Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") is part of our Terms of Use ("Legal Terms") and should therefore be read alongside our main Legal Terms. If you do not agree with these Legal Terms, please refrain from using our Services. Your continued use of our Services implies acceptance of these Legal Terms.

Please carefully review this Policy which applies to any and all:

• (a) uses of our Services (as defined in “Legal Terms”)
• (b) forms, materials, consent tools, comments, post, and all other content available on the Services ("Content") and
• (c) material which you contribute to the Services including any upload, post, review, disclosure, ratings, comments, chat etc. in any forum, chatrooms, reviews, and to any interactive services associated with it ("Contribution").

Compliance with Laws and Regulations

You are responsible for using the Service in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and all of our Acceptable Use Policies. These policies may be updated from time to time and are provided below.

User Safety

We do not allow content, contribution or activity that:

• is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
• is sexually obscene or relates to sexual exploitation or abuse, including of minors;
• is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
• is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;
• is false, inaccurate, or intentionally deceptive information and likely to adversely affect the public interest (including health, safety, election integrity, and civic participation);
• harasses or abuses another individual or group, including our employees, officers, and agents, or other users;
• threatens or incites violence toward any individual or group, especially on the basis of who they are;
• gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images; or
• is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users; or
• violates the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person’s personal information without consent.

Spam and Inauthentic Activity

We do not allow content, contribution or activity that:

• automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as: spamming;
• bulk distribution of promotions and advertising prohibited by our terms and policies;
• inauthentic interactions, such as fake accounts and automated inauthentic activity;
• rank abuse, such as automated voting or following;
• creation of or participation in secondary markets for the purpose of the proliferation of inauthentic activity;
• using the website as a platform for propagating abuse on other platforms;
• phishing or attempted phishing; or
• using our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity, to place undue burden on our servers through automated means, or to relay any form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers.

Website Access and Safety

Being part of a community includes not taking advantage of other members of the community. We do not allow anyone to use our platform in direct support of unlawful attacks that cause technical harms, such as using the website as a means to deliver malicious executables or as attack infrastructure, for example by organizing denial of service attacks or managing command and control servers. Technical harms means overconsumption of resources, physical damage, downtime, denial of service, or data loss, with no implicit or explicit dual-use purpose prior to the abuse occurring.

We do not allow content, contribution or activity that:

• directly supports unlawful active attack or malware campaigns that are causing technical harms — such as using our platform to deliver malicious executables or as attack infrastructure, for example by organizing denial of service attacks or managing command and control servers — with no implicit or explicit dual-use purpose prior to the abuse occurring; or
• uses our servers to disrupt or to attempt to disrupt, or to gain or to attempt to gain unauthorized access to, any service, device, data, account or network.

Bullying and Harassment

We do not tolerate harassment, bullying, or abuse of any kind, whether directly or by encouraging others to take part in the prohibited conduct. This includes:

• Targeted personal attacks;
• Piling on to or orchestrating disruptive activity in a way that amounts to abuse;
• Following another user around the platform in a manner that causes intimidation;
• Making sexual advances or comments directed at another individual;
• Disingenuously participating in conversation in a way that instigates conflict or undermines sincere discussion;
• Creating alternative accounts specifically to evade moderation action taken by our moderators or users.

Disrupting the Experience of Other Users

Being part of a community includes recognizing how your behavior affects others and engaging in meaningful and productive interactions with people and the platform they rely on.

We do not allow behavior that significantly or continually disrupts the experience of other users. This includes:

• Posting off-topic comments;
• Voting and/or following accounts in large volume in a short period of time;
• Creating nonsensical or irrelevant content;
• Engaging with platform features in a way that causes excessive notifications for other users;
• Using any other platform feature in a way that creates disruption.

Doxxing and Invasion of Privacy

Don’t post other people’s personal information. This includes:

• Personal, private email addresses;
• Phone numbers;
• Physical addresses or other private location information;
• Bank account information or credit card numbers;
• Social Security/National Identity numbers;
• Passwords;
• Voter information;
• Medical information and personal biometric data;
• Other private information that may pose a safety or security risk.

We may consider other information, such as photos or videos that were taken or distributed without the subject’s consent, to be an invasion of privacy, especially when such material presents a safety risk to the subject, such as in the case of intimidation or harassment.

Hate Speech and Discrimination

We do not tolerate speech that attacks or promotes hate toward an individual or group of people on the basis of who they are, including age, body size, ability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, sexual identity, or sexual orientation. This includes:

• Mocking, attacking, or excluding a person or group based on their beliefs or the characteristics listed above;
• Displaying clear affiliation or identification with known terrorist or violent extremist organizations;
• Supporting or promoting hate groups or hate-based conspiracy theories;
• Sharing symbols or images synonymous with hate;
• Using harmful stereotypes, slurs, or dehumanizing speech;
• Attacking an individual based on their perceived gender;
• Dog whistling; or using coded or suggestive language and/or symbols to promote abuse or hate.

