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Privacy Policy & Board Rules
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
Please read the following carefully. If you have any questions or concerns, please send us an email at fatalfacts@live.com
Gathering and Use of Information
Fatal Facts will never willfully disclose any personally identifiable information about our online audience to any third party without first receiving the user's permission.
We do not collect personally identifiable information from our visitors other than what is supplied to us on a voluntary basis.
Visitors to the Fatal Facts Web Site may voluntarily supply certain personally identifiable information in connection with (i)contest or sweepstakes registration, (ii) subscription registration for sites or services which require subscription (such as email newsletters), (iii) requests for membership information and (iv) e-commerce transactions. In addition, personally identifiable information is voluntarily provided in connection with certain content submissions, community postings (i.e., forums or bulletin boards), comments and suggestions, or voting.
Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
Fatal Facts may use such information only for conducting the activities stated above, for internal marketing and promotional purposes, or, on occasion, when mailing lists are made available to other organizations. (The occasional provision of mailing lists to such organizations is the only case where such information would be provided to third parties).
For more information regarding Fatal Facts policies on the handling and use of Fatal Facts membership list, please see Fatal Facts Membership List Policy. The extent of such use is always explained at the time a site visitor provides such information.
If the visitor does not want this information collected and used by us for the disclosed internal purposes, the visitor is given an opportunity to 'opt-out.' Our visitors need to recognize, however, that under certain circumstances, if they select to 'opt-out' they may not be eligible for certain activities for which the personally identifiable information is needed. (For example, if a contest participant elects to 'opt-out' on permitting us to collect and use their personal information, we cannot contact them if they win without using such information.)
Acceptance of these Fatal Facts Web Site Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions
By using this site, you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this Fatal Facts Web Site Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use the site. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time.
From time to time, Fatal Facts may update this privacy notice. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it. Your continued use of the Fatal Facts Web Site following the posting of any changes to these terms shall mean that you have accepted those changes.
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please email us at fatalfacts@live.com.
GENERAL BOARD RULES
1.1 Fatal Facts is aimed toward a Worldwide community audience. Explicit and vulgar language, drug talk, nudity, pornography, violence, gore, and so forth is not allowed. Premium zones and private albums is exempt from this rule.
1.2 Do not mini-mod. We would like to encourage and thank our members to report everything to a staff member, without adding their own criticism. Examples of this include - "Lock this thread!", "warn this user", "ban this user", etc. Posting "no B/S/T", "not allowed", and similar phrases fall into this category.
1.3 All publicly displayed messages are only limited to English. This includes posts, titles, signatures, profiles, and other forms of public display.
1.4 When posting a new topic; please do not name the topic title as something similar to "HELP ME" - Instead, a better topic would be "Help me with my english" - It looks better, and more people will respond to it that way.
1.5 Maximum number of characters for signatures must not exceed 2200, contain anything explicit, contain nudity, or contain porn. The same rule applies for avatars.
1.6 Do not create a new thread on a topic that is currently already in discussion. Regardless of if you "feel" you deserve to have your own thread, the existing thread should be used unless an Admin or Mod instructs otherwise.
1.7 Fatal Facts Staff reserve the right to lock and/or delete any posts or threads which they deem irrelevant or frivolous at their own discretion.
1.8 Please use the SEARCH feature of the forums before posting threads that address errors, problems, questions, and almost ANYTHING. Chances are someone has already asked the same question and received an answer. Please search before starting a new thread.
1.9 No alternate accounts are allowed. You are not in any circumstances allowed to make another account. You will get caught if you make one and dealt with accordingly up to both accounts being banned.
1.10 Impersonating Staff members is not allowed and consequences will be dealt accordingly and immediately. This includes telling others you are staff or having staff badges as your avatar.
1.11 Do not abuse the Like system, give it out accordingly and correctly.
1.12 Trolling or anything of the kind is strictly forbidden. This includes flaming and making another members feel unwanted.
