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1. Violation of any of the rules is likely to lead to the eventual suspension of your account. Be aware that in exceptional circumstances the forum could be legally obliged to reveal your registration information and/or IP address to the authorities. See Rule 20.

2. Keep your contributions civil, tasteful and relevant to the thread or section involved.

3. No defamatory comments. A defamatory comment is one that is capable of damaging the reputation of a person or organisation. In the event of an extreme defamatory remark or remarks you leave yourself open to possible legal action. If successfully sued you could be held liable for considerable damages and costs.

4. Avoid contempt of court. Which means not posting anything that risks prejudicing any possible on-going or forthcoming court proceedings.

5. Personal Insults. Refrain from insulting members in either posts or pms. Defamatory comments and swearing at members is not allowed and will not be tolerated.

6. Avoid breaking a court injunction (for example, naming an individual or speculating as to their current whereabouts after a court has issued an injunction against doing so).

7. Do not post content which you've copied from someone else and don't own the copyright. This is illegal. News items must contain the source url or reference.

8. Do not post images with a direct link from a third party site. An example of this is gettyimages.com. This is against copyright laws and is bandwidth theft. There are sites freely available online, such as www.photobucket.com, that allow you to post images AND link to them in this forum.

8a.Do not use avatars or signatures of an offensive, or potentially offensive nature.

9. Do not post messages that are unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, homophobic or racially offensive. Do not denegrate any persons professed religion.

9a. Harrassment. Do not harrass members of the forum either in public or in private messages. This includes "virtual stalking" online. Harrassing the opposite sex is also illegal under law and will not be tolerated. Instant banning will result from any proven complaints received.

10. Swearing. Swearing is frowned upon and is not encouraged but persistent swearing and you will be spoken to by the staff. Failure to heed warnings can lead to suspension. Deliberate misspelling of swear words to circumvent the filters will be dealt with a temp ban. Swearing at staff will not be tolerated at any time.

11. No spamming or flooding. Don't repost the same message, or very similar messages, more than once. Spamming is a bannable offence. If a person wishes to advertise a forum or business site on this forum the fee is $15 per month and must be submitted to the site owner (Abbey) directly.

12. No personal information. It is not clever to publicise your or anyone else's contact details including address, place of employment, name of educational establishment, telephone or mobile number, email address, etc. This is for your own safety and that of everyone who uses this forum.

13. Keep your posts relevant. Each thread is about a particular topic and each thread is in a particular section. Posts that are not relevant lower the value of the debate for everyone and may be removed without warning.

14. Post in English only. Posts containing languages other than English may be removed. Also refrain from using SMS or “street” or “gangsta” speak; we are a multi national forum and posts such as these can be completely misunderstood.

15. No capital letters. This is internet netiquette for raising your voice. You can make your point perfectly well in lower case so please take the caps lock off. Although we ask this, no disciplinary action would be taken, its just "not nice".

16. No impersonating or double membership. Impersonating someone (including other members) is unacceptable and only one registration per person is allowed. Anyone found with more than one membership will have all memberships banned. This also includes having one IP address per member but if you intend to have two people using the same IP address, just let us know and it's fine. We assume multiple accounts on one IP address to be spammers so be warned.

17. No inappropriate usernames (vulgar, offensive, etc). There are many rival fans here, everyone is more than welcome to join the forum and debate but any membership using defamatory names will be invited to change it or be removed completely.

18. Complaints. Please don't abuse the complaints system. It exists to enable visitors to alert the forum moderators about content that breaks the rules. The complaints system cannot be used to complain about specific services not involved with the forum. Please do not use the complaints system to alert us to multiple postings, spelling mistakes and so on. Anyone who abuses the complaints system repeatedly may have their account suspended according to the above rules on warnings and bans etc.

19. Copyright and the law. By submitting your contribution to this site, you also warrant that such contribution is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to the forum and is not defamatory nor does it not infringe any law. You also agree to indemnify the forum against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the forum as a result of your breach of the above warranty. If you are referring to an item of news and post such, you must indicate the source of that news item at the base of the post. This does not distract from the copyright and the poster is potentially liable, not this forum.

You may not post any defamatory or illegal material of any nature. This includes text, graphics, video, and/or audio. Posting a message with the intention of committing or condoning an illegal act is strictly prohibited. You may not violate, plagiarise, or infringe on the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, personal, publicity, or proprietary rights.

20. About Privacy

When you register with us, our registration process requires you to supply us with your correct current email details, but we will only use this information to validate your access to the discussions and for other service administration purposes. All UK internet forums are liable under the 1998 Data Protection Act. No information will be forwarded to any third party whatsoever, even under request, without a legal right for this to be done.

21. Under age 16

Fans of all ages are encouraged to read and use the forum, please bear this in mind when submitting a thread or post.

22. Disciplinary procedure

Violation of any of the rules above may lead to your membership account being temporarily suspended or terminated. Warnings and bans will be issued by staff as and when required at the discretion of the staff member concerned. Please note that a permanent ban can be implemented at any time if staff deem that it is serious enough to implement.

22a The forum staff additionally reserves the right to suspend or terminate any membership account at any time and at its sole discretion. While suspended, returning to the site by creating another account will constitute a further offence and will result in your account being closed permanently and possibly your IP banned.

23. The forum ownership reserves the right to delete any posting, at any time, for any reason, and is under no obligation to inform the member concerned. The forum ownership also reserve the right to amend the rules as and when appropriate without prior warning.

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