+
+Unlawful activities and related support activities are considered off-topic, as are
+inappropriate advertising, heavy media file trading, proprietary game software modding,
+warez, porn and various forms of antisocial behaviour, including (but not limited to)
+political, racial, ethnic, religious or gender-related invective.
+
+In accordance with UK law freenode has no tolerance for any activity that could be construed
+as:
+
+* incitement to racial hatred
+* incitement to religious hatred
+
+or any other behaviour meant to deliberately put upon a person harassment, alarm or distress.
+We do NOT endorse or encourage discrimination on the grounds of e.g. race, religion gender or sexual preference and
+operate with a zero-tolerance policy for libel and defamation.
+
+While we believe in the concept of freedom of thought and freedom of expression, freenode does not
+operate on the basis of absolute freedom of speech, and we impose limitations, e.g. on "hate speech".
+
+We expect all members of the community to be respectful of one another and of the privacy of others,
+and we reserve the right to terminate anyone's access to our services at our discretion.
+
+While we encourage registered groups (projects) and channel owners to adopt our channel guidelines and catalyst guidelines, projects are free to set their own policies for their namespaces as long as such policies do not contravene network policy, and many projects choose to extend their code of conduct and similar agreements to their presence on freenode. In the event that a project makes the decision to ban a user from their channel(s), we ask that such bans be respected and note that ban evasion may result in a network ban.
+
+Please note that the examples above are examples only and do not constitute an exhaustive list. In line with our policies, philosophies and guidelines we will review each case individually and the response and actions may differ from case to case.
+
+Unlawful Activity
+=============
+freenode cannot condone or support behaviour which is clearly unlawful. While we do not have the resources
+to closely monitor the thousands of channels on the network, volunteers are required by policy to pass on credible
+information, provided by you as a user of the freenode project, about any unlawful activities. This is true whether you
+are talking about your own activities or those of someone else. Please be aware that we have this responsibility.
+
+freenode and financial transactions
+=============
+
+We appreciate that end users may sometimes wish to reward a project or a project
+contributor after having had a positive support experience in a project channel
+and it is great when this results in a donation to the project in question or
+perhaps a micropayment to the contributor concerned or the purchase of an item
+from the contributor's wish list.
+
+Nevertheless, we would urge our users to carry out their own due diligence
+before entering into financial transactions of any kind and stress that any
+financial transactions entered into on the freenode network must be undertaken
+entirely at the user's risk and freenode accepts no liability for any losses
+incurred as the result of such transactions.