Agilent Community Terms and Conditions

Thank you for taking a moment to review the Community Guidelines. You agree to all of the guidelines posted and linked here when using the Agilent Community. These guidelines are here to help you be a valuable contributor to the community and make sure the community is a positive resource for all members.

By utilizing this site, you agree to our full legal Terms and Conditions, which can be found below.

Guiding Principle

Think of the Agilent Community like a scientific conference or other professional gathering. Please act professionally, engage in informal but professional conversations like you would at a talk, poster session, or in the hall at a scientific meeting.  While participants strive to be useful, conversations held here are NOT formal channels of support and are not guaranteed by Agilent in any way. Please regard Agilent like a conference host (such as ASMS, the American Chemical Society, or Pittcon), which is not responsible for discussions in the meeting hall.

Participation Guidelines

1 - Keep it clean, keep it professional. Always interact with other users respectfully, as you would in any professional setting. We will remove or edit any post or reply that includes derogatory, abusive, offensive, obscene, violent or inappropriate content.

2 - Be careful. Agilent is not responsible for recommendations or materials provided on this site. Portions of this site include user-generated content and advice. You'll find an abundance of helpful content here, but be aware that your situation, configuration, or implementation will be different from others'. Some advice you find here may even be wrong. Apply the same good judgment here that you would apply to information anywhere on the Internet.

3 - Stay on topic. The discussion forums here focus on scientific, application-oriented, and technical topics related to Agilent products and services. When creating a post or reply, please ensure it is relevant to the question, discussion, article, forum, etc. This ensures the site will be most useful for everyone. If your post contains anything unrelated to the topic, it may be removed, moved, or branched to a new line of discussion by the moderators.

4 - Realize you may be misinterpreted. Quickly-written text is often ambiguous and may appear ruder than the same words spoken to a person standing in front of you. Without facial expressions, vocal inflection, or body language, text is a flimsy medium. Be careful of the words you choose - what you intended might not be what others perceive, and what you read might not be what the author intended.

5 - Help the global audience. Many people in this community are not native English speakers. If you use culture-specific references, sarcasm, slang, simile, metaphor, or emotionally-charged language, you may easily be misunderstood.

6 - Be honest. Be sincere in your community participation. False, inaccurate, or otherwise misleading information is not helpful, and could even be damaging.

7 - Share your knowledge, but know your limits. If you know the answer to someone's question, please answer. If you don't know it completely, please state what you know and what you don't know about the question. If you don't know enough to make a contribution yourself, you can help best by asking someone more knowledgeable to contribute an answer themselves.

8 - Debate is welcome if it is civil. Open discussions, including differences of opinion, are vital for a healthy community, but it is essential that conversations be conducted in a mature and civil way. Please help ensure every post makes a positive contribution to the community. The community moderators will monitor conversations for incivility and resolve problematic situations, perhaps by deactivating registrants, if necessary.

9 - Ensure your contributions are readable. Please avoid writing in ALL CAPS and using excessive #hashtags, symbols, and special characters. These can make your contribution difficult to read and may also be confusing to users who are unfamiliar with their meanings.

10 - Use Agilent official support channels when appropriate. The community is first and foremost a peer-based community and not a direct support channel.

11 - Submit only your own, original content. The community must not be used to distribute unauthorized copies of any copyrighted materials, including images, articles, data libraries, and software.Help us maintain the community's reputation and respect the intellectual property rights of others by only submitting content you have personally written or else properly attributed. See the full Terms and Conditions document for further details.

12 - Respect the privacy of others. Do not share other people's contact information without their explicit permission. It's up to you, and only you, to decide whether or not to share personal information about yourself or your business. When you do choose to share personal information about yourself, such as your name, contact details, your location, or information on your job role and title, Agilent processes this information in accordance with our Privacy Statement and in furtherance of our legitimate interests in hosting the Agilent Community for our customers.

13 - Help look after your community. If you notice content within the community that does not abide by these guidelines, please click the Report as abusive link to report it to our moderators. The community is here for the benefit and enjoyment of members like you, and we appreciate your help maintaining high standards that benefit everyone.

Content Moderation

1 - Messages may be edited, deleted, or moved to more applicable discussion areas. For example, Agilent Community administrators may use the “impersonate user” feature to troubleshoot and moderate content. Discussions that appear to head off-topic may be branched as new line of inquiry or removed.

2 - Community members may be banned or removed from the community at the discretion of Agilent.

3 - While Agilent does not censor members' thoughts, a post that is deemed not acceptable may be edited or removed without notice.

4 - Any content presented in the community must not be redistributed without permission from Agilent.

Thank you!

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Additional Terms

The following additional terms apply to the Agilent Community:

1- When you register with this forum, you must accurately represent yourself including your name, company affiliation and business email address. You will not impersonate any person or entity, forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any posting. You may not claim to be forum leader, moderator or host, or in any other way officially associated with this site unless granted that role by the site administrator.

2 - You will not knowingly post any information that is false, misleading or inaccurate.

3 - You will not use inappropriate language including profanity or any language that is abusive, threatening, hateful, sexually suggestive, sexually oriented, obscene or is an attack upon another.

4 - You will respect other people's right to personal privacy and will not post personal information about another person including names or contact information without their explicit consent and permission.

5 - You will post information relevant to the topic area of the forum. You will not post or upload any information that contains advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes or solicitations. You will not use these forums for the purpose of sharing or distributing viruses, licenses, registration information, software keys or other information designed to do harm or allow unlawful access to any computer or test system hardware or software, networks or other systems.

6 - You will not post copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you. You may post links to copyrighted material that is publicly available on sites and pages that the legal owners of the copyright have created in order to make the material freely available.

7 - You will not use these forums to violate any laws nor to discuss illegal activities.

8 - You will, if asked by a representative of these forums, cease posting any content or links to content deemed offensive or objectionable by the staff of the forums.

9 - Please note that content or opinions expressed by users of the Agilent Community are not necessarily those of Agilent. By using the Agilent Community you agree that Agilent is in no way responsible for the actions or comments of any users.

10 - Postings that do not meet the rules of this forum are subject to removal. You may be removed from these forums and future participation banned if you violate these rules.

11 - Agilent may remove any content at its sole discretion.

12 - Agilent may terminate access to this website at any time without cause or notice.

13 - Agilent may, in its sole discretion, disable or remove any accounts for users.

14 - You agree not to allow accessing, searching, crawling, or collecting data from the Agilent Community including by engaging in “web scraping” for: (i) the creation, training, or otherwise in connection with AI without obtaining prior explicit written consent from Agilent; (ii) the creation of derivative works of Agilent’s content; (iii) the creation of any service or product competitive to an Agilent service or product; or (iv) for other commercial purposes except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Use or with the written consent of Agilent. “Web scraping”, as used here encompasses the use of robots, spiders, scripts, services, software, or any manual or automatic tools designed for data mining or extracting content, data, or information from the Agilent Community, or any automated means of accessing or collecting such content, data, or information. “AI” as used here is a simulation of human consciousness in computers and other machines, that is built to develop systems and technologies, that can execute tasks, that otherwise would require human intelligence. It includes machine learning, natural language processing, neural networks, deep learning, and related technologies. 

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