Term of Use

A. 　　　Your Acceptance
By using and/or visiting this Website (the " HPS Website," or "Website"), you signify your agreement to (1) HPS Terms of Use (the "User Agreement"), (2) HPS Privacy Policy--Click Here, incorporated here by reference, and (3) HPS Forum Rules --Click Here, also incorporated here by reference. If you do not agree to any of these terms, the Privacy Policy, or Forum Rules, you are not authorized to use the Website.

Although we may attempt to notify you when major changes are made to this User Agreement, you should periodically review the most up-to-date version. HPS may, in its sole discretion, modify this User Agreement at any time. By continuing to use this website following our posting of such changes, you agree to be bound by this User Agreement, as modified.

We hope you find our Website useful. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Website or any related sites, or any part of them, at any time, for any reason without prior notice to you. You agree that we shall not be liable for any such modification, suspension, or discontinuance.

Your registration information, as well as other personally identifiable information that you provide us about yourself on our sites, is subject to our Privacy Policy. Click here to read our Privacy Policy.
　
B. 　　　General Use of the Website -- Permissions and Restrictions
HPS hereby grants you permission to access and use the Website as set forth in this User Agreement, provided that:

1. You do not collect any personally identifiable information of others, including user names or email addresses, from the Website.

2. You do not use the Website for any commercial purposes without the prior written authorization of HPS (Supporting Vendors are the only members allowed to promote products and services on HPS). You agree not to transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited advertising, promotional information, bulk e-mail or other solicitation. You agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of the Website with respect to their comments they post on the Website.

3. You do not use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Website in a manner that sends more request messages to the HPS servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional online web browser. Notwithstanding the foregoing, HPS grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. HPS reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases.

4. You do not transmit or otherwise make available any content containing any "virus," "worm," "trojan horse," or any other computer code, file, or program designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

5. You do not alter or modify any part of the Website.

6. You do not circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Website or our sites or servers (or networks connected to our Website).

7. You do not harass, threaten, embarrass, or cause distress, unwanted attention, or discomfort to a person or entity on or through the Website or its communication systems.　

8. You do not transmit or otherwise make available on or through the Website any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable, as solely determined by HPS.

9. HPS reserves the right to suspend or terminate a user's access to the Website, without prior notice and at HPS?s sole discretion.　

10. This list of permissions and restrictions, along with the other terms discussed below, is not intended to be complete, but merely illustrative. We reserve the right in our sole and final judgment to determine whether your conduct violates conduct requirements for the Website.

C. 　　　 HPS Registered User Accounts
In order to access some features of the Website, such as, for example, interactive blogs, you have to become a Registered User, which will also create a user account.　 As a Registered User, you agree to be bound by the following terms:

1. When creating or modifying your account, you must provide accurate, current, and complete information. We reserve the right to disallow use of any user name that we deem offensive or inappropriate. You will be responsible for preserving the confidentiality of your password and for all actions of persons accessing the Website through any username/password assigned to you. You must notify HPS immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. You may never use another?s account without permission.

2. As a Registered User you may submit comments on various HPS forums, blogs or other material (collectively, "User Content") to the Website. HPS reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to delete, move, condense, or edit such User Content for any reason and without prior notice. HPS also reserves the right to suspend or terminate a Registered User's access for posting User Content.　

3. You are solely responsible for your own User Content and the consequences of posting or publishing it. You affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: you own, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize HPS to use, all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to all User Content you submit to enable inclusion and use of such User Content in the manner contemplated by the Website and this User Agreement.