13.1. The licence for use of this Platform and the Services is effective until terminated. This licence will terminate as set forth within these Terms of Service or if you fail to comply with any term or condition of these Terms of Service. In such event, no notice shall be required by us to effect such termination.
13.2. You agree not to:
(a) breach our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, in-house rules and regulations, including regulations for promotional events, and/or violate any applicable laws and regulations;
(b) act in a manner that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, alarming, distressing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to our employees, agents or other Users;
(c) use the Services to harm minors in any way;
(d) provide false, inaccurate or misleading information;
(e) use the Services for any illegal activities, including online gambling, regardless of whether online gambling is permitted in your jurisdiction in which you are located;
(f) use your Account in a manner that may result in disputes, claims or other liabilities to us, other Users, third parties, or may be regarded as an abuse of our system;
(g) use the Services to impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
(h) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Services;
(i) remove any proprietary notices from the Platform;
(j) cause, permit or authorize the modification, creation of derivative works, or translation of the Services without our express permission;
(k) use the Services in any manner not permitted by the licences granted herein;
(l) use the Services for fraudulent purposes;
(m) refuse to cooperate in an investigation or provide confirmation of your identity or any information you provide us;
(n) attempt to decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or hack the Services (or any portion thereof), or to defeat or overcome any encryption technology or security measures implemented by us with respect to the Services and/or data transmitted, processed or stored by us;
(o) harvest or collect any information about or regarding other Account holders, including, without limitation to, any personal data or information;
(p) upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under non-disclosure agreements);
(q) upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
(r) upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other unauthorized form of solicitation;
(s) upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses, worms, Trojan-horses or any other computer code, routines, files or programs designed to directly or indirectly interfere with, manipulate, interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality or integrity of any computer software or hardware or data or telecommunications equipment;
(t) disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other Users of the Services are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other Users' ability to engage in real time exchanges;
(u) interfere with, manipulate or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services or any other User's use and enjoyment of the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Platform;
(v) interfere with, manipulate or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services or any other User's use and enjoyment of the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Platform;
(w) take any action or engage in any conduct that could directly or indirectly damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Services or the servers or networks connected to the Services;
(x) use the Services to intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, rule, code, directive, guideline, policy or regulation, including, without limitation to, laws and requirements (whether or not having the force of law) relating to anti-money laundering or counter-terrorism financing;
(y) use the Services to provide material support or resources (or to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, or ownership of material support or resources) to any organization(s) designated by the United States government as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
(z) use the Services to violate the privacy of others or to "stalk" or otherwise harass another;
(aa) use the Services to collect or store personal data about other Users in connection with any of the prohibited conduct and activities set forth above; and/or
(bb) use the Services for other illegal activities in your jurisdiction.
13.3. If we, in our sole discretion, believe that you may have engaged in the above restricted activities, we may take various actions, including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) we may suspend, or restrict your access to your Account;
(b) we may refuse to provide Services to you;
(c) we may place a hold on your Account for up to one hundred and eighty (180) days if reasonably required to protect against the risk of liability or if you have violated our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and/or any applicable laws and regulations in your jurisdiction;
(d) we may take legal action against you; and/or
(e) we may take any other appropriate measures or actions in the given circumstances.
13.4. You understand that all Content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. This means that you, and not us, is entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available through the Platform. We do not control the Content posted on the Platform and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Platform, you may be exposed to Content that you may consider to be offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of, or reliance on, any Content posted, e-mailed, transmitted or otherwise made available on the Platform.
13.5. You acknowledge that we may or may not pre-screen Content, but that we and our designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse, delete or move any Content that is available on the Platform. Without limiting the foregoing, we and our designees shall have the right to remove any Content that violates these Terms of Service, if we receive a complaint from another User, if we receive a notice of intellectual property infringement or other legal instruction for removal, or if such Content is otherwise objectionable. We may also block delivery of a communication (including, without limitation to, status updates, postings, messages and/or chats) to or from the Services as part of our effort to protect the Services or our Users, or otherwise enforce the clauses of these Terms of Service. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including, without limitation to, any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by us or submitted to us, including, without limitation to, information in all parts of the Platform.
13.6. You acknowledge, consent and agree that we may access, preserve and disclose your Account information and Content if required to do so by law or pursuant to an order of a court or by any governmental or regulatory body having jurisdiction over us or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce these Terms of Service; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property or personal safety of Company, our Users and/or the public.