When you connect to the TechToKnow IRC Network, you agree to the following rules. If you break any of the following rules, you may find yourself banned from the TechToKnow IRC network and all our other services. If you do not agree, simply disconnect from the network and website and do not reconnect.

Open proxies are not allowed on the TechToKnow network. When you connect to TechToKnow IRC and/or Website, your connection will be port scanned for open—and potentially insecure—proxies. This is not an attack on your computer and will only happen when you connect.

 

TechToKnow prohibits the following on its network:

  1. Harassment
    1. You may not use any text or action that harasses another user, which includes text or actions that are intended to annoy, offend, or intimidate.
    2. Do not send Private Messages, Notices, and or CTCP requests to a user without his or her permission.
    3. Do not send messages to all channels (/AMSG’s or /AME’s) that are intended to annoy or intimidate another user (or other users).
  2. Creating a Hostile Environment for Minors
    1. You may not share personal information with a minor.
    2. You may not share sexually explicit material with a minor.
  3. Evade A Ban
    1. If you are banned from a channel or the TechToKnow network, do not attempt to reconnect, not even to see if you are still banned. If you are banned and reconnect, your action is considered ban evasion. See Ban Appeals for more information.
    2. If you repeatedly evade a ban (or bans), you will be permanently banned from the TechToKnow network and your Internet Service Provider will be contacted.
  4. Spamming
    1. Spamming is strictly prohibited on TechToKnow. Spamming includes, Flooding Room(s) and/or User(s) with links to get them to go to a site.
  5. Illegal Activities of any Kind
    1. The rules of the offline world do apply to the online world, and all illegal activities are prohibited on the TechToKnow network.
    2. Illegal behavior includes, but is not limited to, the following:
      1. File sharing* of copyrighted or protected content.
      2. Distribution of child porn.
      3. Hacking or Cracking.
      4. Attempting to Exploit another user or computer.
      5. Credit Card fraud or trading.
      6. Bot Net or spam bot control channels.
  6. Non-Friendly Bots
    1. We welcome friendly bots on the TechToKnow network, providing they do NOT do the following:
      1. Enter a channel without the permission of the channel owner.
      2. Kick or ban TechToKnow IRC Staff.
      3. Flood the network or channel.
      4. Log channels for 3rd parties with out the channel owner’s permission.
      5. Advertise for 3rd parties with out the channel owner’s permission.
      6. Attempt to share or host files.
      7. Attempt to send harmful material, such as a virus or Trojan horse.
      8. Kick for ‘abusing desync’. See Eggdrop manual for more information.
  7. Infringement of Privacy or Copyright
    1. Copyright and privacy infringement are strictly prohibited. Details of users found infringing copyright will be passed to our legal team, without fail.
    2. Copyright and privacy infringement includes, but is not limited to:
      1. Unauthorized posting of channel logs to the web or other mediums.
      2. Distributing TechToKnow.net content, including but not limited to that of the website and forums, through unauthorized mediums.

Always follow the directions of TechToKnow staff. The network staff has final determination on all matters relating to the network. If a TechToKnow staff member asks you to do something and you refuse, your action does constitute a breach of these rules.

*NOTE DCC CHAT, and DCC SEND Have been blocked on TechToKnow do to abuse.

 

Privacy Policy Statement

This is the website and IRC Network of TechToKnow.

Our postal address is 
N/A
Dundee, Oregon 97115

We can be reached via e-mail at privacy@techtoknow.net
or you can reach us by telephone at (503) 376-9576

For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes the consumer's domain name and e-mail address (where possible).

We collect the domain name and e-mail address (where possible) of visitors to our Web page, the e-mail addresses of those who post messages to our bulletin board, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, the e-mail addresses of those who make postings to our chat areas, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations and Nickserv data but never password's.

The information we collect is used for internal review and is then discarded, used to improve the content of our Web page, shared with agents or contractors who assist in providing support for our internal operations, disclosed when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Website and applicable laws or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Website and With are OpenIP Registered Company's can get your ip for User ID.

With respect to cookies: We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Web page content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, writing to us at the above address.

From time to time, we make the e-mail addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your e-mail address with other companies or organizations, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above, e-mailing us at the above address, writing to us at the above address.

From time to time, we make our customer e-mail list available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your e-mail address with other companies or organizations, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above, e-mailing us at the above address, writing to us at the above address.

With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of:
http://www.adbrite.com/mb/privacy.php

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before we use your data for these new purposes to notify you of the policy change and to provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses, we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically, We also will email your IRC nick with the new updates.

Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, writing to us at the above address.

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them, unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) that we maintain about them, communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to our site (e.g., e-mails, customer inquiries), contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them .

Consumers can access this information by e-mail us at the above address, write to us at the above address, writing to us at the above address.Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, writing to us at the above address.

With respect to security: When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial or health information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site, We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number, The DMA's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at mgoldberger@the-dma.org, state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau, state or local consumer protection office, The Federal Trade Commission by phone at 202.FTC-HELP (202.382.4357) or electronically at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm.