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Policy: Leaving objectionable comments on public websites.

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I need policy language prohibiting a user from leaving objectionable comments related to race, color, creed, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability, mental condition or any other consideration made unlawful, on a public website using the firm's network.

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by tardcart

This pretty much covers all the bases. Just sub our company name with yours.

Prohibited Conduct
You agree that you will not use Allied Energy Network Products and Services to:
a) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit or post links to any Content or select any member or user name or email address, that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, sexually, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
b) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that promotes illegal activity, including without limitation the provision of instructions for illegal activity.
c) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that exploits the images of children under 18 years of age, or that discloses personally identifying information belonging to children under 18 years of age.
d) Harm minors in any other way.
e) Make any sexual request on behalf of a minor or make any sexual request of a minor.
f) ?Stalk? or otherwise harass another.
g) Collect or store personally identifying information about other users for unlawful purposes.
h) Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an Allied Energy Network official, another employee, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
i) Employ misleading email addresses or falsify information in the header, footer, return path, or any part of any communication, including emails, transmitted through the Products and Services.
j) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or regulation or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, or propriety and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).
k) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that facilitates hacking.
l) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, service mark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights (?Rights?) of any party, or contributing to inducing or facilitating such infringement. This prohibition shall include, without limitation, the following forms of software piracy:
i) Making available copyrighted software or other Content that has had the copyright protection removed
ii) Making available serial numbers for software that can be used to illegally validate or register software.
iii) Making available tools that can be used for no purpose other than for ?cracking? software or other copyrighted Content.
iv) Making available any software files for which the user does not own the copyright or have the legal right to make available.
m) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, ?junk mail?, ?spam?, ?chain letters?, ?pyramid schemes?, or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas that are designated for such purpose.
n) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any material that contains software viruses, worms, Trojan horses, time bombs, trap doors or any other computer code, files or programs or repetitive requests for information designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or to diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of the Products and Services of the Allied Energy Network.
o) Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, or the like to download data from any Allied Energy Network database.
p) Modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, link, display or in any way exploit any Content from any Allied Energy database, including, without limitation, by incorporating data from any Allied Energy database into any email or ?white pages? products or services, whether browser-based, based on proprietary client-site applications, web-based, or otherwise.
q) Sell, distribute, or make any commercial use of data obtained from any Allied Energy database or make any other use of data from any Allied Energy database in a manner which could be expected to offend the person for whom the data is relevant.
r) Create and maintain an Allied Energy Network web page that contains hyperlinks to content not permitted on the Allied Energy Network.
s) Interfere with or disrupt the Products and Services or servers or networks connected to the Products and Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Products and Services.
t) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any material that is false, misleading, or designed to manipulate any equity, security, or other market.
u) Purchase any goods or services that you are prohibited from purchasing or possessing by any law applicable to you in your jurisdiction. The responsibility for ensuring compliance with all such laws shall be the user?s alone. By submitting an order to purchase goods or services, you represent and warrant that you have the legal right to purchase such goods or services.
v) Use any software deployed in connection with the Products and Services to process data as a service to other entities without the express written consent of Allied Energy or the party from whom such software may be licensed.
w) Decompile, disassemble, modify, translate, adapt, reverse engineer, create derivative works from, or sublicense any software deployed in connection with the Products and Services.
x) Advertise, offer for sale, or sell any item you are prohibited from advertising or selling by any applicable local, state, national, or international law, including regulations having the force of law.
y) Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any material, or act in any manner, that is offensive to the Allied Energy Network community or the spirit of these Terms and Conditions.
z) Advertise, offer for sale, or sell any of the following items:
? Any firearms, explosives, or weapons.
? Any food that is not packaged or does not comply with all laws governing the sale of food to consumers by commercial merchants.
? Any alcoholic beverages.
? Any tobacco products for human consumption, including, without limitation, cigarettes and cigars.
? Any items that are indecent or obscene, that are hateful or racially, sexually, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, that contain child pornography, that are otherwise pornographic in nature, or are harmful to minors.
? Any controlled substances or pharmaceuticals.
? Any items that are counterfeit or stolen.
? Any dangerous items.
? Any goods or services that do not, in fact, exist.
? Any items that violate or infringe the rights of other parties.
? Any items that you do not have the legal right to sell.

by Member 30352291

Wow, this covers it all. I bet you have some interesting stories...

Thanks

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