FC2 Terms of Use

ARCHIVED 2014-11-05, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20141105_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20140827_rev01

Full text changes — 20140827_rev01 to 20141105_rev01

COLOUR MARKS THE SEVERITY OF A FLAGGED CLAUSE · + AND − MARK ADDED AND REMOVED

 . Violations of these Terms of Use.
 . Breaching the trust of, or defaming other Users or third parties.Infringing others' Privacy rights, Image rights etc.
 . Infringing on other Users' and/or third parties' industrial property rights (patents, trademarks etc.), copyright, trade secrets and/or intellectual property rights.
+. Uploading or posting unlawful content, and/or supporting illegal activity including but not limited to causing injury, using illicit substances and burglary.
+. Uploading or posting unlawful content, and/or supporting or encouraging illegal activity including but not limited to causing injury, suicide, using illicit substances as well as the use, sales, and/or theft of drugs.
 . Maintaining content which violates local, regional, national, or international law; in particular that which violates US law.
 . Depictions and/or conduct that go against public order or are immoral. Publishing and/or releasing vulgarities, in the form of video, audio, image, text etc. against other Users and/or third parties; or assisting in such an act.
 . Hindering, interfering with, disturbing or blocking the use of Our Services to other Users, or engaging in conduct or performing actions which cause difficulty for others; or assisting in such an act.
 . Engaging in discrimination against individuals, specific groups, government organizations, nations, products, political administrations, beliefs, ideas, ideologies, race, religion, ethnicity, gender etc. ; or engaging in slander or libel or any similar act that causes defamation to others; or assisting in such an act.
 . Claiming to be another individual, business or organization, regardless of whether or not such an entity actually exists; and/or falsely claiming to be partners and/or in collaboration with an organization or business; or other such acts.
+. Impersonating FC2, content providers or managament, or any other third party.
+. Impersonating FC2, content providers or management, or any other third party.
 . Publishing or posting defamatory content or information which could potentially lead to damages to FC2 or FC2's business partner(s).
 . Acting in such a way as to place burden on FC2's server(s); disrupting, damaging, limiting or interfering with FC2's or others' computer software, hardware capabilities etc. or assisting in such an act.
 . Posting the same, or similar, post or comment repeatedly. Spamming and/or trolling or other such acts.
 . Establishing or recruiting people into pyramid schemes or other similar acts.
 . Selling or attempting to sell Our Service(s) to a third party.
 . Using, registering or upgrading mass amounts of software or programs, causing high access, and preventing our service from operating as intended.
+. Inappropriate use or registration of multiple accounts or other conduct that prevents the stable operation of Our Services.
+. Wanton collecting, video recording, duplicating, falsifying, distributing and/or displaying of contents and/or data acquired from Our Services or the use, introduction or suggesting of tools or other means that may promote or encourage these acts.
+. Engaging in conduct that is detrimental to FC2 through misappropriate use and/or conducting prohibited actions by taking advantage of bugs, system malfunction etc.
+. Inappropriate use or registration of multiple accounts or other conduct that prevents the stable operation of Our Services.
+. Acting by deleting or concealing FC2's advertising space, or altering the position, color, size, code or other such properties of advertisements.
+. Engaging in conduct that is detrimental to FC2 through misappropriate use and/or conducting prohibited actions by taking advantage of bugs, system malfunction etc.
+. Engaging in any other action which FC2 deems to be inappropriate.
+. Acting by deleting or concealing FC2's advertising space, or altering the position, color, size, code or other such properties of advertisements.
+. Engaging in any other action which FC2 deems to be inappropriate.
 . Users and Members are forbidden to publish or post any prohibited kind of content such as text, image, music, video etc. Even in the event that such data is set as private or limited in its Exposure Settings, applicable data is considered a violation the moment it arrives on FC2 Server(s).
 . FC2 retains the right to deem what counts as a violation.
 . Precautions when using Premium Services and/or Points
     Members who have been deemed to have violated the Terms of Service and have their accounts frozen or canceled, will also have their contracts canceled. Even if this occurs before a contract is due to finish, requests for refunds of remaining money will not be valid. Points that are held by Users shall not be refunded.