Terms of Use

12. Prohibited Activities

You agree NOT to do the following:

• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
• impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, officials, directors, employees, agents, authorized representatives, forum leaders, guides or hosts, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent any information or accounts;
• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content or material transmitted or provided through the Platform;
• collect or store personal data about other users;
• interfere with or disrupt the Platform or servers or networks connected to the Platform, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Platform;
• intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material 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;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation, except in those specific areas that may be designated for such purpose of posting such mails or messages either by the Platform or the Company;
• use any robot, spider, scraper, deep link or other similar automated data gathering or extraction tools, program, algorithm or methodology to access, acquire, copy or monitor this Platform, either in whole or part;
• use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search this Platform, other than the search engines and search agents available through the Service and other than generally available third-party web browsers;
• attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse-engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of this Platform or the Service;
• post or transmit any message, data, image or program that would violate the property rights of others, including unauthorized copyrighted text, images or programs, trade secrets or other confidential proprietary information, and trademarks or service marks used in an infringing fashion; and
• interfere with other users’ use of the Service, including, without limitation, disrupting the normal flow of dialogue in an interactive area of this Platform, deleting or revising any content posted by another person or entity, or taking any action that imposes a disproportionate burden on the Service infrastructure or that negatively affects the availability of the Service to others.