CertMag Network Guidelines
Welcome to the
CertMag Network! The network gives IT professionals around the globe the opportunity to share ideas, insight and tips and to tap into the power of peers to address the challenges facing today’s information workforce.
The guidelines below provide a framework for network interaction. The network is intended as a forum to share knowledge and ideas, and not as a venue for marketing services and solutions. Please report any violations of these guidelines to
editor@certmag.com.
As a participant on the
CertMag Network, you agree to adhere to the following guidelines:
- Responsibility and control: You, and not Certification Magazine or its parent company, MediaTec Publishing, are entirely responsible for all the content you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Networks.
- Do not post information that is unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials or any other form of solicitation (including, but not limited to, "spam," "junk mail," and "chain letters"), or that is otherwise inappropriate or posted in bad faith.
- User-generated profiles should be those of individuals, not companies.
- Network members must be at least 18 years old.
- The use of the Networks for any of the following will constitute grounds for suspension and/or termination from the Networks:
- to harm or intimidate another person in any way, including restricting or inhibiting any other user from using the Network;
- to impersonate any person (including MediaTec Publishing staff or other members), or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or company, through the use of similar email addresses, nicknames, or creation of false account(s) or any other method or device;
- to disguise the origin of any public information that is transmitted to any third party;
- to “stalk” or otherwise harass another; or collect or store personal data about other users.
- to post any material that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, intimidating, vulgar, obscene, profane, libelous, invasive of another's privacy (including the posting of private emails or contact information of another individual), hateful, or racially, ethically or otherwise objectionable, including any public information or other material that may be considered hate speech; material that is obscene, pornographic or adult in nature; information that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; information that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party or rights of publicity or privacy.
- to refuse to follow MediaTec Publishing staff instruction or direction; or
- violation (intentional or unintentional) of this Agreement, or of any applicable local, state, national or international law, statute, ordinance or regulation.
- to upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any computer routines, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
- to interfere with or disrupt our Networks in any way, including through the use of JavaScript, active or other coding;
- to take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
- to copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or publicly display any information displayed on our Web site, or create derivative works from our Web site to the extent that such action(s) would constitute copyright infringement or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of MediaTec Publishing or any other third party, except with the prior written consent of MediaTec Publishing or the appropriate third party.
- The MediaTec Publishing staff shall have the right to remove any material that violates this Agreement or is otherwise objectionable.
