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ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

"This Application" refers to:

• this website, including its subdomains and any other website through which we make its Service available;
• the Service.

This Application and the Service may only be used within the scope of what they are provided for, under these Terms and applicable law.

Users are solely responsible for making sure that their use of this Application and/or the Service violates no applicable law, regulations or third-party rights.

Therefore, we reserve the right to take any appropriate measure to protect its legitimate interests including denying Users access to this Application or the Service, terminating contracts, reporting any misconduct performed through this Application or the Service to the competent authorities – such as judicial or administrative authorities - whenever Users are suspected to be in violation of any laws, regulations, third-party rights and/or these Terms, including, but not limited to, by engaging in any of the following activities:

CONDUCT RESTRICTIONS

• pretending to fulfil any possible condition or requirements for accessing this Application and/or using the Services, such as for instance being adult according to law or qualifying as a Consumer;
• concealing their identity or stealing someone else's identity or pretend to be or represent a third-party, if not allowed to do so by such third-party;
• manipulating identifiers to disguise or otherwise conceal the origin of their messages or of the content posted;
• defaming, abusing, harassing, using threatening practices, threatening or violating the legal rights of others in any other way;
• promoting activity that may endanger the User’s life or the life of any other User or lead to physical harm. This includes but is not limited to suicide threats or instigations, intentional physical trauma, the use of illegal drugs, or excessive drinking. Under no circumstance is any User allowed to post any content promoting and/or encouraging and/or showing any self-destructive or violent behaviour on this Application;
• probing, scanning or testing the vulnerability of this Application, including the services or any network connected to the website, nor breaching the security or authentication measures on this Application, including the services or any network connected to this Application;
• installing, embedding, uploading or otherwise incorporating any malware into or via this Application;
• using this Application or the technical infrastructure in an abusive, excessive or otherwise inappropriate way (for example: for spamming purposes);
• attempting to disrupt or tamper with the technical infrastructure in a manner that harms or places an undue burden on this Application or the Service;

EXCESSIVE USE OF THE SERVICE

using a resource of this Application excessively in relation to other Users of this Application – in such cases, we, at its sole discretion, additionally reserve the right to suspend the User’s account or limit the related activity until the User reduces the excessive consumption;

SCRAPING

adopting any automated process to extract, harvest or scrape information, data and/or content from this Application and all the digital properties thereto related unless explicitly allowed to do so by us;

CONTENT RESTRICTIONS

• disseminating or publishing content that is unlawful, obscene, illegitimate, libellous or inappropriate;
• publishing any content that promotes, either directly or indirectly, hate, racism, discrimination, pornography, violence;
• disseminating or publishing any content that is false or may create unjustified alarm;
• using this Application to publish, disseminate or otherwise provide content protected by intellectual property laws, including but not limited to patent, trademark or copyright law, unlawfully and without the legitimate right-holder’s consent;
• using this Application to publish, disseminate or otherwise make available any other content which infringes on any third-party rights, including but not limited to the state, military, trade or professional secrets and personal data;
• publishing any content or carrying out any activity that disrupts, interrupts, harms, or otherwise violates the integrity of this Application or another User's experience or devices. Such activities include: spamming, distributing unauthorized advertisements, phishing, defrauding others, spreading malware or viruses etc.;

USER PROTECTION

• misappropriating any account in use by another User;
• harvesting or collecting any personally identifying information of other Users including but not limited to their email addresses or contact information, by circumventing the privacy setting of other Users’ accounts on this Application or by any other means;
• using any information relating to other Users, including personal or contact data, for purposes other than those this Application is intended for;

COMMERCIAL USE RESTRICTIONS

registering or using this Application in order to promote, sell or advertise products or services of any kind in any way;

indicating or trying to imply in any manner, that a User stands in a qualified relationship with this Application or that this Application has endorsed the User, the User’s products or services or any third party's products and services for any purpose.