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Terms of Service
Twinstuff Terms of Service
Last Updated: June 2008
Considering the real-time nature of the Twinstuff community, it is impossible for us to review every message 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 vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of Twinstuff. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email or by reporting the post.
Although Twinstuff does not and cannot review the content of all messages posted and is not responsible for the content of any of these messages, Twinstuff.com reserves the right to delete or edit any message for any or no reason whatsoever. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this BB, the makers of the bulletin board software, and their agents with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s).
1. Some General Rules
· We reserve the right to remove, at any time and without notice, any content from Twinstuff. If we determine that removal is necessary, we will make every effort to do so in a timely manner. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.
· You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this community to post 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 violating of any law. You also may not post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by Twinstuff.
· Messages posted on the Twinstuff message boards may not be reprinted or reposted on other web sites without prior written permission from the author(s) involved. If you are aware that messages you posted here on Twinstuff have been reprinted without your prior written permission, please contact the Twinstuff site administrators. Any Twinstuff community members who knowingly re-post information from this web site on other web sites without first receiving permission from the post's author(s) may have their posting privileges revoked from this community.
· Refrain from using inappropriate language, including language that may look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate profanity, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs).
· Your subscription to the Twinstuff is intended for your individual and personal use only.
· These message boards also allow individuals to undertake private messages, also known as PM's. We request that any PM's conducted among two or more Twinstuff members remain private in nature, and are not to be posted publicly on our community. Posting information shared in a PM on our public forums is also a violation of our site's Terms of Service. PMs are also subject to our TOS and can be reported by a member.
· Any violations of these terms may result in penalties against your user account (1stwarning-results in a private warning issued by an admin or moderator, 2ndwarning-results in placement in mod queue, and/or suspension or banning from this community. We also reserve the right to immediately terminate or suspend anyone who fails to abide by these Terms of Service.
2. Protection of Your Password; Unauthorized Access
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You are encouraged to select a hard-to-guess password and not re-use that password on any other sites where it may be read by the owners or administrators of that site. Accessing or attempting to access any user account not belonging to you without permission is prohibited. Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for a permanent ban of all accounts from the site.
3. Registration Requirements
In order to post messages on our message boards, view boards with level restrictions, and use other advanced services, you must register using a valid e-mail address and follow all required registration confirmation procedures. No posting privileges will be granted until the account is fully activated.
4. Community Rules
The following conduct is not allowed on our message boards, chat rooms, user profiles, and private messages:
Offensive Material -Because of the diversity of our community, posted messages must also not belittle the beliefs of other users, either personally directed towards another user or in a general nature. We ask that you use consideration for the feelings, experiences, situations and even national, cultural, religious and ethnic differences of the other members of this community before posting comments that may be considered offensive to others who may not share your views. This includes, but is not limited to using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language; using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult; using threatening, harassing, and defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language; and posting, requesting, or otherwise sharing material considered pornographic, obscene, graphic, or hate speech. This includes, but is not limited to: name-calling; direct insults and orders; insinuations; or insults towards family .
Vulgar language or substitutes for such - Twinstuff is programmed with a list of words that are considered vulgar under any context, and these words are not allowed to be used under any circumstances. Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. The only acceptable method of posting one of these vulgar words is to completely obscure it, making it impossible to determine what the word is without context. Additionally, certain words are prohibited from being used in topic titles and user information pages; bypassing the censor to post those words where they are restricted is also disallowed. Taking advantage of any limits in the Twinstuff's language filtering capabilities is not allowed. Any limits in such filters shall not be taken as permission to bypass rules regarding vulgar language.
Spam/Advertising - Messages that clearly advertise a service or product are inappropriate in this community, unless you have been granted permission by the Administrators. This includes, but is not limited to: unsolicited commercial web site advertisements; "Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes; or any referrer-ID based sites. Users are allowed to include their web site address in a signature, request comments on their personal site in a social setting, or provide an interesting or relevant link to another site.
