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 Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:51 am Post subject: Terms of service |
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Overview
In order to provide this free service we have a few common sense rules and service guidelines. All forum administrators are responsible for understanding the terms of service (TOS) and adhering to them.
Violations of the TOS will be grounds for immediate removal of a forum.
Terms of Service Summary
We cater to open family-friendly forums. Forums should be primarily English-language unless there has been prior agreement with ForumWise.
Forums should not contain any form of spam or excessive profanity and may not focus on any illegal or offensive topics nor violence, hate, hacking, warez, porn, nudity, drugs, gambling, weapons, alcohol or tobacco.
No ad units or ad popups may be added to a forum. Also forums may not be used in conjunction with autosurf or traffic packages.
A valid email account must be maintained for your forum at all times.
Abandoned forums may be removed.
Terms of Service Details
All forums should be family-friendly in nature with no illegal, offensive, "adult", nudity or vice-related subject matter.
All public forums should be primarily English.
We require that forums make a majority of their forum posts public as we support open communities. (Note this does not apply to forums with the premium Unlimited Private Forums option.)
We require that forum administrators take steps to prevent their boards from being used to spam or promote any type of spam, as well as forbid use of spam to promote forums. We strongly recommend that forums are configured to require registration for posting, and that account activation utilizes the email activation and security code features that are built into the software. Also note that threads designed to artifically inflate post counts are also forbidden.
Administrators are responsible for compliance with the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act of 2000 (COPPA), which requires individuals under 13 to provide a release form from their parents. (Forum software provides support for COPPA during registration.)
Excessive profanity or swearing is not allowed.
Boards may not discuss topics promoting violence, hate, intolerance, hacking, cracking, warez, pornography, "adult" themes, illegal drugs, legal drugs, gambling, guns, knives or other weapons, alcohol, tobacco or smoking.
No external advertising may be added to any forum including PPC or other advertising units or any kind of advertising popup.
Forums must not be used as the target of "traffic blast" packages or in autosurf networks, or with any other system that artificially boosts or creates automatic pageviews.
A valid email account must be maintained for your forum at all times. This is the email set in your forum configuration.
Forums must retain a certain level of activity. Forums that have had no new posts or no administrator login in the past 30 days will be considered abandoned and may be removed.
Forums may include advertisements, although we will never add popups or popunders. We offer optional premium ad-free packages.
Also, administrators must not do anything to impede access to the public areas of their forum by any ad-network or search-engine robots including Googlebot, Mediabot, Slurp and MSNbot. Banning such bots may result in removal of your forum.
Individuals who harass, deface or damage a ForumWise forum may be banned from the system.
If you brake any rules you will be punished |
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