MX-5 Owners Club | North West Area - Forum conditions of use Forum conditions of use

The discussion areas are provided by the MX-5 Owners Club (North West area), in order to assist its members and others in keeping in touch, exchanging views on current issues and matters of common interest. Please observe the following rules and guidelines when posting messages.

This forum is owned and operated by the MX-5 Owners Club (North West area). Users take part in the discussions by permission of the Club. That permission may be withdrawn at any time, at the sole discretion of the Club, and without further justification being necessary. In particular, messages may be removed or accounts banned if, in the opinion of the moderators, this is in the best interests of the Club.

This forum is not related to the forum on the national Club website and is managed entirely separately. Enquiries relating to the national site should be directed to their Webmaster.

  1. The discussion areas may not be used for the promotion of products and services of any kind - such posts should be placed in the Marketplace section of the forum. However, this condition should not discourage users from suggesting a product or service that may assist a genuine enquirer who has raised a specific problem.
  2. Please do not post the same message to multiple forums. This practice leads to replies from others being distributed in several locations, and therefore diminishes the usefulness of the discussions to all concerned.
  3. Messages, whether posted by Club members or others, should be constructive and not be offensive to others. They should demonstrate objectiveness and concern for the feelings and reputation of others. In the context of a discussion forum, this stipulation is not intended to prevent the offering of informal suggestions, provided that it is clear on what basis these are made. Under no circumstances may defamatory statements be made in these forums. The use of swearing, or of offensive language or links, is not in the spirit of the rules and will not be permitted.
  4. Users are reminded that text, images and other information created by third parties will be subject to the laws of copyright, and that this includes material found elsewhere on the Internet. Messages posted to the discussion area must not include such material without the copyright owner's permission, and links to other sites should comply with those sites' conditions for such links.
  5. The moderators reserve the right to remove messages at their discretion. In addition, a message may be moved to another area of the discussions if, in the view of the moderators, the message is more relevant to that area.
  6. However, the responsibility for the content of messages rests with the authors. The Club makes no warranty with respect to the validity of the information supplied in messages, and readers should make their own assessments before using such information.
  7. It is expected that contributors will register one account only, and in doing so will provide genuine names and contact details, in order to take responsibility for the messages that they post. These details are not shown to other users. Accounts that do not meet this condition may be denied permission to post or may be deleted along with any associated messages.
  8. In this spirit, and since usernames can be obscure, contributors are encouraged to use the signature system to identify themselves to other users.

Logged-in users may use the facility to report messages to the moderator where they appear to conflict with these conditions. Alternatively, please contact the webmaster.

Please note that, due to the volume of forum registrants with inappropriate content, certain email providers are blacklisted by default (e.g. googlemail.com is one of them). If you have difficulty registering on the forum then please contact the webmaster so that your email address can be whitelisted.

 
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