Disruptive behavior - behavior that disrupts Twinstuff for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to:excessively lengthy signatures, "bumping" multiple older topics (posting in them well after the last post); quoting other members across forums (ex. quoting someone from a thread in the Parent's Club and posting it in the Den); posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics is considered disruptive behavior. Disruptive behavior also includes, but is not limited to: Flooding a board or chat room with multiple disruptive topics or messages; invading another board (flooding a board as a group with multiple topics or messages); instigating, participating in, or retaliating in an invasion of a message board or any other online service; announcing or inciting a "war" or any conflict with the regular members of another board.
Impersonation - Impersonating other users by creating and/or using a user account with a name clearly intended to impersonate, mock, or antagonize another user, or otherwise falsely claiming to be another member is strictly prohibited. This also includes posting false information as fact.
Harassment/Stalking/Privacy - Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on Twinstuff, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is strictly prohibited. Posting contact or other private information of any person is also prohibited.
5. Multiple Accounts
It is not acceptable for a user to maintain multiple accounts. We can and do track all accounts used on the same computer(s).If these Terms of Service are violated severely enough to warrant the termination of one account, all known accounts held by that user and/or all accounts using the same computer(s) may also be banned at the administrators' discretion. Any users who receive a 3rd strike suspension from this community must request and subsequently receive written permission from site administrators to once again participate in the community. Users may not re-register and use an alternate user account after receipt of a 2nd or 3rd strike without prior written consent from site administrators. Any individuals found using an alternative account after receipt of a 2nd or 3rd strikes will have all duplicate accounts permanently closed and be banned from the site.
6. Violations and Penalties
Topics and messages that violate these Terms of Service may be deleted from the boards and additional penalties may be applied at our moderators' discretion. Re-posting deleted violations (yours or those of others) is also considered a violation.
Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of our administrators and designated moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of our administrators and our designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by our administrators and moderators.
Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the boards from your IP address or your entire ISP. In such event, we also reserve the right to contact your ISP concerning your activities.
We at this community 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. Please also note that any required information submitted by new users at time of registration may also be shared by site administrators with board moderators in the day-to-day operation of this community. We also maintain the right to pursue legal action against you and/or disclose your identity or other information gained by your participation in our community to appropriate legal authorities to prosecute you for any violation of the law.
Last Updated: June 2008
Considering the real-time nature of the Twinstuff community, it is impossible for us to review every message 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 vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of Twinstuff. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email or by reporting the post.
Although Twinstuff does not and cannot review the content of all messages posted and is not responsible for the content of any of these messages, Twinstuff.com reserves the right to delete or edit any message for any or no reason whatsoever. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this BB, the makers of the bulletin board software, and their agents with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s).
1. Some General Rules
· We reserve the right to remove, at any time and without notice, any content from Twinstuff. If we determine that removal is necessary, we will make every effort to do so in a timely manner. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.
· You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this community to post 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 violating of any law. You also may not post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by Twinstuff.
· Messages posted on the Twinstuff message boards may not be reprinted or reposted on other web sites without prior written permission from the author(s) involved. If you are aware that messages you posted here on Twinstuff have been reprinted without your prior written permission, please contact the Twinstuff site administrators. Any Twinstuff community members who knowingly re-post information from this web site on other web sites without first receiving permission from the post's author(s) may have their posting privileges revoked from this community.
· Refrain from using inappropriate language, including language that may look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate profanity, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs).
· Your subscription to the Twinstuff is intended for your individual and personal use only.
· These message boards also allow individuals to undertake private messages, also known as PM's. We request that any PM's conducted among two or more Twinstuff members remain private in nature, and are not to be posted publicly on our community. Posting information shared in a PM on our public forums is also a violation of our site's Terms of Service. PMs are also subject to our TOS and can be reported by a member.
· Any violations of these terms may result in penalties against your user account (1stwarning-results in a private warning issued by an admin or moderator, 2ndwarning-results in placement in mod queue, and/or suspension or banning from this community. We also reserve the right to immediately terminate or suspend anyone who fails to abide by these Terms of Service.
2. Protection of Your Password; Unauthorized Access
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You are encouraged to select a hard-to-guess password and not re-use that password on any other sites where it may be read by the owners or administrators of that site. Accessing or attempting to access any user account not belonging to you without permission is prohibited. Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for a permanent ban of all accounts from the site.
