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Incites, advocates, or expresses pornography, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, hatred, bigotry, racism, or gratuitous violence. |
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Misrepresents the source of anything you post or software you upload, including impersonation of another individual or entity. |
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Provides, references, redirects or creates links to external sites that violate this Code of Conduct. |
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Includes content that is protected by intellectual property laws, rights of publicity or privacy, or any other applicable law unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents. |
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Is intended to harm or exploit minors in any way. |
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Is designed to solicit or collect personally identifiable information of any minor (anyone under 18 years old), including, but not limited to: name, email address, home address, phone number, or the name of their school. |
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Invades anyoneís privacy by attempting to harvest, collect, store, or publish private or personally identifiable information, such as passwords, account information, credit card numbers, addresses, or other contact information without their knowledge and willing consent. |
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Is illegal or violates any local and national laws that apply to your location; including but not limited to child pornography, bestiality, incest, illegal drugs, software piracy, and harassment. |
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Threatens, stalks, defames, defrauds, degrades, victimizes, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals for any reason; including on the basis of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, race, or religion; or to incite or encourage anyone else to do so. |
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Harms or disrupts, or intends to harm or disrupt another userís computer or would allow others to illegally access software or bypass security on websites, or servers, including but not limited to spamming. |
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Attempts to impersonate a Microsoft employee, agent, manager, host, another user, or any other person through any means. |
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Promotes or otherwise facilitates the purchase and sale of ammunition or firearms. |
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Contains or could be considered 'junk mail', 'spam', 'chain letters', 'pyramid schemes', 'affiliate marketing' or unsolicited commercial advertisement. |
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Mischaracterizes content you post or upload or contains the same or similar content to other content you have already posted. |
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Attempts to manipulate the services, including ranking and reputation systems in the services, by violating any of the provisions of this Code of Conduct, colluding with others on voting or using multiple profiles. |
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Offers to make international money transfers for amounts exceeding the asking price of an item, with intent to request a refund of any portion of the payment. |
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Contains advertising for money making schemes, discount cards, credit counseling, online surveys or online contests. |