Post by aquagirl on Apr 15, 2011 22:40:04 GMT -5
There is no charge for joining this Forum! This User Agreement describes the terms and conditions on which the Bucks County Aquarium Society, hereafter known as BCAS, owner of BCAS, offers you to be a participant in the BCAS forum.
Please read carefully the following Term and Conditions. By participating in our website as a member you will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the said Terms and Conditions and to faithfully comply with the same. However, if you have any questions about this Agreement, please contact us at felix@bcasonline.com.
1. Registration
Information required upon registration for each participant on BCAS Forum must be accurate and complete. You must update such information as needed in order to ensure that the information remains to be accurate and complete.
2. Use of Member ID and Password
BCAS forum assumes, that all activities made using your Member ID and password are authorized by you.
3. Posting of Messages
Upon registration on BCAS Forum, BCAS allows you to post a message (including text, data, photos, graphics, music, sounds and videos) in the BCAS forum in a number of forms, such as your opinion about any of the topics in the BCAS forum and comments to other people's messages. (the "messages").
4. User Conduct
You agree not to provide any Messages, Avatars, Titles, Signatures to the BCAS forum that:
infringes any third-party intellectual property or publicity/privacy rights, is knowingly false, and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violation of any law or regulation, contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information, and promotes piracy.
As each forum is specifically tailored to address certain topics, you are responsible for initiating new threads in the correct forum. You should stay on-topic at all times. The appropriate content for each forum is described on the BCAS forum under each board category.
"Impersonation," or assuming the character of another member by copying his user name and manner of writing, is not allowed.
"Impersonation," or assuming the character of another member by copying his user name and manner of writing, is strictly prohibited.
"Multiple User Names," or assuming the character of more than one member by using more than one user name and manner of writing, is not allowed.
"Flaming," or lashing out at other participants or displaying repeated dissatisfaction of BCAS Administration and corrective actions, is strictly forbidden. Proper etiquette is required for participation in the BCAS forum.
"Spamming," or sending unsolicited electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings, in any form, is strictly forbidden.
"Trolling," or posting insulting or deliberately divisive threads/replies for the purpose of (1) harvesting retaliatory insults and flames, or (2) throwing off the balance of the forum, is also disallowed.
You agree not to disrupt the normal flow of dialogs or cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Service are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges.
You agree that you will not incorporate any word in your name, Message ID or custom user title or Avatar, that is defamatory, obscene or profane, or which violates any trademark, service mark, or other proprietary/intellectual property rights of any third party, including, without limitation, that of BCAS.
5. Content Filtering
BCAS forum reserves the right to edit, delete, or prune any and all messages which, in its sole opinion, violates any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, or is viewed in our judgment as inappropriate at the time of submittal or at anytime thereafter.
BCAS forum may elect, at its sole discretion, to monitor some, all, or no areas of BCAS forum for adherence to these terms and conditions or BCAS policies and guidelines.
Moderators of BCAS Forum control individual boards. Questions about a particular board should be directed to the respective forum Moderator, if no Moderator is assigned to a respective board please contact the BCAS forum Administrator.
Any user who feels that a message is objectionable may request that a BCAS Forum Administrator delete said message by PM to an Administrator or email through felix@bcasonline.com. Upon receipt of such a request, BCAS Forum will determine, in its sole opinion, if such deletion is necessary. If deemed necessary, BCAS Forum will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable period.
BCAS Forum does not endorse or recommend any of the opinions or ideas contributed by its users. However, BCAS Forum permits others to make judgments about your messages.
BCAS Forum is not responsible for any and all messages expressed in the BCAS forum. BCAS does not attempt to control or validate any comments or recommendations provided by the participants and is not responsible for any inaccuracies in the messages. Therefore, you bear the risk associated with, the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the messages.
Information contained in the BCAS forum, including, but not limited to those relating to law or medicine or other fields, is not intended to be a substitute for the advice or opinion of your own lawyer or physician or professional adviser. You agree not to rely solely on any of the advice or opinion expressed. Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall BCAS Forum be liable for any reliance on any such information, nor shall BCAS Forum be liable for any direct, incidental, special, consequential, indirect or punitive damages that result from the use of, or inability to use, the information in BCAS forum.
BCAS Forum does not endorse or recommend any posts that encourage the shipping of invasive species (plant or animal) and prohibits the use or said use of illegal activates.
BCAS forum will not allow any posts that incorporate politics or religion in any form in the forum. This includes but is not limited to words and/or insinuations in avatars, posts, and/or signatures. BCAS Forum will make every effort to remove any such avatars, posts, and/or signatures that does such with editing and/or deleting as deemed necessary.
