Forum Rules

[Armco Adam]

The following statements form the Terms and Conditions for accessing the Suzuki Owners Club (the club) forum (the forum) and all subsections thereof. By registering and/or using the forum, you are agreeing to these Terms and Conditions.

By posting on the forum, you grant the club and/or its agents irrevocable permission to store, reproduce, backup or re-present in public, in any location or via any media, and/or modify (for editorial purposes only) that content. All images, graphics, and photographs posted remain copyright of the respective author, and will not be used by the club without express permission from the author.

Although the administrators and moderators of the forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. The views expressed in the Forums are not necessarily the views of the Suzuki Owners Club and any advice or guidance is given to be used at your own discretion.

Forum staff (the webmaster and moderators) reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread as they see fit, or as needed to enforce the Terms and Conditions. The decision of the administrators and moderators is final.


Forum Accounts

Membership of the forum and ability to access the features thereof, is a privilege and not a right, some areas are restricted until you are a fully paid up member of the owners club.

Only a single forum account is permitted per person per email address. If a user is found to be using multiple accounts, without good cause, then an infraction will be given.

Forum usernames must not contravene any of the rules governing site content and must not contain an email address or URL.

You must have a valid, active email address in your profile at all times. If an email from us to you is 'bounced back' then your account may be suspended temporarily until such time as you contact us with a valid email address.

Accounts and forum posts are not deleted on request.


General Rules

Post in the correct forum, if you do not post in the appropriate forum your post will be moved or deleted.

Use a descriptive topic subject, this aids others in finding topics that interest them. Topics with inappropriate or bad subjects may be amended.

Research your post to ensure you are not double posting.

Use the search facility first to ensure the question you are asking has not been answered before time and time again.

Whilst debate and discussion is fine, rudeness, insults, trolling, personal attacks, flaming, spamming, flooding and purposeless inflammatory posts will not be tolerated. Please criticise ideas, not people.

The posting of material which is vulgar, defamatory, threatening, sexually oriented/explicit/offensive, objectifying, racist, politically or religiously sensitive or violates any other laws shall not be tolerated.

Links to warez, warez sites or sites with pornographic or objectionable content (as deemed by forum staff, or by UK Law) is not acceptable.

Third Party Material. Content copied from other sites and re-presented here that is not the legal property of the post author must include a link back to the source material, and credit to the original author. It is preferable for posters to link to the original content rather than replicate it here.

Respect the privacy of others. Do not post other's phone numbers, addresses, pictures, etc., without their permission.

Don't dig up old threads, if you wish to continue an old discussion (older than 1 month) please create a new thread and reference the old thread in your post.

No blatant advertising, this forum is not free advertising space.

Politics and Religion, This is not a political or religious discussion site, please give consideration to any issue that can be considered as political or religious as someone will always be offended.

Do not post using Cap Lock. Posts where the subject or post contains blocks of capitalised letters will be amended or deleted at the discretion of forum staff. Words all in capitals are not only annoying but are 50% slower to read than normal writing.

Linking to content

You may not hotlink or use any content from the forum or any of the clubs website(s), on any other website without prior permission. This includes: logos, avatars, smilies, pictures from the gallery, post, etc.

Items for Sale

You must be a fully paid up member of the Suzuki Owners club, to post items for sale.

You must have a minimum of 10 posts or PM a moderator or administrator for permission to post FIRST.

You must post a price and if relevant a postage price. Just the word Offers is not acceptable, a guide price must be entered.

You should (where possible) attach a picture to the thread.

You may only sell your own items. ie No selling third party items

Private ads only. If you are a business, shop, trader etc and who is not a member of the SOC dealer discount scheme. You must PM a moderator or administrator to discuss our competitive traders rates.

Once the item is sold, you must change the thread title to include the words - SOLD

Signatures

Signatures may contain 1 image (max. 500 x 100pixels).

Signatures may contain a link to your personal site or sites that maybe of use to other members, No Blatant advertising!

Signatures are expected to follow the same guidelines as posts.

Infractions

If you are found breaking any of the rules as stated above. you will depending on the severity of the infringement be

• Given a "Yellow Card"
  • 3 Yellow cards will result in a "Red Card" and a 30 day ban from the forum
  • 6 Yellow cards will result in a 1 year ban from the forum
• Given a "Red Card"
  • this will result in a 30 day ban from the forum
  • a further "Red Card" will result in a 1 year ban from the forum
• Banned Permanently.
• A serious breach of policy may, if you are club member, result with expulsion from the club.