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www.pride-lands.org Terms of use/Board Rules
If you want to use the services provided with www.pride-lands.org, you must agree to the following terms of use / rules:
I. Accepting the terms of use
By clicking the “I accept” button at the bottom of this form you agree with the terms of use of “Savannah” and the other boards hosted at www.pride-lands.org and you promise to stick to this rules. If you violate against these terms, the administrator might ban you either temporarily or permanently from using these services.
So please read these rules carefully.
II. Registration
- 2.1 Charges
Registration and use of our services is free of charges. You don’t have to pay us for using this site.
- 2.2 The registration form
In order to join the discussions at www.pride-lands.org, you must fill out the registration form first. Please fill in your Username, e-mail address and password.
- 2.3 Your username
You can chose your own username, but please pick a name that doesn’t violate against existing laws (e.g. Copyright) or is inappropriate for minors. For example you must not use a brand’s name as a nickname (e. g. Kellogg’s), the name of a product or a registered trademark.
The owner of this site will change your username if you don’t stick to these rules.
In case you don’t like your name anymore, you can change it after your registration, of course. Just write a short message to the administrator and you can have your name changed. Please keep in mind that you can change your name once in 2 months.
- 2.4 Your e-mail address and activating your account
You have to enter a valid e-mail address in the registration form. Otherwise, your account cannot be activated. After a successful registration an activation message will be sent to the e-mail address you provided. In this e-mail you’ll find an activation link you have to follow. After you’ve activated your account, you’ll be able to post. We have to do it this way, so that nobody else can abuse your e-mail address.
- 2.5 Your personal password
You can chose your password yourself. It usually is a combination of numbers and/or letters and it’s used for your “login” on www.pride-lands.org.
To prevent malpractice please keep the following in mind:
* Keep your password secret and save! As soon as somebody else knows it and posts messages with your username, you’re responsible for that.
* The owner, the administrator or the team will never ask you for your password. So don’t give your password to anyone else!
* Don’t use words for a password, that can easily be guessed.
- 2.6 Hijacked Accounts
In case somebody hijacks your account, please inform the administrator immediately.
- 2.7 Double accounts
Doubleaccounts are several accounts of one user. You can use them for roleplaying purposes or for personal reasons. It’s recommended that you inform the administrator before you create a second account. You’re not allowed to use double accounts to harm or trick other users.
- 2.8 Bans and Blocks
There's no right to participate in this forum.
That means that in some cases the team may ban a user. For example when our terms of use are not adhered to or a user violates against existing rights or morality.
III. Protection of minors
- 3.1 Registration
Of course also minors may join us at www.pride-lands.org!
However, you have to be able to read these terms of use, observe them and of course your parents have to agree with you visiting this site. So ask you parents before registering, please.
- 3.2 Personal information
The e-mail address you entered is only visible to the board’s owner by default. However, you can chose displaying it to other users as well in your profile.
Additional information like name, address, etc. are optional. But please keep in mind that once entered strangers are able to read them as well. So please be careful with your personal information.
- 3.3 Postings made by adults
Are your parents okay with you visiting www.pride-lands.org, please keep also in mind that some postings are made by adults and that the owner has little influence on what they write.
- 3.4 Protection of minors within topics and postings
The postings and topics must be appropriate for minors and/or youths. That means that postings and topics must not harm them or influence them in a bad way.
IV. Postings and Topics
- 4.1 Contents of postings and topics
Postings or whole topics must not insult or offend another registered member in any way and the contents should not violate against the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.
This includes linked sites, provided in a posting.
- 4.2 Protection of minors
The contents of postings and topics must not harm children’s developement. That means you are not allowed to post offensive material, to glorify violence or to discriminate against somebody.
- 4.3 Moderator’s actions
The team can edit, seperate, move, close or delete topics or postings in some cases.
- 4.4 Restoration
The team can also restore certain messages, even if a user deleted it. This is necessary, if the topic’s flow has to be preserved.
- 4.5 Posting’s quality
Please be considerable about one-word or one-sentence postings, because then a good discussion is not possible. Keep in mind: the more you write about a certain topic, the more others will be able to reply. That’s also very important for our roleplays.
- 4.6 Double postings
Try not to "double post" (replying to your own postings) if you can help it.
- 4.7 SPAM
SPAM or board games are only allowed in special areas. To find out where these areas are, just read the board’s description.
