USER CODE OF CONDUCT
All users of the Site
and any content they share on the Site must comply with this
Code of Conduct. Your use of the Site means that you accept and
agree to abide by this Code of Conduct, which supplements and forms part
of the SaltyFig.com Terms and Conditions
of Use.
We may revise the Code of
Conduct by amending this page from time to time without specific
notice to you.. Please review this page regularly to ensure that you are
aware of any changes we make as they are legally binding on you.
If you reasonably
believe that any contribution to the Site made by another user
violates this Code of Conduct and/or any term(s) of the User Agreement, please
notify us.
YOUR CONTENT/ACTIONS
- must
not infringe anyone else's rights, including copyright. Your
shared content must not plagiarize or infringe the rights
of any other person including any copyright, database, trademark,
trade secret, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary
rights of any kind.
- must not contain unlawful
or objectionable content nor involve disruptive, offensive
or abusive behavior. Please be respectful and civil to other members, even
if you disagree with them. Material that is unlawful, harassing, threatening,
defamatory, obscene, offensive, abusive, hateful, inflammatory,
profane, racially, sexually or religiously offensive or otherwise objectionable
or unlawful is not acceptable.
- must
not contain unsuitable or irrelevant website addresses or
URLs. Links to pornography, commercial or other inappropriate content
may be deleted.
- must
not promote illegal behavior. Content must not contain violent
or sexually explicit material or advocate, promote or assist
any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) terrorist
acts, copyright infringement or computer misuse.
- must not misrepresent
their origins. Content and/or user names may not be used
to impersonate any other person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation
with any person.
- must
not involve any flooding, spamming or advertising. Flooding
is when the same comment is posted over and over in the same forum;
spamming is the posting of the same comment (or very similar)
to more than one forum. All advertisements, chain letters,
pyramid schemes, junk mail and any other forms of commercial solicitation
are prohibited.
- must
not access, tamper with or use services or areas of the Site
you are not authorized to access
- must
not tamper with posting, registration information, profiles,
submissions or user generated content of others.
BREACH OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT
It is
solely up to SaltyFig.com’s discretion as to whether there has been
a breach of this Code of Conduct. SaltyFig.com has the right
(but not the obligation) to edit, refuse to post, or to remove any contribution
in whole or in part that we deem to be in breach of the Code of Conduct.
Where SaltyFig.com believes there has been a breach of the Code of Conduct,
it may take whatever action it feels is appropriate in the circumstances.
Failure to comply with this Code of Conduct constitutes a
material breach of the User Agreement, which could result in us taking any
of the following actions:
- issuing
a warning to you;
- immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal
of any contribution or of your right to use our websites,
including deletion of any personal profile;
- legal proceedings against you
for reimbursement of all losses and costs (including, but
not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting
from the breach and/or further legal action against you;
and/or
- disclosure
of such information to law enforcement authorities or other
relevant third parties as we reasonably feel is necessary.
Liability for actions taken in response to
breaches of this Code of Conduct is waived by you. The responsive
actions described in this policy are not exclusive, and we may take any other
action we reasonably deem appropriate.