This site (“Site”) is created and operated by MacRumors.com, LLC (“MacRumors”). When you choose to use the Site, you are agreeing to these Terms And Conditions between you and MacRumors.
MacRumors shall have the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove terms of these Terms and Conditions at any time.
The Services are not intended for users under the age of 13, and MacRumors does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from users under the age of 13. Such users are expressly prohibited from submitting their personally identifiable information to us or registering an account with MacRumors. Any information submitted by such users will not knowingly be used, posted, or retained by us.
YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE SITE NOW, OR FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF ANY CHANGES IN THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, WILL INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE THEREOF.
MacRumors may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Site at any time, including the availability of any content. MacRumors may also restrict access to parts or all of the Site without notice or liability.
ELIGIBILITY
Use of the Site or the Service is void where prohibited. This Site is intended for users who are eighteen (18) years of age or older. If you are under the age of 18, you must use this site with adult supervision. By using the Service or the Site, you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older, and that you agree to and to abide by these Terms and Conditions.
REGISTRATION
MacRumors registration is free and allows you to participate in the MacRumors forums. Registration is limited to one membership per person, with a single name and email address, and accounts are not to be shared. Do not register unless you agree to the terms below.
You warrant and acknowledge:
- that you give MacRumors permission to store your posts in a database, display them, and reproduce them on a website and by other media.
- that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, hateful, abusive, threatening, sexually explicit, or that violate any law.
- that you will observe all Forum Rules, including the rules that prohibit posts with personal insults, advertising, or the promotion of a product, service, organization, or website, except where explicitly permitted.
- that you understand that your posts and the user name you select will be visible to the Internet and to search engines, that you are responsible for your own privacy in deciding what to post, and that your posts will remain visible even if you leave MacRumors or your account is closed for any reason.
- MacRumors may re-purpose and re-post your comments and related content and images elsewhere on its forums, MacRumors web sites, and on social media accounts.
- that your membership may be temporarily suspended or permanently banned for violation of the Forum Rules.
- that you will be permanently banned if you re-register while your membership is suspended.
The owners of MacRumors reserve the right to:
- remove, edit, move, or close any discussion or message for any reason.
- close memberships that are detrimental to the forum community.
- re-purpose and re-post your comments and related content and images elsewhere on its forums, MacRumors web sites, and on social media accounts
- make changes to the Forum Rules without notice.
Although the MacRumors administrators and moderators will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for them to review all forum posts. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of MacRumors, nor XenForo Limited (developers of the XenForo forum software) will be held responsible for the content of any message. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages and other information you share and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless MacRumors and its owners and agents with respect to any claim based upon the storage or display of your messages and other information you share.
If you agree to these requirements, you are welcome to complete your registration. If you do not agree, do not complete your registration. Completion of your registration with the Site will indicate your agreement to all terms of service, conditions, procedures, limitations, and other terms provided on the Site.
CONTENT; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information about the Site or the Services provided by you to MacRumors are non-confidential and shall become the sole property of MacRumors. MacRumors shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights, and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these submissions for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.
All of the information, content, services and software displayed on, transmitted through, or used in connection with the Site, including advertising, directories, guides, articles, opinions, reviews, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, html, source and object code, software, data, and all other matters related to the Site, and including the selection and arrangement of the aforementioned and the “look and feel” of the Site (collectively, the “Content”), are: Copyright, MacRumors.com, LLC (a Virginia limited liability company), our users, or other third-party content providers, and are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All rights are reserved.
All Content is protected by copyright, and owned or controlled by MacRumors, the relevant author or contributor, or the party credited as the provider of the Content. You shall abide by all additional copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Site. Posts, images, and other works of authorship created by our users are the property of their creators, and not of MacRumors.
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and you believe that any content or link on the Site infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notice pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by providing our Copyright Agent the following information in writing:
Your physical or electronic signature; Identification of the copyrighted work(s) at issue; Identification of the material that you claim is infringing that copyrighted work, with specific internal URLs sufficient to permit us to locate that material; Information to permit our DMCA agent to contact you, including address, telephone number and email address, together with a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and that, under penalty of perjury, you are either the owner or that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright you allege to be infringed. You acknowledge and agree that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements listed, your DMCA notice may not be valid.
