6. Code of Conduct.
You agree not to (including, as applicable, as each of the following terms or art are understood within the information technology industry):
6.1. restrict or inhibit any other visitor from using the Site, including, without limitation, by means of “hacking” or defacing any portion of the Site;
6.2. express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent;
6.3. transmit (a) any content or information that is unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, abusive, vulgar, derogatory, sexist, racist, hateful, harassing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, pornographic, sexually explicit, blasphemous, harmful, invasive of the privacy rights of others, or otherwise objectionable, or infringes our or any third party’s intellectual property or other rights; (b) any material, non-public information about companies without the authorization to do so; (c) any trade secret of any third party; or (d) any advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, investment opportunities or other unsolicited commercial communication (except as otherwise expressly permitted by us);
6.4. engage in spamming or flooding;
6.5. upload any Submission that contains any virus, worm or other files, scripts or programs designed to damage or allow unauthorized access to the Service or Site;
6.6. use the Site, Information or Services in any manner that is unlawful, including accessing the Site, Services and/or Information from any location where such access may be illegal or otherwise prohibited;
6.7. modify, adapt, sub-license, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Site or Information;
6.8. remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the Information, Site or Services;
6.9. “frame” or “mirror” any part of the Site without our prior written authorization;
6.10. link to any page or content on any web site other than the Site;
6.11. use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine” or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or its contents;
6.12. forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Submission; and/or
6.13. harvest or collect information about Site visitors or members without their express consent.
When using the Site, Information or Services, you agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.