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• Violating the intellectual property rights of a third party
• Creating more than one account
• Re-establishing an account on Epinions.com after your account has been terminated
• Defaming a third party
• Selecting or using a Member ID or photo that violates someone's trademark rights
• Affecting the way Epinions.com displays its pages, such as by framing Epinions.com or placing pop-up windows over its pages
• Using any automated means to access the site or collect any information from the site
• Using ActiveX, Java, Javascript, cookies, web bugs or tracking technologies (such as HumanClick or Sitemeter)
• Collecting any personal information about users through Epinions.com, including, but not limited to, their username or password
• Using emails tools (such as "Email this page") to send spam
• Sharing your password with a third party
• Publishing or using files or processes that pose a threat to the proper technical operation of the system or to the security of other members
• Provide any content that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information
• Customizing Epinions.com in a way that adversely affects the display of any advertising or promotional links on the site
• Requesting search engines to crawl or index any portion of Epinions.com
• Modifying or creating variant versions of Epinions' logos or other trademarks
• Illegal activity under the laws of California and the United States
• Speaking on behalf of Epinions, describing yourself as an Epinions employee or using Epinions letterhead
• Posting material containing profanity, vulgarity, hate speech or threats of violence
• Including contact or personal information about another individual without their permission
• Including any pornographic content (This includes any sexually explicit pictures.)
• Submitting content on a product/topic that is reasonably likely to offend a person looking for information on that product/topic
• Harassing another member
• Publishing the same review more than once. A review may only be published more than once if the review compares two products and there is at least a 100 word difference between the two reviews
• Using advertisements, paid links, affiliate marketing, or any form of link spam.