Welcome to the web site for F5, Inc. (“F5”). F5’s web site is comprised of various web pages, collectively the “web site”. You may use the F5 web site subject to the following notices, terms, and conditions, as well as F5’s Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms of Use by this reference. As these terms and conditions affect your legal rights, please read them carefully. Your use of the web site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the web site.
In addition, when you purchase any F5 product or F5 service, you will be subject to the rules, guidelines, policies, terms, and conditions applicable to such purchase.
Use Of the Site
You are granted a limited license to use the content and software on this site for information about F5, its products and services. You may also use this site to purchase F5 products and services. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, or republication of the content on this site is strictly prohibited except as expressly permitted in writing by F5.
Copyright Notice
All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, and software, including the compilation thereof (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly), is the property of F5, Inc., or its content and software suppliers, except as may be stated otherwise, and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.
Copyright and Trademarks
All contents of the web site are Copyright 2014 by F5 and/or its suppliers. The trademarks listed on the F5 Trademarks Webpage are registered trademarks or trademarks of F5, Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. F5’s trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service except as permitted in writing by F5. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
Digital Services Act
Certain F5 services constitute “intermediary services” under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (“Digital Services Act”). For the purpose of communications with Member States’ authorities, the European Commission, and the European Board for Digital Services, F5 has appointed as our single point of contact:
Dr. Felix Wittern
Fieldfisher Tech Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Amerigo Vespucci Platz 1
20457 Hamburg
Germany
f5.dpo@fieldfisher.com
Information on the policies and procedures are set forth for each qualifying service (see below for information on DevCentral).
Notices and Procedures for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications of claimed copyright infringement under United States copyright law should be sent to Service Provider’s Designated Agent. ALL INQUIRIES NOT RELEVANT TO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE.
F5’s Designated Agent for receiving claims of copyright infringement is:
F5 Legal Department
F5, Inc.
801 Fifth Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-1663
Phone: 206-272-5555
Email: DMCA@F5.com
Notifications of copyright infringement must include:
(i) Your physical or electronic signature as the owner, or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit F5 to locate the material.
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit F5 to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and email address.
(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Disclaimer
THE MATERIALS AND SERVICES MADE AVAILABLE AT AND THROUGH THIS WEB SITE ARE PROVIDED BY F5 ON AN “AS IS” BASIS. F5 MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR GUARANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE, ITS CONTENT, OR ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES DESCRIBED OR OFFERED BY THIS SITE. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, F5 DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND INFORMATIONAL CONTENT, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, OR THAT THE WEB SITE CONTENT IS RELIABLE, ACCURATE, OR TIMELY. F5 WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE WEB SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEB SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEB SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE WEB SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF F5 OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. WHILE THIS WEB SITE MAY PROVIDE LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES, F5 DOES NOT CONTROL OR ENDORSE ANY THIRD-PARTY SITE AND DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS FUNCTIONALITY OR CONTENT. THESE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS ARE MADE IN ADDITION TO THOSE MADE IN AND APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS PAGES OR SECTIONS OF THIS SITE.
Links to Third Party Sites
The web site may contain links to other web sites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of F5 and F5 is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. F5 is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. F5 is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by F5 of the site or any association with its operators.
Risk of Loss
All purchases of F5 software, hardware and services using this web site are made pursuant to one or more of F5’s policies located at Policies | F5. The risk of loss and title for hardware passes to you upon our delivery to the carrier.
Applicable Law
This web site is created and controlled by F5 in the State of Washington, United States. You consent to accept these terms under the laws of the State of Washington, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.
Modifications of These Terms of Use
F5 reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the web site is offered at any time, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the web site. Your continued use of the web site indicates your agreement to the modified terms, conditions, and notices.
No Unlawful or Prohibited Use
As a condition of your use of the web site, you warrant to F5 that you will not use the web site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the web site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the web site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the web site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the web site.
DevCentral and NGINX Community Forum Specific Terms
The DevCentral and NGINX Community Forum web sites may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
- Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
- Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.
- Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer.
- Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages.
- Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.
- Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
- Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
- Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent.
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
- Use another’s account on the web site.
- Buy, sell, or otherwise trade in usernames or other unique identifiers on the web site.
- Automate access to the web site, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser.
- Use the web site to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.
- Falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by F5.
- Hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the web site on other webpages.
- Remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the web site.
- Show any part of the web site on other websites with