IBM Knowledge Center terms and conditions

These IBM® Knowledge Center terms and conditions (Terms) govern any comments, questions, reviews, suggestions, ideas and other information you may post to these pages (User Content). These terms and conditions supplement the ibm.com Terms of Use. To the extent of any conflict between the ibm.com Terms of Use, IBM’s privacy policy, and these Terms, these Terms shall control with respect to User Content.

By clicking Submit, you acknowledge and agree that you have read, understood, and will be bound by these Terms. and that you will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including export and re-export control laws and regulations. You agree to maintain the security of, and not allow others to use your IBM user ID or password.

By submitting any User Content, you represent and warrant that:

  • you are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights thereto;
  • all moral rights that you may have in such User Content have been voluntarily waived by you;
  • all User Content that you post is truthful and accurate and complies with these Terms;
  • you are at least 13 years old; and
  • your User Content does not cause injury to any person or entity.

You further agree and warrant that you shall not submit any User Content:

  • that is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
  • that infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
  • that violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation;
  • that is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual or entity;
  • for which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any third party;
  • that includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers; or
  • that contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.

For any User Content that you submit, you grant IBM a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. All User Content may be used at IBM's sole discretion. User Content may remain public, and may be archived, stored and retrievable, indefinitely.

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You agree to hold IBM harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

IBM reserves the right to remove or delete any User Content that IBM deems, in its sole discretion, to violate these Terms or the ibm.com Terms of Use. IBM does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through IBM to edit or delete any User Content.

None of the User Content will be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of IBM, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers and their respective directors, officers and employees.

In your User Content, (a) always reflect your honest opinion, finding or experience; (b) do not make untruthful, inaccurate, deceptive, misleading or unsubstantiated claims about IBM’s products or services or IBM’s competitors’ products or services; (c) avoid discussions about price of the product or service; (d) do not make comparative claims to competitors and/or their products that are not substantiated; and (e) do not share personal information.