As a refresher to everyone reading this forum, please see the following service rules inherent in the Terms and Conditions that govern the use of these forums.
For the complete Terms and Conditions that govern the use of this site, please see this link.
SERVICE RULES
You are entirely responsible and liable for all activities conducted by you and any authorized user of your Account while utilizing the Services, including the transmission, posting, or other provision of text, files, links, software, photographs, video, sound, music or other information or material to any portion of the Services ("Service Content"). Listed below are some, though not all, violations that may be punishable by law or may also result in SPD terminating or suspending your access to the Services.
You agree not to do any of the following actions while using any Services:
Harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress or discomfort upon another Services participant, user or other individual or entity;
Transmit any content, using any of the Services, that SPD and/or any governmental agency considers to be disruptive, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
Cause any Service to be disrupted by causing it to "scroll" faster than other users are able to type to it or any other action of a similar disruptive effect;
Impersonate in any of the Services any person, including, but not limited to, a SPD or Site official, chat or message board leader, guide or host or expert;
Disrupt the normal flow of dialogue in a SPD chat room or forum, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other participants;
Post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of solicitation of a commercial nature while using the Services;
Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, any regulations having the force of law while using or accessing any of the Services;
Invade the privacy or violate any personal or proprietary right of any person or entity; and
Infringe the intellectual property rights or similar rights, including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks, of any person or entity.
By posting or uploading Service Content to any Service, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) SPD a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, transmit, sub-license, create derivative works from and distribute such materials or incorporate such Services Content into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed throughout the universe. In addition, you warrant that the Service Content as uploaded or posted by you does not violate any person's so called "Rights of Authors" or "Moral Rights" (Droit Morale) (or other similar or analogous rights under any applicable laws of any country of the world).
You understand that the uploading to and/or posting of any Service Content using any Service shall not be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of SPD, and SPD shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Content.
You agree to indemnify SPD and all of its affiliates, subsidiaries and assigns, for any and all claims, damages, losses, and causes of action arising as a result of your posting or uploading and/or exhibiting any Service Content to any Service or your failure to comply with these TOS. While SPD does not and cannot regularly review Service Content posted by users of the Site and is not responsible for the content of these submissions, SPD reserves the right to delete, move, take down, restrict access to or edit Service Content that it, in its sole discretion, deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, violates any person's rights of privacy or publicity or otherwise unacceptable and/or violates the terms of these Community Guidelines.
The Site has been designed primarily for personal use and is not is not intended to be used to host e-commerce businesses for marketing, promotions and sales (including, without limitation, software distribution) over the Internet. Site Accounts are also not intended to be used for FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access and downloading. Accounts for the Site and the features and Services which make up the Site are limited in terms of the bandwidth for network traffic and disk utilization for storage allocated to them, as described in the Site feature pages. Exceeding any applicable limitation of bandwidth or capacity (for example, "My Files" account space) is prohibited. If there is excess usage on your account or any sub-account, SPD reserves the right to temporarily disable access to information available from your account through a URL, or to "bounce" access requests back to senders. Repeated violations may result in termination of your account.
In addition to the Site Account limitations on bandwidth and disk utilization, certain commercial or business uses are prohibited, including the following:
Soliciting for advertisers or sponsors;
Posting sponsorships and third-party advertisements and banners;
Sending unsolicited advertising, promotional materials or commercial solicitations to third parties, including other Site users;
Reselling, renting or subleasing Site space under any circumstances;
Using or providing to any third person or entity, whether or not for a fee, any directory of or information regarding Site users other than for personal, non-commercial purposes; and
Disseminating multi-level marketing schemes, pyramid schemes, or commercial chain letters.
Please respect the rules expressed above, and all terms and conditions that govern the use of this site.
For the complete Terms and Conditions that govern the use of this site, please see this link.
SERVICE RULES
You are entirely responsible and liable for all activities conducted by you and any authorized user of your Account while utilizing the Services, including the transmission, posting, or other provision of text, files, links, software, photographs, video, sound, music or other information or material to any portion of the Services ("Service Content"). Listed below are some, though not all, violations that may be punishable by law or may also result in SPD terminating or suspending your access to the Services.
You agree not to do any of the following actions while using any Services:
Harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress or discomfort upon another Services participant, user or other individual or entity;
Transmit any content, using any of the Services, that SPD and/or any governmental agency considers to be disruptive, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
Cause any Service to be disrupted by causing it to "scroll" faster than other users are able to type to it or any other action of a similar disruptive effect;
Impersonate in any of the Services any person, including, but not limited to, a SPD or Site official, chat or message board leader, guide or host or expert;
Disrupt the normal flow of dialogue in a SPD chat room or forum, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other participants;
Post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of solicitation of a commercial nature while using the Services;
Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, any regulations having the force of law while using or accessing any of the Services;
Invade the privacy or violate any personal or proprietary right of any person or entity; and
Infringe the intellectual property rights or similar rights, including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks, of any person or entity.
By posting or uploading Service Content to any Service, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) SPD a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, transmit, sub-license, create derivative works from and distribute such materials or incorporate such Services Content into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed throughout the universe. In addition, you warrant that the Service Content as uploaded or posted by you does not violate any person's so called "Rights of Authors" or "Moral Rights" (Droit Morale) (or other similar or analogous rights under any applicable laws of any country of the world).
You understand that the uploading to and/or posting of any Service Content using any Service shall not be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of SPD, and SPD shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Content.
You agree to indemnify SPD and all of its affiliates, subsidiaries and assigns, for any and all claims, damages, losses, and causes of action arising as a result of your posting or uploading and/or exhibiting any Service Content to any Service or your failure to comply with these TOS. While SPD does not and cannot regularly review Service Content posted by users of the Site and is not responsible for the content of these submissions, SPD reserves the right to delete, move, take down, restrict access to or edit Service Content that it, in its sole discretion, deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, violates any person's rights of privacy or publicity or otherwise unacceptable and/or violates the terms of these Community Guidelines.
The Site has been designed primarily for personal use and is not is not intended to be used to host e-commerce businesses for marketing, promotions and sales (including, without limitation, software distribution) over the Internet. Site Accounts are also not intended to be used for FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access and downloading. Accounts for the Site and the features and Services which make up the Site are limited in terms of the bandwidth for network traffic and disk utilization for storage allocated to them, as described in the Site feature pages. Exceeding any applicable limitation of bandwidth or capacity (for example, "My Files" account space) is prohibited. If there is excess usage on your account or any sub-account, SPD reserves the right to temporarily disable access to information available from your account through a URL, or to "bounce" access requests back to senders. Repeated violations may result in termination of your account.
In addition to the Site Account limitations on bandwidth and disk utilization, certain commercial or business uses are prohibited, including the following:
Soliciting for advertisers or sponsors;
Posting sponsorships and third-party advertisements and banners;
Sending unsolicited advertising, promotional materials or commercial solicitations to third parties, including other Site users;
Reselling, renting or subleasing Site space under any circumstances;
Using or providing to any third person or entity, whether or not for a fee, any directory of or information regarding Site users other than for personal, non-commercial purposes; and
Disseminating multi-level marketing schemes, pyramid schemes, or commercial chain letters.
Please respect the rules expressed above, and all terms and conditions that govern the use of this site.