EXHIBIT A
Author agrees to comply with the Site’s Publication Standards, as set forth herein.
If at any time the Licensee determines the Author is in violation of any of the following Site Publication Standards or the Publication Standards as updated from time-to-time, the Advisor’s profile shall be removed from the site, the Author’s Featured Advisor agreement and/or Contributor Agreement shall be terminated immediately, without a thirty (30) day written notice.
Author shall immediately notify Licensee if they believe any of the Works delivered to the Licensee for publication contains errors, misstatements, inaccuracies or otherwise is no longer appropriate for Users and/or Members of the Site.
On April 1st of each calendar year, Licensee may request the Author to confirm the Materials previously delivered to the Site and currently published on the Site continues to be appropriate for the Users and/or Members of the Site. The Licensee shall definitively respond to such request within twenty (20) days.
Should any of the Author’s Works be deemed inappropriate for the Users and/or Members of the Site, the Licensee shall remove such Work within five (5) business days of notification by the Author.
Author shall not post on the Site any Work, Content in their Featured Advisor Profile, Comment or Ask a Question Response:
In a manner that infringes, violates or mis-appropriates any third party’s intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
in a manner 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;
to engage in spamming, “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes”, advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violates any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another’s privacy;
in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable;
to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person’s explicit consent;
in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through this Site or to users; and
in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.
Additionally, Author agrees not to:
“Stalk” or otherwise harass anyone;
collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Site or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Site for the purposes of automating logins to this Site;
post any content containing child pornography to this Site;
post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature;
post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site’s infrastructure.