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tuantanah
15th-July-2006, 09:39 AM
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You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.



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PHOTOSKOOL Terms of Use, Rules and Regulations



By accessing, viewing and/or using the web sites and resources currently located at WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET (http://WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET">WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET</a> and its associated subdomains (hereafter known as the "Site", and managed by a team of Moderators (hereafter known as " <a class="postlink" href="http://WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET)" ,”SFCS”,”PS”,”PhotoSchool”, "We", or "Us", as appropriate ), the user of this Site and any individual or entity on whose behalf a user accesses or uses the Site (hereafter known as "You" or "Your," as appropriate) agree to be bound by the following Terms and Conditions and to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Site after the posting of changes to these Terms and Conditions constitutes acceptance of the changes. If You do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, do not use or otherwise access the Site.



01. Courtesy and Gratiousness

Members are expected to be gratious and courtious when posting in the forum. Abusing, name-calling, personal attacks on members and/or generally trying to stir up trouble will not be tolerated. Be kind to newbies as they may not know the general flow of the forums. Members who repeatedly violate this rule will be kicked out and banned.



03. Off-Topic (OT) posts

Please direct all posts not related to Photography to the Community Chat section. OT posts will be deleted or moved without noticed if posted in any other serious forums.

NOTE: posts/threads which are:

- religious

- political

- racist

- provocation

- porno

-

in nature and offensive will be removed.



04. Spam

We will not tolerate posting of the same message to two or more forums. Any such posts will be merged or deleted and repeated abuse will result in banishment.



05. Flaming / Personal Attacks

We will not tolerate abusive, malicious, personal attacks or self-promoting messages. Please refer to Rule #1. Repeated abuse will result in banishment.



06. Trolls

We will not tolerate anyone antagonising other forum members by posting potentially inflammatory messages. Repeated abuse will result in banishment. Do not participate in a thread merely to criticize or mock the equipment choice of other forum members in the thread.



07. Harassment

Harassment of other forum members via Private Message, postings, emails or other means will result in immediate banishment and if serious enough, may be reported to the relevant authorities for their further investigation.



08. Commercial Advertising

If you wish to advertise on the site, please contact us. We will moderate messages that serve mostly or exclusively to drive forum members to external forums or web sites.



09. Software Piracy

Posting of serial numbers, cracks, warez links or anything related to the piracy of software will not be allowed and will be deleted immediately. Repeated abuse will result in banishment.



10. Information Accuracy

We do not endorse or guarantee the accuracy of any posting, regardless of whether the posting comes from a user, from a celebrity or "expert" guest, or from a member of our team. There is no substitute for healthy skepticism and your own good judgement. It is easy for people to pose as experts without having any expertise whatsoever.



11. Legal ownership

Each message posted is owned by and is the opinion of the original poster. Neither WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET (http://WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET) nor its owners or moderators are legally responsible for anything posted on these forums.





Responsibility for what is posted in WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET (http://WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET) lies with each member - you alone are responsible for any material that you post. You agree not to post or transmit any defamatory, abusive, obscene, threatening or illegal material, or any other material that infringes on the ability of others to enjoy the Site or that infringes on the rights of others. You agree to conform to site policies and guidelines concerning the size, length, format, subject, content, or relevancy of the materials you submit.



While we cannot monitor all the postings in the forums, we reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to delete, move, or edit any postings that come to our attention that we consider unacceptable or inappropriate, of for any other other reasons, which we need not disclose, and which need not be reasonable. We will comply with the requirements of the law regarding disclosure of information transmitted via our site to others, including law enforcement agencies.



Access

We retain the right to deny access to anyone who we believe has violated the term of this agreement, or to anyone else for any reasons, which we need not disclose, or for no reason.



Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET (http://WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET">WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET</a>, its officers, subsidiaries and affiliated companies harmless from any and all claims, demands or other liabilities, including legal fees and costs, that are made by any third party due to or arising from Your use of the Web Site or Your breach of these Terms and Conditions. If you post material on WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET, its officers, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies harmless and release Us from all claims, demands or other liabilities for any statements or material concerning you that are posted on the site by third parties, including by moderators and other volunteers, provided that we avail you with the opportunity to answer. If you are unable to respond because you have been banned from the site, upon request you will be reinstated for a sufficient length of time to respond.



DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY

We work hard to make WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET (http://WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET) an interesting and enjoyable place, but we cannot guarantee that our users will always find everything to their liking. Please read this Disclaimer carefully before using the Site.



YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE, AND THE INHERENT HAZARDS AND UNCERTAINTIES OF ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION, THERE MAY BE DELAYS, OMISSIONS, INACCURACIES, OR OTHER PROBLEMS WITH SUCH INFORMATION. IF YOU RELY ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE SITE OR ANY MATERIAL AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED FROM OR OTHERWISE PROVIDED THROUGH THE SITE.



THIS SITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU *AS IS,* *WITH ALL FAULTS,* AND *AS AVAILABLE.* WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET (http://WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET) AND ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE. NOR DO THEY GUARANTEE THAT THE SITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE, OR CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE, OR THAT THE SITE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.



UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET (http://WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET">WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET</a>, OR ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. (BECAUSE SOME STATES/COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, THE LIABILITY OF <a class="postlink" href="http://WWW.PHOTOSKOOL.NET), AND ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY SUCH LAW).