BandNerd.org Guidelines

Thursday, 19 August 2004

BandNerd.com and BandNerd.org take your right to privacy seriously, and wants you to feel comfortable using this web site.     1. Registration Registration for an account on this site requires only a valid e-mail address and a user name that has not been chosen already. You are not required to provide any other information if you do not want to. Please be aware that depending on choices you make during the registration process, the user name you choose, the e-mail address you provide and any other information you enter may possibly be displayed on this web site intentionally or unintentionally (subsequent to a successful act of intrusion by a third party). After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable. You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another person's account for any reason.  We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft. 2. Use of data Efforts will be made to prevent your data being made available to third parties unless (i) your consent is obtained, such as when you choose to opt-in or opt-out for the sharing of data; (ii) it is found that your use of this site violates the site editor's policy, terms of service, or other usage guidelines and it is deemed reasonably necessary by the site editor to protect the site editor's legal rights and/or property. Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement. 3. Cookies Like many web sites, this web site's software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your Web browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out and to m,aintain your message board bookmarks. The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer. 4. Minors Persons who are aged sixteen or younger may not become members of this site without permission of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s). 5. Editing or deleting your account information You are provided with the ability to edit the information stored for your user account information during registration. You can request that your user account be deleted; to do so, please contact the site administrator. Content or other data that you may have provided, and that is not stored within your user account, such as articles published, may continue to remain on the site at the site editor's discretion, even after your user account is deleted. 6. Changes to this policy Changes may be made to this policy from time to time. You will be notified of substantial changes to this policy either by through the posting of a prominent announcement on the site, and/or by a mail message sent to the e-mail address you have provided, which is stored within your user settings. 7. NO GUARANTEES While this privacy policy states standards for maintenance of data, and while every posible effort will be made to meet the said standards, the site editor is not in a position to guarantee compliance with these standards. There may be factors beyond the site editor's control that may result in disclosure of data. Consquently, the site editor offers no warranties or representations as regards maintenance or non-disclosure of data. Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this forum to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this forum, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this forum's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this forum immediately. The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well. 8 Your Responsibilities You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum. You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum. 9. Contact information If you have any questions about this policy or about this web site, please feel free to contact the site administratorThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . This policy does not apply to other entities that are not owned or controlled by the site editor, nor does it apply to persons that are not employees or agents of the site editor, or that are not under the site editor's control.

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