Lothians Family History Society Forum Rules
Updated: November 2003

By using the services provided to you by LothiansFHS, you here-by agree to the following conduct policy. If you have issues with the following guidelines for conduct, you are subject to them regardless of your opinion as long as you use our services. Failure to abide by these guidelines will most likely result in forceful removal from the site.

1. User Interaction:
1.01 : Users are expected to treat each other with respect.
1.02 : Actions intended to degrade another's experience are considered harassment and will not be tolerated.
1.03 : If you are being harassed, please contact Webmaster.
1.04 : Accounts using a 'proxy' may be banned for no other reason.

2. Forbidden Content, Forums and Comments:
2.01 : Please Do NOT email for technical support, ask in forums instead.
2.02 : Any post considered as "spam" will be deleted without delay.
2.03 : If you cannot produce anything helpfull or worth it in your reply, don't post.
2.04 : New topics without specific titles will be deleted, a clear question usually bring clear answers.
2.05 : Abuse of colors or giant images won't be tolerated.
2.06 : Intensive usage of caps won't be tolerated.
2.07 : Signatures are disabled, and non-topic-related images at bottom of posts too!
2.08 : Giving out personal information of other users without their permission will not be tolerated.
2.09 : Posting links for personal profit will not be tolerated.
2.10 : This is an English Speaking Forum, please speak English unless otherwise warranted.
2.11 : Pornography and hate speech are not permitted at LothiansFHS. Hate speech includes, but is not limited to, speech which demeans specific groups of people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic background, nationality, disability, gender or sexual orientation.

3. Attacks:
Any attack on our network infrastructure will be considered computer trespass and may result in an immediate ban from the site, reports to your network provider(s) and/or legal action. This includes but not limted to, any portscan/ICMP/FTP/Telnet attempts.

4. Access Privileges:
Use of the LothiansFHS services is a privilege given to you, these are not rights. Violation of this policy may result in your removal from the site and/or loss of access privileges. LothiansFHS is a private system, and your account may be terminated at any time, at LothiansFHS sole discretion. Continuing to access, or attempting to access, after your access has been terminated may be considered computer trespass.

5. Editorial Changes:
We reserve the right to edit any user contributions submitted to the site, this includes, but is not limited to Forums, Articles, Links, Images etc. Edits will be made for the sake of grammatical clarity or typographical error correction only - unless the content falls foul of any of the other sections of this policy. In the case of images, we reserve the right to, but not limited to, edit, crop & manipulate accordingly, to fit into the 'look and feel' of the site.

6. Interpretation:
LothiansFHS administrators will interpret this policy if there is any ambiguity in interpretation by (but not exclusively) users.