Please read carefully the following Term and Conditions. By
participating in our website as a member you will be deemed to have agreed to
be bound by the said Terms and Conditions.
ECAS = east coast aquarium society.
Information required upon registration for each participant
on ECAS must be accurate and complete. You must update such information as
needed in order to ensure that the information remains to be accurate and
complete.
- Use of Member ID and Password
ECAS assumes that all activities made using your Member ID
and password are authorized by you.
You agree to:
1) Not post anything that: (a) infringes any third-party
intellectual property or publicity/privacy rights, (b) is knowingly false, and/or
defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane,
threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violation of any law
or regulation, (c) contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs,
cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage,
detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any
system, data or personal information, and (d) promotes piracy.
2) As each forum is specifically tailored to address certain
topics, you are responsible for initiating new threads in the correct forum.
You should stay on-topic at all times. The appropriate content for each forum
is described in detail on the ECAS forums homepage.
3) You agree not to post the same message in multiple forums
without permission from the ECAS Administrator. All such requests for
permission should be directed through the Administrative forum.
4) "Impersonation," or assuming the character of
another member by copying his username and manner of writing, is not allowed.
5) "Multiple User Names," or assuming the
character of more than one member by using more than one username and manner of
writing, is not allowed.
6) "Flaming," or lashing out at other participants
or displaying repeated dissatisfaction of ECAS Administration and corrective
actions, is strictly forbidden. Proper etiquette is required for participation
in ECAS.
7) "Spamming," or sending unsolicited electronic
junk mail or junk newsgroup postings, in any form, is strictly forbidden.
8) "Trolling," or posting insulting or
deliberately divisive threads/replies for the purpose of (1) harvesting
retaliatory insults and flames, or (2) throwing off the balance of the forum,
is also disallowed.
9) You agree not to use the ECAS forums to either advertise
or promote commercial endeavors, which includes direct posts, as well as,
active links to other sites on the Internet, without permission from the ECAS
Administrator. You may, however, include URLs or active links to commercial
sites, reasonable in number, only for the sole purpose of expanding on comments
or providing additional information as part of regular forum interactions.
10) You agree not to use ECAS as a way to draw users away to
your own site. You shall not use PM's to do this either. We do not allow
diverting traffic/users/members away from ECAS without expressed permission
from the owner of ECAS. This includes asking our members to check out your own
site or forum. Doing so will result in an immediate deletion of the post, and
possible banning. This is also not permitted via PM's or chat.
11) You agree that you will not incorporate any word in your
name, Message ID or custom user title or Avatar, that is defamatory, obscene or
profane, or which violates any trademark, service mark, or other
proprietary/intellectual property rights of any third party, including, without
limitation, that of ECAS.
12) Freedom of Speech:
Freedom of speech rights do not extend to this privately
owned website. The rules of this website governs the behaviors and activities
of the members. If you choose not to follow the guidelines agreed to during
registration, the result will render a disabling of your account.
13) Signatures: If you are not an "ECAS supporter"
you may not have an image any large than 400x60 in your signature. Advertisements or links to websites in
signatures are not permitted. Unauthorized links may be deleted and a warning
may be issued at the discretion of the moderator.
14) Avatars: Business logos are not permitted. In selecting
an avatar, you agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright
is owned by you or by this forum.
Avatars must conform with posted guidelines and forum rules
with respect to posts, images and signatures.
We ask that you please be considerate to other forum users
when selecting your avatar image.
Inappropriate or offensive avatars will be removed at our
discretion. Users abusing these rules will be warned and /or may lose their
avatar privileges or forum privileges.
15) Personal Attacks:
Our first priority is to the members that have come here
because of the flame-free atmosphere we provide. There is a zero-tolerance
policy here against personal attacks. We will not tolerate anyone insulting
another individual's opinion nor name calling and will BAN repeat offenders.
16: Foul Language:
Contrary to popular belief, this is not a public board. We
are all guests here. ECAS has the right to edit posts that violate our forum
guidelines or remove members at any time. Nothing should ever be posted here
that you would not say in front of a crowd of strangers. Don't post anything
distasteful or anything you feel might offend someone else.
17) Multiple or Shared accounts are not permitted
When you join, create one account, be certain you're
satisfied with your forum name, and keep it. Be sure to choose your user name
carefully. If you wish to change your user name for whatever reason, please
contact an administrator.
DO NOT create more then one account for any reason. It is
not permitted under any circumstances. Contact the forum owner if you need to
make changes to an existing account.