1.13 Farewell threads are not permitted. If you feel the need to tell people, tell them via the messaging systems.
1.14 Requesting items, such as, but is not limited to; 48 hour trials or Microsoft Points, psn credit or anything of this nature is strictly prohibited and will result in the removal of your topic.
SPAM AND ADVERTISING
2.1 We do not tolerate spam. In short, do not post small or useless posts that are not relevant to the topic being discussed.
2.2 Do not PM a moderator or admin numerous times saying the same thing to try and speed up an answer/problem. We receive the PM's you get. There is no need to keep sending it.
2.3 Forum sigs are to be used respectfully, so don't annoy our members by making your sig into your personal ad revenue opportunity. (ie: advertising and/or reference/affiliate codes in your sig is prohibited).
2.4 Buying, selling, trading, and/or offering services are not permitted unless authorised by staff member.
2.5 Fatal Facts is a community network site. As upset or happy as you may be, it's not appropriate to spark discussion on personal matters.
2.6 Any images or links deemed by staff to be attempting to detract or compete with Fatal Facts may be considered advertisements and are subject to punishment.
OFFENSIVE POSTS
3.1 Do not post offensive, abusive, obscene, hateful, discriminating, or harmful posts.
3.2 ABSOLUTELY NO cursing or swear words.
3.3 Follow basic netiquette rules. For example, DO NOT ever type in ALL CAPS. This applies to both topic titles and the post messages, as this is considered yelling.
3.4 Never under any circumstances post personal information of anyone; pictures, or any other material. Things of this nature are sensitive and are not condoned.
3.5 After 2 Warnings - All warnings become permanent. This is to keep troublemakers from not getting the 'penalty' for their actions.
3.6 All warnings/bans given by Fatal Facts Staff are final. Fatal Facts staff members reserve the right to ignore any requests to modify a warning/ban.
3.7 If you are a long standing member, act like one; lead by example and assist other newer users rather than attacking them. We look upon our veteran users to use this opportunity to teach the newer users the appropriate way to conduct themselves in this community.
3.8 Personal attacks such as instigating "flame bait", verbal abuse, mocking or sexist remarks of members in posts are not tolerated at Fatal Facts. Such posts will be deleted on sight or moderated accordingly.
3.9 Members that reply to posts simply to instigate argument will be dealt with and shown no mercy.
3.10 Posts in a particular forum need to stay on topic.
HOW TO POST
4.1 Use descriptive subject lines & research your post. This reduces the chances of double-posting and it also makes it easier for people to see what they do or don't want to read.
4.2 Keep the focus. Each board has a focus on a certain topic. Questions outside the scope of a certain board will either be moved to the appropriate board, locked, or simply be deleted. Please post your topic in the most appropriate board. Users that post in the wrong board will be warned. Continuing these actions will result in a banned.
4.3 DO NOT bump topics. Doing so causes unnecessary clutter to the forum.
4.4 Posting multiple posts in one topic such as one liners that are not needed and do not belong there is considered post count boosting and will be removed including your post count set back to 0. Multiple offenses can result in all your posts needing moderator approval or a complete loss of posting rights.
RESPECT TO AUTHORITY OR STAFF
5.1 Public discussions of moderator or admin actions are not allowed on the forum. It is also prohibited to protest moderator or admin actions in titles, avatars, signatures, and the shoutbox. If you do not like something that a moderator or admin said/did, DO NOT discuss this in the forums. If necessary, PM or email the moderator or admin and try your best to resolve the problem or difference in a private manner.
5.2 Public discussion of a Banned Member or why such user was banned is prohibited. The user either broke the rules, or was banned at the Staff's discretion.
5.3 Staff has final say in any dispute. Moderators and Admins have been instilled with special privileges due to the trustworthiness and dedication they show to the site. All staff have the right to, without question, violate any rule herein they deem necessary for the benefit of the site. Site Administration reserves the right to grant the same privilege under extenuating circumstances to certain users. Staff have supreme authority, and as such, all grievances are to be directed to Site Administration. Any user found disregarding this is subject to account termination.
