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Bike Club Belgium (BCBe) - Forums Terms of Use / User Guides

PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ THIS IN FULL
Updated 27/11/2008

There are a few things you need to be aware of before you sign up, or if you have already signed up, things you need to remember and agree to. If you do not agree, log off now please.
Whenever you are participating in this community, please keep in mind that we strive to create a fun, friendly and inviting atmosphere. So, please have fun and enjoy the forums! Freedom of speech rights do not extend to privately owned websites, such as this one. These guidelines detail the types of behaviour and activities that are allowed here. If a user violates our guidelines and shows a disregard for them, our members and our community, they run the risk of losing their account. We reserve the right to deactivate any account and to edit or remove any content without warning. These guidelines are subject to change at any time without notice.
The guidelines have been split into 3 sections for ease of reference.
Do you have a question about our User Guidelines or anything else? Do you have a suggestion? Do you want to offer some feedback? Or are you experiencing some trouble with the site? No matter what it is, please do not hesitate to contact admin and we will be glad to help in any way that we can.


1. Forum Posting Guidelines / Terms of Use

1/1.Please post in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting.

1/2 Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic.

1/3 Please keep replies to each thread on topic. Please think carefully when posting a new topic, which section of the forum is best suited and when replying to other members posts / topics, whilst jokes and banter are great and encouraged on the forum, it is important to keep your replies on topic .. its easy to do both in the same post ....

1/4 IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that you understand many people read the messages on this forum without registering, some of these people may not be of a friendly nature, and could use information posted, against you, PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL about the personal information you post about yourself. If you wish to exchange personal details, such as phone numbers, with other members of the forum we suggest you contact the user directly via secure email, or you can use the private messaging feature, or better still take it off-line at a meet.
Please DO NOT post personal, real life information such as home addresses and home phone numbers on the open Forum.

1/5 Respect is the name of the game. You must respect your fellow members. Please refrain from inflammatory and defamatory comments as well as flaming, taunting and general disrespect. Do not simply put down the opinion or advice given by others. If you don't agree with it, say why - respectfully. Don't just tell them they're wrong. When an opinion based discussion is being had, do not state things like "there is no argument" as if your opinion is the only one or the only one that matters. Remember, this is not a debate club. This is a friendly discussion community. Allow people to have their opinion. No one is to act as some sort of opinion judge, responding to each one to say whether they agree with it or not or whether or not it is a valid, well thought out opinion. Members should also remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated.

1/6 Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in this document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of Admin or moderator team. Please Do Not respond to such topics yourself.

1/7 Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Posts containing Advertising (other than private adds in the for sale section) and Usernames that advertise other products, companies or sites are not permitted without prior agreement.

1/8 Political and religious discussions are not allowed on this website. If it is believed that the end result of a discussion will be political or religious, the post may be removed. Likewise, strong political and religious sentiments should be kept out of profiles, signatures and other content.

1/9 The above forum rules, where applicable, also apply to private messaging.

1/10 Members are welcome to use the test area for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. (subject to previous points on decency, etc.). Users should not post to the test forum just to increase their post counts

2. Copyright / Terms of use

2/1 Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to re-printing material without permission will be removed.

2/2 Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.

2/3 Posting of images that are hosted by BCBe, on other sites, is not permitted. Not only are images hosted here copyright, this increases bandwidth use to serve other sites which costs additional money.

2/4 We know that people will have to leave our community (of their own free will or otherwise) from time to time and to that end, we do not delete accounts, posts or other content posted on our community. All content is granted to us with perpetual electronic publishing rights because any content posted on this community becomes a part of the community, even if you no longer are. You may request an item to be removed at any time, but we will decide when and if to remove content from our community. If you wish to no longer be identified with our community, we will be glad to close your account and alter your profile information to remove all identifying characteristics. After account closure, you will no longer be able to participate in this community and this action is not reversible.

3. General / Terms of use

3/1 Considering the real-time nature of this site, it is not possible for us to review messages or confirm the validity of information posted. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the contents of posted messages and are not responsible for any messages posted. We do not warrant the accuracy of completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the content of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of this web site or any entity associated with this site.

3/2 The moderating, support and other admin teams reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Admin and support members and not users.

3/3 Automated account creation, participation and content scraping is not permitted.

3/4 Moderators and the administrator have the final say on anything. If you have a problem, you may make a complaint to them directly and not publicly on the website. We are not perfect and if you feel that we have made a mistake, please privately contact Admin or a moderator and we will review the situation.

3/5 Any member found to be hacking or attempting to hack the site along with attempts to cause disruption through DoS (Denial of Service) attacks or similar will be immediately banned and reported to the internet Crime Department for investigation; and where possible we reserve the right to pursue legal action/prosecution. The IP address of each post is recorded in order to enforce these terms and we reserve the right to report to your ISP

3/6 From time to time we may amend these terms of use for BCBe, when we do you will be presented with the updated information. Any activity that continually goes against these terms of use may result in access to the site being suspended or withdrawn. We maintain the right to remove and deny access to any user at any time without prior discussion or agreement if we deem it necessary, as access to BCBe is not a right.

3/7 BCBe is moderated by a team of people who use the site, are fellow bike enthusiasts and do all of this in their own time. They are here for all of you, please respect our efforts are for the good of BCBe and that we are only human.

That's the blurb out of the way. Thanks for taking the time to read this and enjoy our community.
BCBe Admin.