DMCA AGENT
DMCA notices should go to our DMCA Agent, who is Arnold Kim, at 4870 Sadler Road, Suite 300, Glen Allen, VA, 23060, or at arn@normalkid.com
COUNTER-NOTIFICATION
A Site user who has uploaded or posted materials that become the subject of a DMCA notice as described above may supply a counter-notification. The owner of an affected page or account, or the provider of affected content on one of our services may make a counter-notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of the DCMA. We will review such counter-notifications and may thereafter reinstate the challenged posts or material.
To file a counter-notification with us, you must provide a written communication (by regular mail or by email) that sets forth all of the items required by the DMCA. Please note that you will be liable for damages if you misrepresent that infringing content or an activity is not infringing. If you are not sure whether certain material infringes the copyrights of others, please contact a lawyer.
TRADEMARKS
If you are a trademark owner or an agent of a trademark owner and you believe that any content or link on the Site infringes upon your trademark rights, via notice to our DMCA agent listed above, with all aspects completed. By making this submission of a trademark issue to us, you represent and warrant: that you are authorized by the mark owner to do so; that you agree to be bound by electronic signature and online indications of consent; and that you are able to bind and by your submission of your trademark notice you are binding the mark’s owner and related claimants to these terms for any trademark complaint. You also agree that the sole remedy of any trademark owner or claimant will be a takedown of any content that violates that owner or claimant’s rights.
ACCOUNT TERMINATION
MacRumors may, at its discretion, terminate the accounts of users whose activity results in multiple DMCA or trademark notices being filed with us. If you believe that another user of our Site is a repeat infringer, please follow the instructions above to contact our DMCA agent and provide information so that we can verify that the account holder or subscriber and the material that you deem to be problematic.
ACCESS TO AND USE OF CONTENT
You may not modify, copy, frame, rearrange, distribute or redistribute, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display or otherwise use any of the Content or any part of the Site, or remove or alter advertising, whether or not for payment or other consideration, without prior, explicit, written permission from MacRumors.
In exchange for the access provided to the Content, you agree that you will not remove, obstruct, modify or otherwise interfere with the delivery or display of advertisements on the Site.
The Content includes logotypes, trademarks and service marks owned by MacRumors and by other information providers and third parties, none of which may be used in any manner unless approved, in advance and in writing, by MacRumors.
If you would like to request the right to use the Content for any other purpose, please contact us.
INDEMNITY/LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
As a condition of use of the Site and the Services, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless MacRumors, and all officers, directors, owners, agents, information providers, affiliates, licensors and licensees from and against any and all claims, liability and costs, including attorneys’ reasonable fees, arising from or relating to any allegation regarding (i) your use of the Site and/or Services, (ii) MacRumors’ use or distribution of any content or information you provide, (iii) information or material posted or transmitted through your account, even if not posted by you, and (iv) any violation by you of these Terms and Conditions.
You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any such claim. MacRumors reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.
Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall MacRumors, or its directors, officers, employees, agents or affiliates, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, including for any lost profits or lost data, that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the Content, unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data, the Content or any errors or omissions in the Content, even if MacRumors is aware or has been advised of the possibility of such damages. You specifically acknowledge and agree that MacRumors is not liable for any conduct of any user.
Certain state laws do not allow limitations on implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. If these laws apply to you, some or all of the above disclaimers, exclusions or limitations may not apply to you, and you may have additional rights.
If you are dissatisfied or harmed by MacRumors’ services, any other MacRumors site user, any MacRumors partner, any MacRumors material, or with any of MacRumors’ terms and conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Site.
DISCLAIMER
ALL MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES IN THE SITE AND THIRD-PARTY SITES TO WHICH IT LINKS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE CONTENT PUBLISHED ON THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY MADE TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. MacRumors AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME, INCLUDING CHANGES TO THESE TERMS OF USE. MacRumors AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS AND, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE REGARDING THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION; THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS OR TIMELINESS OF THE CONTENT, SERVICES, PRODUCTS, TEXT, GRAPHICS, LINKS, OR OTHER ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THE SITE, OR THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM ACCESSING AND USING THE SITE AND/OR THE CONTENT CONTAINED HEREIN. MacRumors DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SITE, INCLUDING THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE, ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THE USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY MAINTENANCE, REPAIR OR CORRECTION OF THE USER’S COMPUTER AND OTHER EQUIPMENT.
DISPUTES; LAW
This Agreement has been made in and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with Virginia’s law, without regard for conflicts of law rules, and the terms of this Agreement will operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. Any action related to the to enforce these Terms of Service shall be brought in the federal or state courts located in the City of Richmond, Virginia or the County of Henrico, Virginia.
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