StudentUniverse Forum Terms of Use

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StudentUniverse Forums terms of use
The StudentUniverse Forums are provided by StudentUniverse as a free service to the travel community, where people can share travel advice, experiences and opinions.

This document is an agreement between you (as a user or member of the StudentUniverse Forums) and StudentUniverse, Inc ("we", "us" or "our").

You are only permitted to use the StudentUniverse Forums for personal, non-commercial purposes.

Your acceptance of these terms of use are indicated by you using the StudentUniverse Forums, whether joining as a member or simply browsing. You must read these terms of use carefully before using the StudentUniverse Forums. We may change these terms of use from time to time so you should check them regularly. We may contact you to inform you of these changes but are not required to.

Non-members are not permitted to make postings on the StudentUniverse Forums. If you wish to contribute to the StudentUniverse Forums you must register.

This agreement is governed by the Law of Massacusetts, where StudentUniverse is located. Any illegal activity under the laws of Massachusetts using your membership of the StudentUniverse Forums is a violation of these terms of use. Since the law as to the jurisdiction of online systems is unsettled you must also consider the possible effect of laws in jurisdictions outside Massachusetts, for instance your country of residence. As the StudentUniverse Forums is open to members worldwide you may run into legal trouble in other jurisdictions over your postings. If this happens you must not hold us responsible for your postings.

In these terms of use, "post(s)" and "postings" includes private messages, usernames and user profiles.

How the StudentUniverse Forums is run

As StudentUniverse Forums members make postings without intervention from us it is the responsibility of every user to adhere to these terms of use. Despite this, in the interests of an effective community, we occasionally monitor postings and reserve the right to remove material which is in breach of the wording or spirit of these terms of use without notice to the poster. We also reserve the right, at our discretion, to ban members who breach these terms of use, and delete all postings of those members.

Users should be aware that postings are not screened by us, and that member postings only represent the opinions and experience of that member. Postings do not represent our opinion. You should be very careful before you rely on anything said in the StudentUniverse Forums. If you do rely on information or opinion in any posting you must be aware that this will not be our responsibility. This is especially important with health related postings - postings may not be from medical professionals (even if the member claims to be a medical professional) so you should always seek competent professional advice. Please exercise common sense and make your own inquiries.

Don't post these…

You must not make postings of the following nature (if you do, we may delete the postings at our discretion):
• racist, sexist or homophobic comments;
• harassing or 'stalking' any other person;
• comments which contain defamatory statements or personal attacks on others;
• postings which disrupt StudentUniverse Forums users' enjoyment of the StudentUniverse Forums (for instance persistent off-topic discussion), or which may or are intended to detrimentally affect the operation of the StudentUniverse Forums or the StudentUniverse web site;
• personal details or private information about any other person
• postings made under another person's name or impersonating another person;
• commercial advertising;
• excessively coarse language;
• postings which breach any law or discuss how to commit illegal activity.

Use the right branch

We have divided the StudentUniverse Forums into different branches so people can find information relevant to their particular interests. It is important that postings are made in the appropriate branch, otherwise the StudentUniverse Forums will be much less useful for everyone.

If a member makes postings which are not relevant to a particular branch, those postings may be deleted or moved at our discretion.

Respect intellectual property rights!

The StudentUniverse Forums is about the expression of ideas, but this must be done within the law. It is very important that users making posts and visitors respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you post material which has been copied without permission you may put yourself and StudentUniverse at risk of legal action.

Intellectual property of others

You must not make postings which infringe the intellectual property rights of others. For instance members must not post copyrighted material or trademarks without the permission of the owner.

If you wish to share a useful internet resource with other StudentUniverse Forums users you should provide a hyperlink to the relevant resource. If you do this you need to be aware that many site operators do not permit people to link to pages below the front page or home page of their site, so before posting a hyperlink on the StudentUniverse Forums you should check the terms of use of that other web site to see if your hyperlink is permitted.

If you own intellectual property and it is being infringed through a member posting, please contact us as soon as possible.

You licence your copyright in postings to StudentUniverse

In general members own copyright in their postings.

From time to time we may use StudentUniverse Forums postings in our publications (books, newsletters, web sites, other print and digital publications, television programs and products in any other media). Therefore you give us a non exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use your postings by reproducing, communicating, re-publishing, editing or otherwise exploiting the postings as we see fit. You also give us a licence to deal with the postings as necessary to perform technical and administrative functions in running the StudentUniverse Forums.

You grant us the right to sub-license your postings (or edited or modified versions of the postings) to others at our discretion.

Once you have made a posting on the StudentUniverse Forums, you consent to us dealing with it as we see fit. You cannot withdraw or retract the posting or seek payments from us in relation to this licence at any time in the future. If you do not want your material to be used in this way you must not post it on the StudentUniverse Forums.

If we do use your material we may attribute it to your registered 'handle', but we are not required to. Also we may contact you to request that your real name be used. We will never publish your real name unless you have been contacted by us and you have given your permission.

With respect to your moral rights in your postings, you consent to your postings being used, copied, published, transmitted, exhibited, performed, communicated or adapted as we see fit. We generally attribute authorship, but it is not always possible. You consent to us not attributing authorship to you at all, or only attributing it to your StudentUniverse Forums 'handle' (at our discretion). If we elect to attribute authorship we will make reasonable efforts to attribute authorship to you or your handle, but if a mistake is made and authorship is falsely attributed, you consent to that false attribution in those circumstances.

Reproducing postings

Third parties are not permitted to copy, amend or re transmit postings without permission. Permission can be obtained from the copyright owner (generally the member making the posting), or from us as licensee.

If you wish to share StudentUniverse Forums content with a friend please send them a hyperlink. Third party commercial sites are not permitted to provide digests or summaries of StudentUniverse Forums posts, even through hyperlinks, without our permission.

StudentUniverse intellectual property

For StudentUniverse Forums content other than postings, copyright is held or licensed by us. You must not reproduce this content without permission from the relevant copyright owner or licensee.

You must not use the StudentUniverse or StudentUniverse Forums trademarks for any purpose without our permission.

Liability and Indemnities

We are not responsible to you or anyone else for any loss, damage, liability, cost or expense suffered in connection with the use of the StudentUniverse Forums or any of its content.

The StudentUniverse Forums is provided "as is" and we make no warranties or representations about it or its content. We exclude, to the maximum extent permitted by law, any liability which may arise as a result of the use of the StudentUniverse Forums, its content or the information on it.

Where liability cannot be excluded, any liability incurred by us in relation to the use of the StudentUniverse Forums or its content is limited to the resupply of the service or the cost of having the service provided again (at our discretion). We will never be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or loss of business profits or revenue arising out of the use of the StudentUniverse Forums.

You must indemnify us and the other companies in the StudentUniverse group against each claim, action, proceeding, judgment, damage, loss, expense or liability incurred or suffered by, or brought, made or recovered against us or the other companies in the StudentUniverse group in connection with any breach of these terms of use.