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4. In particular, Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations shall not be liable for any defamatory content posted by you, or other users about you, to Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations discussion boards, nor any other content which is hurtful, harmful or hateful (whether based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion or otherwise).
5. Any information transmitted by you is transmitted in an unencrypted manner to an open, public forum, and is not confidential and will be subject to vetting prior to posting. All information that is disclosed by you in Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations discussion boards becomes public information and you should therefore exercise caution when deciding to share any of your personal information. Comments may be removed or edited at any point by Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations without prior notice.
6. Your personal information such as your name and email address disclosed in the use of the Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations discussion boards will not be sold, used or distributed by parties other than the Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations.
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Forum Rules
1. Introduction.
Users should act responsibly at all times, respect the rights of other users, respect the integrity of the systems and observe all relevant laws, regulations, and contractual obligations.
2. Nicknames.
Do not use obscene, rude, crude or insulting nicknames.
3. Pornographic material.
Advertising the distribution and/or the distribution of all forms of pornographic material is prohibited.
4. Obscene material.
Do not advertise the illegal distribution and/or the distribution of copyrighted content, which includes without limitation software, text and images, to the chat forum without the permission of the owner. Users must acknowledge and respect the work of others through strict adherence to software licensing agreements and copyright laws.
5. Copyrighted material.
Do not display obscene, lewd, or sexually harassing images or text on a public communication.
6. Transmitting of content.
Do not transmit any content (i) that you do not have the right to transmit under law or under a contractual relationship (such as proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed to you as an employee or which you have access to under a non-disclosure agreement) and (ii) that contains information regarding pirated computer programs or links to such programs, or information used to circumvent copy/protect devices installed by manufacturers on software, including serial or registration numbers for software programs, or provide links to pirated music files.
7. Commercial purposes.
Use for commercial or advertising purposes, or for the transmission of promotional materials or for purposes of participating in multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes is prohibited.
8. Advertising.
Do not advertise competing brands, servers, discussion forums and/or products not owned and/or controlled by Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations.
9. Electronic fraud.
Do not commit electronic fraud. Do not forge the identity of a user or machine in an electronic communication. Do not use Socks Proxies, EZBounce, Vhosts, BNC's and/or any other software or hardware method to disguise or hide your own IP address. Do not impersonate any person, including, but not limited to, an Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations employee, channel operator or other participant. No clones are allowed.
10. Racism, hatred or profanity.
Do not use expressions of racism, hatred or profanity.
11. Harmful or illegal activities.
Do not promote or provide instructions for harmful or illegal activities including but not limited to, abusing or dealing in drugs and assembling bombs and other weapons.
12. Conduct towards others.
Do not harass, threaten, embarrass, swear at, sexually harass or abuse another participant.
13. Data Protection and Security.
Do not attempt to circumvent data protection schemes or uncover security loopholes. This includes without limitation creating and/or running programs that are designed to identify security loopholes and/or decrypt intentionally secure data.
14. Interfering with operations.
Do not interfere with the normal operations of computers, servers, and/or users connected to the Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations system and their agencies.
15. Intentional damage or overloading.
Do not run any program intended to damage or to place excessive load on a server. This includes, but is not limited to, mass-invites, mass-messages, and programs known as floodbots and clonebots.
16. Type of Discussion.
No discussion forums dealing with sex, Warez, MP3 or hacking are allowed.
17. Unauthorised access.
Do not gain unauthorised access to a server/s or computer system(s) dealing with the administration of the chat forums.
18. Automated client.
Do not connect an automated client, such as a bot, fserv or script to the Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations system without prior authorization by the server's administration.
19. Nuking.
Nuking and nuking tools such as 7th Sphere are prohibited.
20. Flooding and CAPS.
Do not intentionally, repeatedly or in a rapid manner transmit material producing the effect of harassing a user by "flooding" them. Users may not post the same post in multiple forums. Do not type all in CAPITALS.
21. Monitoring or tampering.
Do not attempt to monitor or tamper with another user's electronic communications, or read, copy, change, or delete any part of another user's account without the express agreement of the owner.
22. Thread etiquette.
One liner comments that are negative, defamatory in nature or intended to incite may be moderated. Blatant thread hijacking or the posting of utter nonsense that accomplishes the same goal will be moderated.
23. Thread moderation.
Responses to any posts or users that are guilty of violating the above rules, and that also violate the above rules, will also be moderated accordingly. Where a user is unhappy with any moderation, they should email the Webmaster stating their reasons for being unhappy. A user should not publicly argue with nor launch a public attack on the moderator that carried out the original moderation as their method of responding. Based on past occurrences, these type of posts also usually get moderated and don’t achieve anything. Once a user has exhausted all available options, and the moderators/Webmaster still agree with the original moderation that was carried out, then the decision is final and will not be changed. Moderators are not obliged to give a reason for removing posts.
24. Infractions.
Moderators may award infractions at their discretion.
25. Signatures.
No comment signatures will be allowed.
26. All comments are vetted by Adcock Ingram’s Unique Formulations’ agency and any comment can be removed if it is decided that it cannot be shown for any reason.
27. Updates.
These Rules and Terms and Conditions may change at any time, it is up to forum users to ensure they check them regularly and do not contravene them at any time.