What's Up Guy: Message Board Terms of Service

Message Board Terms of Service

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ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
What's Up Guy provides the services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service outlined here. The latest TOS can always be found here at http://www.whatsupguy.com/zf/tos. When using the services provided by What's Up Guy, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site denotes acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed at any time and without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check back with this page at any time you have questions or concerns.

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
In order to post messages on the What's Up Guy message boards, view boards with level restrictions and use other advanced services, you must register with What's Up Guy using a valid email address. Upon registration, an Activation Key in the form of a URL will be mailed to the address you provided. You must visit this URL using the web browser of your choice to activate the account. No posting privileges are granted until the account is activated, and inactive accounts may be deleted after 48 hours of creation. What's Up Guy does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you, and the email address you provide will be kept private. In order to register on What's Up Guy, registrants must be 13 years of age or older. What's Up Guy does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will immediately be terminated.

CONTENT NOTICE
By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on the What's Up Guy Message Boards is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither What's Up Guy nor its sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. What's Up Guy does not directly control any content posted on the boards, and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content. You agree that while using the What's Up Guy message boards, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in no way hold What's Up Guy nor its sponsors or affiliates liable in any way, shape, or form for any harm or loss that may come to you or others as a result of viewing this content. What's Up Guy is not responsible for screening content before it is posted.

ACCOUNT RESPONSIBILITY
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You are strongly encouraged to select a hard-to-guess password and not re-use that password on any other sites where it may be read by the owners or administrators of that site.

While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts on What's Up Guy, What's Up Guy can and does track multiple shared accounts from a single or multiple computers as one account in terms of TOS violations. If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant the banning of one account, all known accounts shared between a single or multiple users who use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion.

Because of this rule, it is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, nor share their computers used to access the site with others, as the actions of some other person could easily directly impact all known shared message board accounts.

PRIVACY AND RELEASE OF INFORMATION
Under normal circumstances, What's Up Guy will never release your provided information to any third party without a court order requiring us to do so. However, in cases of certain severe and/or repeated TOS violations or illegal activities, we reserve the right to forward any and all known information about you and your accounts to your ISP (including libraries, schools, and places of employment), email service provider, your ISP account owner (if someone else is actually paying for it), and any parties whose copyright has clearly been infringed by your actions on the boards.

MEMBER CONDUCT
You agree that you will not use this service to perform the following actions:

The Big 6 Rules

Topics containing offensive images must include *offensive* or *NWS* (not work safe) or *NLS* (not life safe) in the topic title.
Topics and/or posts must include *spoilers* in the topic and/or post. Posts containing spoilers (besides the first post of a topic, since the topic should be marked) must include proper spacing to hide the spoilers.
Flame wars are to be kept to the “Flame War” board. Any flame wars that get out of hand in other boards will be moved.
Images such as goatse, tubgirl, the harlequin fetus, and any images of murder, rape, or underage porn will be deleted. The user will be suspended for 24 hours for the first offense, and then banned for subsequent offenses. IP bans will come at my discretion.
If you plan on posting porn, post it in the correct (hidden) board.
Obey the Caldor Rule.

Unauthorized Access, Bugs, and Exploits

Accessing or attempting to access any What's Up Guy user account not belonging to the user in question without permission is prohibited. Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for immediate loss of all known accounts. Using exploits or tricks in the What's Up Guy code to gain privileges, access, or abilities not clearly intended by the board design is also prohibited. While you are more than welcome to try and find any exploits away from the public eye, making them public or using them for personal benefit is grounds for immediate loss of all known accounts.

Usernames, Profiles, Purchased Items, and Forms

Violating any of the above rules with a username, any part of the user profile (signature, quote, email, IM), purchased item (Code/Images/Hyperlinks), or via feedback forms (such as the Mark for Moderation function) is considered a severe violation.

TERMS VIOLATIONS
Topics and message posts that violate the TOS will be deleted from the boards, and additional penalties, such as Good Rhino or Bad Rhino loss, may be applied at the moderator's discretion. Re-posting deleted violations (yours or those of others) is also considered a violation.

Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of What's Up Guy and its designated moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of What's Up Guy and its designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by What's Up Guy and whoever it designates as moderators. You agree that the decision of the moderators and administrators is final, and you may not legally contest their rulings.

Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the boards from your IP address or your entire ISP, and What's Up Guy contacting your ISP or other relevant parties concerning your activities.

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