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AfricaTravelForum.com rules and guidelines |
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You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this board to post any material or links to any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this site. Although the AfricaTravelForum.com does not and cannot review the messages posted and is not responsible for the content of any of these messages, we at this Boxer Board reserve the right to delete, edit, move or close any message or to remove any member for any or no reason whatsoever. A username is personal and can not be given or transferred. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the moderators nor owners of AfricaTravelForum.com forums or Jelsoft Enterprises Limited (developers of this forum) will be held responsible for the content of any message. We at AfricaTravelForum.com also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you. IPs of all posters are logged and kept for that purpose. Members who do not respect the rules and guidelines are unsubscribed without warning as they have read and agreed to these conditions when registering to the site. Discussion is welcome - flaming and personal attacks are not permitted. Members should not use the board to generate arguments. Arguments that get out of hand will be stopped by the moderators and members can be banned at any time by the moderators if there continues to be a problem. Enforcement of the rules and guidelines on AfricaTravelForum.com are the sole responsibility of the moderators. If you feel a member has violated the rules, express your concerns to the moderators, not to the member whose behaviour seems inappropriate to you and never to the entire board. The moderators can be contacted by clicking the 'report post' button or by posting in the Contact the Moderators forum (note that this is a fully moderated forum and your thread requires approval before it will be displayed). Please note that the following topics or behaviours are inappropriate on this site: * Advertisements: we do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to members here that advertise any products or services, whether travel related or not. Advertising or looking for dogs for stud or brood, for puppies for sale etc are forbidden. * Crosspostings: do not post the same thread more than once on a discussion forum or on many forums. Duplicate threads are very annoying for members, especially for those whose time is limited. Duplicate threads will be deleted and reposting the same message after the threads were closed or deleted could result in the loss of your AfricaTravelForum.com membership. * Chain letters & pyramid schemes: enough said!! * References to other Africa Travel boards/lists/communities/forums or travel sites is forbidden. Only site that refer to travel information are allowed by this we mean sites that do not sell African travel related products. * Solicitations: this includes, but is not limited to: advertising or promotion of other companies; sale of travel products related or unrelated to Africa;. * You may not ask for donations or otherwise promote fundraising activities on this site. 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The forums rules and guidelines apply to the pictures galleries when you post comments below the photos or when you write a description of the photo you want to upload. Upload your own photos. Do not upload images you take from other web sites. Please post photos in the appropriate categories and never in "members". Any photo uploaded to the members gallery or wrong category will be deleted. All photos you upload in the appropriate category will also appear in your own gallery. All photos uploaded are not manually approved. Photos that are not good enough, badly cropped (white frame visible because the pictures were not resized when scanned) or too small will be rejected. The best size for uploading the pictures is 640x480 pixels in .jpg format and must be less than 100 kb; the minimum size is 200x200 pixels. Allocated space per user is 2mb (+- 20 pics @ 640x480), should more space be required please contact us. Filenames must begin with a letter and should be short. Please visit the Help section before uploading photos for more information and instructions. We reserve the right to delete comments/descriptions, to rename or to reorganize categories, or to remove photos for any reason without notice. Most often this is done to enhance the operation of our site, or to make room for new materials. If a user uploads something of questionable legality or taste, it will be removed. Users agree to accept all liability for the legality of content they submit and will not hold AfricaTravelForum.com responsible for any damages that result. We strongly recommend that you add a watermark to your images as people do steal (the nature of the internet), if unsure how to do this please contact us and will guide you through the process. Always keep a backup of the pictures you upload as there is no guarantee of permanence. Please note: The rules & guidelines are subject to change without notice. Please check the News forum regularly so you will be informed of rule changes as they occur. By requesting membership, you agree to abide by the rules as set forth above and to adhere to any further rules or guidelines given by moderators. If you are not comfortable with any of the terms described above, please do NOT register. If you agree to abide by the rules and want to join, please click here to register. Happy Posting! |