Terms And Conditions | PietroLC.com

Last update: 17/02/2023

Agreement to terms

These Terms of Service constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”) and PietroLC.com (“we,” “us” or “our”), concerning your access to and use of the www.pietrolc.com website as well as any other media form, media channel, mobile website or mobile application related, linked, or otherwise connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”).

You agree that by accessing the Site, you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with all of these Terms of Service, then you are expressly prohibited from using the Site and you must discontinue use immediately.

Supplemental Terms of Service or documents that may be posted on the Site from time to time are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference.

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Terms of Service at any time and for any reason.

We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last updated” date of these Terms of Service, and you waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change.

It is your responsibility to periodically review these Terms of Service to stay informed of updates. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Terms of Service by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Terms of Service are posted.

Intellectual property

Unless otherwise indicated, the Site is our proprietary property and all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics on the Site (collectively, the “Content”) are owned or controlled by us or licensed to us.

Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Service, no part of the Site and no Content may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

Provided that you are eligible to use the Site, you are granted a limited license to access and use the Site and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Site and the Content.

User representation

By using the Site, you represent and warrant that:

all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete;
you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary;
you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Terms of Service;
you will not access the Site through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise;
you will not use the Site for any illegal or unauthorized purpose;
your use of the Site will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Site (or any portion thereof).

User registration

You may be required to register with the Site.

You agree to keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your account and password.

We reserve the right to remove your account if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.

We cannot change your username while you are registering to the website and after your registration.

It is your responsibility to choose an appropriate username when you register to this website using your e-mail address.

We cannot change the username being generated when you register to this website using any social network (e.g., Facebook, Google, … and Patreon).

Prohibited activities

You may not access or use the Site for any purpose other than that for which we make the Site available.

The Site may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.

As a user of the Site, you agree not to:

systematically retrieve data or other content from the Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
make any unauthorized use of the Site, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on the Site.
use the Site to advertise or offer to sell goods and services.
circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Site, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Site and/or the Content contained therein.
engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site.
trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords;
make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Site or the networks or services connected to the Site.
attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user.
sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
use any information obtained from the Site in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
use the Site as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Site and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.
decipher, de-compile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Site.
attempt to bypass any measures of the Site designed to prevent or restrict access to the Site, or any portion of the Site.
harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of users registered to the website or any agent engaged in providing any portion of the Site to you.
delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
copy or adapt the Site’s software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
copy, print and distribute any Content whose access is exclusive to registered users without our written permission.
upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Site or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Site.
upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats (“gifs”), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as “spyware” or “passive collection mechanisms” or “pcms”).
except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Site, or using or launching any unauthorized script or other software.
disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site.
use the Site in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.

Social Media

As part of the functionality of the Site, you may link your account with online accounts you have with third-party service providers (each such account, a “Third-Party Account”) by providing your Third-Party Account login information through the Site.

Depending on the Third-Party Accounts you choose and subject to the privacy settings that you have set in such Third-Party Accounts, personally identifiable information that you post to your Third-Party Accounts may be available on and through your account on the Site.

Please note that if a Third-Party Account or associated service becomes unavailable or our access to such Third-Party Account is terminated by the third-party service provider, then Social Network Content may no longer be available on and through the Site. You will have the ability to disable the connection between your account on the Site and your Third-Party Accounts at any time.

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR THIRD-PARTY ACCOUNTS IS GOVERNED SOLELY BY YOUR AGREEMENT(S) WITH SUCH THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS.

We make no effort to review any Social Network Content for any purpose, including but not limited to, for accuracy, legality, or non-infringement, and we are not responsible for any Social Network Content.

You can deactivate the connection between the Site and your Third-Party Account by contacting us using the contact information below or through your account settings.

We will attempt to delete any information stored on our servers that was obtained through such Third-Party Account, except the username, e-mail address and the profile picture that become associated with your account.

Content submission

You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or other information regarding the Site (“Submissions”) provided by you to us are non-confidential and shall become our sole property. We shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights, and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these Submissions for any lawful purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.

You hereby waive all moral rights to any such Submissions, and you hereby warrant that any such Submissions are original with you or that you have the right to submit such Submissions.

You agree there shall be no recourse against us for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary right in your Submissions.

Third-Party Websites and Content

The Site may contain (or you may be sent via the Site) links to other websites (“Third-Party Websites”) as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (“Third-Party Content”).

Such Third-Party Websites and Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any Third-Party Websites accessed through the Site or any Third-Party Content posted on, available through, or installed from the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices, or other policies of or contained in the Third-Party Websites or the Third-Party Content.

Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use or installation of any Third-Party Websites or any Third-Party Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave the Site and access the Third-Party Websites or to use or install any Third-Party Content, you do so at your own risk, and you should be aware these Terms of Service no longer govern.

