Online Forum Usage Policy and Guidelines

To post messages to this Forum, you must be listed in the Open Systems Management Directory of users, partners and staff. Upon signing into this Forum, you agree to abide by the following Terms of Membership:

Open Systems Management, at its own discretion, may bar registration from any member of the community (user, prospective users, partners, or staff). See Actions on Complaints below.

Any message posted on the Forum expresses only the view of the author of the message and does not necessarily reflect the views of Open Systems Management or any person or entity associated with Open Systems Management. This Forum uses moderators and administrators to monitor the content and appearance of messages posted in our forums. However, considering the real-time nature of this bulletin board, it is impossible for us to monitor or review every message.

Therefore, you agree that neither these forums, nor any person or entity associated with them, will be held responsible for the contents, accuracy, completeness or validity of any information posted in them.

You agree that you will not use this Forum to post any material, or links to any material, which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of any law. You agree not to post any material promoting competitive products or services to those offered by Open Systems Management.

You agree that you will not post any copyrighted material without the express permission of the copyright holder, unless such copyright is owned by you, to this Forum. Advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also inappropriate on these Forums.

We have the ability to edit and/or remove objectionable messages. Any user who believes that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email to info@osminc.com. Upon receipt of such notification, we will make every effort to take such action as we deem necessary within a reasonable period of time. Since this is a manual process, you are advised that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.

This forum reserves the right to edit or delete any message for any reason whatsoever, at our sole discretion. You agree that you are solely responsible for the content of your messages, and that you will indemnify and hold harmless this forum, Open Systems Management and their agents and employees with respect to any claim based upon the appearance and/or transmission of your message(s).

In the event of any complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you, this forum reserves the right to reveal your identity and any other information we may know about you.

Actions on Complaints

We reserve the right to investigate suspected violations of the policies listed above. If we become aware of possible violations, we may initiate an investigation that may include gathering information from you or any user involved and the complaining party, if any, and examination of other material. We may suspend the provision of our Services, temporarily or permanently remove the material involved from our servers, cancel posts, provide warnings to you, or suspend or terminate your access to the site.

We will determine what action will be taken in response to a violation on a case-by-case basis, at our sole discretion. We will fully cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating suspected lawbreakers.