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Message Boards - Terms of Service

  1. The message boards shall be used for lawful purposes only. No material shall be posted on or transmitted through the message boards which violates or infringes the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability or otherwise violates any law. No conduct shall be undertaken that, in our judgment, restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the message boards. Advertising or commercial solicitation are forbidden.

  2. No material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right shall be uploaded, posted or otherwise made available on the message boards without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right. You shall be solely liable for any damages resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from any uploading, posting or submission.

  3. You hereby grant to us the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any message posted in the message boards (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

  4. You shall not (i) select or use a member name or e-mail address of another person with the intent to impersonate that person; (ii) use a user name or e-mail address subject to the rights of any person without authorization; (iii) use a member name in violation of the intellectual property rights of any person; or (iv) use a member name that we, in our sole discretion, deem offensive.

  5. We do not tolerate the advertisement of any product or service offered by a third party through the message boards.

    6. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

    1. Each user agrees that use of the message boards is at his or her sole risk. We do not warrant that the message boards will be uninterrupted or error free; nor do we make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of the message boards or as to the accuracy, reliability or content of any information provided through the message boards.

    2. The disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability contained in this section applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. Each user specifically acknowledges that we are not liable for the defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other third parties, subscribers, members or other users of the message boards and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with each user.

    3. In no event will we or any person or entity involved in creating, producing or distributing the online services be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of the use of or inability to use the message boards or out of the breach of any warranty. Each user hereby acknowledges that the provisions of this section C shall apply to all content on the message boards.

    4. We neither endorse nor are responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement on the message boards. Any statement, advice or opinion created, produced or distributed by us, our affiliates, or any of our or their respective employees or agents is for informational purposes only and reliance on such information is at your own risk. Under no circumstances will we, our affiliates, nor any of their respective employees or agents be liable for any loss or damage caused by reliance on information obtained through postings on the message boards.

    5. We are a distributor of content supplied by users of the message boards. Any opinions, advice, statements or other information or content expressed or made available by any other user of the message boards, are those of the respective author(s) and not of us. We neither endorse nor are responsible for any offensive, defamatory or obscene posting made on the message boards.

    6. Each user specifically acknowledges that in no event will we, our, affiliates nor any of their respective employees or agents be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of (i) the use by such user of any browser owned or operated by any party and/or (ii) the downloading of any software owned or operated by any third party.

  6. We shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of the message boards to determine compliance with this Agreement and any other operating rules established by us. We shall have the right in our sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the message boards. Without limiting the foregoing, we shall have the right to remove any material that we, in our sole discretion, find to be in violation of the provisions hereof, otherwise objectionable or stale. Notwithstanding this right, users shall remain solely responsible for the content of their messages. Each user acknowledges and agrees that neither we nor any third party content provider shall assume or have any liability for any action or inaction by us or any third party content provider with respect to any conduct, communication or posting on the message boards.

  7. The foregoing provisions of these Terms of Service are for our benefit and the benefits of our affiliates, third party content providers and licensors, and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly on its own behalf.

If you ever have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding the Terms of Service above, please email us at community@aarp.org.

Thanks for your time and enjoy the AARP.org Community experience!

The AARP Community Management Team

Please note: messages posted on AARP.org message boards do not necessarily represent the views of AARP. AARP reserves the right to remove messages or material that it deems defamatory, obscene, commercial in nature, or otherwise unacceptable. Please send comments to community@aarp.org.

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