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Comments, communications and other content

This Site may permit visitors to submit reviews, suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, photographs, images, videos, or other information ("User Submissions"). You understand that such User Submissions may be accessed and viewed by others, including by the general public, and, whether or not such User Submissions are published, Stanley Black & Decker does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User Submissions. You are solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of publishing them on this Site. We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor or remove any User Submission. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any User Submissions posted by you or any third party.

By posting or submitting User Submissions, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant us an unrestricted, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide and fully sub-licensable right, but not obligation, to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display, perform, exhibit, broadcast, or otherwise exploit the User Submissions, in whole or in part, throughout the world in any media or technology now known or hereafter developed for any purpose whatsoever without any payment to or further authorization by you. You grant us and our sub-licensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they so choose.

In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent and warrant that: (i) the content of your User Submission(s) is original (no lifts from previously published material, including music); (ii) you own all right, title and interest to your User Submission(s) and have the sole and exclusive right (including all intellectual property and other proprietary rights embodied by the User Submissions or represented by such User Submissions) to license all of the rights therein to Stanley Black & Decker as set forth in the license granted above; (iii) the content of the User Submission(s) is accurate; (iv) use of your User Submission on this Site or otherwise by Stanley Black & Decker, in whole or in part, will not infringe upon the rights of any third party including, without limitation, any intellectual property or privacy rights; (v) you have obtained written permission from any other person named, photographed or otherwise depicted or whose voice is used in your User Submission(s) which will allow Stanley Black & Decker to utilize the User Submission(s) without compensation or objection; and (vi) you will indemnify us for all claims or losses resulting from your User Submission(s).

You shall not post, transmit, redistribute, upload, modify, publish, host, display or promote any communications, content or materials that (a) are illegal, obscene, vulgar, profane, indecent, sexually explicit, threatening, harmful, harassing, abusive, hateful, racially or ethnically derogatory, blasphemous defamatory, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, disparaging, relating to or encouraging money laundering or gambling, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable; (b) consist of or contain software viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software files, the intent of which is to damage or alter the operation of another's computer; (c) contain political campaigning, unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or other forms of solicitation to other users, individuals or entities; (d) contain chain letters, pyramid schemes, mass mailings, or any form of "spam"; (e) use a false email address, impersonates another person or entity, including our company and our employees or agents, or is otherwise misleading as to the origin of the content; (f) encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense; (g) give rise to civil liability; (h) belongs to another person and over which you do not have any right to; (i) harm minors in any way; (j) deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature; (k) impersonate another person; (l) threatens the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to commit any cognizable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or is insulting any other nation; (m) otherwise violate any law; or in doing so, amounts to any conduct that, in the judgment of Stanley Black & Decker, restricts, impairs, interferes or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying this Site and/or our related services and products.