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You agree, through your use of user profile, comments, forum (soon), blogs and galleries that you will not post any material which is false, racist, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of ANY law. This is not only harmful, but legal actions can be taken against you. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or you have consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also inappropriate on this website. Note that due to the near real time nature of this wensite, it is impossible to review all posts as they are made. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages and are not responsible for their content. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information presented, and the messages express the views of the author, and are not necessarily the views of pinoyunited.com. Anyone who feels that a posted item is objectionable, we encourage you to notify us stating/directing us to the objectionable item posted immediately. We have the rights to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realise that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy extends to member profile information as well and any future features of this website that will become available. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this site, and any related websites to ththat we own. The owner of this website also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any information we have about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any information posted by you.You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another member, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another member's account to post messages or browse this forum.

Anti-Spam Policy

PinoyUnited.com now operates an Anti-Spam policy. This policy has been formed to steer members away from posting topics, and replies, which degrade the theme of Pinoy United, contain malicous or derogotary comments and/or otherwise potray the website in a negative light. Such topics and replies include personal message threads and contentious topics which should be dealt with by other communications means. This is not to say we will actively delete all threads we deem as spam, but every now and then some topics do wander and this policy is there to keep things on track.With effect immediately - any post(s) identified as being spam will be deleted without warning.

Advertisements

Any form of advertisements, posting of any products/items for sale are not openly allowed except in the Classified Ads section (soon) which is only for personal items/non-commercial purpose. If you are in business please contact Us .

Personal Fueds/flame wars.

Sometimes a discussion/debate will turn into a personal feud between two (or more) posters. We want to make it perfectly clear that:

1) We will not allow, under any circumstances, this feud to be carried out publicly. The topic(s) will simply be deleted.
2) We will not intervene nor be a judge to personal feuds.
3) We will not offer any of the facilities this website has to offer - primarily the Private Messaging system - to serve this feud. We ask that you take the means of communication offline i.e. emails.It’s obvious why we choose not to allow topics of such nature to persist. It gives a totally wrong impression of Pinoy United, posters and general atmosphere. It also leads to a negative ‘slant’ being perceived and can quickly spiral out of control.If you send an offensive Private Message to another poster, be it unsolicited or not, be aware that it is their full right to complain to us about it, and should we find that PM to be indeed offensive, we will not allow you to use the PM system, and upon repeated complaints (from one or all) treat this as any other public issue - we will ban that user altogether from the website. Furthermore, in radical situations, when a couple of posters constantly attack each other or harass each other - in public or via PM - We will bar BOTH sides from exchanging ANY word on the forum (in public or via PM) with each other. If they continue to do so, one or all, they will be banned. In addition, we will not look at things as a "who started it" situation. If someone insulted you, you are not absolved for insulting back. And, if you think someone should be banned and we disagree - then tough; if we're not convinced about it (and you're welcome to try to convince us reasonably by private means i.e. email) then it doesn't license you to take the situation into your own hands and launch a campaign of harassments against that poster. Insulting him back won't make us think you're right; it will only make us think you're the trouble we should be dealing with.This will NOT be a website used for personal feuds/flaming.

Moderation.

We reserve the right to moderate any content we (the team) determine contravenes these rules. While we do not wish to silence people, and fully believe in freedom of speech, from time to time content has to be removed. In some cases we do not take these decisions right away, so there may be a period of time between actions.Therefore, under no circumstances are you to start a discussion about it (our decision) in the forum or thread itself. Firstly, it serves no purpose as no admin will respond to you publicly. Secondly, it merely instigates pointless arguments over how this website should be run. We would like to make it clear: that 'how this website should be run' is not open for debate.

Bans and warnings

Bans and warnings will ALWAYS be carried out privately and remain the business of the pinoyunited.com team and the poster(s) involved. No other member will receive any information about this, including when they themselves were the offended party. We can understand that some here believe that justice must also be seen, however those who adhere to that are missing out on a very important point: we are not here to pass judgement nor educate anyone. Absolutely no one here is our 'pupil', 'disciple' or 'subject'. We carry out the rules that govern this place in order to preserve the orderly functionality of this service for the wider audience. Someone is banned not to punish them (although no doubt the side effect is that they are punished by it) but rather to remove an obstruction in pinoyunited.com normal daily working.Therefore, not every 'offence' must or should end in a ban. Of course this is down the discretion of the team and is not open to debate.However, if someone is repeatedly offensive or disruptive then he/she has no place here. Again, not as a punishment, but, rather as a measure of removing a cause of constant friction from the forums.As use of the website is in principal acceptance of these rules that govern this service (all that have clicked on "I Agree" when they registered have accepted it), then there is no reason to ban them. If it seems obvious to us (the team), however, that someone disregards these rules or casues such disruption, then, as said, they simply do not belong here. This is not open to discussion and once a decision has been made it is final.

With reference to the team

ALL admins and moderators on pinoyunited.com are to be treated with respect.We (the Team) are a group of GOOD hard working people, with the very best of intentions regardless of what you may think, who really put in many hours a day (and in some cases have done so for a very long time) to provide a resource for everyone to use. If, however, an administrator/moderator is in your views out of line, then you are perfectly welcome to complain. But you do it in PRIVATE and reasonably. We will handle it through our channels, not yours. And, although some people seem to want to see mud ‘thrown about’, we can tell you this much: posts that appear to be will be removed and the line of communication taken through our own channels.You can ALWAYS make suggestions but you cannot demand, nor publicly challenge the way this place is run. Remember: this is a private service, we don't ask you to pay for its upkeep, we are not public officials and sadly or happily you do not get the chance to elect any of us.

Posting Guidelines

In addition to the above General guidelines a set of posting guidelines has also been created.Please post topics in the correct forum. It takes a lot of time and effort to run this board and it will make the uk-mkivs team's life a hell of a lot easier. It means better navigation of the forums for everyone, and stops the place looking cluttered. Please try to practise general netiquette. What does this mean? Well not writing your posts or their subjects ALL IN CAPITALS. This is not only annoying, but it makes you look like you've got some kind of anger management problem. Also practice good English, and refrain from using ‘txt’ speak. You're using a keyboard to type with, not a mobile phone key pad.A swear word filter is enabled on the forum; this will block various bad words from posts. However please do not try and get around this by using exclamation marks or numbers to represent various letters, in other words 'Cr34t1ve Sp311ing'. This also includes using such text in the subject lines of posts. We believe that swearing leads to a 'playground' type of atmosphere, and reflects badly on the image of site. Please help us to keep the forums clean and acceptable to readers of all ages.If it is seen it will be removed. Repeated abuse will lead to a temporary, or, total, ban. You have been warned. Please don't just register for an account and not bother to post. It will only cause the admin team more headaches come user account review. Also do not register more than one account per user. If this is found then both user accounts will be suspended pending investigation. 

Forum Specific Rules

Here at pinoyunited.com we make every effort to make your time on the forum as enjoyable as possible. We believe it's important that we run a clean and friendly environment on the forum, as this is fast what pinoyunited.com is becoming recognised for. So in return we would like you, the user, to abide whenever necessary, to these rules listed. We accept this is a long list to take on board but please be aware that usage of this website does constitute acceptance of these rules.We hope that you will find this forum to be one of the most friendly and informative Filipino online community boards on the web, and on behalf of pinoyunited.com would like to thank everyone for making it the place it is.

Sincerely,

Pinoy United

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