Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license
Message-board and chat-room postings are not confidential; American Express may use them and give them to affiliates
The same paragraph says postings by a user on any message board or in any chat room will not be protected as confidential. American Express may use and provide information contained in those postings, including any ideas, concepts, know-how or other intellectual property, to any of its parent company, subsidiaries and affiliates for any purpose whatsoever and as deemed appropriate by American Express. The text does not give the user a way to limit that use.
Details
- Who
- American Express
- What it does
- may use and provide information in postings to its parent company, subsidiaries and affiliates
- What it covers
- information in message-board and chat-room postings, including ideas, concepts, know-how and other intellectual property
- Why
- any purpose whatsoever, as deemed appropriate by American Express
Supporting quotations
Postings by a user on any message board or in any chat room will not be protected as confidential and American Express may use and provide information contained in any such postings (including any ideas, concepts, know-how or other intellectual property) to any of its parent company, subsidiaries and affiliates for any purpose whatsoever and as deemed appropriate by American Express.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Applies to postings on a message board or in a chat room; the text does not say which Sites have them.
Not stated here
- The text does not say whether the Postings section's rules on removing postings change this, or whether the user keeps ownership of posted material.
Cross-references
- exception to (model-proposed): American Express says it will keep confidential user communications with personal information sent directly to it — The confidentiality commitment covers communications sent directly to American Express. The next sentence says postings on a message board or in a chat room are not protected as confidential, and may be used and shared with affiliates.