Seagate Acceptable Use Policy

Seagate Technology LLC ("Seagate", "we", "us" or "our") provides this forum as a service to our users and customers ("you") to help you exchange ideas and information about our products and services. We are implementing this policy as part of our effort to provide a high quality, collaborative experience, protect the privacy of our users and customers, encourage responsible participation on our forum and ensure compliance with applicable laws.

This forum is here for the enjoyment and benefit of all participants and is accessible to all who register and are 13 years of age or older. Our forum is most valuable when everyone obeys certain basic guidelines and rules for online behavior. These guidelines and rules are presented here so that you know what is expected of you and what you can expect from other participants when using our forum. By registering you agree to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy, in addition to our Legal Terms of Use.

Seagate may, in our sole discretion, determine whether a use of our forum is a violation of this policy. While it is not our intent to control or censor communications of participants, if we become aware of a violation of this policy, we make take such action as we deem appropriate to address such violation.

Seagate reserves the right to amend this policy from time to time without notice. Any such changes will be effective immediately upon posting of the revised policy to this site.

General Guidelines

Make sure your postings are relevant.

This forum is provided to allow our users and customers to help each other in using Seagate products and services. Please stay on topic -- refrain from discussing personal matters, abusing any company or product, or, in general, from posting content that is not related to Seagate products and services. 

Be courteous.

We want everyone to have a positive experience while participating in our forum. It is your responsibility to make sure that you are not detracting from any other user's experience. Accordingly, please do not post anything that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable or injurious to others. We welcome your opinions, but personal attacks and harassment using our forum or through private messaging are not acceptable.

No spam.

Our forum is provided as a service to our users and customers and is not intended for the promotion of third party services, products, websites, or organizations. Please do not post advertisements, junk mail, spam, chain letters, charity requests, petitions for signatures or any other form of solicitation.

Comply with the law.

It is your responsibility to comply with applicable law. Our forum may not be used in connection with any criminal or civil violations of state, federal or international laws, regulations or other government requirements. Accordingly, you cannot post any material that (a) infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other rights of any party; (b) is fraudulent; (c) contains software viruses or any other computer code or files that are designed to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software or hardware; or (d) is deemed to be illegal by any local, state, federal, or international law, rule or regulation.

Use common sense.

If you follow any advice that you read on our forum, you do so at your own risk. You alone are responsible for deciding whether or not to follow such advice. If in doubt, do not try it.

Don?t disclose personal information.

Please do not post personal information on our forums including your name and address, age, or phone number.  If any user asks you for personal information, such as an account number, address, password or credit card number, do not provide it.

Private Messaging policy.

The Private Messaging (PM) tool is available for any user to use to contact any other user or moderator on the Seagate Community Forums. You can access the PM tool by selecting the envelope icon on the top right-hand section of the community. Any PM is a private correspondence between you and the party to whom it is sent. Before posting any PM correspondence in a public board you must ask and receive permission to do so from the other party.

Consequences

If a violation occurs, Seagate may remove content and restrict access to our forum.

Seagate does not generally edit content posted by participants in our forum. However, Seagate retains the right, at its sole discretion, to limit your access to our forum and to remove material posted by you that, in Seagate's sole judgment, does not comply with our policies or that we otherwise deem to be inappropriate for our forum. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Seagate is not responsible for any failure or delay in removing such material. Seagate may involve, and will cooperate with, law enforcement if we suspect criminal activity.

Please report any suspected violations of our policy to us.

If you suspect that a violation of our policy has occurred, please report it immediately to a forum moderator (this option is available from within all forum posts). Please include details that would assist us in investigating and resolving the complaint.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Seagate does not control and is not responsible for content posted to our forum by third parties. Participants like you are providing most of the material in our forum. Such third-party content is the sole responsibility of the person originating the material. 

OUR FORUM AND ALL CONTENT AND MATERIALS ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. SEAGATE DOES NOT WARRANT OR GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY, VALIDITY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, USEFULNESS, NON-INFRINGEMENT ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OR QUALITY OF ANY MATERIAL THAT APPEARS IN OUR FORUM, REGARDLESS OF WHO ORIGINATES THAT MATERIAL. SEAGATE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR OTHER VIOLATIONS OF RIGHTS. YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU BEAR ALL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH USING OR RELYING ON THE MATERIAL.  SEAGATE WILL NOT BE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY CONTENT IN OUR FORUM, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE MATERIAL OR FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF OR RELIANCE ON ANY MATERIAL. THIS DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION ON LIABILITY IS IN ADDITION TO THE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS CONTAINED OUR LEGAL TERMS OF USE THAT APPLY TO ALL USE OF THIS SITE.