18) Advertising and solicitations are NOT permitted.
No advertising, marketing, or promoting anything on the
forum. Period.
19) ZERO drama policy
This is a fish site. Dont not come here to pick fights, stir
the pot, etc...
This is a fish site, not town hall. Leave the politics at
the door.
If you are seen as someone who is simply posting to troll
someone, piss someone off, stir the pot, aggravate, harass, annoy, etc... You
will be banned.
ECAS is not a place to use to harass someone over something that happened off the forum. DO NOT BRING YOUR PROBLEMS HERE. If the issue has nothing to do with ECAS, do not expect to be able to resolve it here either.
ECAS is not to be used to "Get back" at anyone. ECAS is not a platform to air opinions out about people or businesses.
20) Taking advantage of kindness
ECAS is a privilege. Not a right. Do NOT take advantage of
the club or its members in any way, shape or form. How this is to be
interpreted will be on a case by case basis. Some examples are:
21)Asking members for free fish, then reselling for profit or
store credit.
Using ECAS only to receive something free.
Asking vendors or members for donations.
22) OFFICIAL ECAS sponsors are the ONLY
members/users allowed to advertise and promote of the forum. This means no using PM's to promote business. No signatures to promote business. etc.
23) Using ECAS and it's resources (Chat software, private message system, etc, To conduct business secretely to avoid the forum rules will result in those privileges being removed and possible banning.
ECAS reserves the right to edit, delete, or prune any and
all Messages which, in its sole opinion, violates any of the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, or is viewed in our judgment as inappropriate at
the time of submittal or at anytime thereafter.
ECAS may elect, at its sole discretion, to monitor some,
all, or no areas of ECAS for adherence to these terms and conditions or ECAS
policies and guidelines. Moderators of ECAS control individual forums.
Questions about a particular forum should be directed to the respective forum
moderator.
Any user who feels that a message is objectionable may
request ECAS to delete said Message by PM to an Admin or email through ECAS. Upon
receipt of such a request, ECAS will determine, in its sole opinion, if such
deletion is necessary. If deemed necessary, ECAS will make every effort to do
so, within a reasonable period.
ECAS does not endorse or recommend any of the opinions or
ideas contributed by its users. However, ECAS permits others to make judgments
about your Messages.
ECAS is not responsible for any and all Messages expressed
in the ECAS forums. ECAS does not attempt to control or validate any comments
or recommendations provided by the participants and is not responsible for any
inaccuracies in the Messages. Therefore, you bear the risk associated with, the
accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the Messages.
Information contained in the ECAS forums, including but not
limited to those relating to law or medicine or other fields, is not intended
to substitute for the advice or opinion of your own lawyer or physician or
professional adviser. You agree not to rely solely on any of the advise or
opinion expressed. Under no circumstances, including but not limited to
negligence, shall ECAS be liable for any reliance on any such information, nor
shall ECAS be liable for any direct, incidental, special, consequential,
indirect or punitive damages that result from the use of, or inability to use,
the information in ECAS.
ECAS does not endorse or recommend any posts which encourage
the shipping of invasive species (plant or animal) and prohibits the use or
said use of illegal activates.
ECAS will not allow any posts which incorporate politics or
religion in any form in the forums. This includes but is not limited to words
and/or insinuations in avatars, posts, and/or signatures. ECAS will make every
effort to remove any such avatars, posts, and/or signatures which does such
with editing and/or deleting as deemed necessary.
ECAS will not allow nudity in any form in the forums. This
includes but is not limited to avatars, words and/or insinuations in avatars,
posts, and/or signatures. ECAS will make every effort to remove any such
avatars, posts, and/or signatures which does such with editing and/or deleting
as deemed necessary.
ECAS collects information during the registration process to
operate the site ("Registration Information"). It collects
non-personally identifiable information (often referred to as demographic
information) such as: country, region or city, zip or postal code, gender,
birth date and occupation. You may update your Registration Information any
time by clicking the "Settings" link found on the horizontal black
bar on the upper part of any ECAS page.
Your Registration Information is used only for demographic
statistics. ECAS keeps all of your Personal Information private and does not
share it with any third parties. ECAS will not disclose your Personal
Information unless acting under a good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process;
(2) protect and defend the rights, rules or property of ECAS; (3) enforce the User
Agreement; or (4) act to protect the interests of its members or others. This includes any interaction with the forum, including but not limited to threads, posts, private messages and chat logs.
