The details of TIME’s Ethical Use Policy, a contravention of which
may result in your Service being barred, suspended or terminated
are as follows.
- Disseminate, download or upload, any content that may be
construed or regarded as offensive, fraudulent, objectionable,
inaccurate, defamatory or erroneous.
- Reproduce (including use) any third party’s intellectual
property rights (“ipr”) without such ipr owner’s consent, e.g.
Downloading music or movies;
- Disseminate any content that is in contravention of the
owner’s intellectual property rights;
- Communicate or transmit by means of TIME’s network or the
service, any comment, request, suggestion or other
communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or
offensive in character, or to otherwise use our services for
any illegal or unlawful purpose;
- Misuse the service by making prank calls to the emergency
services or to any third party thereby annoying the called
party,
- Hack our systems or any third party systems or networks,
introduce virus, malicious code, to our system or any third
party system using the service, introduce, use or launch any
“sniffer” software to collect personal data including
financial information of third parties, or spoofing;
- Promote, use, send or disseminate any email or instant message
or any fictitious email or instant message to defraud or cheat
any person, including phishing, spamming, mail-bombing or such
other activities that promote a criminal intent/activity;
- Commit fraud, theft, or any criminal activity, including using
the service to commit a crime under the computer crimes act
1997 or any written law;
- Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any
content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive,
harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene,
pornographic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy,
subversive, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable or contrary to public interest, public order or
national harmony in all relevant jurisdictions;
- Harm minors in any way;
- Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited
to, our servant, agent, employee or official, forum leader,
guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your
affiliation with a person or entity;
- Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to
disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the
service or forge the ip addresses assigned for you to use the
service;
- Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any
content that you do not have a right to make available under
any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such
as insider information, proprietary and confidential
information learned or disclosed as part of employment
relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
- Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any
content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret,
copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
- Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any
unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional
materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid
schemes,” or any other form of solicitation, except in those
areas that are designated for such purpose;
- Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any
material that contains software viruses or any other computer
code, file or program designed to interrupt, destroy or limit
the functionality of any other party’s computer, software,
hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- Disrupt or cause the disruption of the normal flow of
dialogue, cause a screen to “scroll” faster than other users
of the service are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner
that negatively affects other users’ ability to engage in real
time exchanges;
- Interfere with or disrupt the service or another person’s use
of the service or servers or networks connected to the
service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or
regulations of networks connected to the service;
- Violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance, regulation,
rule or code, including, but not limited to, any regulation,
rule, notice, instruction or directive of any regulatory body
or authority, governmental agency or national or other
securities exchange (whether intentionally or otherwise);
- Stalk or otherwise harass another person;
- Collect or store personal data about other users in connection
with the prohibited conduct and activities set forth in
paragraphs above; and/or
- Cache, hyperlink to, and frame the whole or any part of any
websites comprised of in the service without our prior written
permission.
