Terms of Service

Boardspace.org provides the free service to host your forum on our servers.

There are certain restrictions that we do not allow you to post on your forum. We will not host any forums that promote, contain links to or provide instructions on any of the following content:

Prohibited Content:

  • Adult or Obscene material
  • Hacking, Piracy, Viruses, Warez or illegal mp3's
  • Depictions of Minors or Children (even minimal sexual context is not allowed)
  • Illegal Drugs or Terrorism
  • Invasion on privacy or the Impersonation of others
  • Derogatory, Slanderous, Racial or Explicit Material
  • Sharing of passwords or Serial Numbers
  • Spam or MLM
  • Harassment
  • Illegal Conduct of Any Sort

Other reasons for forum deletion include:

  • Intentionally moving or hiding the sponsor advertisement being shown on your forum.
  • If your forum is only being used for redirection of users to another site or forum.

Tampering with Advertisements:

If our system detects anyone placing any type of paid advertisements on their forum, it will result in immediate deletion of your forum without notice. This includes (text links, banners, buttons, pop-ups, pop-unders and exit-pops).

Boardspace.org has the right to cancel any of its services without prior notice. Boardspace.org will not be held responsible for any damages caused by the usage of its services or products. The software used by Boardspace.org is to be used at your own risk. Boardspace.org has the right to refuse our services to anyone.

Proprietary Rights:

The contents of this Web site are the property of Boardspace.org and/or its licensor's and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Boardspace.org makes the Service available to you for your personal use only and on the express condition that you do not copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, revise, assemble, or otherwise attempt to discover any source code; or sell, assign, sub license, grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any of the contents of this Web site or the software used to deliver this Web site to you--except that you may download one copy onto a single computer or make one print copy for your personal, non-commercial use.

Copyrights:

This Web site and information contains copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works of, and on in any way exploit, in whole or in part, any Proprietary or other Material.

Modifications to Service:

Boardspace.org reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that Boardspace.org shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

Indemnity:

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Boardspace.org and its affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees from any third party claim or demand (including actual attorneys' fees) due or relating to your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms or Service, or content you submit to or post on the Service.

Privacy Policy:

BoardSpace.org is committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the BoardSpace.org Statement of privacy below and also any supplementary information at the end of this statement for additional details about particular BoardSpace.org sites and services that you may use. BoardSpace.org is a World Wide Website intended for the use of purchasing, browsing and looking at products or services sold by BoardSpace.org. BoardSpace.org is an ecommerce site; we collect certain data from visitors of our site such as (IP) Internet protocol address, Type of software used, browsing habits, time spent, and other facts of this nature.

The privacy of our visitors to BoardSpace.org is important to us.

At BoardSpace.org, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit BoardSpace.org, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on BoardSpace.org to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

BoardSpace.org will not collect data such as name, and address unless you have designated this information to us on a form from our website, such as signing up for a new members account or newsletter. In the event that you have given information of this nature to BoardSpace.org, we will not publish any user information to any means of general access. BoardSpace.org keeps all of its information on secure and safe servers, however, BoardSpace.org, or any Parent, Sister, or Child companies and their employees will not be held responsible for the information that is contained by them.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change this web site are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

General:

These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between you and Boardspace.org and shall govern your use of the Service. These Terms of Service shall super cede any prior agreements between you and Boardspace.org. You may also be subject to additional terms that may apply when you sue third party services or content. If any provision of these Terms of Service are found to be invalid, the parties agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties' intentions and that the remainder of the Terms of Service will remain in full force and effect.

Revisions to This Policy:

We reserve the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy, our Terms Of Service agreement, and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner, by updating this posting.

Last Updated: 4th April 2010