Use of Portal
You are responsible for the content and consequences of your message(s).
You agree that you will use the Portal consistent with the University's Code of Conduct For Users of Computing Systems and Services.
You agree not to use another subscriber's information, personal or otherwise, for commercial or financial purposes.
You agree not to use the Portal for commercial purposes, unless prior written consent by the University is obtained.
You agree not to use the Portal for chain letters, junk mail, "spamming," commercial or non-commercial solicitation, or bulk communications of any kind.
You agree not to use the Portal to send or post any message or material that is: unlawful or encourages unlawful conduct, harassing, libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive, inaccurate, or otherwise objectionable.
You agree not to impersonate any other person or entity, whether actual or fictitious.
You acknowledge that the University permits access to content protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual proprietary rights ("Rights"). These Rights are valid and protected in all technologies existing now and that are developed in the future. Except as otherwise explicitly provided, the Terms of Service and applicable Rights govern your use of such content. You agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit, post to the Portal, or otherwise transfer any material subject to any Rights. The burden rests with you to determine that Rights do not protect the information, software, images, or content on the Portal.
You acknowledge that the Portal may acquire Rights to use any materials posted by you and you agree that you will not acquire any of those rights by downloading such materials.
A "public area" of the Portal includes: a message board, forum, contest, or chat room. By submitting content, including your member name, to a "public area," you grant the University and its affiliates a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, communicate to the public, perform and display the content worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such content. You also warrant that the holder of any Rights, including moral rights, in such content has completely and effectively waived all such rights and validity and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license stated above. You also agree to permit any subscriber to access, display, view, store and reproduce such content for personal use.
By submitting content to a contest on the Portal, you expressly permit the Portal to identify you as the contributor in any publication in any form, media or technology now known or later developed in connection with the content, unless you otherwise notify the Portal in writing at the time you submit content that you do not wish to be identified.
