AOL Video Guidelines

These guidelines govern all features of AOL Video including videos, descriptions, tags, titles and comments.

You must be 18 years of age or older to participate in AOL Video. Personal information about minors that come to our attention maybe deleted and may result in termination of your account. If it comes to our attention that you have misrepresented your age, we will delete all material related to your AOL Video usage.

You agree that you will not use AOL Video to distribute or facilitate distribution of any content -- including text, communications, software, images, sounds, data, or other information -- that:

Language

• contains vulgarities directed toward another individual or group.
• harasses or advocates harassment of another person.
• contains explicit, crude or graphic descriptions or accounts of sexual acts including sexual language of a violent or threatening nature.

• is intended to victimise, harass, degrade or intimidate an individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. Hate speech is unacceptable.

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Graphics

• contains images of nudity and/or sexual acts.
• solicits for exchange, sale or purchase of sexually explicit images.

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Minors

• attempts to exploit a minor (under 18 years old).
• makes available and/or solicits personal information from a minor (under 18 years old). Personal information includes full name, home address, home telephone number, or other identifying "offline" information.

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Advertising

• items prohibited from sale include: lotteries, ammunition, firearms, fireworks, tobacco, alcohol, adult products/services, and explosive materials.

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Violence

• depicts violence in a gratuitous manner, without journalistic or artistic merit, primarily intended to agitate or cause emotional distress.
• condones, threatens and/or instigates physical harm towards others, or oneself.

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Illegal Activity

• is illegal or incites illegal activity such as physical and/or death threats, or providing instruction on how to conduct or participate in illegal activity.

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Network Abuse

• uses our network in manner that causes undue strain (SPAM), is destructive (viruses), or compromises the integrity of our consumer audiences (Trojans, password/billing solicitation).
• removes or hides the banner ad at top of the any AIM Pages profile or page, including AOL Video.

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Links

• links to content not allowed under these guidelines.

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Other

• otherwise uses the service in a manner deemed inappropriate by AOL.

Violations of these guidelines may result in actions, without warning, that range from removal of content, to suspension of access, to deletion of your AOL.com and/or AOL.co.uk email address and all related material, to appropriate legal action.

AOL reserves the right to make changes to these guidelines at anytime and you agree to be bound by any such changed guidelines. Please check these guidelines periodically for any changes.

For additional information, please refer to the AOL Terms of Use
Determination of whether there has been a violation of these guidelines and/or Terms of Use, and whether any action is warranted, is made by AOL at its sole discretion.

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AOL Video Safety Tips

Your AOL Video videos are public and available to the Internet at large. Do not post videos that contain information that you should keep private such as your full name, address, or telephone number.

Personal Information: Never reveal your full name, home address, telephone number, place of work or any other identifying information in your AOL Video video. Be careful that information like the number plate on cars or images of the outside of your home are not accidentally in the background of a video. This information could help a stranger track you down.

Videos: Videos that you upload to AOL Video are not only public, but they can be copied and shared by others without your knowledge. They can literally exist on the Internet for years and years after you've deleted them! Ask yourself a couple of questions before you upload a video:

1) Would you be comfortable if someone important in your life were to view the video - a boyfriend/girlfriend, fiancé or spouse? What about a college or an employer?

2) Have you posted a video of a minor - perhaps your child, grandchild, or other relative? If so, are there any identifying elements in the video or within the title that would enable someone to find them offline?

Passwords: Keep all passwords to yourself. Don't give out any of your passwords. And, remember, always make your password hard to guess.

We want AOL Video to be a fun place for you to express yourself. Please follow these safety tips to ensure your utmost safety when using AOL Video.

The AOL Video Team

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AOL Video Copyrighted Content Policy

Copyright Policy: AOL respects copyright, and asks our users to do the same. We make it clear in our Terms of Use and at the time of upload that when you post or upload text,comments, images, video, audio, and other material ("Content"), you may only post or upload Content that you created or that you have permission to post. When using AOL Video, therefore, you agree that you will not upload any Content that infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary right of any party. Please work with us to keep our community a positive, safe, and creative outlet for all.

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