserve the right to, and may from time to time, monitor any and all information transmitted or received through the Site, for operational and other purposes. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied, and used for authorized purposes in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Use of the Site constitutes consent to such monitoring.
3. License. Except as set forth in the Privacy Policy, by uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication (a "Communication") through the Community Areas (other than personal E-mails) you are granting us a royalty free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to (i) use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display any such Communication, and (ii) sublicense to third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the foregoing rights granted with respect to such Communication. No Communication shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on our part. The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such Communication, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, servicemark, or patent laws in any relevant jurisdiction.
4. Community Areas. Communications posted in the Community Areas are provided by users such as yourself who are unaffiliated with us, and the user providing each such Communication is solely responsible for the content thereof. In using the Community Areas, you should not assume that we have reviewed such messages, that such Communications contain correct information, or that the persons posting such Communications have accurately identified themselves and/or their affiliation with any third party.
5. Personal Safety. When using the Sites, please be certain that anything you say does not compromise your personal safety. Do not provide your name, phone number or any other personally identifying information to people you do not know. Do not continue any conversation online that makes you feel uncomfortable.