You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any website to which you navigate from the Site or relating to any applications you use or install from the Site. Any purchases you make through Third-Party Websites will be through other websites and from other companies, and we take no responsibility whatsoever in relation to such purchases which are exclusively between you and the applicable third party.

You agree and acknowledge that we do not endorse the products or services offered on Third-Party Websites and you shall hold us harmless from any harm caused by your purchase of such products or services. Additionally, you shall hold us harmless from any losses sustained by you or harm caused to you relating to or resulting in any way from any Third-Party Content or any contact with Third-Party Websites.

We allow advertisers to display their advertisements and other information in certain areas of the Site, such as sidebar advertisements or banner advertisements.

We can decide to hide advertisements basing on some custom rule. We reserve the right to change this rule at any time, depending on our needs and goals.

Site management

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to:

monitor the Site for violations of these Terms of Service;
take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Terms of Service, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities;
in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any portion thereof;
in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from the Site or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems;
otherwise manage the Site in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Site.

Posts submitted from users (a.k.a. “guest posts”)

The posts submitted by any user should provide great value to the blog.

The following rules must be respected :

Original content: Posts should be original and not published elsewhere. Plagiarized content will not be accepted.
Quality content: Posts must provide value to the reader and be well-written. Poor grammar, punctuation, or spelling will result in rejection.
Human generated content: The usage of any A.I. service used to generate content is strongly prohibited.
Word count: Posts should have at least 600 words.
Relevance: Content must be relevant to the blog’s niche and audience. The guest posts should be related to programming languages, algorithms, or artificial intelligence.
Links: Guest authors may include up to two relevant links to their website or blog within the content.
Bio: All guest authors must have uploaded a photo and added a short description in their user profile. At least a social account link is highly appreciated.
Promotion: The content should not be overly promotional. Subtle promotion is allowed, but the post should not read like an advertisement.
Images: All posts should include at least one relevant high-quality image. Images must be royalty-free or the author must have permission to use them.
Editing: All content will be edited for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style. Submissions requiring extensive editing will be rejected.
Rights: Once content is published on the blog, the blog will retain full rights to the content.
Disclosure: Guest authors must disclose any affiliations or financial interests in the content.
Review time: Authors should expect a review time of up to four weeks after submission.
Rejection: The blog reserves the right to reject any content that does not meet the above criteria or that does not fit the blog’s style and tone.

Community’s forum code of conduct

The Terms and Conditions apply to the whole Site and – therefore – also to the section of the Site reserved to your Questions and Answers.

The Question and Answers section is completely reserved to the members of the Site’s Community.

When posting any Content, please mind the following terms and conditions:

No spam. All automated messages, advertisements, and links to competitor websites will be deleted immediately. Each submission is evaluated and all posts containing links that are not related to the specific topic will be removed.
Post in relevant sub-forums only. Messages posted in the wrong topic area will be removed and placed in the correct sub-forum by moderators. Questions or answers that are not related to the topic and that cannot be published into any existing forum on this website are considered spam.
Respect other users. No flaming or abusing fellow forum members. Users who continue to post inflammatory, abusive comments will be deleted from the forum after two warnings are issued by moderators.
Harassment. No threats or harassment of other users will be tolerated. Any instance of threatening or harassing behavior is grounds for deletion from this website.
Adult content. No profanity or pornography is allowed. Posts containing adult material will be deleted and the moderators will report the user account to the authorities.
Illegal content. No re-posting of copyrighted materials or other illegal content (or any reference to other website containing illegal content) is allowed. Any posts containing illegal content or copyrighted materials will be deleted. After the posts from the same user have been deleted three times in a row, the relevant user account will removed from this website.

Privacy Policy

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy posted on the Site. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms of Service. Please be advised the Site is hosted in Netherlands.

If you access the Site from any other region of the world with laws or other requirements governing personal data collection, use, or disclosure that differ from applicable laws in Netherlands, then through your continued use of the Site, you are transferring your data to the Netherlands, and you expressly consent to have your data transferred to and processed in Netherlands.

Final agreements

These Terms and Conditions and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Site constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and the Owner of the Site. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision.

These Terms and Conditions operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time. We shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay, or failure to act caused by any cause beyond our reasonable control.

If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms and Conditions is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Terms and Conditions and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

There is no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship created between you and the Owner of the Site as a result of these Terms and Conditions or use of the Site.

You agree that these Terms and Conditions will not be construed against us by virtue of having drafted them.

You hereby waive any and all defenses you may have based on the electronic form of these Terms of Service and the lack of signing by the parties hereto to execute these Terms of Service.

Do you need help?

If you need any further clarification about these terms and conditions, please contact me.