BCAS Forum will not allow nudity in any form in the forums. This includes but is not limited to avatars, words and/or insinuations in avatars, posts, and/or signatures. BCAS Forum will make every effort to remove any such avatars, posts, and/or signatures that does such with editing and/or deleting as deemed necessary.
6. User Privacy
BCAS forum collects information during the registration process to operate the site ("Registration Information"). It collects non-personally identifiable information (often referred to as demographic information) such as: country, region or city, zip or postal code, gender, birth date and occupation. You may update your Registration Information any time by clicking the "Settings" link for your account after you have logged in.
Your Registration Information is used only for demographic statistics. BCAS forum keeps all of your Personal Information private and does not share it with any third parties. BCAS will not disclose your Personal Information unless acting under a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of BCAS forum; (3) enforce the User Agreement; or (4) act to protect the interests of its members or others.
BCAS forum will not send you any unsolicited information, including e-mail, unless you choose otherwise. BCAS forum may also send periodic member letters to announce important service changes, new features, and technical issue updates.
If at any time you believe that BCAS forums has not adhered to these principles, please notify us by e-mail at felix@bcasonline.com and we will use all reasonable efforts to promptly determine and correct the problem. If you have questions about this policy, please e-mail us at felix@bcasonline.com.
7. Parental Supervision
At the time of registration, it is required that users check whether they are under 13 or 13 and older at time of registration truthfully. BCAS forum will not be held accountable for users who answer this question untruthfully. BCAS forum encourages parents to monitor their children who are under 13 years of age. While content is moderated to filter objectionable posts, some topics may still not be suitable for children.
8. Limitation of Use
BCAS forum reserves the right to limit the use of BCAS forum to any individual or group at any time.
9. No Warranty
BCAS disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or availability of information or material in the BCAS forum.
BCAS disclaims any responsibility for the deletion, failure to store, mis delivery, or untimely delivery of messages.
BCAS forum disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from downloading or accessing any information or material through the BCAS forum.
The BCAS Forum web site and services are provided "as is," and BCAS and its co-brand partners expressly disclaim all warranties or conditions of any kind (whether express, implied or statutory), including without limitation the implied warranties of title, non-infringement, and fitness for a particular purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, BCAS forum does not promise or warrant to you that any aspect of the web site and system will work properly or will be available continuously.
10. No Liability
In no event shall BCAS forum be liable to any party for any loss or damage, including but not limited to lost revenues or profits or special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages (howsoever arising, including negligence) arising out of or in connection with the BCAS forum website, its services or this Agreement.
The BCAS Forum Team....
Please read carefully the following Term and Conditions. By participating in our website as a member you will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the said Terms and Conditions and to faithfully comply with the same. However, if you have any questions about this Agreement, please contact us at felix@bcasonline.com.
1. Registration
Information required upon registration for each participant on BCAS Forum must be accurate and complete. You must update such information as needed in order to ensure that the information remains to be accurate and complete.
2. Use of Member ID and Password
BCAS forum assumes, that all activities made using your Member ID and password are authorized by you.
3. Posting of Messages
Upon registration on BCAS Forum, BCAS allows you to post a message (including text, data, photos, graphics, music, sounds and videos) in the BCAS forum in a number of forms, such as your opinion about any of the topics in the BCAS forum and comments to other people's messages. (the "messages").
4. User Conduct
You agree not to provide any Messages, Avatars, Titles, Signatures to the BCAS forum that:
infringes any third-party intellectual property or publicity/privacy rights, is knowingly false, and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violation of any law or regulation, contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information, and promotes piracy.
As each forum is specifically tailored to address certain topics, you are responsible for initiating new threads in the correct forum. You should stay on-topic at all times. The appropriate content for each forum is described on the BCAS forum under each board category.
"Impersonation," or assuming the character of another member by copying his user name and manner of writing, is not allowed.
"Impersonation," or assuming the character of another member by copying his user name and manner of writing, is strictly prohibited.
"Multiple User Names," or assuming the character of more than one member by using more than one user name and manner of writing, is not allowed.
"Flaming," or lashing out at other participants or displaying repeated dissatisfaction of BCAS Administration and corrective actions, is strictly forbidden. Proper etiquette is required for participation in the BCAS forum.
"Spamming," or sending unsolicited electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings, in any form, is strictly forbidden.
"Trolling," or posting insulting or deliberately divisive threads/replies for the purpose of (1) harvesting retaliatory insults and flames, or (2) throwing off the balance of the forum, is also disallowed.
You agree not to disrupt the normal flow of dialogs or cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Service are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges.
You agree that you will not incorporate any word in your name, Message ID or custom user title or Avatar, that is defamatory, obscene or profane, or which violates any trademark, service mark, or other proprietary/intellectual property rights of any third party, including, without limitation, that of BCAS.
