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within these forums you agree with the terms as they are described in the
Acceptable Use Policy. Everyone is expected to act like adults and treat each
with respect. Please click on the extended text and review the full policy.



KCWS AUP Agreement

Forums Your use of the forums, message boards, and any other public discussion
medium (collectively, the "Forums") hosted by KCWS and its affiliate sites
indicates your acceptance of the KCWS legal notice, privacy policy, those terms
found on the registration page and in this Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP").
Specific forums may have additional terms of service, available at the
respective sites, in addition to those found in this agreement. KCWS advises you
to review any and all such terms of service.



Please remember that the open and real-time nature of these Forums makes it is
impossible for us to vouch for the validity of any content posted. As such, we
are not responsible for any messages posted nor the consequences of following
any advice offered within Forum posts. The views expressed in the posts you will
find in these forums belong solely to their respective authors and do not
necessarily reflect the views of KCWS, its affiliates, and/or sponsors. If you
find any posts in these Forums to be offensive or objectionable, please contact
us via email to the address offered as a contact for the Forums in question. If
we determine that removal of a post or posts is necessary, we will make
reasonable efforts to do so in a timely manner.



By using these Forums, you agree to the following:



• By posting, you hereby grant us a perpetual, non-exclusive license to the
posted content for use online, in print, databases, CD, and any and all other
media, whether now known or hereafter created.



• You will not post any material that is knowingly false, misleading, or
inaccurate.



• You will not behave in an abusive and/or hateful manner, and will not harrass,
threaten, nor attack anyone.



• You will not use profanity in our forums, and will neither post with language
or content that is obscene, sexually oriented, or sexually suggestive nor link
to sites that contain such content.



• You will respect other people's right to personal privacy and will not post
any other person's identifying information (including their names, contact
information, and any other relevant information) within the forum but your own.




• You will not use these forums to violate any laws nor to discuss illegal
activities.



• You will not to impersonate any person or entity, forge headers or otherwise
manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any posting, nor
collect or store personal data about other users.



• You will not post any copyrighted material, nor link to any copyrighted
material (with the exception of publicly available sites and pages that the
legal owners of the copyrights have created to make that material freely
available to the general public), unless that copyright is owned by you or by
these Forums.



• You will not use these Forums for the purposes of sharing or distributing
viruses, licenses, registration information, software keys, "cracks," or other
information designed to do harm to or allow unlawful access to any computer
hardware, software, networks, or any other systems.



• You will not post advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or
solicitations, all of which are inappropriate and prohibited in the Forums. You
will not, furthermore, collect personal information about forum members for the
purpose of sending them any such advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes,
or solicitations through other means (email, messaging programs, etc.).



• You will not post messages that are clearly outside of the stated topic of any
Forums nor disrupt a forum by deliberately posting repeated irrelevant messages
or copies of identical messages (also known as "flooding").



• You will not attempt to access any protected sections of the sites or Forums,
nor make use of any hacks, cracks, bug exploits, etc. to bypass or modify the
features of the forum software at any KCWS site.



• You will, if asked by a representative of the Forums, cease posting any
content, and/or links to content, deemed offensive, objectionable, or in poor
taste by the staff of the Forums. At all times, you remain solely responsible
for anything found within your posts and agree to indemnify and hold KCWS and
its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners,
and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of any material
you submit, post to or transmit through the Forums, your use of the Forums, your
connection to the Forums, your violation of the AUP, legal notice, or privacy
policy, or your violation of the rights of another.



These Forums do not and cannot review all of the content of every message posted
and do not accept responsibility for the contents of any messages. We reserve
the right to delete any message and/or restrict posting rights in our Forums for
any reason whatsoever. Should you continue to post messages that violate the
rules of the Forums, your account may be terminated, your access to the Forums
may be banned, and your service provider(s) may be contacted about your
behavior. Furthermore, we expressly reserve our rights under the law to take any
other actions we deem necessary.



We at these Forums also reserve the right to disclose personal information when
required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to
conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on KCWS,
protect and defend the rights or property of KCWS's network of sites, or
visitors to KCWS, identify persons who may be violating the law, the legal
notice, or the rights of third parties, and cooperate with the investigations of
purported unlawful activities.