AIM® Pages Guidelines

You must be 13 years of age or older to participate in AIM Pages.

Take Control of Your Privacy

  1. Take advantage of existing privacy settings in AIM Mail and Instant Messenger to control who can and cannot communicate with you.
  2. Use AIM Pages Settings if you wish to remove yourself from AIM Pages People Galleries.

    At the main page for AIMPages.com, click on "Edit Page" at the top of the page. Then click the "Profile Settings" tab and click the "Reset my Profile" button at the bottom of the screen. Resetting the profile will remove published content on the AIM Page. A blank template for creating a page will remain.
    Note: You will have to remove any entered buddies and pictures manually.

You agree that you will not use AIM Pages to distribute or facilitate distribution of any content -- including text, communications, software, images, sounds, data or other information -- that:

Language

  • contains vulgarities directed toward another individual or group.
  • harasses or advocates harassment of another person.
  • contains explicit, crude or graphic descriptions or accounts of sexual acts including sexual language of a violent or threatening nature.
  • is intended to victimize, harass, degrade or intimidate an individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. Hate speech is unacceptable.

Graphics

  • contains images of nudity and/or sexual acts.
  • solicits the exchange, sale or purchase of sexually explicit images.

Minors

  • attempts to exploit a minor (under 18 years old).
  • solicits personal information from a minor (under 18 years old). Personal information includes full name, home address, home telephone number or other identifying "offline" information.

Advertising

  • advertises or sells prohibited items, including: lotteries, ammunition, firearms, fireworks, tobacco, alcohol, adult products/services and explosive materials.

Violence

  • depicts violence in a gratuitous manner, without journalistic or artistic merit, primarily intended to agitate or cause emotional distress.
  • condones, threatens and/or instigates physical harm towards others, or oneself.

Illegal Activity

  • is illegal or incites illegal activity such as physical and/or death threats, or providing instruction on how to conduct or participate in illegal activity.

Copyright and Trademark Infringements

  • infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary right of any party.
  • violates any applicable law or regulation.
  • contains any content for which you do not have the right to grant any and all necessary rights and licenses.

Network Abuse

  • uses our network in manner that causes undue strain (spam), is destructive (viruses), or compromises the integrity of our consumer audiences (Trojans, password/billing solicitation).
  • removes or hides the banner ad at top of any AIM Pages profile or page.

Links

  • links to content not allowed under these guidelines.

Other

  • otherwise uses the service in a manner deemed inappropriate by AOL.

Violations of these guidelines may result in actions, without warning, that range from removal of content, to suspension of access, to deletion of your AOL and/or AIM Screen Name and all related material, to appropriate legal action.

AOL reserves the right to make changes to these guidelines at any time, and you agree to be bound by any such changed guidelines. Please check these guidelines periodically for any changes.

For additional information, please refer to the AOL Network Terms of Service.

Determination of whether there has been a violation of the AIM Pages Guidelines, and whether any action is warranted, is made by AOL LLC at its sole discretion.