General Rules and Regulations for the Knot
THE KNOT COMMUNITY RULES:The Knot Community, including message boards, wedding web pages, blogs, photo galleries, and bios, have been created to provide a forum for Knot members to share their wedding-related experiences, ideas, and questions with one another. We encourage expression and discussion. However, in order to keep balance and order within the Community, online behavior requires common sense and basic etiquette. This community forum is provided as a matter of courtesy so you can share opinions and advice with other brides, and we ask that you treat each other with respect. Accordingly, here are some rules that you agree to follow:
- No strong, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise harmful language.
- No racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable language.
- No posting of pornographic or obscene images.
- No harassing, intimidating, stalking, or threatening other community members.
- No libelous, defamatory, or otherwise tortious language.
- No online vandalism. This includes using abusive language and repeatedly hitting the return key in the chat room, or otherwise acting in a manner that negatively impacts the ability of others to engage in real time exchanges.
- No impersonating any person, including, but not limited to, other community members or employees of The Knot.
- No posting, distributing, transmitting, or promoting illegal content.
- No invasion of another's privacy.
- No actions that are harmful to minors.
- No manipulation or forging of identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information posted on The Knot site or otherwise provided to The Knot or its employees.
- No posting, providing, transmitting, or otherwise making available any information (such as inside, proprietary or confidential information) that you do not have a right to make available due to contract, fiduciary duty, or operation of law.
- No posting, providing, transmitting, or otherwise making available any junk mail or spam.
- No posting, uploading, emailing, or otherwise transmitting any material that contains any malicious computer code (including spyware, worms, Trojan horses, viruses, etc.).
- No posting, providing, transmitting, or otherwise making available any information which violates regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or that of any securities exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange.
- No collecting, storing, or posting of personal data about or of other community members.
- No soliciting of any kind on the message boards or in the chat room -- it is neither allowed nor appreciated by the community.
- Wedding professionals involved in a wedding-related enterprise cannot post any information on The Knot message boards, even if offering services free of charge. All posts and photos are subject to removal at The Knot's sole discretion.
- Any member of our community, including a bride, involved in a wedding related business must adhere to the same rules as wedding professionals and are not permitted to post on The Knot message boards.
- Please keep in mind that The Knot Message Boards are not to be used for posting complaints and defamatory comments about vendors. All defamatory posts are subject to removal at The Knot's sole discretion. If you would like to review a vendor's services, you can do so here: Review Your Wedding Vendors.The use of The Knot message boards, wedding web pages, blogs, photo galleries, and profiles is at your own risk. The Knot, Inc. is not responsible for the content and conduct you may encounter. We reserve the right to remove any material from the site at any time. We also reserve the right, if you violate any of these rules or our
Terms of Use, to remove you from the community or delete your Knot membership.
FLAGGING SYSTEM: All members have the ability to report posts they believe violate our Community Guidelines. Flagged content will be reviewed by our team of moderators within 24-48 hours, who will decide to either leave the post as is or remove it based on our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines.
All of the writing on our website or in our Areas is the copyrighted property of The Knot Inc. and is protected as such. None of the material may be reproduced without our written permission, with the exception of downloading or printing a single copy for yourself for offline viewing. This copyright extends from original Knot material, to the raw compilations of posts in our folders, to any edited and filtered compilations of posts that we may sell and distribute.