Welcome to Ask Community! Ask Community is a service which allows you to ask questions to
the Ask Community members and answer questions of other members. You can also post comments to other member's
answers, and vote on and rate answers from other Ask Community members.
These terms of use govern your use of the Ask Community service and you must comply with them.
Your use of the Ask Community services is also governed by the general Ask Terms of Service. These terms may change from time to time,
without any notice other than posting on the relevant page. Your continued use of the services following the posting
of changes constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Please check this page from time to time for current
terms of use.
Registration and Public Profile To join the Ask Community and participate in asking
questions and answering them, you must first create a user profile with us and provide a user name and email address.
Once you have registered, you will have a public profile and your user name will be displayed with all your questions,
answers and comments posted on the Ask Community service, which will be searchable on the web. In selecting a user name,
you agree that you will not (i) select or use a screen name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person;
(ii) use a name subject to the rights of any person without their authorization (including but not limited to using
a name incorporating the trademark of a third party); or (iii) use a screen name that is offensive to people of
ordinary sensitivities, illegal, or infringing. If you choose an avatar or image for your profile, such avatar
or image will also be published in connection with your questions, answers and comments. We encourage you to complete
your profile information by providing us a short personal biography and by telling us your areas of interest and
expertise, so we can rout to you tailored questions from other Ask Community members.
Age Restriction The Ask Community Service is not intended for children under 13 years of
age, and you may not register with us or create a user profile if you are under 13. If you are not yet 13 and have
questions, we suggest you try Ask Kids at www.askkids.com.
Email Questions and answers will be communicated to you via email and via posting on the
Ask Community site. By providing your email address to us, you agree that we can send you email communications
in connection with the Ask Community service. If you opt in to receiving the Ask newsletter, we will also send
you emails with news and updates about Ask's products and services. You can choose at any time to no longer receive
emails in connection with the Ask Community service, or to tailor your email frequency settings through your profile page.
If you limit or block emails, you will have to consult to the Ask Community pages to find out whether a member has answered
your question.
Privacy For all questions about how we use your registration information and other information
you submit while using the Ask Community services, please visit the Ask Community Privacy Policy.
Password and Security You must submit a password for you to set up and access your
Ask Community profile. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for logging out
of your profile at the end of each session. You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your
password or profile. You agree to notify Ask immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or profile or
any other breach of security. Ask cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from a third party
accessing or using your profile.
Questions, Answers and Other Content All questions, answers and comments you post will be
available publicly. You should not assume that you are anonymous and cannot be identified by your posted content.
You are solely responsible and liable for all content you submit to the Ask Community. All content you post must
comply with the Ask Community Guidelines.
Ask does not pre-screen questions, answers and comments, but will allow Ask Community members to flag content
for review and moderation. Ask reserves the right (but does not have the obligation) to remove or edit any submitted
content that is inappropriate or otherwise does not meet the Ask Community Guidelines.
You will indemnify Ask or its affiliates for all claims resulting from the content you submit.
You agree not to use the Ask Community Service to:
- Post any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene,
libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable;
- Harm or threaten to harm users in any way;
- "Stalk" or otherwise harass any other person or entity;
- Impersonate any person or entity (including an Ask agent, enthusiast, or moderator), or falsely state or
otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
- Post any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters,
pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation;
- Disseminate or transmit any content that (i) violate any law (whether local, state, national, or international),
infringes or violates any party's copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent or other proprietary right, (including,
but not limited to, using third party copyrighted materials or trademarks without appropriate permission or attribution),
or using or distributing third party information (whether or not protected as a trade secret) in violation of a duty of
confidentiality;
- Disseminate or transmit any worms, viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files, code or programs;
- Manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any question, answer or comment;
- Post content that would violate the personal privacy rights of others, including but not limited to, revealing
personal and private information about others without their permission; or
- Post any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to
interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
Use the Service at Your own Risk. Ask does not control the posted content and does not
guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any content generated by Ask Community members. If you rely on
any answer or comment posted by an Ask Community member, it is solely at your own risk. You understand that by using
the Ask Community services, you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no
circumstances will Ask be liable in any way for any such content, including, but not limited to, for any errors,
omissions or misrepresentations in any questions, answers or comments posted by Ask Community members.
License to Ask to use Question, Answers and Comments you Submit If you post or submit
questions, answers, comments, feedback or any other content, and submit votes or flags for moderation, you agree
that Ask may copy, distribute, display, publish, modify or translate such questions, answers and comments for any
purpose and in any medium worldwide (including incorporating answers into Ask answer databases or any other Ask property,
product or service) without any obligation to compensate you or any other third party in any way for any such use.
Such license that you are granting Ask is royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and sub-licensable (which means Ask
may grant other parties these same rights to use the content that you submitted).
Termination of Your Profile: You can terminate and delete your Ask Community profile at any
time by sending a request through the feedback link. We may terminate
your account and deny you access to the service if we consider, at our sole discretion, that (i) certain questions,
answers or comments you have posted are inappropriate or do not meet the Ask Community Guidelines,
(ii) you have otherwise violated these Ask Community Terms of Use or (iii) your behavior within Ask Community does
not meet our community standards.