Impersonation

You may not misrepresent your identity or your association with another person or organization. This includes doing any of the following in a way that misleads or deceives others:

• Copying another user’s avatar or other personal profile information;
• Posting content under another account or user’s email address;
• Using a deceptively similar username, organization name, or other namespace;
• Otherwise posing as another individual or organization.

Impersonation is a form of harassment and violation of this policy may lead to loss of access to your account.

Misinformation and Disinformation

You may not post content that presents a distorted view of reality, whether it is inaccurate or false (misinformation) or is intentionally deceptive (disinformation), where such content is likely to result in harm to the public or to interfere with fair and equal opportunities for all to take part in a free and open society. This may include:

• Inaccurate or scientifically unsupported medical claims that endanger public health or safety;
• Manipulated media, whether audio or visual, likely to mislead or deceive in a way that may harm the public interest;
• False or misleading content likely to interfere with an individual’s ability to participate in civic activities;
• Unsubstantiated claims that could promote hate or targeted harassment of specific groups of people;

We encourage active participation in the expression of ideas, perspectives, and experiences and may not be in a position to dispute personal accounts or observations.

We do not allow any projects that are designed for, encourage, promote, support, or suggest in any way the use of synthetic or manipulated media for the creation of non-consensual intimate imagery or any content that would constitute misinformation or disinformation under this policy.

Sexually Obscene Content

We do not tolerate content associated with sexual exploitation or abuse of another individual, including where minors are concerned. We do not allow sexually themed or suggestive content that serves little or no purpose other than to solicit an erotic or shocking response, particularly where that content is amplified by its placement in profiles or other social contexts. This includes:

• Pornographic content;
• Non-consensual intimate imagery;
• Graphic depictions of sexual acts including photographs, video, animation, drawings, computer-generated images, or text-based content;

We recognize that not all nudity or content related to sexuality is obscene. We may allow visual and/or textual depictions in artistic, educational, historical or journalistic contexts, or as it relates to victim advocacy. In some cases a disclaimer can help communicate the context of the project. However, please understand that we may choose to limit the content by giving users the option to opt in before viewing.

Threats of Violence and Gratuitously Violent Content

You may not use the Service to organize, promote, encourage, threaten, or incite acts of violence. You may not post content that depicts or glorifies violence or physical harm against human beings or animals. This includes:

• Threatening another individual or group with abuse, harm, sexual violence, or death;
• Posting text, imagery, or audio content glorifying or containing a graphic depiction of violence toward oneself, another individual, group, or animal;
• Encouraging another individual to engage in self harm;

We do not allow violent content to be posted indiscriminately or in a way that is difficult for other users to avoid, such as a profile avatar or an issue comment. However, we understand there may be legitimate reasons to post violent content, such as for educational or documentary purposes, creative works, or depictions of historical events. In those cases, a clear warning or disclaimer can help users make an educated decision as to whether or not they want to engage with such content. Still, we may decide to limit the visibility of such content to those who choose to opt in.

Reporting a breach of this policy

We may but are under no obligation to review or moderate the Contributions made on the Services and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage resulting from any of our users’ breach of this Policy.

If you consider that any Content or Contribution:

• breach this Policy, please use the report function to let us know which Content or Contribution is in breach of this Policy and why.

We will reasonably determine whether a Content or Contribution breaches this Policy.

Consequences of breaching this policy

The consequences for violating our Policy will vary depending on the severity of the breach and the user’s history on the Services, by way of example:

We may, in some cases, give you a warning and/or remove the infringing Contribution, however, if your breach is serious or if you continue to breach our Legal Terms and this Policy, we have the right to suspend or terminate your access to and use of our Services and, if applicable, disable your account. We may also notify law enforcement or issue legal proceedings against you when we believe that there is a genuine risk to an individual or a threat to public safety.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to any of your breaches of this Policy.

Disclaimer

ParrotDb is under no obligation to monitor users activities, and we disclaim any responsibility for any user’s misuse of the Services. We have no responsibility for any user or other Content or Contribution created, maintained, stored, transmitted, or accessible on or through the Services, and is not obligated to monitor or exercise any editorial control over such material. If we become aware that any such Content or Contribution violates this Policy, we may, in addition to removing such Content or Contribution and blocking your account, report such breach to the police or appropriate regulatory authority. Unless otherwise stated in this Policy, we disclaim any obligation to any person who has not entered into an agreement with us for the use of the Services.