Website/Chat site- Code of Conduct

This updated Code of Conduct (“Code of Conduct”) is effective as of 6/1/2023.  You accept this Code of Conduct, by and between Oath Keepers USA (collectively “Oath Keepers USA” or “We”) and You, an individual Oath Keepers USA member (“You”). Your participation in Oath Keepers USA is conditioned on this Code of Conduct, as well as the Privacy Policy, and the Terms of Service, collectively referred to as the “Agreement” unless identified individually. You agree that You will be solely responsible for your activity. All communication and activity on any Oath Keepers USA service, including any User Generated Content You contribute, is your responsibility.

You will violate the Code of Conduct if You participate in any of the following behaviors below. Oath Keepers USA, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to take such action as appropriate in the event of any violation, up to and including immediate termination of Your membership.

1. LAWFUL COMPLIANCE

1.1 You may not post, publish, transmit, promote, or distribute content that is illegal.

1.2 The laws that apply in the offline world must be obeyed online as well. We have zero tolerance for illegal behavior in Oath Keepers USA, on its website or chats. We shall terminate Your membership and cooperate with law enforcement on such matters.

2. BEHAVIOR

2.1 You may not post, publish, transmit, promote, or distribute content that suggests or calls for any form of threat or violence against any individual, group, agency, the U.S. government or its overthrow.

2.2 You may not create an account name, persona or avatar that is in any way racially or ethnically defamatory, sexually graphic, hateful, and execrable in nature. You will not reference or claim affiliation to any hate groups. You will not advertise for any other groups. Any other names, text or chat that Oath Keepers USA considers offensive is also in violation of the Agreement including the Code of Conduct.

2.3 You may not create any name, text or chat that negatively references a ‘Protected Category’ under Federal law. These include any name, text or chat which references or includes Age, Race, Religion, Disability, Sexual Orientation, National Origin, Pregnancy or Gender. You may not create an account name that is defamatory, impersonates or attempts to defame the reputation of another account holder, an employee of Oath Keepers USA, property of Oath Keepers USA, or Oath Keepers USA and/or its affiliates.

2.4 Derogatory, defamatory or offensive content used in conjunction with names of famous or important historical, political, religious figures or website URLs are not allowed. You may at no time share or refer to personal information of Yourself or another person, account name, persona or avatar using Oath Keepers USA or its affiliates. You will not create an account name that is in reference to or contains copyright names, popular characters, or the names of modern era serial killers, individuals or groups who have committed crimes against humanity in the past.

2.5 You will not attempt to mask, use misspellings, phonetic spellings, homonyms, word combinations, or alternative spellings of inappropriate material in any Oath Keepers USA communication. This includes but is not limited to text, chat or any other medium of communication or interaction between users.

2.6 You may not harass, threaten, embarrass, or cause distress to another individual. This includes but is not limited to verbal attacks, unwanted messaging, personal attacks, stalking or any other undesired behavior used to cause discomfort or disrupt another’s experience. At all times users will refrain from attacking Age, Race, Religion, Disability, Sexual Orientation, National Origin, Pregnancy, Gender or any other protected category under Federal or state law.

2.7 Users will not transmit or facilitate distribution of content that is harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, vulgar, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, or in a reasonable person’s view, objectionable. Hate speech is not tolerated at any time.

2.8 You may not disrupt the flow of chat in chat rooms or message forums with vulgar language, abusive behavior, multiple key returns or posting large images in an attempt to disturb other users. Spamming, flooding [posting repetitive text], bumping and any other disruptive behavior will not be tolerated.

2.9 Improper use of complaint buttons or making false reports to Oath Keepers USA staff members is forbidden. You may not intentionally submit misinformation.

3. FALSE DISCLOSURE

3.1 You may not impersonate any other person (including celebrities) or indicate that You are an Oath Keepers USA or Oath Keepers USA affiliate employee or representative.

4. PRIVACY

4.1 You may not attempt to obtain account information, password(s), personal or private information from any member using Oath Keepers USA Services or those of Oath Keepers USA affiliates or partners. Employees of Oath Keepers USA will NEVER ask for Your password.

4.2 You may not post or communicate any user’s personal information, including Your own. Never share Your password, secret questions, reminder words or billing information. Sharing of account information is a violation of the Agreement and could also lead to Your account being compromised, hacked or stolen.

4.3 You shall not share Your account with anyone. Joint or shared ownership or use of an account by more than one individual natural person is prohibited. Access to the Oath Keepers USA sites and Services are intended for the education, enjoyment and recreation of individual natural persons. These sites and services are not for use as corporate, business, commercial, or income seeking activities. Corporations, associations, partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability companies, artificial persona, and other businesses or entities that are not a single, individual natural person are not eligible to establish accounts to access the Oath Keepers USA sites or participate in offered services, nor is anyone who is acting for or on behalf of or in the course of the business of, any such artificial person or entities.

5. SECURITY

5.1 Users are forbidden from using any unapproved third-party applications, programs, scripts or any other mechanism used to change the experience on an Oath Keepers Service, forum, or other services provided by Oath Keepers USA, including the distribution of said programs via Oath Keepers USA services, sites, forums, communities, etc. Third party applications are defined as any program, application or script written by an individual, company, corporation, or private party not employed by or contracted to perform services by Oath Keepers USA.

5.2 Users will not upload files or content that contains viruses, malicious code or corrupted data.

5.3 Users will not promote, engage in or encourage any illegal activity including hacking, cracking or distribution of counterfeit software.

6. OWNERSHIP

6.1 Users will not post, transmit, promote or distribute any dynamic or static customer created or custom content which is not wholly owned by the account owner. Copyright material cannot be used at any time except by the copyright owner. Copyright ownership must be established prior to use on any Oath Keepers USA site or service. Any use of copyrighted material not wholly owned by the account owner is a violation of the Agreement, including the Code of Conduct.

7. SPAM

7.1 You may not post messages or distribute via spam, chat flooding or any other disruptive messaging. This includes posting messages more than once, posting messages to multiple locations, posting nonsensical content, disrupting the normal flow of conversation, or reposting content that had been previously removed by the Oath Keepers USA employees. Furthermore, you may not participate in solicitation or advertising, distributing marketing materials, promotional materials or any other materials for outside business services, competitor products, or any commercial venture (including pyramid schemes and chain letters) through any Oath Keepers USA Service.