Community Terms of Use

a.  Usage Guidelines.  You must review and follow the Guidelines in all areas of the Community.  We may change the Guidelines at any time. Your use of any area in the Community is subject to the relevent Community Guidelines, which are incorporated to this Agreement by reference.

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b.  Acceptable Use.  You will use each area of the Community for intended purposes only, and will not use any area of the Community for solicitation or advertising purposes, unless we otherwise agree.  

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The Community is meant for public discussion, so you may not disclose or solicit anyone's private information or disclose confidential information.  You are responsible for the use by third parties of any personal information disclosed by you to the Community, whether or not you permitted such use. This means that no private or personal information should be exchanged within the Community. You choose which information is on your Member profile is publicly visible. 

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Without limiting the other requirements in this Community TOU, you may not (directly or indirectly) use the Community with content, or in a manner that:

• is in violation of this Agreement;

• is confidential, proprietary or discloses Sensitive Information;

• discloses or solicits the private information of any person;

• is threatening, abusive, harassing, stalking, or defamatory;

• is deceptive, false, misleading or fraudulent;

• is invasive of another's privacy or otherwise violates another’s legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity);

• contains vulgar, obscene, indecent or unlawful material;

• infringes a third party's intellectual property right(s);

• publishes, posts, uploads, or otherwise distributes any software, music, videos, or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you have all necessary rights and consents to do so;

• uploads files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another person's computer;

• downloads any file that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in that way;

• falsifies or deletes any author attributions, legal or proprietary designations, labels of the origin or source of software, or other material contained in a file that is uploaded;

• restricts or inhibits any other user of the Community from using and enjoying our website;

• harvests or otherwise collects information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent;

• damages, disables, overburdens, or impairs our website or interferes with any other party's use and enjoyment of the the Community;

• mirrors or frames our website, or any part of it, on any other website or webpage;

• attempts to gain unauthorized access to the Community, or access the Community by any means other than through the interface that we provide to you;

• violates the usage standards or rules of an entity affected by your use, including without limitation, any ISP, ESP, or news or user group (and including, by way of example, and not limitation, circumventing or exceeding equipment use rights and restrictions and/or location and path identification detail);

• is legally actionable between private parties; and/or

• is in violation of any applicable law or regulation.

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c.  Suspension and Notice of Violations. We may immediately suspend use of the Community, without notice, for actual or suspected violations of the terms contained in this Section (Your Conduct and Content).  If you know of usage that is in violation of this Agreement, please let us know by contacting us using the form on the Contact page.

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d.  Claims of Copyright Infringement.  We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and we ask our users to do the same. We may, in its sole discretion, suspend the access or terminate the accounts of users who violate others' intellectual property rights.  If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes infringement on our website, please contact us using the form on the Contact page.

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e.  Our Use of Your Content.  You grant to us all rights, licenses and permissions necessary to display, reproduce, disseminate, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the Community.  We may edit or remove Your Content, or block or disable replies on a topic, at any time in our sole discretion. You also grant us the rights to re-use Your Content to market and promote Donta Ink, such as on our website, in public or private presentations, press releases and interviews, or in connection with our sales and marketing and other publicity efforts. We will endeavor to work with you before re-using Your Content.