NextGen Member Area Acceptable Use Policy

1. These terms of use of the NextGen Knowledge Base are defined herein. Use of the NextGen Knowledge Base constitutes acceptance of these legal terms and conditions. These forums and Knowledge Base data are intended for discussion of business and technical issues for the EXCLUSIVE USE OF NextGen Members and their employees only. The information, Tech Notes and other related information on the NextGen Knowledge Base is expressly prohibited from being disseminated and/or provided to anyone that is not a NextGen Member or a Member company’s employee.
 
2. You agree that the information you provide for your user Login Account for the Knowledge Base will be accurate and not misleading.

3. In providing its community forums, it is NextGen's intention to maintain an informative and valuable service that meets the needs of its users and is free from verbal abuse, violations of privacy and other harmful activities. NextGen prohibits posting of threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law. You agree not to post any information that may infringe upon or violate any third party's intellectual property rights, including, without limitation, copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, moral right, proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy, or contain obscenity, pornography or be otherwise inflammatory, or which contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information, or which is materially false, misleading or inaccurate. These forums are not to be used as a solicitation for business.

4. We welcome your participation in our online communities. However, in so participating, please be aware that you are solely responsible for your content or other information you distribute, post, include, [link to] or otherwise upload to the Knowledge Base. You agree that NextGen is only acting as a venue and that NextGen has no liability related to the content of any forum posting or any other user-created content on its Knowledge Base, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. By its very nature, the information available in these forums is changed frequently, may be offensive, harmful or inaccurate and in some cases may be mislabeled or deceptively labeled. We do not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of such information nor do we undertake to update or correct such information. We recommend that you confirm all information you obtain from the forums on the Knowledge Base.

5. Messages posted to open forums are not pre-screened. NextGen, or a third party organization whom NextGen may appoint to moderate a particular forum, each reserves the right, although it does not have the obligation, to monitor content throughout the Knowledge Base (or a specific forum, as applicable) and to remove any content which NextGen or such third party organization, in its sole discretion, determines to be harmful, offensive, defamatory, libelous, illegally threatening or harassing or which contains obscenity, pornography or is otherwise inflammatory; which may create liability for NextGen; or is unrelated to the intention of the community or otherwise in violation of NextGen's policies of acceptable use.

6. You should assume that everything hosted on this Knowledge Base is the intellectual property of NextGen and our members. All rights to this information are reserved. All reproduction, total or partial, of the contents of this Knowledge Base by any means whatsoever and without the written consent of NextGen is illegal.

7. NextGen and our members provide this Knowledge Base "as is." WE AND OUR MEMBERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS TO THE KNOWLEDGE BASE OR ANY FORUM AND MAKE NO WARRANTY AS TO THE OPERATION, FUNCTIONALITY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE KNOWLEDGE BASE, OR THAT THE KNOWLEDGE BASE WILL BE ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED.

8. These terms of use shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of Ohio as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within Ohio. Any action or proceeding arising from or relating to these terms and conditions must be brought in a federal court in the Federal Southern District Court, Eastern Division, and you irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction and venue of any such court in any such action or proceeding. If any provision of these terms of use is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. These terms of use may be amended or changed by us at our discretion. You agree that your continued use of this Knowledge Base after such amendment or change shall signify your acceptance of any such change.
9. The services offered under these use policies are provided by NextGen Group, LLC. 1776 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006. Our e-mail address is info@nextgengroup.net. If you notice any user that is violating these terms of use, please contact us at info@nextgengroup.net.

10. By submitting your content to the Knowledge Base (including, but not limited to sending messages through the Knowledge Base or posting messages to message boards, forums, and chat rooms), you hereby grant to NextGen a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all copyright and publicity rights, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to any content you provide to us in any public space on this Knowledge Base or in any e-mail that you voluntarily provide to us through this Knowledge Base.

11. We will treat any feedback or suggestions you provide us as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Thus, please do not submit confidential or proprietary information to us unless we have mutually agreed in writing otherwise.