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You may use the Site and the Services only for legal and appropriate uses. ChaCha reserves the right to make changes to the Site and the Services at any time and without notice. Your access to and use of the Site and the Services is completely at the discretion of ChaCha, and your access to and use of the Site and the Services may be blocked, suspended, or terminated without prior notice at any time for any reason or for no reason, including, without limitation, for prolonged inactivity or for any violation of the following rules:

• You must comply with all state, federal, and/or international laws, rules, policies and/or licenses governing communications while using the Site and the Services, and with all applicable copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights laws.
• You may not submit queries that are unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, obscene, or are otherwise objectionable.
• You may not submit queries that are designed to elicit responses that relate to illegal activity or that infringe upon another party’s intellectual property rights.
• You may not allow anyone else to use the Site or the Services who does not agree to these Terms.
• You may not submit queries to the Site or any of the Services using automated means without the prior express written consent of ChaCha.
• You may not sell, use, transfer, reproduce, modify, edit, publish, perform, display, post, transmit or distribute the transcript of any communication that you may have in connection with your use of the Site or the Services without the written permission of ChaCha.
• You may not upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content which infringes any trademark, patent, copyright or trade secret or other proprietary right of any party, unless you are the owner of the rights or have the permission of the owner to post such content.
• You may not disrupt the operation of the Site or the Services or intimidate, harass, or intentionally offend the Guides.
• You may not use the Site or the Services for commercial purposes.
• You may not interfere or attempt to interfere with the Site or the Services or another person's use of the Site or the Services by use of any program, script, command, device, software, routine, or otherwise. This includes, but is not limited to attempts to overload the Site or the Services or to excessively burden ChaCha’s resources.
• You may not use the Site or the Services if ChaCha finds such use is no longer commercially feasible.
• You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the Site or the Services, by hacking, password “mining” or any other illegitimate means.
• You may not create or use accounts by automated means, under false or fraudulent pretenses, or in a way that is misleading or misrepresents your identity or affiliation with another person or entity.
• You may not submit content which falsely expresses or implies that such content is sponsored or endorsed by ChaCha.
• You may not embed any page of the Site in “frames” running from other websites.
• You may not mirror the Site or the Services on any other website or server.
• You may not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the Site or the Services.
• Your access to the Site is restricted to conventional non-accelerated browsers. So-called “web-accelerator” products such as NetJet, NetSonic, MSIECrawler, or Teleport Pro are not permitted.
• You may not transmit any worms, Trojan Horses, viruses, defects, or any items of a destructive nature.
• Robots and crawlers must follow the robot guidelines found at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html. Robots that ignore the guidelines may be excluded from the Site and the Services.

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