Please read these Terms of Use ("Terms") carefully before using this site. By accessing and using the Web Sites and Materials, you acknowledge and agree to abide by the following Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Mercury Web Sites or download any Materials.

Scope of Terms

These Terms also apply to any resources and tools provided through Mercury Web Sites, including but not limited to developer tools, download areas, research areas, community forums, chat rooms, blogs, sharing sites and product information. These Terms apply to all the Mercury Web Sites, both now and in the future. Hereafter, all the materials covered by these Terms of Use will be referred to as the "Materials."

Mercury may provide activity or program specific Terms of Service, for example when Mercury provides interactive Materials and/or enables User Generated Content. If so, to the extent that these Terms do not conflict with the program specific Terms of Service, the Terms herein remain in full force and effect. Security and Privacy

Personal Information: Information submitted to Mercury through forms on the Web Sites or Materials is governed according to Mercury's Privacy Policy.

Member Account, Password, and Security: Mercury may, from time to time, host a program or activity specific site that may require you to establish a member account and/or site password. In such cases, you are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Mercury immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security here. Mercury will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by Mercury or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.

Use Terms

You may not use or facilitate the use of this site or any Materials in connection with any infringement analysis concerning Mercury® products. By your use of this site or any Materials, you agree to grant Mercury a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to any patent claim thereafter drafted which includes subject matter disclosed on this site.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use: You agree that you will not use the Web Sites or Material for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use. You may not:

1. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
2. Use the Web Sites, Materials, Services or activities to "stalk" or otherwise harass or harm another;
3. Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, an Mercury official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity or collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited conduct and activities;
4. Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Web Site or Materials;
5. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
6. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party;
7. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
8. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
9. You may not use the Web Site or Materials in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Mercury server, or network(s) connections, disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Web Site or Materials or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Web Sites or Materials;
10. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Web Site or Material, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any Mercury server or Materials, through hacking, password mining or any other means or obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Web Sites or Materials;

In the case of any violation of these rules and regulations, Mercury reserves the right to seek all remedies available by law and in equity for such violations. Mercury may revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms of Use because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these Terms of Use may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular Web Sites or Materials.