General Statement

The editors of The Site does not endorse the use of abusive language or illegal content of any kind.

Please remember that we do not monitor the contents of any of The Site community features and cannot be held responsible for the User Materials. Therefore, we apologize in advance for any offensive or otherwise displeasing User Materials.

Editor Rights

This site may include blogs, bulletin boards, discussion groups and other public areas that allow interaction between users. While The Operator does not control the information/materials publicly posted (“Messages”), it reserves the right (which it may exercise at its sole discretion without notice) to delete, move or edit the Messages and to terminate your access and your use of The Site services and waive any moral rights that you may have in regard to the Messages.

Submissions

Certain parts of the Site may ask for written suggestions or problem reports via our contact form, forum or problem report form/ticket system (“Submissions”). In such a case, please read carefully the specific terms, which govern those Submissions (“Additional Terms”). In the absence of Additional Terms, The Site Terms and Conditions shall govern your legal rights with respect to those Submissions.

The Submissions shall be deemed the property of The Operator.
The Operator shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights to the Submissions throughout the universe in perpetuity and shall be entitled to use the Submissions for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the provider of the Submissions.

In any event, any Submissions you send to The Operator or The Site will not be treated as confidential and The Operator shall not be liable for any disclosure of the Submissions.

Useage and Online Behavior

You may not use The Site, The Operator Services or Infrastructure for any unlawful purpose.

Please exercise respect when participating in any of The Site community features such as Forums, Blogs, Email functions, etc. and when using chat, voice, video, file transfer or any other feature of The Site or Infrastructure.

You must comply with any rules posted by The Operator on any part of The Site. You may not:

• send from within, post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages or other types of User Materials containing any form of advertising, recommendations to buy or refrain from buying, or have the purpose of affecting the price or value of goods and services;
• use the site services to chain Messages or “spam”;
• send from within, post, link to or otherwise publish or store any Messages or other types of User Materials that are unlawful/illegal, threatening, defamatory, abusive, libelous, indecent, an invasion of privacy, obscene, pornographic, racist, offensive, harmful to a minor, contain confidential information, be an infringement on any intellectual property rights or would otherwise violate the rights of a third party party.
• disguise the origin of any Messages;
• impersonate any person or entity (including The Operator employees, users, guests or hosts) or misrepresent any affiliation with any person or entity;
• send, post, transmit or store any Messages or other types of User Materials that contain software viruses, files or code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of The Site, Infrastructure or any computer software or equipment;
• collect or store other users’ personal data;

• restrict or inhibit any other user from using The Site.

The Operator reserves the right to contact you by e-mail with regard to your use of the Forums.

Access granted to the site can be limited or be revoked at any time.

You acknowledge that The Operator’s Name and its associated Symbols are trade marks and that you may not use them without written permission from The Operator.

You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights under these terms and conditions.

Notwithstanding any rights or obligations governed by the Additional Terms, if, at any time you upload, post or send User Materials, including but not limited to comments, suggestions, problem reports, bug reports and design ideas to The Site or The Operator you automatically grant The Operator a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license of all rights throughout the universe to use, edit, modify, include, incorporate, adapt, record, reproduce,translate, make available, distribute and sub-license the User Materials including, without limitation, all trademarks associated therewith, in any manner whatsoever, in or out-of-context, in all languages, in whole or in part and in any form, in all media now known and hereafter devised, and to use the User Materials in advertising, promotion and publicity for The Site, The Operator and its or their products and services, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised. In addition, you represent and warrant that you are entitled to enter into these Terms and Conditions and that you waive any so-called “moral rights” in and to the User Materials.

This may include personal information such as your user name and alias and your expressions of opinion.

If you make a Submission, all references to you, as the author, will be maintained as far as possible.
Although every effort is made to keep all references to authors, no warranty can be given to ensure such links in the future.

It is not possible for The Operator in any way to effectively monitor when Messages infringe the copyright of a third party or other third party rights. If you believe that a Message infringes any legal rights that you may have, you should notify The Operator immediately with specific details.

Rights

All User Materials available on the Operator Sites (including User Materials sent to you i.e. via email, sms or post) belongs to The Operator or its licensors. The Operator or its licensors own all intellectual property rights (including copyright and database rights) in the User Materials and any selection or arrangement of the Content. You may retrieve and display the User Materials on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on your mobile telephone (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also email articles to a maximum of twenty individuals using our ‘Tell-a-friend’ service.

Redistribution

Except as expressly set out in The Site policies, you may not reproduce, publish, broadcast, transmit, modify, adapt, create derivative works of, store, archive or in any way commercially exploit any of the User Materials. Without limitation, you may not do any of the following without prior written permission from The Operator (and neither may you allow a third party to do any of the same):

• redistribute any of the User Materials, including our headlines, (including by using it as part of any syndication, content aggregation, archive or similar service); or
• remove the copyright or trade mark notice from any copies of User Materials made under these terms and conditions; or
• create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the User Materials; or
• deep link to, frame, spider, harvest or scrape the User Materials or otherwise access the User Materials for similar purposes; or

• use any machine, electronic, web based or similar device to read or extract the User Materials by automated or machine based means.

Requests to republish or redistribute User Materials should be addressed to The Operator.

Responsibility

You are solely responsible for the content of your Messages. By submitting messages you agree to indemnify The Operator from all claims, costs and expenses (including legal expenses) arising out of any Messages posted or published by you that are in breach of this Policy.