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10. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to freechess.org, you:
     
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    • 10.1.1 is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to FICS for all the purposes specified above;
       
    • 10.1.2 is not defamatory; and
       
    • 10.1.3 does not infringe any law; and
       
    • 10.2 indemnify FICS against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by FICS as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
       
    • 10.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on freechess.org and the purposes specified above.
    
     

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• Content must be civil and tasteful
• No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: content must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
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• If you use multiple logins you may have action taken against your accounts.
• Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant freechess.org service.
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• Content containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant service.
• No impersonation
• No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names
   

• You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in freechess.org. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.
• Contributing material with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
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• The views expressed in freechess.org areas are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of FICS.
   

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If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to freechess.org or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on freechess.org, and FICS considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, FICS may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement/s.

FICS reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.

12. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on freechess.org (including service rules) then the latter shall prevail.
     
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