Terms of Service

To qualify for membership in the American Mandarin Society you must fulfill the following criteria.

You:

  • are an American citizen or permanent resident; and
  • have formally studied Chinese for at least one semester (or summer) and lived in Greater China during or after such studies

Others are welcome to join as associates.

By agreeing to these terms of service you agree that you are qualified per the above. Failure to meet these qualifications will result in removal from the Society. AMS values a diverse membership, including in race, gender, ethnicity, age, and perspective. Members engaging in efforts counter to these values on this network may also result in removal from the Society.

The following Terms of Service apply to your use of this Website. You are solely responsible for your conduct on the Website  and compliance with these terms. By registering with us or using or browsing this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. This Website is not directed to anyone younger than 13 and is offered only to users 13 years of age or older. Any person who provides their personal information through this Network represents that they are 13 years of age or older.

You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use this Website:

  • In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party’s intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
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  • to engage in spamming, “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes”, advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
  • in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
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  • in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.

Additionally, you agree not to:

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  • Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Network or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Network for the purposes of automating logins to this Network;
  • Post any content containing child pornography to this Website;
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  • Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from this Website – except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or “well-behaved” web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by “well-behaved”;
  • Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Website’s infrastructure;
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, this Website;
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  • Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Website.

You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use this Website to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that these Terms of Service inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our Website platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Terms of Service. Technology and hosting for aspects of this Website are provided by this Website’s online service provider. However, the Website Creator controls the content, membership and policy of this Website, including those pages served by such service provider on behalf of this Website. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, by participating on this Website you agree to indemnify and hold harmless such service provider on all matters related to your interaction with others using this Website.

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