The document outlines Posterous's terms of service and privacy policy regarding allowable content, user age requirements, data collection and use, and intellectual property. Users retain full copyright of original content but grant Posterous a license to distribute it. Users are responsible for ensuring they have rights to any submitted content and must not submit copyrighted content they do not have permission to use.

1. POSTEROUS Important Information in the TERMS OF SERVICE and PRIVACY POLICY

2. Allowable Content and Use Posterousis an easy way to share your personal thoughts, photos, and home videos. We want to keep it a safe, fun, friendly place, and that means a few rules. You may NOT: Post unlawful, harmful, or obscene content. Forge headers or otherwise impersonate someone. Post content you do not have the right to transmit. Post content that infringes on trademarks or copyrights. Post viruses or malicious scripts. Post spam or link bait. Stalk or collect data about others. Crawl content without permission from Posterous. Use Posterous for file sharing. Link to files on Posterous without a link to the original post.

3. AGE… Who Our Services Are For The use of Posterous is available to all persons age 13 and over who agree by these terms of service. It may not be used for purposes not in accordance to local law.

4. PRIVACY The Information We Collect Any information gathered by Posterous is used to customize the Posterous experience, and is not shared or sold to any third parties, except as expressly provided for in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Posterous reserves the right to view private sites and private posts for the purposes of fixing issues, and to look for copyrighted or other inappropriate material. This will only be done as necessary and these posts will never be shared by anyone else.

5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Posterous respects your copyright. You retain full copyright of any original content that you send us. By posting to Posterous, you're granting us a license to distribute your content on this site.

6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY User submissions Materials, including but not limited to text, software, data, images, graphics, photos, audio, audiovisual, videos, and content of any nature provided by Posterous (“Content”) or by other users of Posterous (“User Submissions”) to Posterous is owned by the party contributing such content. As a user of Posterous, you are solely responsible for your own submissions. By transmitting your submissions to the website or otherwise through or using Posterous you represent that you have all rights and authorizations necessary to post, submit, display, produce, or otherwise transmit, such content. You agree that you will not submit material that is or contains the intellectual property of a third party that you do not have permission to use.

7. You shall retain all of your ownership rights in your submissions; however, by submitting material to Posterousyou grant Posterous fully transferable rights to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, transmit, prepare derivative works of, display and produce the material in connection with Posterous and Posterous's business, but solely in accordance with these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. To the extent you do not have ownership rights to any of your submissions, you shall indemnify Posterous for any claim regarding Posterous’s use of your submissions. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYyour stuff… look closely