These terms govern use of the Internet forum at http://alloytools.discourse.group. To use the forum, you must agree to these terms.

Conditions for Use of the Forum

You must use the forum in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards.

Acceptable Use

  1. You may not break the law using the forum.

  2. You may not use or try to use another’s account on the forum without their specific permission.

  3. You may not buy, sell, or otherwise trade in user names or other unique identifiers on the forum.

  4. You may not send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the forum, or use the forum to gather addresses or other personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.

  5. You may not automate access to the forum, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.

  6. You may not use the forum to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.

  7. You may not falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by Alloytools.

  8. You may not hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the forum on other webpages.

  9. You may not show any part of the forum on other websites with <iframe>.

  10. You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the forum.

  11. You may not strain infrastructure of the forum with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the forum.

  12. You may not impersonate others through the forum.

  13. You may not encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.

Content Standards

  1. You may not submit content to the forum that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, or abusive.

  2. You may not submit content to the forum that violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.

  3. You may not submit content to the forum containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.

  4. You may not submit content to the forum as a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, user name, or other unique identifier.

  5. You may not use the forum to disclose information that you don’t have the right to disclose, like others’ confidential or personal information.

Enforcement

We reserve the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the forum in violation of these terms, contact us immediately.

Your Account

You must create and log into an account to use some features of the forum.

To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid e-mail address, and to keep that address up-to-date. You may close your account at any time by e-mailing peter.kriens@aQute.biz.

You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you either close your account or notify us that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.

We may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the forum according to its policy for handling copyright-related takedown requests, or if we reasonably believe that you’ve broken any rule in these terms.

Your Content

Content you submit to the forum belongs to you. However, all material posted, or edited, on this site must be licensed perpetually without conditions under the Apache Software License version 2 and the MIT license for any user. In the case you work for a company, it is your responsibility to ensure that the material you post can be posted under the ASL 2.0 and MIT licenses.

You remain solely responsible for content you submit to the forum. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the forum is sponsored or approved by us.

Your Responsibility

You agree to indemnify us from legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account on the forum.

Disclaimers

You accept all risk of using the forum and content on the forum. As far as the law allows, we provide the forum as is, without any warranty whatsoever.

The forum may hyperlink to and integrate forums and services run by others. We do not make any warranty about services run by others, or content they may provide. Use of services run by others may be governed by other terms between you and the one running service.

Contact

You may notify us under these terms, and send questions to peter.kriens@aQute.biz.

We may notify you under these terms using the e-mail address you provide for your account on the forum, or by posting a message to the homepage of the forum or your account page.