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WeddingWire Community Guidelines

Updated: September 23, 2012

Overview
WeddingWire Community ("Community") is a community think-tank for people to share, connect and seek advice on a wide range of topics, from the serious to the irresistibly trivial. The WeddingWire Community strives to make the community a safe and enriching place by encouraging our members to conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, decency, and respect. Your use of Community is subject to these Community Guidelines. We reserve the right to modify these guidelines at any time by posting updates.

Age Restriction
WeddingWire is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users, particularly children. For this reason, children under the age of 18 are prohibited from accessing Community.

Response to Violations
WeddingWire does not edit the content of questions, answers, or comments in the Community. However, we reserve the right to remove content that we determine, in our sole discretion, to be inappropriate and/or in violation of the Community Guidelines or the WeddingWire Terms of Use. Depending on the level of offense, you may risk deactivation of your WeddingWire account. If you are unsure whether your content is appropriate or consistent with these policies, please err on the side of caution and do not post it in Community.

Content & Usage
Community is a place where the wedding community (engaged or newlyweds or vendors/industry experts) can easily share facts, opinions and personal experiences to help others. It is up to each member of Community to maintain the integrity of the community's content. When posting content, please follow these rules:

  • YOU MAY NOT POST CONTENT (or links to content, including photos):
    • to exploit, solicit, or harm minors.
    • that is violent, racist, incendiary, or otherwise objectionable.
    • that is abusive, threatening, slanderous, or belligerent against any individual or groups of individuals for any reason.
    • that violates federal, state or local or any other law.
    • that contains profane, obscene, vulgar or sexually explicit language.
    • that glorifies self-harm, suicide, anorexia, bulimia, or any other practice that is clearly unhealthy or harmful.
    • for commercial or advertising purposes, including classified ads.
    • to post personal ads or your own or others' personal information.
    • that violates the Community Guidelines, the WeddingWire Privacy Policy or the WeddingWire Terms of Use in any manner.

  • FORUMS: For users who have both a Wedding and a Pro account - you will only be permitted to post on the forums through your Pro Account, this includes all Wedding Forum discussions which are open to Vendors. WeddingWire reserves the right to remove any individual who posts through multiple accounts, as determined in WeddingWire's sole discretion.

  • MAINTAIN THE FORMAT: This is a community comprised with Links, Questions and Discussions, so please keep postings to these format. As such, please try to keep your postings brief and to the point.

  • Public Information: As a participant in the Community, Your posts will be publicly available on the Internet. You hereby acknowledge that your posts may be indexed by search engines (eg, Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc). WeddingWire does not have direct control over this process. WeddingWire will not have any obligation under this Community Guideline with respect to information you voluntarily provide to other Users via the Site.

  • NO CHATTING OR PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS: You may meet friends or other interesting people on Community with whom you'd like to engage in personal correspondence. If so, please connect with them through WeddingWire private messages rather than use Community itself. Questions that are chatty, or attempts to engage others in personal communications, may be removed. Some examples of questions that do not comply with the Community Guidelines are below. These are just a few examples, and we reserve the right to change, remove, or add to the list at any time, without notice:
    • How are you?
    • Anyone want to chat?
    • What's your name?
    • How old are you?
    • Do you like my avatar?
    • What time is it?
    • Who here likes salmon?
    • How many points do you have?
    • Who likes Nick Lachey?

  • NO POINT-GAMING: You may not post content for the explicit purpose of gaining points, trading points, or soliciting others for points or otherwise "game" or otherwise trick the Community points system.  Furthermore, you may not use any other mechanism to “game” or otherwise trick the Community points system.

  • ONE PROFILE PER MEMBER: Please do not create more than one profile. Members who use different profiles to ask and answer their own questions risk having their accounts deactivated.

  • NO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: You may not post URLs for the purpose of directing commercial activity to a non-WeddingWire site.

  • NO REPEATED POSTINGS: You may not post similar or identical postings. This also applies if you are including the same commercial URL on all of your postings for the purpose of directing commercial activity to a non-WeddingWire site. Multiple identical postings, even if legitimate, may be considered spam.
  • ENGLISH AS THE PREFERED LANGUAGE: Please do not use other languages or symbols. Also, spelling and grammar count! Be sure to check your spelling and grammar.

  • CATEGORIZATION: Categorize your postings in the appropriate category. WeddingWire reserves the right to re-categorize or delete items it determines to be categorized incorrectly.

  • REPORTING ABUSE: You may not use the "Flag As Inappropriate" link for purposes other than reporting a violation of the Community Guidelines, WeddingWire Privacy Policy or the WeddingWire Terms of Use. You may not report abuse for posts that you personally disagree with, or by people you personally dislike. WeddingWire reserves the right to deactivate any WeddingWire account that is abusing the "Flag as Inappropriate" link.

  • NO HACKING: You may not promote or redirect traffic to a non-WeddingWire site, post links to sites that force the download of a virus, spyware, programs, or other content, or in any other way interfere with the operation of Community.
  • NO PASSWORD TRADING: You may not post content with the intent of trading passwords, product decryption programs, or any other programs.

  • NO FRAUD: You may not falsely claim credentials or expertise that you do not possess, or impersonate another user.  Furthermore you agree to not impersonate any person or communicate under a false name or a name you are not entitled or authorized to use.   

  • RESPECT COPYRIGHT LAW: You may not post content that infringes the intellectual property, privacy or other rights of third parties.

  • CONTENT LICENSE: If you post content or submit content to Community you grant WeddingWire and its affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub licensable right and license to make, use, sell, sublicense, reproduce, distribute, perform, display, prepare derivative works from and otherwise use all such content as if it were the full owner thereof.  You will defend and indemnify WeddingWire and its affiliates from any claims resulting from any content or materials you provide hereunder.

  • LIMIT OF WARRANTY: WeddingWire does not endorse or verify or guarantee the validity of any of the content on the Community.  THE CONTENT ON COMMUNITY IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WEDDINGWIRE SHALL HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY CONTENT OR MATERIALS POSTED ON COMMUNITY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE PURSUANT TO THE APPLICABLE LAW, WEDDINGWIRE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR OTHER VIOLATION OF RIGHTS.