Last Updated: April 6, 2020

The Future Of Retail community (“Platform”) is a place for users to discuss, connect, and share knowledge in an open and welcoming environment. The guidelines in this Acceptable Use Policy (“Policy”) help to preserve the open and welcoming environment for users to connect in a safe, friendly, and meaningful way.

Future Of Retail may modify this Policy at any time by posting a revised version at futureofretail.co By using or accessing the Platform, you agree to the latest version of this Policy. If you violate the Policy or authorize or help others to do so, we may suspend or terminate your use of the Platform and any content you have posted on the Platform.

NO ILLEGAL, HARMFUL, OR OFFENSIVE USE OR CONDUCT

You may not use, or encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to use the Platform for any illegal, harmful, fraudulent, infringing, or offensive use, or to transmit, store, display, distribute or otherwise make available content that is illegal, harmful, fraudulent, infringing, or offensive. Prohibited activities or content include:

• Illegal, Harmful or Fraudulent Activities.Any activities that are illegal, that violate the rights of others, or that may be harmful to others or our operations or reputation, including disseminating, promoting or facilitating child pornography, offering or disseminating fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions, make-money-fast schemes, ponzi and pyramid schemes, phishing, or pharming.
• Infringing Content.Content that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property or proprietary rights of others. See the Copyright and Trademark Section of our Terms of Use for our policy and reporting a violation.
• Offensive Content.Content that is defamatory, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, or otherwise objectionable. Abusive behavior includes, among other things, threatening or suggesting violence or physical harm, harassment, intimidation, and using hateful words or images.
• Harmful Content.Content or other computer technology that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, program, or data, including viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or cancelbots.
• Impersonation.Content that is defamatory, obscene, abusive, invasive of privacy, or otherwise objectionable. Abusive behavior includes, among other things, threatening or suggesting violence or physical harm, harassment, intimidation, and using hateful words or images.

DO NOT POST PRIVATE OR INTIMATE INFORMATION

Any information posted on the Future Of Retail community may be seen publicly. Keep that in mind when deciding what to post about yourself. Also, you may not use the Future Of Retail community to post another person’s private or intimate information without that person’s express permission.

SECURITY AND SPAM

Spam, Malware, and Phishing.You may not distribute, publish, send, or facilitate the sending of unsolicited mass messages, promotions, advertising, or solicitations (like “spam”), including commercial advertising and informational announcements. You will not alter or obscure message or post headers or assume a user’s identity without the user’s explicit permission. Additionally, you may not publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another person’s browser or computer or to compromise a person’s privacy.

Security.You may not search, scan, probe, test, use, or otherwise access or interfere with the Future Of Retail community, its computer systems, or its networks, other than to access the Future Of Retail community through the then-available, published interface provided by Future Of Retail as permitted by the Terms of Use. Additionally, you may not interfere with or disrupt the access of any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, or spamming, the Future Of Retail community, or by scripting the creation of content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on the Future Of Retail community.

REPORTING VIOLATIONS

If you become aware of any violation of this Policy, you will immediately notify us and provide us with assistance, as requested, to stop or remedy the violation. To report any violation of this Policy, please email us at [email protected].