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Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception

Public forums must not be used to post personal information

Forum posts are accessible to other users. The rules tell users not to post personal information, including names, passwords, phone numbers, addresses or email addresses. They also forbid revealing another person's contact, credit-card, tracking, impersonation-enabling or extremely personal information.

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Public forum.We hope that you will use the Community Forums to exchange information and content and have discussions with other members. However, please remember that the Community is a public forum and User Content that you post on the Community Forum will be accessible and viewable by other users. Do not post personal information (e.g., full name, password, phone number, address, e-mail address or other personally identifiable information or contact information).
Don’t share other people’s personal information. Your User Content may not reveal another person’s address, phone number, e-mail address, credit card number or any information that may be used to track, contact, or impersonate that individual or that is extremely personal in nature.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Forum visibility concerns posts in Community Forums; the prohibition on others' personal information applies to User Content.

Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception

Do not submit information you lack the right to transmit

User Content must not include material you cannot lawfully transmit or that contractual or fiduciary obligations restrict. Examples include inside information and confidential information learned through employment or nondisclosure agreements.

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Don’t share confidential information or trade secrets. User Content may not containany content that you do not have a right to transmit 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 nondisclosure agreements)

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The restriction turns on absence of a transmission right under law, contract or fiduciary duties.

Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license

Connecting third-party apps can share account data and expose identity

Optional applications may connect with or transfer information to and from your site profile. If you use an app to share account information, you consent to that sharing; app use may publicly disclose or associate identifying information with you even when VICE did not provide it. You accept the risk and hold VICE harmless for resulting account-information sharing, and must read login and popup sharing notices closely.

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You may choose, at your sole and absolute discretion and risk, to use applications that connect a Site or your profile on a Site with a third party site (each, an “Application”) and such Application may interact with, connect to or gather and/or pull information from and to your Site profile. By using such Applications, you acknowledge and agree to the following: (i) if you use an Application to share information relating to your Site accounts, you are consenting to the information about your account being shared; (ii) your use of an Application may cause personally identifying information to be publicly disclosed and/or associated with you, even if Vice has not provided such information; and (iii) your use of an Application is at your own option and risk, and you will hold Vice harmless for the sharing of information relating to your Site accounts that results from your use of an Application. You must read all log-in boxes and other pop-up boxes closely for notices about sharing your account information with, through or by any other means identified on an Application.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Sharing consent is tied to using an application to share account information; public disclosure is a possibility.