These terms govern your use of the discussion forum at forum.256foundation.org, operated by the 256 Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity registered in Tennessee, USA. By using the forum, you agree to these terms.

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Your Permission to Use the Forum

Subject to these terms, the 256 Foundation gives you permission to use the forum. You must agree to these terms to use the forum.

Conditions for Use

Your permission to use the forum is subject to the following conditions:

  • You must be at least thirteen years old.
  • You may no longer use the forum if the 256 Foundation contacts you directly to say that you may not.
  • You must use the forum in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards below.

Acceptable Use

  • You may not break the law using the forum.
  • You may not use or attempt to use another person’s account without their permission.
  • You may not buy, sell, or trade in usernames or other unique identifiers on the forum.
  • You may not send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the forum, or use the forum to gather addresses or personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.
  • You may not falsely imply that you are affiliated with or endorsed by the 256 Foundation.
  • You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the forum.
  • You may not place unreasonable load on the forum’s infrastructure through excessive or abusive requests.
  • You may not impersonate others through the forum.
  • You may not encourage or help anyone else to violate these terms.
  • Automated access to the forum — such as bots, crawlers, scrapers, or scripts — is permitted for legitimate purposes including indexing for public search engines, building open-source tools, research, and archiving. Automated access that places unreasonable load on the forum or is used for spam or harassment is not permitted.

Content Standards

  • You may not submit content that is illegal, offensive, harassing, abusive, or hateful.
  • You may not submit content that violates the law, infringes intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
  • You may not submit content containing malicious code, such as viruses or spyware.
  • You may not submit content as a placeholder to hold a username or identifier.
  • You may not disclose information you do not have the right to share, such as others’ confidential or personal information.

Enforcement

The 256 Foundation may investigate and act on violations of these terms. The 256 Foundation reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. The 256 Foundation may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms. If you believe someone has submitted content in violation of these terms, contact us immediately.

Your Account

To use some features of the forum, you must create an account. To do so, you must provide a valid email address and keep it up to date.

You may close your account at any time by emailing admin@256foundation.org.

You are responsible for all activity taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you close your account or notify us that it has been compromised. Notify us immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. Use a secure password and keep it private.

The 256 Foundation may restrict, suspend, or close your account if it reasonably believes you have violated these terms.

Your Content

Nothing in these terms gives the 256 Foundation any ownership rights in content you submit — including posts, account information, or other material. Nothing in these terms gives you ownership rights in the 256 Foundation’s intellectual property.

You remain solely responsible for content you submit. You agree not to imply that your content is sponsored or approved by the 256 Foundation.

Content you submit belongs to you, and you decide what permissions to grant others. At a minimum, you license the 256 Foundation to share your content with other forum users — including the ability to copy, publish, and analyze it for that purpose. This license ends when all copies of your content are removed from the 256 Foundation’s systems and backups.

Other licenses you apply to your content — such as open-source or Creative Commons licenses — may continue after removal. You agree that the 256 Foundation will not be liable for others’ violations of the terms on which you licensed your content.

Your Responsibility

You agree to indemnify the 256 Foundation from legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account. Both parties agree to notify the other of any such claims as soon as possible.

You agree to allow the 256 Foundation to control the investigation, defense, and settlement of any legal claims for which you would have to indemnify the 256 Foundation, and to cooperate with those efforts. The 256 Foundation will not agree to any settlement that admits fault for you or imposes obligations on you without your prior agreement.

Disclaimers

You accept all risk of using the forum and its content. As far as the law allows, the 256 Foundation and its contributors provide the forum as is, without any warranty whatsoever. The forum may link to or integrate services run by others. The 256 Foundation makes no warranty about those external services or their content.

Limits on Liability

The 256 Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization operating this forum as a community resource. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the 256 Foundation and its officers, directors, employees, and volunteers shall not be liable to you for any damages — direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary — arising from your use of or inability to use the forum, or from any content on the forum.

Feedback

The 256 Foundation welcomes feedback and suggestions. See the Contact section below. You agree that the 256 Foundation may act on any feedback you provide without obligation to notify you, get your permission, or compensate you. Do not submit feedback you consider confidential or proprietary.

Termination

Either you or the 256 Foundation may end this agreement at any time. When the agreement ends, your permission to use the forum ends. The following provisions survive termination: Your Content, Feedback, Your Responsibility, Disclaimers, Limits on Liability, and General Terms.

Disputes

Tennessee law will govern any dispute related to these terms or your use of the forum. You and the 256 Foundation agree to seek injunctions related to these terms only in state or federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, and neither party will object to jurisdiction, forum, or venue in those courts.

General Terms

If any provision of these terms is unenforceable as written, it should be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or removed if it cannot be. You may not assign your agreement with the 256 Foundation. The 256 Foundation may assign this agreement to any affiliate or successor organization. These terms represent the entire agreement between you and the 256 Foundation regarding use of the forum and replace any prior agreements.

Contact

You may contact the 256 Foundation at admin@256foundation.org.

The 256 Foundation may contact you using the email address associated with your forum account, or by posting a notice on the forum.

Changes

The 256 Foundation last updated these terms on April 21, 2026, and may update them again. All updates will be posted to the forum. For updates containing substantial changes, the 256 Foundation will email you if you have an account with a valid email address on file. You must agree to updated terms to continue using the forum.