3. Registration Requirements
In order to post messages on our message boards, view boards with level restrictions, and use other advanced services, you must register using a valid e-mail address and follow all required registration confirmation procedures. No posting privileges will be granted until the account is fully activated.
4. Community Rules
The following conduct is not allowed on our message boards, chat rooms, user profiles, and private messages:
Offensive Material -Because of the diversity of our community, posted messages must also not belittle the beliefs of other users, either personally directed towards another user or in a general nature. We ask that you use consideration for the feelings, experiences, situations and even national, cultural, religious and ethnic differences of the other members of this community before posting comments that may be considered offensive to others who may not share your views. This includes, but is not limited to using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language; using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult; using threatening, harassing, and defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language; and posting, requesting, or otherwise sharing material considered pornographic, obscene, graphic, or hate speech. This includes, but is not limited to: name-calling; direct insults and orders; insinuations; or insults towards family .
Vulgar language or substitutes for such - Twinstuff is programmed with a list of words that are considered vulgar under any context, and these words are not allowed to be used under any circumstances. Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. The only acceptable method of posting one of these vulgar words is to completely obscure it, making it impossible to determine what the word is without context. Additionally, certain words are prohibited from being used in topic titles and user information pages; bypassing the censor to post those words where they are restricted is also disallowed. Taking advantage of any limits in the Twinstuff's language filtering capabilities is not allowed. Any limits in such filters shall not be taken as permission to bypass rules regarding vulgar language.
Spam/Advertising - Messages that clearly advertise a service or product are inappropriate in this community, unless you have been granted permission by the Administrators. This includes, but is not limited to: unsolicited commercial web site advertisements; "Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes; or any referrer-ID based sites. Users are allowed to include their web site address in a signature, request comments on their personal site in a social setting, or provide an interesting or relevant link to another site.
Disruptive behavior - behavior that disrupts Twinstuff for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to:excessively lengthy signatures, "bumping" multiple older topics (posting in them well after the last post); quoting other members across forums (ex. quoting someone from a thread in the Parent's Club and posting it in the Den); posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics is considered disruptive behavior. Disruptive behavior also includes, but is not limited to: Flooding a board or chat room with multiple disruptive topics or messages; invading another board (flooding a board as a group with multiple topics or messages); instigating, participating in, or retaliating in an invasion of a message board or any other online service; announcing or inciting a "war" or any conflict with the regular members of another board.
Impersonation - Impersonating other users by creating and/or using a user account with a name clearly intended to impersonate, mock, or antagonize another user, or otherwise falsely claiming to be another member is strictly prohibited. This also includes posting false information as fact.
Harassment/Stalking/Privacy - Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on Twinstuff, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is strictly prohibited. Posting contact or other private information of any person is also prohibited.
5. Multiple Accounts
It is not acceptable for a user to maintain multiple accounts. We can and do track all accounts used on the same computer(s).If these Terms of Service are violated severely enough to warrant the termination of one account, all known accounts held by that user and/or all accounts using the same computer(s) may also be banned at the administrators' discretion. Any users who receive a 3rd strike suspension from this community must request and subsequently receive written permission from site administrators to once again participate in the community. Users may not re-register and use an alternate user account after receipt of a 2nd or 3rd strike without prior written consent from site administrators. Any individuals found using an alternative account after receipt of a 2nd or 3rd strikes will have all duplicate accounts permanently closed and be banned from the site.
6. Violations and Penalties
Topics and messages that violate these Terms of Service may be deleted from the boards and additional penalties may be applied at our moderators' discretion. Re-posting deleted violations (yours or those of others) is also considered a violation.
Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of our administrators and designated moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of our administrators and our designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by our administrators and moderators.
Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the boards from your IP address or your entire ISP. In such event, we also reserve the right to contact your ISP concerning your activities.
We at this community 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. Please also note that any required information submitted by new users at time of registration may also be shared by site administrators with board moderators in the day-to-day operation of this community. We also maintain the right to pursue legal action against you and/or disclose your identity or other information gained by your participation in our community to appropriate legal authorities to prosecute you for any violation of the law.