5. Content Filtering
BCAS forum reserves the right to edit, delete, or prune any and all messages which, in its sole opinion, violates any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, or is viewed in our judgment as inappropriate at the time of submittal or at anytime thereafter.
BCAS forum may elect, at its sole discretion, to monitor some, all, or no areas of BCAS forum for adherence to these terms and conditions or BCAS policies and guidelines.
Moderators of BCAS Forum control individual boards. Questions about a particular board should be directed to the respective forum Moderator, if no Moderator is assigned to a respective board please contact the BCAS forum Administrator.
Any user who feels that a message is objectionable may request that a BCAS Forum Administrator delete said message by PM to an Administrator or email through felix@bcasonline.com. Upon receipt of such a request, BCAS Forum will determine, in its sole opinion, if such deletion is necessary. If deemed necessary, BCAS Forum will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable period.
BCAS Forum does not endorse or recommend any of the opinions or ideas contributed by its users. However, BCAS Forum permits others to make judgments about your messages.
BCAS Forum is not responsible for any and all messages expressed in the BCAS forum. BCAS does not attempt to control or validate any comments or recommendations provided by the participants and is not responsible for any inaccuracies in the messages. Therefore, you bear the risk associated with, the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the messages.
Information contained in the BCAS forum, including, but not limited to those relating to law or medicine or other fields, is not intended to be a substitute for the advice or opinion of your own lawyer or physician or professional adviser. You agree not to rely solely on any of the advice or opinion expressed. Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall BCAS Forum be liable for any reliance on any such information, nor shall BCAS Forum be liable for any direct, incidental, special, consequential, indirect or punitive damages that result from the use of, or inability to use, the information in BCAS forum.
BCAS Forum does not endorse or recommend any posts that encourage the shipping of invasive species (plant or animal) and prohibits the use or said use of illegal activates.
BCAS forum will not allow any posts that incorporate politics or religion in any form in the forum. This includes but is not limited to words and/or insinuations in avatars, posts, and/or signatures. BCAS Forum will make every effort to remove any such avatars, posts, and/or signatures that does such with editing and/or deleting as deemed necessary.
BCAS Forum will not allow nudity in any form in the forums. This includes but is not limited to avatars, words and/or insinuations in avatars, posts, and/or signatures. BCAS Forum will make every effort to remove any such avatars, posts, and/or signatures that does such with editing and/or deleting as deemed necessary.
6. User Privacy
BCAS forum collects information during the registration process to operate the site ("Registration Information"). It collects non-personally identifiable information (often referred to as demographic information) such as: country, region or city, zip or postal code, gender, birth date and occupation. You may update your Registration Information any time by clicking the "Settings" link for your account after you have logged in.
Your Registration Information is used only for demographic statistics. BCAS forum keeps all of your Personal Information private and does not share it with any third parties. BCAS will not disclose your Personal Information unless acting under a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of BCAS forum; (3) enforce the User Agreement; or (4) act to protect the interests of its members or others.
BCAS forum will not send you any unsolicited information, including e-mail, unless you choose otherwise. BCAS forum may also send periodic member letters to announce important service changes, new features, and technical issue updates.
If at any time you believe that BCAS forums has not adhered to these principles, please notify us by e-mail at felix@bcasonline.com and we will use all reasonable efforts to promptly determine and correct the problem. If you have questions about this policy, please e-mail us at felix@bcasonline.com.
7. Parental Supervision
At the time of registration, it is required that users check whether they are under 13 or 13 and older at time of registration truthfully. BCAS forum will not be held accountable for users who answer this question untruthfully. BCAS forum encourages parents to monitor their children who are under 13 years of age. While content is moderated to filter objectionable posts, some topics may still not be suitable for children.
8. Limitation of Use
BCAS forum reserves the right to limit the use of BCAS forum to any individual or group at any time.
9. No Warranty
BCAS disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or availability of information or material in the BCAS forum.
BCAS disclaims any responsibility for the deletion, failure to store, mis delivery, or untimely delivery of messages.
BCAS forum disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from downloading or accessing any information or material through the BCAS forum.
The BCAS Forum web site and services are provided "as is," and BCAS and its co-brand partners expressly disclaim all warranties or conditions of any kind (whether express, implied or statutory), including without limitation the implied warranties of title, non-infringement, and fitness for a particular purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, BCAS forum does not promise or warrant to you that any aspect of the web site and system will work properly or will be available continuously.
10. No Liability
In no event shall BCAS forum be liable to any party for any loss or damage, including but not limited to lost revenues or profits or special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages (howsoever arising, including negligence) arising out of or in connection with the BCAS forum website, its services or this Agreement.
The BCAS Forum Team....