You agree to abide by all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations and take sole responsibility for all correspondence delivered via your Blackpeople.com account and done on behalf of your Blackpeople.com account. It is your responsibility to secure your Blackpeople.com password against unauthorized use.

You agree not to use the Blackpeople.com service to engage in illegal, mischievous, harassing or otherwise objectionable online activities including, but not limited to:

• Sending chain letters, junk email or spam (repeated unsolicited commercial or non-commercial e-mail).
   
• Harvesting or otherwise collecting information about others, including email addresses, without their consent.
   
• Creating false identities and/or forging email information to mislead others as to the identity of the sender or the origin of a message.
   
• Transmitting unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive or threatening material of any kind or nature.
   
• Transmitting unsolicited vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable material to individuals or posting such material to a site area not specified as members-only or for adult use only.
   
• Transmitting any material that may infringe the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties, including trademark, copyright or right of publicity.
   
• Transmitting any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots, or any other harmful or deleterious programs.
   
• Violating any U.S. law regarding the transmission of technical data or software exported from the United States.
   
• Interfering with or disrupting networks connected to Blackpeople.com or violating the regulations, policies or procedures of such networks.
   
• Attempting to gain unauthorized access to Blackpeople.com, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to Blackpeople.com through password mining or any other means.
   
• Interfering with another member's use and enjoyment of Blackpeople.com or another entity's use and enjoyment of similar services.

IF YOU GET ABUSIVE MAIL FROM A Blackpeople.com MEMBER:

If you receive any junk email or any threatening or offensive email from any Blackpeople.com address, please forward one complete, unedited copy of the email message with the full message headers to abuse@blackpeople.com