A special registration form during contests/promos may be used
for the purpose of gathering demographic information from the contest/promo
participants. This information can be shared with the contest/promo sponsors
depending on ECAS's agreement with them.
ECAS will not send you any unsolicited information, including
e-mail, unless you choose otherwise. ECAS may also send periodic member letters
to announce important service changes, new features, and technical issue
updates.
If at any time you believe that ECAS has not adhered to
these principles, please notify a moderator, or the administrator and we will
use all reasonable efforts to promptly determine and correct the problem.
ECAS reserves the right to limit the use of ECAS forums to
any individual or group at any time.
Without the prior written consent of ECAS, you may not (a)
use any automated means to access the site or collect any information from the ECAS
website (including without limitation robots, spiders or scripts), or (b) frame
the site, place pop-up windows over its pages, or otherwise affect the display
of its pages.
ECAS reserves the rights to do as they see fit with any
posts and pictures posted on ECAS.
ECAS reserves the right to amend any of the terms and
conditions of this Agreement at any time. Such amended terms and conditions
shall be effective when posted at the ECAS website.
ECAS reserves the right to terminate your use of ECAS at
anytime, with or without notice. Following termination, at its sole option, ECAS
may remove some or all of your Messages from the ECAS website or leave it
available for public review, without need of notice or approval from you.
All posts and pictures submitted on the forum, will become
property of ECAS. ECAS may do as they choose with this material(posts,
pictures,etc) If you don't not wish to have anything done with a picture or
post, please state as such in your picture or post that it may not be used
without your permission.
Any donation or financial contribution is considered non-refundable.
By registering on ECAS and using the forum in any form, you agree to our forum rules and terms of service.
Terms of service:
LIABILITY: In no event shall ECAS or its owner be liable to any party for
any loss or damage, including but not limited to lost revenues or profits or
special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages (howsoever arising,
including negligence) arising out of or in connection with the ECAS website, it's private message system, any email associated with the website name, posts, content, reviews, its services or this Agreement.
CONTROL OF INFORMATION: You acknowledge that ECAS and it's owner do not
control the information available on the message boards, chat rooms and other
user and member-generated pages and that any opinions, advice, statements,
services, offers or other information or content presented or disseminated on
any bulletin board, chat room or on any other user or member-generated pages
are those of their respective authors and they are solely liable for their
content. Although ECAS may from time to time monitor or review discussions,
chats, postings, transmissions, message boards and other user and
member-generated pages on this web site, neither ECAS nor any of its agents,
representatives or licensors is under any obligation to do so. ECAS reserves
the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse to post or remove any material
submitted to or posted on the chat rooms, message boards or on any other user
or member-generated pages.
NO WARRANTY:
ECAS disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for
the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or
availability of information or material in the ECAS forums.
ECAS disclaims any responsibility for the deletion, failure
to store, misdelivery, or untimely delivery of Messages.
ECAS disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting
from downloading or accessing any information or material through ECAS.
The ECAS web site and services are provided "as
is," and ECAS and its co-brand partners expressly disclaim all warranties
or conditions of any kind (whether express, implied or statutory), including
without limitation the implied warranties of title, non-infringement, and
fitness for a particular purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, ECAS does not
promise or warrant to you that any aspect of the web site and system will work
properly or will be available continuously.
OWNERSHIP OF POSTS: Any communication or material you post
or transmit is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary.
You assume full responsibility for anything you post or transmit, and you grant
ECAS the right to display this material on its web sites. ECAS makes no
ownership claims to any material you post or transmit and agrees that all
submitted materials, text, graphics and files remain the sole property of their
creator, with individual exceptions such as contest entries specifically
labeled as such when solicited.
ASSUMPTION OF RISK: Your use of this web site is at your own
risk. Neither ECAS, nor any of its agents, representatives or licencors shall
be liable to you or anyone else for any loss or injury or any direct, indirect,
incidental, consequential, special, punitive or similar damages arising out of
your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, the services of this
web site and the information available on this web site or arising out of any
action taken in response to or as a result of any information available on this
web site. You hereby waive any and all claims against ECAS arising out of your
use of the services of this web site and the information available thereon. ECAS
does not review or monitor any web sites linked to the member-generated content
of this web site and are not responsible for the content of any such linked web
sites. Your linking to such web sites is at your own risk.
PRIVACY: We will not offer any information about you to any
company. However, you should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal
information (e.g., name, email address, street address, etc.) on a bulletin
board, chat room or on any other user or member-generated pages, that
information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited
messages from other parties.
