Welcome to ArgyleTalk, we hope you enjoy using our forum and interacting with other forum members.

By joining ArgyleTalk you agree to abide by the following:

MEMBERSHIP

You can post messages on this forum by registering your username and email address. Once you have registered you will receive an email from the Administration team, confirming your registration, which will then give you access to the forum.

By registering to join this website, you agree that the information you provide can be held on the forum database. Your details will remain in the domain and, unless required to do so by "any interested party" with regard to legal enquiries, will not be given to anyone.

False email addresses are not permitted.

Duplicate memberships are not permitted. Any member that is found to have registered more than one username, that username will be removed.

CODE OF CONDUCT

ArgyleTalk welcomes banter and light-hearted discussion however you shall respect other forum members by not posting on the message boards or instant chat facility, nor send via the private messaging system, material which is racist (including colour, ethnicity or national origin), vulgar, abusive, defamatory, harassing, obscene, abusive, profane, sexually oriented or threatening. Neither shall you invade any person's privacy or violate any UK law. This also applies to your avatar and signature.

You shall not directly publish copyrighted material, unless it is owned by you or you have obtained the owner's consent. If quoting from copyrighted material, state your source.

Spamming (repeatedly posting the same link, or message on multiple boards, or trying to get people to go to another site to buy something), flooding (posting irrelevant subjects and repeatedly posting new threads on the same topic), trolling (using a board for sole purpose of starting trouble orinstigating an argument), advertisements, chain letters and pyramid schemes are inappropriate in this forum.

Any post that contravenes any of the above will, if the Administrators consider it appropriate, be deleted or modified.

You remain accountable for your messages, and agree that your views are not those of ArgyleTalk or any websites linked to it. You remain responsible for your username and log on, do not leave your account unattended at any time, nor disclose your password.

FORFEITURE OF MEMBER RIGHTS

In the event of a contravention of the rules, on first contravention, the member will receive an infraction giving details of why. These infractions incur points (between 1 and 5 points). These infractions last for up to 30 days. Should a member accumulate 10 points, he or she will receive an automatic ban for 5 days.

If a member has transgressed the forum rules beyond that of an acceptable level, the administrators reserve the right to impose longer bans.

No member is immune from these rules, including administrators and moderators.

ADMINISTRATORS / MODERATORS CODE OF CONDUCT

The administrators and moderators of ArgyleTalk will if necessary, delete, modify or move threads as appropriate. If this occurs, they shall state their reason within the thread concerned or leave a redirecting link.

The administrators and moderators of ArgyleTalk reserve the right to bar any member from ArgyleTalk for contravention of any of these rules. The decision to ban any member will be taken if the administrators are unanimous.

The forum staff are here to assist you, and if you require help or wish to complain, these should be directed to the usernames names posted on the appropriate thread in the Site Feedback and Suggestions forum.

The administration team reserve the right to modify this agreement, and will inform forum members if such changes occur.