THIS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY GOVERNS YOUR USE OF THE CISCO NETWORKING

ACADEMY COMMUNITY WEBSITE (INCLUDING ALL WEBSITES UNDER THE DOMAIN

ACADEMY-COMMUNITY.NET) AND CAREER CONNECTIONWEBSITES (THE "WEBSITE").
YOU AGREE THAT YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR
EXPRESSAGREEMENT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW. IF YOU DO
NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MUSTCEASE ALL FURTHER USE
OF THE WEBSITE.

1. These terms of use, which specifically incorporate theCisco Networking Academy Privacy
Policy and may incorporate by reference policies published elsewhere on the Website, state
Cisco''s requirements for use of the Website. Use of these or any other interactive areas of the
Website constitutes acceptance of these legal terms and conditions. The message boards on the
site are intended for discussion of all aspects of the Academy Program, related curricula, and
teaching/learning issues. They are not provided for customer service inquiries, questioning Cisco
business decisions, or asking about unreleased products. This requires the participants in
message boards and the users of the Website to cooperate fully and to meet each other''s
expectations for appropriate behavior.

2. You acknowledge and agree that Cisco may collect personally identifiable information from
you and use such information in accordance with Cisco''s then-current privacy policy, the terms
and conditions of which are available here. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree and
acknowledge that information that you provide for your Website user profile will be accessible by
other users of the Website, and you agree that all information that you provide for the foregoing
purpose will be accurate and not misleading. In the event you are a current student in a
Networking Academy program, note that any personally identifiable information you provide as
part of your use of this site will be accessible to other users irrespective of the information you
may provide as a current student. Therefore, the possibility exists that your disclosure of
personally identifiable information to this Website may supersede the default disclosure policies
selected by your individual Academy.

3. In making available this Website (including without limitation its discussion boards, real-time
chat, and all other interactive features), it is Cisco''s intention to maintain an informative and
valuable service that meets the needs of its users and is free from verbal abuse, violations of
privacy, disruptive or malicious conduct, and other harmful activities. By using this Website, you
agree to refrain from engaging in any of the foregoing conduct. Cisco prohibits posting of
threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene,pornographic, or other material that would violate any
law. You agree not to post any information that may infringe upon or violate any third party''s
intellectual property rights, including, without limitation, copyright, patent,trademark, trade secret,
moral right, proprietary rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or contain obscenity, pornography,
or be otherwise inflammatory, or which contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs,
cancel bots, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally
interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data, or personal information, or
which is materially false, misleading, or inaccurate.

4. Except for discussion boards that expressly permit Networking Academy participants to
discuss potential career opportunities, this Website is not to be used as a solicitation for business.

5. We welcome your participation in our online communities. However, in so participating,

please be aware that you are solely responsible for your content or other information you
distribute, post, include, link to, or otherwise upload to the Website. You agree that Cisco is only
acting as a venue and that Cisco has no liability related to the content of any message board
posting or any other user-created content on its Website, whether or not arising under the laws of
copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. By its very nature, the information available in
these message boards is changed frequently, may be offensive, harmful, or inaccurate and in
some cases may be mislabeled or deceptively labeled. We do not make any representation or
warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of such information
nor do we undertake to update or correct such information. Without limiting the foregoing, you
agree and acknowledge that Cisco is not responsible for any job placement, career development,
or other professional opportunities that may be presented, discussed, or referred to on the
Website. You should independently confirm all information that you obtain from this Website
before relying on any such information.

6. Messages posted to open message boards are not pre-screened. Cisco, or third party
organizations whom Cisco may appoint to moderate a particular message board, each reserves
the right, although it does not have the obligation, to monitor content throughout the Website (or a
specific message board, as applicable) and to remove any content which Cisco or such third
party organization, in its sole discretion, determines to be harmful, offensive, defamatory, libelous,
illegally threatening or harassing or which contains obscenity, pornography or is otherwise
inflammatory; which may create liability for Cisco; or is unrelated to the intention of the community
or otherwise in violation of Cisco's policies of acceptable use.

7. You should assume that everything hosted on this Website, with the exception of individual
user postings, is the intellectual property of Cisco or our suppliers. All rights to this information are
reserved. All reproduction, total or partial, of the contents of this Website by any means
whatsoever and without the written consent of Cisco is illegal.

8. Cisco, in its sole discretion, may immediately suspend or terminate your access to the
Website if you violate or otherwise fail to comply with the terms and conditions of this Acceptable
Use Policy. Upon any suspension or termination, Cisco may retain or delete, in its sole discretion,
any information or content that you previously provided to the Website. At any time in its sole
discretion, Cisco may cease to provide and maintain the Website, including the message boards
contained therein.

9. Cisco and its suppliers provide this Website "as is" and without any warranties. CISCO AND
ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS,
IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-
INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT. CISCO DOES NOT GUARANTEE
CONTINUOUS OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE OR TO ANY PART
THEREOF, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES THAT THE WEBSITE
WILL BE ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS IN THE WEBSITE WILL BE CORRECTED, OR
OTHERWISE RELATING TO THE OPERATION, FUNCTIONALITY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE
WEBSITE.

10. IN NO EVENT WILL CISCO OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY
CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY LOST DATA AND LOST PROFITS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE
WEBSITE OR ANY ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE, EVEN
IF CISCO OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. CISCO AND ITS SUPPLIERS' TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY IN CONNECTION
WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OR THE USE OF THIS WEB SITE, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE, WILL NOT EXCEED FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (U.S.
$50.00). THE EXISTENCE OF MORE THAN ONE CLAIM WILL NOT SERVE TO INCREASE
SUCH FOREGOING DOLLAR LIMITATION.

11. These terms of use shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of California
without giving effect to any conflicts of law principles that may require the application of the law of
a different state or country. Any action or proceeding arising from or relating to these terms and
conditions must be brought in a federal court in the Northern District of California or in state court
in San Francisco County, California, and you irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction and venue of
any such court in any such action or proceeding. If any provision of these terms of use is held to
be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be
enforced. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to
act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.

12. These terms of use may be amended by Cisco in its sole discretion by posting the amended
terms of use at this URL and affected message boards by posting notice of amendment no less
than five (5) days prior to the effective date of such amendment. You agree that any continued
use of this Website after the effective date of such amendment shall signify your express
acceptance of any such change.

13. The services offered under these use policies are provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 W.
Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134. Our e-mail address is academy-alumni@cisco.netacad.net.
You may have this same information e-mailed to you by sending a letter to the address above
with your e-mail address and a request for the information.

14. By submitting your content to the Website (including, but not limited to sending messages
through the Website or posting messages to message boards, and chat rooms), you hereby grant
to Cisco a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and fully-paid, freely transferable,
sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise all copyright, publicity, and moral rights, in
any media now known or not currently known, with respect to any content you provide to us in
any public space on this Website or in any e-mail that you provide to us through this Website.

15. We will treat any feedback or suggestions you provide us as non-confidential and non-
proprietary. Thus, please do not submit confidential or proprietary information to us unless we
have mutually agreed in writing otherwise.

16. Cisco's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement on the Website is Dan
Scheinman, who can be reached as follows:

Copyright Agent
c/o Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
By phone: (408) 526-8252
By facsimile: (408) 526-7019
By e-mail: dscheinm@cisco.com

If you believe that your work has been infringed, please provide Cisco's Copyright Agent with
the following information:

a. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of
the copyright interest;
b. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
c. A description of where the material that you claim is located on the Service, or other
appropriate information sufficient for its location and removal;
d. Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
e. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized
by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
f. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is
accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's
behalf.
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