Ham Radio Forums Terms of Service

These Ham Radio Forums Terms of Service govern your use of the Ham Radio Forums (the "Forums") at the S-Meter site. These terms are not exhaustive and the S-Meter Site reserves the right to modify them at any time, effective upon posting modified terms at this website. By using the Forums, you agree to abide by these Terms of Service as modified from time to time. Any violation of these terms may result in a warning or the suspension or termination of your right to access the Forums.

Registration
You need not register to read messages in open forums. However, registration and login may be required to read certain forums and are required to post messages or change most user settings related to any forum. You will be asked to provide information when you register. The S-Meter Site will treat registration information received from you in accordance with the S-Meter Website Privacy Policy and provisions in this document. Please keep in mind when choosing a login name that whenever you are logged in your login name and online status may be displayed to other forum users. Other information about you also may display such as the dates you joined and the total number of forum posts you have made. You may not use a login name or email address that already is being used by someone else, belongs to someone else (without their consent), impersonates another person or group, violates the intellectual property rights or other rights of another person or group, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or that the S-Meter Site rejects for any other reason at its sole discretion. You agree that all information provided in your user profile is accurate, true, current and complete in consideration of your use of the Forums.

Forum Moderators and Screening
The S-Meter Site does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, reliability, completeness, usefulness, non-infringement of intellectual property rights, or quality of any content at the site, regardless of who originated the content. You expressly understand and agree that you bear all risks associated with using or relying on that content. The S-Meter Site will not be liable or responsible in any way for any content posted, including, but not limited to, errors or omissions, or loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of or reliance on that content. This disclaimer and limitation on liability is in addition to the disclaimers and limitations contained in the S-Meter Website Terms of Use.

The S-Meter Site generally does not pre-screen, verify or edit the content posted by users in the Forums. However, the S-Meter Site, its administrator and its forum moderators reserve the right to investigate any violation of the website Terms of Use and these Forum Terms of Service and to take appropriate action at its sole discretion. The S-Meter Site has absolute sole discretion to enforce those terms, including, but not limited to warning users of violations, disabling or suspending message privileges and/or Forum access, deleting, screening or editing any content, or prohibiting any behavior that in its sole opinion does not comply with any of its rules or which in its sole opinion is inappropriate for any other reason.

Content Links
In some cases the S-Meter Site permits users to post forum messages containing links to content hosted and maintained by third parties where the links are relevant to a subject of discussion and not provided for the purpose of increasing the popularity of another site. Although linked sites are not generally reviewed by Ham Radio Forum moderators, content you link to must comply with the same rules as content posted directly in the Ham Radio Forums. You therefore may not include a link in a Forum that directs users to off-site content or information that, if posted in the Forum, would constitute a violation of the terms herein.

You access any linked site at your own risk. You therefore should use your own judgment before you take any link in a Ham Radio Forum. When leaving the Forums by means a link, you should be aware that S-Meter Site Ham Radio Forum terms and policies no longer govern and you should review the applicable terms and policies of the site you are taken to. If you access a linked site and find content that is in violation of these terms you may report the link to a Ham Radio Forum moderator. The S-Meter Site makes no claim or representation regarding, and accepts no responsibility for, the quality, content, nature or reliability of any site accessible by hyperlink from the Forums.

Your Forum Conduct
You should use caution to not reveal information that you do not want to make public in your postings. Any personal information you post may be obtained and used various ways by others. Anything you post in the Forum, you post at your own risk. In publicly available forums like these Forums it is not practical or possible to be sure that other users are who they claim to be, know what they claim to know, or are affiliated with whom they claim to be affiliated. You use information they post at your own risk.

By participating in the Forums, whether by posting forum content or sending personal messages to other users, you agree that you will not upload, post, or transmit any content including text, links, communications, software, data, images, sounds, or other content that: (i) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, vulgar, profane, sexually explicit, obscene, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise objectionable; (ii) infringes on any patent, trademark, trade-secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party; (iii) constitutes advertising or promotion, junk posts, junk mail, "spamming," chain letters, or any other form of unauthorized solicitation; (iv) contains software viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other computer code or files that are designed to disrupt, damage, or limit the functionality of any software or hardware system or component; (v) provides any non-public information about the S-Meter Site, its Ham Radio Forums, or any other company or person without the proper authorization to do so; (vi) intentionally interferes with the operation of the Forums or with another user's message box, without limitation, mail or post bombing, news bombing, other flooding techniques, deliberately attempts to overload a system by broadcasting attacks, or that attempts to avoid forum or message blocking; (vii) impersonates any person or entity or forges any TCP/IP packet header, e-mail header, or any other part of a message header; (viii) attacks or insults another Forum user, moderator or administrator; (ix) suggests or encourages illegal activity; or (x) violates U.S. or international laws, or governmental rules or regulations.

Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold the S-Meter Site and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and employees harmless from any claim, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content you submit, post, transmit or make available through the Forums or your use of the Forums, your violation of these terms or the S-Meter Site Website Terms of Use, or your violation of another's rights.

Release of Information
The S-Meter site may release information pertaining to your use of the Forums, including posted content, registration information, and network records, if it believes release is appropriate to comply with law; to enforce or apply its Terms of Use; to protect S-Meter Site rights or property, to protect users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of the Forums; or if the S-Meter Site reasonably believes that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay. Deliberate attempts by you or someone on your behalf to evade or circumvent suspension or termination of your rights to use the Forums violates these terms, constitutes an unlawful trespass to S-Meter Site equipment and systems and may result in legal action. Use the Contact Us form to report violations of these terms.

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