Acceptable use policy

Introduction

This policy tells you the acceptable use standards which apply to anything you upload or share to our website, sirruscomputers.com (“Our Site”), or generate on Our Site (“User Content”). These standards also apply to any interactions you have with other users on Our Site and any other ways you use Our Site.

Please read this policy carefully before you start to use Our Site. By using Our Site, you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to abide by them.

If you do not agree to this policy, please refrain from using Our Site.

Acceptable Use

You may use Our Site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with this policy. You agree to use Our Site in a manner that:

·     complies with all applicable local, state, national, and international laws and regulations;

·     respects the rights and dignity of others;

·     does not infringe upon intellectual property rights; and

·     maintains the security and integrity of our systems.

Prohibited Uses

You must not use Our Site:

·   in any manner that violates any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;

·    in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;

·   to harm or attempt to harm minors in any way;

·   to bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person;

·  to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, share, post, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our User Content Standards;

·  to transmit or procure the sending of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or

·  to knowingly transmit, send or upload any data or material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful program or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

User Content Standards

User Content must:

·    be accurate where it states facts;

·    contain only opinions that you genuinely hold;

·  comply with all applicable laws and regulations in the country from which it is posted and any country to which the website is targeted.

User Content must not:

·   defame any person;

·   be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;

·   infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;

·  include video content that has been or would be likely to be given an R18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC);

·  include video content not suitable for BBFC classification;

·  include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of persons under the age of 18;

·  be likely to deceive any person;

· breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;

· contain illegal content or promote any illegal content or activity;

·  be in contempt of court;

· be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;

· be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;

· impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;

·  give the impression that the User Content emanates from us, if this is not the case;

· advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse;

· contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism;

· be pornographic.

Illegal content

In addition, you must not use Our Site in any way that involves the following:

· terrorism;

· child sexual exploitation or abuse including grooming and child sexual abuse material;

· hate offences;

· harassment, stalking, making threats or abuse;

· controlling or coercive behaviour;

· intimate image abuse;

· extreme pornography;

· sexual exploitation of adults;

· human trafficking;

· unlawful immigration;

· fraud and financial offences;

· proceeds of crime offences;

· drugs or psychoactive substance offences;

· firearms, knives and other weapons offences;

· encouraging or assisting suicide;

· foreign interference offences; or

· animal cruelty.

Content very harmful to children

The following must not be uploaded, shared or generated on Our Site:

· pornographic content;

· content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for suicide;

· content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of deliberate self-injury;

· content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder.

Other content harmful to children

You must not upload, post, create on Our Site or share any of the following:

· content that is abusive and which targets any of the following characteristics: race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender reassignment.

· content which incites hatred against people:

· of a particular race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origins, religion (including lack of religion), sex or sexual orientation;

· who have a physical or mental disability; or

· who have the characteristic of gender reassignment (meaning the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex).

· content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of serious violence against a person.

· bullying content.

· content which:

· depicts real or realistic serious violence against a person (real or not);

· depicts the real or realistic serious injury of a person (real or not) in graphic detail.

· content which:

· depicts real or realistic serious violence against an animal (real or not);

· depicts the real or realistic serious injury of an animal (real or not) in graphic detail;

· realistically depicts serious violence against a fictional creature or the serious injury of a fictional creature in graphic detail.

· content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for a challenge or stunt highly likely to result in serious injury to the person who does it or to someone else.

· content which encourages a person to ingest, inject, inhale or in any other way self-administer:

· a physically harmful substance;

· a substance in such a quantity as to be physically harmful.

Offences

You must not upload, post, create on Our Site, share or cause any uploading, posting, creation or sharing, of any of the following:

· a grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message intending to cause offence, menace, distress or anxiety;

· a false message knowing it to be false, intending to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and with no reasonable excuse;

· a message threatening death or serious harm while intending or being reckless as to whether the object of the threat would fear that the threat would be carried out;

· flashing images when it is reasonably foreseeable that an individual with epilepsy will see it and the sender intended that the individual would suffer harm and the sender has no reasonable excuse for sending the images;

· a communication that intends to encourage serious self-harm;

· an unsolicited sexual image, including a manufactured intimate image or "deepfake" intending the recipient to be caused alarm, distress or humiliation, or for the purpose of sexual gratification and being reckless as to whether the recipient will be caused alarm, distress or humiliation;

· a sexually explicit deepfake.

Advertising

You must not upload, post, create on Our Site or share content containing any advertising or promoting any services or web links to other sites.

Consequences of violations Violations of this policy may result in:

· warning or notification of violation;

· temporary suspension of account or access;

· permanent termination of account;

· removal of violating content;

· legal action where appropriate; and/or

· cooperation with law enforcement.

We reserve the right to take any action we deem appropriate in response to violations, including but not limited to the measures listed above.

Reporting Violations

If you encounter content or behaviour that violates this policy, please report it to us immediately at support@sirruscomputers.com. Please include as much detail as possible, including URLs, screenshots, and descriptions of the violation.

Monitoring and Enforcement We reserve the right to:

· monitor use of the website for compliance with this policy;

· investigate reported violations;

· take appropriate action against violators; and/or

· modify or update this policy at any time.

While we reserve the right to monitor content and activities, we are not obligated to do so and cannot guarantee that all violations will be detected or addressed.

Appeal Process

If you believe your account has been suspended or terminated in error, you may appeal by contacting us at support@sirruscomputers.com, providing detailed information about why you believe the action was incorrect and wait for our review, which typically takes 10 business days.