Community Guidelines

Last updated at: Thu Jan 09 2020

Capitalized terms used in these Community Guidelines shall have the meaning set forth in the Terms of Service.

Tonit adheres to applicable international, federal, provincial, state and local laws and regulations and certain values and moral standards (the “Community Guidelines”), which require that you not use the Site, Services or Content, or assist or encourage any other party, to engage in, amongst other things, any of the following prohibited activities in relation to the Site, Services and Content:

(a) copying, framing or mirroring any part of the Site, Services or Content;

(b) permitting any third party to access the Site or Services;

(c) using, copying, modifying, creating a derivative work of, reverse engineering, decompiling or otherwise attempting to extract the source code of the software underlying the Site or Services or any part thereof, unless expressly permitted or required by law, and in any case, without providing prior written notice to Tonit;

(d) publishing, transmitting, distributing or storing content, material, information or data that: (i) is illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, or hateful or that advocates violence; (ii) is harmful to or interferes with the Site or Services or any third party’s networks, equipment, applications, services or websites (e.g., viruses, worms, Trojan horses, etc.); (iii) infringes, dilutes, misappropriates or otherwise violates any privacy, intellectual property, publicity or other personal rights including, without limitation, copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other proprietary information (including unauthorized use of domain names); or (iv) is fraudulent or contains false, deceptive or misleading statements, claims or representations (such as “phishing”);

(e) attempting to disrupt, degrade, impair or violate the integrity or security of the Site or Services or the computers, services, Accounts or networks of any other party (including, without limitation, “hacking,” “denial of service” attacks, etc.), including any activity that typically precedes attempts to breach security such as scanning, probing or other testing or vulnerability assessment activity, or engaging in or permitting any network or hosting activity that results in the blacklisting or other blockage of Tonit internet protocol space;

(f) distributing, or disclosing any part of the Site, Services or Content in any medium, including without limitation by any automated “scraping”, other than through any technology or means provided or authorized by the Site or Services;

(g) using any automated system, including, without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., to access the Site in a manner that sends more request messages to Tonit than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional web browser;

(h) taking any action that imposes, or may impose, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, as determined by Tonit in its sole and absolute discretion;

(i) collecting or harvesting any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual, including account names and information about users of the Site, Services, or Content, from the Site or Services;

(j) using the Site, Services or Content for any commercial solicitation purposes;

(k) accessing any Content on the Site or Services through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Site or Services;

(l) submitting to the Site or Services or to Tonit any personally identifiable information, except as necessary for the establishment and operation of your Account;

(m) submitting to the Site or Services or to Tonit any information that may be protected from disclosure by applicable law;

(n) bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site, Services or Content, including, without limitation, features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on use of the Site or Services or the Content therein;

(o) violating any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or encouraging any conduct that could constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability;

(p) removing, modifying or obsuring any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the Site or Services; or

(q) executing any form of network monitoring or running a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Tonit’s servers or any data not intended for you.


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