Forum Rules & TOS - please read before posting

[Chrissie]

Some well over due forum rules. I've been putting off adding any, but I do think some rules are needed as guidelines & to clarify issues.

(1) Members shall not personally attack any member by Username or personal name in the public forums.. Please also note that a simple disagreement with a post or idea is not regarded as a personal attack as disagreement is often the basis of discussion.

(2) In the case of disagreement with a Moderator's decision a member shall first contact the Moderator by private message stating their disagreement and await a reply. If the member still disagrees with the Moderator's decision after receiving a reply or in the case of no reply being given, the member shall have the right to appeal to the Administrator by private message whose decision will be final and binding upon both the Moderator and the member.

(3) Members shall not post disagreements about a Moderator's or Administrator's decision in the public forums but shall contact the Moderator or Administrator by private message according to the provisions of rule (2).

(4) Members shall not post in any public board, the content of Private Messages. Emails. or instant messenger conversations nor any translation of them, without the permission of a moderator or an administrator.

(5) Although AAE-C is intended to help smokers/ex smokers of 18 & above, Proboards’ minimum age for registering with their forums is 13. Therefore, profanity and discussions of an "adult" nature are prohibited. Members are asked not post certain things which include both the written word and images including avatars, which may be offensive to others. Please remember 'rudeness' is a matter of opinion. If you are offended by something contact a moderator or Admin. Pornography will not be tolerated in any way, shape or form and may result in an immediate ban.

(6) Banner signatures - only one banner is allowed in signatures & it will be auto rescaled to a maximum of 75px high. Some additional text & small gifs are allowed in signatures but Admin & moderators will remove anything they consider excessive.

(7) The discussion of illegal drugs (or any other illegal activity) is not permitted.

(8) Members shall post reasonably on topic to the discussion and the section of the forum (Category). This means that new topics shall be relevant to the subject of the Category and all posts in a topic shall be relevant to that topic. Moderators may move posts they believe to be in the wrong section.

(9) Due to the complex rules and regulations laid down by the Gambling Commission in regards to Raffles, Charitable or otherwise - AAE-C is unable to host or promote such online money raising activities.

(Please Note: When posting links on the forum, please be sure that the site to which you are linking contains no 'adult' material, or anything that would contravene the Proboards' Terms of Service to which you agreed on registration, or the Rules and Regulations of this forum).

Link to Proboards Terms Of Service –
www.proboards.com/tos

VENDORS, Vendor Employees & Vendor Associates

Anyone commercially selling e-cigarettes, e-liquid etc, or anyone connected to a Vendor in any way, must first contact a Staff member via PM. Please include a link to your website in the PM. Once you are approved by a member of staff, you will be given the status of “VENDOR” or VENDOR EMPLOYEE/ASSOCIATE.

Please read the pinned thread on the Vendors board for further rules concerning Vendors -
allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=suppliers&thread=13168&page=1#263572

Reviewers/bloggers

We welcome Reviewers/Bloggers to the Forum and actively encourage them to participate in our Community. However, If a reviewer or blogger continuously posts links to their reviews/blogs without participating in other areas of the forum, it will be considered as spam & may result in a ban.

Anyone who posts a link to their own blog or video review that contains affiliate links, either the link must go to a page clearly stating it OR they must post in the thread stating that the link/video contains affiliate links.

Classified Board

This board is for non vendor members to sell/swap or place wanted threads. The items must be vaping related.

No members can advertise any other type of items anywhere on the forum

Please read the additional classified rules -

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=classified&thread=5101&page=1

[Chrissie]

TOS

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