Submitting Content

1. Ownership. If you submit content to Donegal Matters (including without limitation any text, photograph, graphics, video or audio), you grant Donegal Matters a licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, create derivative works from, distribute and display in public that content in any form and media on or in connection with the Site, at no cost to us and for as long as we require and you warrant that you own or have rights to the intellectual property in such content and have the right to grant this licence. You waive any moral rights in your contribution. You will indemnify us and keep us indemnified from and against all costs, claims, damages and expenses made against or incurred by us as a result of a third party alleging that the use of such content by us infringes the intellectual property rights of a third party.



2. Submissions. When submitting content, you agree not to do any of the following:
   • defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate or infringe the rights of any person or entity (including, but not limited to, rights of intellectual property, confidentiality, or rights of privacy);
   • upload or transmit any material which is unlawful, indecent, defamatory, hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise offensive or objectionable, politically sensitive or of an obscene or menacing character, or that may cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
   • upload or transmit files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents;
   • upload or transmit any materials that infringe any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights of any third party;
   • upload or transmit material that you do not have a right to make available under any law or contractual or fiduciary relationship (such as confidential information);
   • upload or transmit any computer viruses, macro viruses, trojan horses, worms, corrupted files or anything else designed to interfere with, interrupt or disrupt the normal operating procedures of a computer;
   • use the system of uploading or transmitting content (or any part thereof) in a way that may cause the system (or the servers or networks connected to the system) to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or such that the effectiveness or functionality of the system is in any way impaired;
   • where you are not the author of any material you are uploading or transmitting , delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or within the material;

These House Rules have been developed so that everyone can get the best out of contributing to the Forums. They aim to protect anyone who reads or contributes to the Forums and to help everyone to have an enjoyable and safe time.

By participating in the Forums you agree to abide by these House Rules. Donegal Matters reserves the right to change these Forum House Rules at any time by posting these changes online. You are responsible for regularly reviewing information posted online to obtain notice of such changes. Your continuing use of the Forums once these changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of these Forum House Rules as modified by the posted changes.

* Please be warned that if any content breaks the rules below it may be removed by the moderators of the Website.