This is a "sample" user agreement, intended as a default. Amsterdam sites are encouraged to provide their own version of the user agreement. To do this, set the externalResourcePath in the resources section of the configuration file to a host directory, then place a file named useragreement.html in that directory.

By creating a user account, you agree to abide by the following rules regarding your conduct on our system. These rules may also be found as part of our Policy page.

Your messages are your words, and you are responsible for them, as well as your overall behavior as a member of the community. As a member of the community, you agree not to post messages that harass, solicit, threaten, offend, embarrass or impersonate any other person or that disrupt the dialogue in the community, or use this site to do any of the above. In addition, you agree not to post messages that violate other persons' intellectual property, privacy or other rights.

When you post a message to this site, or to any community hosted on this server, you grant the site the right to display your message on the page on which it was posted by you. It may also be displayed on other pages on the site, or be reachable through searches or other means, but it will always and only be here, on this server, and we have no intention of ever reusing, reprinting, or recreating your message anywhere else. You lose no copyright to your words, and you are not beholden to us in any way, shape, or form.

By posting here, you also grant us (the moderator(s) of the conference to which you post, the host and cohost(s) of the community in which that conference is located, or the administrators of the site) the right to remove your message if we choose not to want it here. We do not edit messages, except in extreme cases of messages which include HTML or other characters that damage the usability of the site. We do remove messages that are inappropriate or offensive to the admins. However, in the case of messages or message attachments that contain copyrighted information or data that has been distributed in violation of copyright, we are required by law to delete these messages if and when the legitimate copyright holder contacts us, gives us the name and/or type of information that was posted and the location it was posted to on this site, and requests that it be removed. This policy is the direct result of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and neither this site nor the Amsterdam team is responsible for this law or its effects.

The administrators of this site are not responsible for the accuracy or integrity of the information contained in any messages posted to the site, and will not be held liable for any damages of any kind incurred as the result of any message posted on this site. Some messages and site content may contain links to sites on the Internet and World Wide Web other than this site itself. The administrators are not responsible for the content of these other sites, and will not be held liable for any of their content.