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5. Conduct on our Site
Your use of the Site is subject to all applicable laws and regulations, as well as our Terms, other rules and normal social etiquette. iHub reserves the right to remove or restore posts at its sole discretion. It is members' responsibility to bring violations of the Terms by other members to iHub's attention, although iHub does not guarantee any action based on such information.
Further, you are solely responsible for the content of your posts and communications through the Site. By posting information in or otherwise using any communications service, chat room, message board, newsgroup, software library, image or document repository, or other interactive service that may be available to you on or through this Site, you agree that you will not upload, share, post, or otherwise distribute or facilitate distribution of any content -- including text, communications, software, images, sounds, data, or other information -- that:
A. Is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, hateful, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, contains explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of sexual acts (including but not limited to sexual language of a violent or threatening nature directed at another individual or group of individuals), or otherwise violates our rules or policies;
B. Attacks, verbally or otherwise, any other user, the website, any non-public figure, or any agents or employees of iHub;
C. Victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
D. Infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other intellectual property or other proprietary or privacy right of any party;
E. Misappropriates the name, likeness, image, sound or other physical attribute of another person or user or falsely impersonates any other user, person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives;
F. Constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited commercial e-mail, junk or bulk email (also known as "spamming"), or chain letters;
G. Contains any unauthorized advertising or promotion of any product or service, any form of unauthorized solicitation, or any form of lottery or gambling;
H. Contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs that are designed or intended to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of the Site or of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorized access to any data or other information of any subscriber, user or third party;
I. Deletes, obscures or alters any attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels on any Content that you upload or post to any portion of the Website; or
J. Transmits or uploads false or inaccurate billing, profile, contact or other information relevant to your subscription or user account.
We neither endorse nor assume any liability for the contents of any Content or other material uploaded, posted, communicated or submitted by users of the Site. We assume no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, or edit the Content posted by users of any communications services, chat rooms, message boards, newsgroups, software libraries, image or document repository, or other interactive services that may be available on or through this Site. However, we and our agents reserve the right, but not the obligation, at our sole discretion, to monitor Content posted, submitted, uploaded or otherwise made available through our Site and we further reserve the right, but not the obligation, to remove any Content that, in our judgment, does not comply with these Terms in any way or with any other rules of user conduct for our Site, or is otherwise harmful, objectionable, or inaccurate, or clearly detracts from the value of the community, as determined in our sole judgment. We are not responsible for any failure or delay in removing such Content. You hereby consent to such removal and waive any claim against us arising out of such removal of Content. See "User’s Materials" below for a description of the procedures to be followed in the event that any party believes that Content posted on this Site infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other intellectual property or proprietary right of any party.
In addition, you may not use your account to breach security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server. Not all areas of the Site may be available to you or other authorized users of the Site. Users found to be or attempting to manipulate statistical data, data of other Site users, harvesting information of other users, or attempting to gain access to areas of our Site to which such users are not authorized to access, directly or indirectly, whether programmatically, robotically, manually, via posting of Content or in any other manner, will be subject to account suspension and/or termination. Users who violate, or attempt to violate, systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability and we reserve the right to seek prosecution of such violations to the fullest extent permitted by law.
You agree that we may at any time, and at our sole discretion, suspend or terminate your ability to post to any or all boards or to terminate your account without prior notice to you for violating any of the above provisions. In addition, you acknowledge that we will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, and we reserve the right to report or refer suspected criminal violations to law enforcement authorities, and to cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating suspected criminal violations involving our Site.
6. Special Rules & Message Deletions
* The iHub Administrators (collectively, “IH Admin”) reserve the right to disable and/or remove any board at any time.
* Moderators of stock-specific boards are allowed to immediately remove any post that falls into the following categories: Threat, Off-Topic, Vulgarity, Privacy Violation, Spam, Personal Attack, or Duplicate. Moderators of non-stock-specific boards in the Premium area of the Site are allowed to remove any post.
* Hidden/removed posts may be reviewed by IH Admin and either left removed or restored. We do reserve the right to intervene if we see blatant abuse of these features. Members have the ability to review their posts removed within the past week. Should you have a post removed, and you object or desire an explanation, your sole recourse is to address this matter privately with an IH Admin as described on the “My Removed Posts” page. Discussion of post deletions and moderator/admin actions is not permitted on the message boards.
* No post can be removed by a Moderator after a 48-hour period starting from the post’s timestamp. Moderators of premium boards have the ability to ban anybody from their board.
* Private Messages that you receive are not to be posted publicly unless you have prior permission from the author.
