QNAP Forum Policy & Participation Rules

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QNAP Forum Policy & Participation Rules

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QNAP Forum Policy

REGISTRATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

Thank you for using the QNAP Forum. The QNAP Forum is available for your use on this web site subject to the following terms and conditions. By accessing the forums contained herein, you agree to the QNAP Forum Policy. QNAP reserves the right to modify the Forum Policy anytime without notice. Such modifications will be binding on you when published on our web site.

1. Registration Obligation
  • You must provide correct and genuine information for registration.
  • You agree to update your registration information on the Forum should there be any changes, and guarantee the information is correct, updated, and genuine. If you provide incorrect, fake, or out-dated information, or QNAP suspects that you provide incorrect, fake, or out-date information, QNAP has the right to suspend or remove your account without notice, and reject your future registration.
2. Terms of Use
  • This Forum is provided by the QNAP Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
  • You understand and agree that the QNAP Forum may send you some messages, e.g. announcements and system notices. These messages are part of forum services, and you cannot decline to receive them.
  • If you feel something is against the rules, alert the forum moderator. Do not take it upon yourself to correct the action.
  • QNAP reserves the right to modify / remove / delete any thread at its' own discretion, with no prior notification or warning.
  • By participating in the Forums, you agree not to:
  1. post any spam messages.
  2. post any material that is knowingly false, misleading or inaccurate, or offensive post any material that violates or infringes anyone's intellectual property rights (including copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, publicity rights) or that is obscene, defamatory, racist, violent, harassing, profane or otherwise objectionable.
  3. use the discussions on the Forum for purposes of sharing or distributing viruses, licenses, registration information, software keys or other information designed to do harm to or allow unlawful access to any computer hardware, software, networks, or any other systems.
  4. post advertisements, chain letters, junk email or bulk communications.
  5. upload, post or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
  6. act in any manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges.
  7. violate any applicable law.
  8. post anyone else's identifying information.
3. Forum Contents
The postings of the Forum members (not including the administrator or moderators) express the views of the author, not necessarily the views of QNAP. QNAP does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message.

4. No Resale/ Exploitation
You understand and agree that you may not reproduce, copy, resell, manipulate, or exploit any part of the Forum for any commercial purpose.

5. Change of Forum Services
QNAP reserves the right to modify the services or contents provided on the Forum, and to suspend the Forum services temporarily or permanently anytime without prior notice to anyone.

6. Privacy Policy
  • In no events shall QNAP sell, exchange, or rent any of your personal data registered to the Forum to any third party without your consent.
  • Only authorized staff members of QNAP are allowed to access the registered information of the Forum members.
  • You agree not to post or reveal your personal information directly or indirectly to anyone via the Forum.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT WILL QNAP BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES RELATING TO LOST REVENUES OR PROFITS, LOST DATA, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION) RESULTING FROM OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE USE OF ANY MATERIALS POSTED ON OR MADE AVAILABLE IN THE FORUMS OR ANY OTHER WEB SITE TO WHICH A LINK IS PROVIDED, EVEN IF QNAP HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY ON WHICH SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED.
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Re: QNAP Forum Policy & Participation Rules

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QNAP Forum Participation Rules

1. Before Getting Started:
1.1. Use the search button first to find answers that may have already been asked by other members.
1.2. Keep your question(s) concise and to the point. Limit your answer to the question(s) asked.
1.3. QNAP forums are intended for fellow community members to share ideas and for QNAP to keep the community updated with new product developments. If you have a technical support question, please submit a ticket at http://helpdesk.qnap.com/
1.4. Please use the NAS selector to find the right product for you.

2. Basic Ground Rules:
2.1. All postings within the forums are the property of QNAP.
2.2. QNAP does not tolerate any illegal activity within the forum or your account.
2.3. You are permitted a maximum of one account, regardless whether it is active or inactive.
2.4. Spam, self promotion and referral links are not allowed.
2.5. Your account is yours alone. You are responsible for any activity created in it. Do not share your account login with anyone else.
2.6. Be polite to your fellow QNAP community members. Any member who is intentionally disruptive may be temporarily banned, repeat offenders may result in permanent ban.
2.7. Cross-posting is not allowed. Cross-posting refers to posting new duplicate threads or posts, or the linking to threads or posts already started by the member with the intention of gaining exposure.
2.8 Necro-posting is also not allowed. This is the practice of posting in stale, inactive or dead topics. A topic is considered dead if it hasn't been updated for over 1 year.
Last edited by Toxic17 on Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:17 am, edited 1 time in total.
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