REPORTING ABUSE
6.1 If you have a complaint about another member, problems with other members, etc., please try to resolve the problem in a personal message. If necessary, address an admin or moderator by reporting their post.
6.2 If you believe an individual is repeatedly breaking the rules, please report to one of Administrators. Repeating offenders will be banned from the forum, and further action may be taken against them.
6.3 Reporting someone's post for an unnecessary reason, no matter what the circumstances are, is strictly forbidden. This includes reporting staff member's posts or your own.
BANNED MEMBERS
7.1 Regular and Premium Members always have priority over banned members. Banned members got banned for a reason. It's their own fault.
7.2 Banned members will be blocked from all services and every page on Fatal Facts. E-mail(s) sent from the banned user to staff members will be ignored until the ban is lifted.
7.3 Fatal Facts staff members are not required to notify the user why he or she was banned, though we most likely will do so.
7.4 Should you be disciplined with a restriction or ban, you are not allowed to open a new account to obtain freedom to post. Restrictions and bans are given for a reason, and usurping that ability by re-registering is not tolerated. If another account is opened, that account will be banned immediately, and the original account will be further penalized. Anyone who has warnings on their account is automatically excluded from changing their user name.
ACCOUNT ISSUES
8.1 We DO NOT allow members to sell, trade, give away, swap or exchange their accounts/subscriptions. If we become aware that this has happened then the new and original account holders will both be permanently banned from Fatal Facts.
8.2 It is down to the individual member to make sure that his/her 'auto renewing' subscription is cancelled correctly, when they no longer wish to subscribe. Please note that we DO NOT give refunds.
PREMIUM WAREZ & ITS CONTENT
9.1 We do NOT host any content provided in the wares downloads, All content is found freely over the Internet available on many bit-torrent engines, we are not afflicted nor claim to be afflicted with any of the owners content used in this section, All content is copyright of there respective owners.
We urge all copyright owners to recognize that content within the warez are located else where on the web and point to there content location.
Please direct all copyright infringement issues to the companies that host these files.
CONTENT AND LEGAL ISSUES
10.1 Although we would all like to post and leech off of shareware and illegal files such as an exploit, we can't. NOBODY is allowed to post any links or upload any files that are meant to be purchased or have copyrights attached to them saying the file(s) cannot be distributed freely. If we see any posts or chat discussions pertaining to the distribution of illegal software and/or files, that content will be removed as soon as possible and the user will receive a ban. The length of the ban will be determined by Fatal Facts staff and will vary depending on the volume and type of content the software or file(s) contained. Premium Downloads and Premium zones is exempt from this rule.
10.2 Non-disclosure agreements are a legally binding contract that cover some, if not most unfinished builds of software. The company issues them to all parties involved to make sure nothing is leaked during the development phase. As much as we'd love to let you post images and such from closed betas that are under NDAs, don't. It will get you in legal trouble.
10.3 Upon registering an Fatal Facts account, you agree that you will NOT reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, distribute, share or make available to any third party, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or create derivative works of or otherwise exploit for any commercial purpose or non-commercial purpose any part of the Horizon program or XboxMB server. You agree that Fatal Facts has the right to revoke your account and all related content if there is any suspicion of your failure to comply with the above terms.
10.4 Upon registration for an Fatal Facts account, you are agreeing to our terms of service. While we provide you a comfortable posting environment, all content posted here is the sole intellectual/proprietary property of the end-user unless stated otherwise. Copyrighted material is covered in the rules above. Fatal Facts accepts no liability for anything posted by the end-user, and any litigation resulting in anything posted is to be directed to the aforementioned user; not to Fatal Facts staff.
If you happen to violate any of the rules, the following punishments may be undertaken:
Edit or removal of post(s)
The locking or deletion of topics
24 hour ban per offense
Edit of signature or avatar if in violation of rules
Increase of the Warning Level
All posts will require moderator approval
Removal of offender's posting rights
Suspension of the offender's user account
Ban/Deletion of the offender's user account
IP Ban of the offender's user account
Other punishments felt necessary by the Administrators.
Any questions, PM any staff member.
