In connection with your access and use of the Platform and Services, you will not violate any applicable law, contract, intellectual property right, or other third-party right or commit a tort. You are solely responsible for your conduct while accessing or using the Platform and Services. The Platform and Services may include intellectual property that is protected under copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws of the United States and other countries. Such intellectual property laws generally prohibit the unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or exhibition of all text, photographic and graphic images, music, sound samplings, and other protected materials. The violation of applicable laws may give rise to civil or criminal penalties. You further agree not to:
- Violate or infringe the rights of others, including, without limitation, patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, publicity, or other proprietary rights;
- Upload, post, email, transmit, or otherwise make available anything that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
- Do or attempt anything unlawful, threatening, abusive, hateful, defamatory, slanderous, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another’s privacy, tortious, pornographic, vulgar, profane, obscene, or transmit any information or data that we deem in our sole discretion to be inappropriate for the Platform and Services;
- Victimize, harass, stalk, degrade, attack, or intimidate an individual or group of individuals on any basis, including, without limitation, religion, gender, sexual preference, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
- Upload, post, or share any personally identifiable information or other information that might be used to identify or locate another User without their prior consent;
- Impersonate any person, business, or entity, including us, our employees, or agents, or any Creator or User, or in any way falsely states or misrepresents your affiliation with a User, Creator, person, or entity;
- Deploy anything that contains viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs that interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment, or otherwise permit the unauthorized use of a computer, network, or mobile device;
- Bypass or circumvent measures employed to prevent or limit access to any part of the Platform or Services, including by bypassing or ignoring instructions contained in our robots.txt file that control automated access to portions of the Platform and Services;
- Use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, script, browser extension, offline reader, or other automated means or interface not authorized by us to access the Platform or Services, extract data, or otherwise interfere with or modify the rendering of the Platform, Services, or their functionality;
- Develop or use any third-party applications that interact with the Platform or Services without our prior written consent;
- Encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense or that would give rise to civil liability;
- Instigate or encourage others to commit illegal activities or cause injury or property damage to any person;
- Promote or generate revenue for any third-party business activity;
- Damage, disable, overburden, or impair our servers or networks;
- Gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any services, user accounts, computer systems, or networks through hacking, password mining, or any other means;
- Reverse engineer any aspect of the Platform or Services, or do anything that might discover source code;
- Reproduce (other than standard website page caching), create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute, sell, rent, lease, timeshare, or otherwise commercially exploit the Platform and Services, in whole or in part; and
- Otherwise interferes with the use or enjoyment of the Platform and Services by others or violates these Terms or any guidelines, instructions, or policies posted on the Platform and Services.
We may take any legal and technical remedies available to us to prevent the violation of and otherwise enforce these Terms.