Terms of Service or ... The Rules!

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Terms of Service or ... The Rules!

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TERMS OF SERVICE

By accessing this web site, dharmawheel.net (hereinafter “Dharma Wheel” or “DW”), you (User) are agreeing to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. We reserve the right to exclude individuals and remove/edit content.

If you find yourself unable to access your account or wish to challenge an account suspension, please e-mail [email protected]

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

The aim of dharmawheel.net (“Dharma Wheel” or “DW”) is to provide an online forum to discuss Buddha Dharma, particularly Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, in a friendly and supportive environment. Right Speech should be practiced at all times on DW.


REGISTRATION AND MEMBER ACCOUNTS CLICK HERE
MODERATION AND REPORTING PROCEDURES CLICK HERE
POSTING RULES CLICK HERE

MISCELLANEOUS

Dharma Wheel and related sites of the site owner are owned and operated out of U.S.A. and as such come under the guidelines of 47 US Code Section 230(c)(1), including the Communications Decency Act, which provides owners, administrators, moderators, and posters immunity from any content in here posted by someone else. Each is responsible for their own post and the team has no liability even if administrators and/or moderators fail to remove an alleged offending post. Therefore, any poster who makes legal threats against anyone on this forum will be grounds for immediate banning. The administrators, moderators, and owners are not responsible for the actions, views, and opinions of individual posters. Use of this forum is at no membership fee and voluntary.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country, the country where “Dharma Wheel Buddhist Forum” is hosted or International Law. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned, with notification of your Internet Service Provider if deemed required by us. The IP address of all posts are recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that “Dharma Wheel Buddhist Forum” have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should we see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, neither “Dharma Wheel Buddhist Forum” nor phpBB shall be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

Posters have no ownership of any information they post here and do so at their own choice. We do not delete accounts nor delete posts as it disrupts the conversation. Each poster is responsible for carefully crafting their posts and one should avoid making statements that will be regretted. This is a voluntary forum with no membership fees. Except as provided in furtherance of moderation, DW will not alter information posted nor use the information for commercial purposes. DW shall have no responsibility to protect information posted on DW. Each poster is responsible for carefully crafting their posts due to this and again, this is a voluntary forum with no membership fees.

For more info related to this law see:
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
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