Terms of Use
Welcome to The Baby Kottage©!
Welcome to The Baby Kottage © We are pleased to have you visit our website.
Outlined
below are our Rules and Regulations. By participating on our site, you
acknowledge that you have read and understand the Terms of Use, set
before you. Questions and concerns regarding the Terms of Use may be
directed to our Administration,
tbkadmin1@gmail.com
We ask that you follow the Terms of Use. Failure to do so may result in the suspension or termination of your membership.
Participation in Forums
Keep
our site PG-13. This means, creating an appropriate screen name, and
keeping your language clean. The content of your posts should be fit
for a PG-13 audience. To ensure this standard, posts of an offensive
nature (including inappropriate language, racial slurs, or hate
language) will be heavily moderated. This also includes signature files
and URLs. Do not publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any
inappropriate, profane, inflammatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or
unlawful topic, name, material or information.
By
participating on our forums you acknowledge that your membership is
public and may be viewed by anyone. Do not divulge private and
personal information, such as your home address and phone numbers.
Keep in mind that allowing your email to be public gives the implied
consent to be contacted.
By participating in our forums, you
agree to be held accountable for all messages and information posted by
your user name. Do not allow anyone to use your user name. Invite
them to create their own account. Do not create a new user name to
impersonate any member, Forum Rep, Assistant Managers, Forum Manager,
or other hired employee of this site. Doing so will result in the
terminate of your membership(s). Do not divulge private and personal
information about another person that has not already been made public
by that person. Do not post private and personal messages, photographs
and other forms of correspondences from family, friends, or otherwise,
known acquaintances. Posting such information constitutes a copyright
infraction and may result in legal action taken against you.
Posting
the same message multiple times (i.e. flooding) on the same forum or
unrelated forum is prohibited. Trying to keep your message at the top
of the forum (i.e. bumping) is also prohibited.
Our members are
from diverse backgrounds and situations. It is inevitable that some
members will not get along with each other. However, each member here
deserves respect. Disrespectful behavior toward any member, Forum Rep,
Assistant Managers, Forum Manager, or other hired employee of our site,
will result in a warning. Continued behavior may result in the
suspension or termination of your membership. Disagreements are
allowed, as long as it is done in a respectable manner. If you feel
you are being personally attacked in any way, please notify the Forum
Rep immediately by emailing them at their respective address.
The
Baby Kottage © forums and profiles allow members to share photographs.
Photographs that contain adult content, nudity, and graphic images are
not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, the genitals of
infants and children. Any photograph that is in question will be
immediately removed without warning or notice.
Members of our
forum are free to exchange gifts, cards, plan meet-ups, and direct
members to charitable fundraisers. Any exchange of gifts or cards is
to be set up through the Forum Reps. By signing up you agree to follow
the rules laid out for the exchange, by the Forum Reps. Violation of
the rules of said exchange may result in the suspension of your
membership. Continued violation of current and future exchanges will
result in the immediate termination of your membership. Planned
meet-ups may be organized on the forum by any member. However, keep
the location, time, and other vital details off the forums. Members
are not allowed to act as a third party to collect goods or monies on
the behalf of charities and organizations. However, members may
solicit monies for charitable organizations if the charity receives the
donation directly. Members are not allowed to collect goods or monies
for themselves or other members on the forum. We understand tragedies
happen, but in order to ensure that members of this site are not
scammed, we reserve the right to disallow any members to collect on
their behalf. The Baby Kottage © is not responsible for any monetary
or property losses as a result of participating in online exchanges.
Marketing
Surveys, Research, and Interviews are not allowed. Any Market Survey,
Research or Interview posted will be removed without warning or
notice. Continued posting of such material without permission on the
forums will result in the immediate termination of your membership.
The
viewpoints expressed and/or messages posted in these forums are solely
the opinions of the members of this website and do not reflect the
viewpoints of The Baby Kottage ©.
The advice and viewpoints
of our members shall not be substituted for medical or legal advice.
The Baby Kottage © does not assume liability for any repercussions
connecting with the direct or indirect use of said advice given by any
member of this website.
The entire The Baby Kottage © website,
including the membership list, forum names and website content is
property of The Baby Kottage ©. It is not yours to use, share or
duplicate outside of this website. By using our forums, you give The
Baby Kottage © the right to edit, remove, or publish any messages in
our forums. We also reserve the right to suspend or terminate any
member at anytime without warning or notice.
The Boiler Room (Current Events and Debate Board)
This
board was created to discuss topics that might result in friendly
debate. Topics include, but are not limited to, abortion, right to
life, censorship, death penalty, gay rights, religious freedoms, and
other similar topics. In this forum, it is acceptable to challenge
one’s beliefs, or ideas of other members, as long as the debate stays
on topic and does not result in verbal abuse of any one member or
group.
Spam, Advertisements and Unsolicited Messages
Contacting
a member via email or private message to sell or promote your business
is not allowed unless they have specifically asked for the
information.
You may not advertise or offer to sell or buy
any goods or services for any business purpose on any forum. This
includes eBay ©, Craig’s list © or other forms of selling goods in your
name.
All business transactions must remain off the boards.
Solicitations
of any prescription drug on forums, chat or signature is illegal and
prohibited. Posts and signatures of this nature will be removed
without warning or notice. Additionally, you may be suspended or
banned from the site.
Trolls
An Internet troll, or simply
troll in internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually
irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an
online discussion forum, with the intention of baiting other users into
an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic
discussion. Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
If
you encounter, or suspect a troll is on the forum, please alert a Forum
Rep, Assistant Manager, Forum Manager or owner of this site. Do not
engage in conversation with trolls. Any member deemed to be a troll
will be banned from the site without warning or notice. Messages
posted by trolls will be removed immediately from the forum.
Signatures:
Signatures
are limited to 500 characters. Use of tickers, blinkies and animated
signatures are allowed. Two websites only. Use the space provided.
Text-only
advertisements are allowed in your signature, (to display your banner, please contact advertising@thebabykottage.com) and are limited to 2 line
and 150 characters (spaces included). This includes the web address.
If you have multiple businesses you’d like to advertise, please contact
our Advertisement Department to place an Ad on our site at advertisting@thebabykottage.com