- 4.8 Stick to the topic!
Postings which diverge from the topic of a certain thread are not allowed. Make also sure to open a new thread in the proper forum, please.
- 4.9 Conflicts with other members
Don't use the board to discuss personal problems with other members. Do this via ICQ, PN, e-mail or something like that.
V. Profile pictures (Avatars) and signatures
- 5.1 What are avatars and signatures?
Avatars are user pictures that are displayed next to your postings. The user can upload an own avatar or choose one of the existing ones. Signatures are displayed under a user's posting and can be designed by the user.
The user is responsible for his or her avatar and his or her signature.
- 5.2 Permitted images
Please don’t use images that violate against laws like the copyright. Don’t just use images you found on the internet without asking the artist for permission first. Screenshots are not allowed, too.
- 5.3 Administrative actions
Team members don't check the avatars for these violations, because it would be impossible to check thousands of pictures.
However, if there is any doubt about the legality of an avatar or even a complaint has been made, the team will delete the user's avatar.
- 5.4 Protection of minors with avatars und signatures
Just like postings an threads, avatars and signatures must be suitable for children or teenagers.
- 5.5 Avatar’s size
The avatar's size can be 150*200 Pixel with a total data size of 25000 bytes (~25 KB)
You can use your own image or pick one of the default ones. But don’t use the standard avatars outside of www.pride-lands.org without asking for permission first. Thank you.
- 5.6 Signature’s size
It can contain pictures, text, advertisement and can be up to 250 letters.
The signature's picture should not be larger than 42 kilobytes and not exceed the height of 200 pixels and a width of 600 pixels. Some people don’t have a fast internet connection and then these pictures would take too long to load otherwise.
The team can deactivate a certain signature, if it doesn't fit in the regulations given above.
- 5.7 Be considerate of others
Please take care that your avatar or your signature doesn’t distract other members from reading. For example if you use animations don’t use to many blinking pictures or effects in it.
VI. Technical Availability
- 6.1 Exceptional Downtimes
The administrators try very hard to keep the board accessible at any time. However, sometimes we have to shut the board down because of maintenance work or because of a hardware failure. In this case we thank you for your understanding.
- 6.2 Restoration and Backups
In case of a downtime, we try to bring the board back as soon as possible. But there are some times we have to restore an old backup and in this case some postings can be missing. So please save postings that are important to you yourself, so we can restore them if needed.
- 6.3 Be considerate of others
As a visiting member you should try to use not too many resources or to harm other websites or users. For example: Don’t use too big pictures in your signature or don’t attack this website with viruses or other malware.
VII. Protection of your privacy
- 7.1 Data privacy
The user agrees that he or she won't use, reproduce, copy or sell the content or pictures of the board without permission.
- 7.2 Saving of IP-addresses with date and timestamp
In order to protect www.pride-lands.org from misuse, you agree that your postings along with your IP-address are stored for further reference.
- 7.3 Privacy
www.pride-lands.org cares for your privacy. Therefore we won’t pass your personal information like Name, IP-address, e-mail address, etc. on to a third party without your permission.
- 7.4 Exceptions
However, in case we are obliged by law or court to pass on your personal data like you IP-address, we will do this.
- 7.5 End your membership at www.pride-lands.org
You can easily cancel or end your membership here by letting an administrator or somebody of our team know. If you want us to, we’ll delete all your personal data (username, e-mail address, archived IP-addresses, avatar and signature). Contents of topics that don’t have anything to do with your person won’t be deleted.
- 7.6 Changes of these terms of use
Since laws may change very fast, we might change this terms of use as well. The team will try to inform you about these changes. In case you’re not okay with them you can cancel your membership at www.pride-lands.org anytime.
VIII. Legal effect of this document
In case a part or a sentence of these terms of use/ board rules no longer accord to current law, the other parts of this document remains still valid.
Applicable law is the law of the federal republic of Germany (FRG)
Update: 03.10.2007
Terms of use apply to all boards hosted at www.pride-lands.org.
Update: 03.03.2008
Since the board's software saves the user's IP-address along with every posting "VIII. Privacy" has been adjusted.
Update: 14.04.2009
Terms of use updated, sorted and I added the passages about the protection of minors.
Update: 23.11.2010
Added "2.8 Bans & Blocks". It's natural that the staff can ban certain users in case our terms of use are not adhered to.