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GamerzRealm.net and its subsidiaries. No part or portion of GamerzRealm
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omissions.
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persons or property through the use of any materials, instructions, methods,
or ideas contained on these sites.
Terms of Service
GamerzRealm Network provides the services to
you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service outlined here. When using
the services provided by the GamerzRealm Network, 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 view messages on the GamerzRealm Network message boards (forums)
without user restrictions, no registration is required or necessary. In
order to post messages on the boards, and use other advanced services, you
must register with the GamerzRealm Network using a valid e-mail 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.
The GamerzRealm Network does not require you to use your real name or other
identification that can be easily traced to you, and the e-mail address you
provide will be kept private. In order to register on GamerzRealm Network,
registrants must be 13 years of age or older. The GamerzRealm Network 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 GamerzRealm
Network Message Boards is the responsibility of the person from which the
content originated. You agree that neither GamerzRealm nor its sponsors or
affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or
upload. GamerzRealm 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 GamerzRealm message boards, you may be
exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in
no way hold GamerzRealm 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. GamerzRealm is not responsible for screening
content before it is posted, although an offensive language filter is
installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain
certain words deemed offensive or used most often in an offensive way.
Account Responsibilty
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 GamerzRealm
Network, GamerzRealm 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, GamerzRealm 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), e-mail 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:
- Offensive Posting
- Posts of a patently offensive nature are not allowed. This includes, but
is not limited to:
- Using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language
- Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap,
nationality, or gender as a means of insult
- Using sexual preference terms as a term of insult in any way, shape, or
form
- Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous
language
- Posting or requesting links to or material from pornographic, obscene, or
hate-speech web sites
- Posting links to web sites with potentially offensive content without a
clear warning
- Descriptions or details about any sexual act or sexual organs
-Any additional rules established by the Admin Staff not listed here
Censor Bypassing
The GamerzRealm Network message boards are programmed with a list of words that
are considered vulgar under any context, and these words are not allowed to
be posted. Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces
or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other
method is not allowed. The only acceptable method of posting one of these
vulgar words is to completely obscure it, making it impossible to determine
what the word is without context. Additionally, certain words are prohibited
from being used in topic titles and user information pages; bypassing the
censor to post those words where they are restricted is also disallowed.
For example, if "gris" is a banned word:
Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, ****
(rhymes with "bris")
Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word
Flaming (Insulting Other Users)
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group,
directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited
to:
Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")
Direct insults ("Screw you")
Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself")
Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family
("Your mom...")
Trolling (Inciting Flames)
Posts intended solely to annoy and/or offend other posters by going against
the clear nature of a board or topic are not allowed. This includes, but is
not limited to:
Provoking other users to respond with flames
Provoking fans of a particular system or game, especially on boards
dedicated to that system or game
Making misleading topic titles
Asking obviously useless questions
Posting false information as fact
Illegal Activities
Posts that violate or incite others to violate the law are not allowed. This
includes, but is not limited to, asking for or providing, in any way, shape,
or form:
Illegal copies of copyrighted software (ROMs, Warez)
Methods of circumventing copyright protection (Cracks, CD Keys, mod chips)
Illegal copies of copyrighted music (MP3s), movies, videos, or any other
type of media
Methods of cheating in online games
Spamming
Posts that clearly advertise a service or product are not allowed, unless
the forum provides an "advertising" board. This includes, but is not limited
to:
Unsolicited commercial or personal web site advertisements
For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices
"Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes
Advertising for another message board (even other GamerzRealm Network boards)
Users are allowed to include a web site address in a signature, request
comments on their personal site in a social setting, or providing only once
an interesting or relevant link to another site.
Off-Topic Posting
The main purpose of the GamerzRealm Network Message Boards is to provide
discussion forums for various video and computer games and their systems.
Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all boards, so take the extra
time to post on the proper board.
Disruptive Posting
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not,
are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:
Message posts or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally
Large blank or content-free posts
Bumping old or "dead" topics without a reasonable cause
Posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics, including
"fad" topics
Topic titles or posts consisting of all or mostly capital letters (Images
cannot be larger than 600 pixels wide).
Intentionally hard-to-read posts (i.e. using all, mostly, or alternating
capital letters; using no spaces, capital letters, or punctuation; using
large amounts of "1337 speak", et cetera)
Post counting (i.e. "First", "100th Post")
Flooding, Invading, and Board Wars
Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for:
Flooding a board with multiple disruptive topics or posts
Invading another board (flooding a board as a group with multiple topics or
posts)
Instigating, participating in, or retaliating in an invasion of a GamerzRealm
Network message board or any other online service
Announcing or inciting a "war" or any conflict with the regular members of
another board
Impersonation
Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for
impersonating other boards users by creating and/or using a message board
account with a name clearly intended to impersonate, mock, or antagonize
another user, or otherwise falsely claiming to be another message board
member.
Harassment/Stalking/Privacy
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group
with the intent of an creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile
environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit
threats is strictly prohibited. Posting private information without
permission is also prohibited. Requesting someone's age is also prohibbited,
unless it's done by the board administration/staff.
Unauthorized Access
Accessing or attempting to access any GamerzRealm Network 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.
Bugs and Exploits
Using exploits or tricks in the GamerzRealm code to gain privileges, access,
or abilities not clearly intended by the board design is 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, and Forms
Violating any of the above rules with a username or any part of the user
profile (signature, quote, e-mail, IM) is considered a severe violation.
Signature Images
If you use an image in your signature, please keep it within 300x100 pixels.
Most image editors will tell you how large the image is, in terms of pixels.
Other
Any other activity that is clearly detrimental to the flow of conversation
and normal activities of the boards and its users may also be deleted.
Terms Violations
Topics and message posts that violate the TOS will be deleted from the
boards, and additional penalties 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 GamerzRealm and its designated moderators. User accounts
may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the
sole discretion of GamerzRealm and its designated moderators. All
determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be
determined solely by GamerzRealm 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 GamerzRealm contacting your ISP or other relevant parties concerning
your activities.
Privacy Policy
The GR Network has created this policy to
show that we have a commitment to privacy. The following parts of this
document disclose the information gathering that we do and why it is done.
Auto Logged Information
We automatically log your computers IP address to help diagnose problems
with our site. The server software that we run automatically logs all of the
computers that try and access the site. This information is kept private for
employees of the GamerzRealm Network only.
Identifying Information
Though we log IP addresses, we do not log personal information such as
names, addresses, phone numbers, or email addresses. Other information that
we do log is what type of operating system you are running. This helps us
better suit the site to your machine.
Contests
Sometimes sites that are part of the GamerzRealm Network will run contests.
The information given to us during these contests will not be shared with
any third party. Information that we will gather during contests would
possibly be name, address, and email. That information is only needed to
send off prizes to winners. Once a contest has ended, all information
collected is destroyed.
Newsletter
GamerzRealm Network sites sometimes offer a newsletter. For the newsletter
we ask for your email address. This information is to help us send out the
newsletter to you. Your email address is not shared with anyone.
Forums
The GamerzRealm Network offers public forums. To find out the policies on
our forums, please read our Terms of Service.
How to contact us
Please look at our contacts page to find out how
to contact us.
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