Prohibited activities

You may not access or use the Site for any purpose other than that for which we make the Site available. As a user of the Site, you agree not to:

• permit any third party that is not an Authorized User to access or use a username or password for the Services;
• share, transfer or otherwise provide access to an account designated for you to another person;
• use the Services to store or transmit any Content that may infringe upon or misappropriate someone else’s trademark, copyright, or other intellectual property, or that may be tortious or unlawful;
• upload to, or transmit from, the Services any data, file, software, or link that contains or redirects to a virus, Trojan horse, worm, or other harmful component or a technology that unlawfully accesses or downloads content or information stored within the Services or on the hardware of dots. or any third party;
• attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, hack, disable, interfere with, disassemble, modify, copy, translate, or disrupt the features, functionality, integrity, or performance of the Services (including any mechanism used to restrict or control the functionality of the Services), any third party use of the Services, or any third party data contained therein (except to the extent such restrictions are prohibited by applicable law);
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services or related systems or networks or to defeat, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or otherwise circumvent any software protection or monitoring mechanisms of the Services;
• access the Services in order to build a similar or competitive product or service or copy any ideas, features, functions, or graphics of the Services;
• use the Services in any manner that may harm minors or that interacts with or targets people under the age of thirteen;
• engage in activity that incites or encourages violence or hatred against individuals or groups;
• impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an employee of ours, an “Administrator”, an “Owner”, or any other Authorized User, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person, organization or entity;
• use the Services to provide material support or resources (or to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, or ownership of material support or resources) to any organization(s) designated by the United States government as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act or other laws and regulations concerning national security, defense or terrorism;
• access, search, or create accounts for the Services by any means other than our publicly supported interfaces (for example, “scraping” or creating accounts in bulk);
• send unsolicited communications, promotions or advertisements, or spam;
• place any advertisements within a dots. client;
• send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information, including “spoofing” or “phishing”;
• abuse referrals or promotions to get more credits than deserved;
• sublicense, resell, time share or similarly exploit the Services;
• use the Services for consumer purposes, as dots. is intended for use by businesses and organizations;
• access or use the Services on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any Patent Assertion Entity (as defined in the Customer-Specific Supplement);
• use contact or other user information obtained from the Services (including email addresses) to contact Authorized Users outside of the Services without their express permission or authority or to create or distribute mailing lists or other collections of contact or user profile information for Authorized Users for use outside of the Services; or
• authorize, permit, enable, induce or encourage any third party to do any of the above.