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Alphaville Disclaimer

Use of the Alphaville website is subject to the Posting Rules and the legal Terms and Conditions. All postings made by users to the site must conform with the Posting Rules. The information published on Alphaville is intended to be for your general information only and does not constitute any form of advice, recommendation or endorsement by FT. You should not reply upon its contents in making (or refraining from making) any particular investment or other decision. FT does not regularly monitor the comments posted by users of the website and is not responsible for the content of user postings. To report unlawful, offensive or abusive content, please email report.abuse@ft.com or select the “Report” link shown by comments.

Alphaville Posting Rules

By using the Alphaville website, you agree to the following rules that apply to any messages posted by you on the website. Please also read the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy, which you also agree to and which govern your use of the Alphaville website.

Message Content

You may not:

• post, link to or otherwise publish any messages containing any form of advertising or promotion for goods and services or any chain messages or “spam” or to carry out “splogging” or similar;
• post, link to or otherwise publish any messages with recommendations to buy or refrain from buying a particular security or which contain confidential information of another party or which otherwise have the purpose of affecting the price or value of any security;
• post, link to or otherwise publish any messages that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, obscene, infringe copyright or other rights of third parties or which contain any other form of illegal content; * disguise the origin of any messages;
• impersonate any person or entity (including FT employees or Alphaville guests or hosts) or misrepresent any affiliation with any person or entity;
• post or otherwise publish any messages unrelated to the site or a topic being discussed on the site; * post or transmit any messages that contain software viruses, files or code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of Alphaville or any computer software or equipment;
• collect or store other users’ personal data;
• restrict or inhibit any other user from using the site.

FT reserves the right to both take down any content from the Alphaville website that violates any of the Posting Rules and to contact you by e-mail with regard to your use of the website.

Who Owns the Content

By posting a message on the Alphaville site you are not surrendering your copyright in that message. You are, however, granting FT a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to reproduce, modify, translate, make available, distribute and sub-license the message content in whole or in part and in any form. This may include personal information such as your user name and alias and your expressions of opinion.

Responsibility for Content

You are solely responsible for the content of any messages that you post or blog. By posting messages, you agree to indemnify FT from all claims, costs and expenses (including legal expenses) arising out of any messages posted or published by you that breach the Posting Rules. FT cannot control the content of messages submitted by users. It is not possible for FT to fully and effectively monitor when messages may infringe the rights of a third party. If you believe that a message infringes any legal rights that you may have, you should notify us by emailing report.abuse@ft.com or select the “Report Abuse” link shown by comments The content on the Alphaville site is only for your general information and use and is not intended to address your particular financial, investment or other requirements. In particular, the content does not constitute any form of advice, recommendation, representation, endorsement or arrangement by FT and is not intended to be relied upon by users in making (or refraining from making) any specific investment or other decisions. Appropriate independent advice should be obtained before making any such decision. Please read carefully Section 5 of our general Terms and Conditions for full details regarding FT’s liability to you for your use of Alphaville.