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We encourage you to comment on our articles, blogs, and reviews. By submitting comments to articles, blogs, and reviews, you are consenting to these rules as well as all terms of service set forth in this Awfuldeals.com website.

You are fully responsible for any content you post. By placing material on or communicating with Awfuldeals.com, including on any bulletin board or message or chat area, you warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you provide, that the content is accurate, that it does not violate our Terms of Service, and that it will not cause injury to any person or entity.

You agree that Awfuldeals.com is not responsible for any content posted by you. Awfuldeals.com message boards, comment on a story and other such interactive areas are provided to give users an interesting and stimulating forum to express their opinions and share their ideas and information. Given the nature of Awfuldeals.com and the volume of messages and postings, Awfuldeals.com cannot monitor the material posted or transmitted by users and third party information providers. To protect your safety, please use your best judgment when using these forums. We particularly discourage divulging personal phone numbers and addresses or other information that can be used to identify or locate you. Awfuldeals.com reserves the right to delete, move or edit any communications at any time, for any reason or in its discretion, but has no obligation to review or remove any such content.

You agree that you use and/or rely on any information obtained through the discussion forums at your own risk. Awfuldeals.com is not in any manner endorsing the content of the story comment threads and cannot and will not vouch for its reliability.

You agree to the following Posting Rules. Interactive areas, discussion boards, comment on a story, etc., on Awfuldeals.com are intended to encourage public debate. We expect people to differ - judgment and opinion are subjective things and we encourage freedom of speech and a marketplace of ideas. But by using these areas of Awfuldeals.com, you are participating in a community that is intended for all our users. Therefore, we reserve the right to remove any content posted on our site at any time for any reason. Decisions as to whether content violates any Posting Rule will be made by Awfuldeals.com in its discretion. If you think a comment violates our posting rules, you are welcome to notify us by emailing abuse@Awfuldeals.com. Without limiting our right to remove content, we have attempted to provide guidelines to those posting content on our site.

When using Awfuldeals.com, please do not post material that:

• contains vulgar, profane, abusive or hateful language, epithets or slurs, text or illustrations in poor taste, inflammatory attacks of a personal, racial or religious nature, or expressions of bigotry, racism, discrimination or hate.
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• violates any right of Awfuldeals.com or any third party.
• discriminates on the grounds of race, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability, or refers to such matters in any manner prohibited by law.
• violates any municipal, state or federal law, rule, regulation or ordinance, or attempts to encourage such an evasion or violation.
• unfairly interferes with any third party's uninterrupted use and enjoyment of Awfuldeals.com.
• advertises, promotes or offers to trade any goods or services, except in areas specifically designated for such purpose.
• uploads copyrighted or other proprietary material of any kind on Awfuldeals.com without the express permission of the owner of that material.
• includes images, photos, or articles or other content that constitutes, promotes or encourages illegal acts, violation of any right of any individual or entity, violation of any local, state, national or international law, rule, guideline or regulation, or otherwise creates liability.
• uploads or transmits viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files.
• disrupts, interferes with, or otherwise harms or violates the security of Awfuldeals.com, or any services, system resources, accounts, passwords, servers or networks connected to or accessible through Awfuldeals.com or affiliated or linked sites.
• "flames" any individual or entity (e.g., sends repeated messages related to another user and/or makes derogatory or offensive comments about another individual), or repeats prior posting of the same message under multiple threads or subjects.

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