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1. General.
Please read these Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) carefully. These T&Cs include our policy for acceptable use of Club VR-4 (to include any other Club VR-4 presence, such as Facebook), its content and content posted on the Forum, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of this Site.
By accessing Club VR-4, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these T&Cs. You are only authorised to use Club VR-4 and its services if you agree to abide by all of these Terms. If you do not accept these T&Cs, you must discontinue use of Club VR-4 .
We may modify these T&Cs from time to time, posting will not be possible until the new T&Cs have been accepted - There will be a count down before the accept button becoms available.
Please note that all Committee members have volunteered to assist in the running of the Club in their own free time and receive no reward. While being accepted onto the Committee involves a number of responsibilities regarding not only the general running of the Club, but also of the forums, e.g. moderating threads, issuing user infractions, dealing with spam and various other enquiries, being as the nature of the role is voluntary, there may well be occasions that Committee members are not available for one reason or another.
2. Content
Club VR-4 provides you and other users with an opportunity to submit, post, display, transmit and/or exchange information, guides, articles, ideas, opinions, photographs, images, video, creative works or other information, messages, transmissions or material to us, the Forum or others ("Post(s)").
Posts do not reflect the Club VR-4 views; and we have no obligation to monitor, edit, or review any posts on the Forum. Club VR-4 assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such Postings (including the Resource Library and/or Articles Library), nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, completeness, accuracy, inaccuracy, completeness or validity contained in any information within such Post found on this Site or on our Forum.
The Club VR-4 Committee reserves the right to edit, lock or delete any message for any reason whatsoever, at our discretion. You agree that you are solely responsible for the content of your messages and that you will indemnify and hold harmless Club VR-4 with respect to any claim based upon the appearance and/or transmission of your message(s).
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, invasive of a person's privacy, violate any law, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, solicitations or any profane material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence.
You also agree that you will not post any copyrighted material without the express permission of the copyright holder, unless such copyright is owned by you, this forum or the Club VR-4 website.
Without limiting the foregoing, the following behaviours are strictly prohibited:
2.01. Strong, vulgar, obscene or otherwise harmful language regardless of the intent..
2.02. Alienate or antagonise other Club VR-4 Members.
2.03. Racially, ethnically or otherwise, objectionable language.
2.04. Harassing, intimidating, stalking or threatening other Club VR-4 Members.
2.05. Libellous, defamatory or otherwise tortuous language.
2.06. Impersonation of another person or persons.
2.07. Posting, distributing, transmitting or promoting illegal content.
2.08. Invasion of another’s privacy.
2.09. Abusing the Committee Feedback for ones own benefit and/or with malicious intent.
2.10. Actions that are hurtful or harmful to minors.
2.11. Posting, providing, transmitting or otherwise making available any materials or information infringing on the rights of a third party.
The Club VR-4 Committee have the ability to edit and/or remove messages which they believe to be unacceptable to either themselves or other users of this forum. However, it is impossible for The Club VR-4 Committee to monitor every message.
2.13.Any user who believes that a posted message violates any of the Terms & Conditions should contact us immediately by using the ‘Committee Feedback’ (Sometimes referred to as "Report" or "Report Post") button on the post in question, never contacting a Club VR-4 Committee directly. Upon receipt of such notification, we will make every effort to take whatever action is necessary as soon as is practically possible. However, as this is a manual process, you should be aware that we may not be able to remove or edit reported messages immediately, or at all. Note that the committee is a global unit, as such we stipulate at least a 24hr turnaround for dealing with such requests. Abuse of the Feedback button will not be tolerated and considered an attempt to antagonise other Club VR-4 Members.
2.14. If Club VR-4 believes that any of the T&Cs have been contravened we retain the right to inspect and/or monitor any electronic information stored on Club VR-4. This information may be used to determine the severity of the breach (of the T&Cs) and/or provided to any legal body making just requirements.
You agree that you will follow the basic principles of forum and life etiquette as summarised below:
3.01. One should always be courteous, and treat others as you would wish to be treated.
3.02. Before creating a new topic thread, one is advised to search to see if a similar topic already exists.
3.03. Contributors should follow standard grammar, spelling rules and avoid slang or text speak.
3.04. One should strive to post in the correct forum/category.
3.05. When making a technical enquiry, one should include as much technical information as possible, especially in the subject line.
3.06. Contributors are asked to stay on-topic.
3.07. One should think twice before posting, consider the feeling of others and how they may or may not perceive your contribution.
3.08. To avoid appearing self-absorbed, one should respond to topics started by others more often than starting topics of their own.
3.09. Contributors should avoid the use of all CAPITAL LETTERS in posts. All CAPS is considered "shouting" and causes readability issues.
3.10. One is advised not to resurrect a very old topic if nothing significant will be added. This practice is known as revival or Necroing.
3.11. One should try to refrain from lashing back at a poorly behaving member or participating in a flame war; instead, notify a committee member of the event using the "Committee Feedback" Button.
3.12. When quoting a previous post, one should only include the relevant portion of that post.
The User Infraction system is designed to automate the management of Club VR-4 Members who are not conducting themselves within accordance of the Terms & Conditions of Club VR-4.
The infraction system is based on points. If you accumulate a specific number of points, various actions will be automatically dealt out, details of which can be found below.
If the Club VR-4 Committee believe you have violated one or more of our Terms & Conditions, they will issue you a warning or an infraction. If you receive an infraction, first you will get an automatic PM from the mod that issued you the infraction. This PM will have an explanation of what we believe you violated, which infraction you have received, and the point value (if applicable).
There are times we may feel that a warning is best suited for a certain situation. Warnings do not carry point values, if an Infraction is issued your point value will go up by a pre determinded set number of points, depending on the "something" of the violation. Each infraction you receive has a expiration time. Once an infraction expires, it is removed from your account.
An infraction can also be extend, in such cases the expiration time is extended based on the time limit original active infraction.
For example: You have received an infraction for a Personal Attack on another Club VR-4 member, this has an expiration time of 60 days. Then say two hours later you receive another Personal Attack infraction. The second infractions expiration time will be added to the first. So, instead of waiting 60 days, you now have to wait 120 days for the infraction to expire.
Each time you receive an infraction you are required to review and agree the T&Cs.
Details of Scoring and Consequences which may be received for going against the following.
Minor - 1 Point
3.01. One should always be courteous, and treat others as you would wish to be treated.
3.02. Before creating a new topic thread, one is advised to search to see if a similar topic already exists.
3.03. Contributors should follow standard grammar, spelling rules and avoid slang or text speak.
3.04. One should strive to post in the correct forum/category.
3.05. When making a technical inquiry, one should include as much technical information as possible, especially in the subject line.
3.06. Contributors are asked to stay on-topic.
3.08. To avoid appearing self-absorbed, one should respond to topics started by others more often than starting topics of their own.
3.09. Contributors should avoid the use of all CAPITAL LETTERS in posts. All CAPS is considered "shouting" and causes readability issues.
3.10. One is advised not to resurrect a very old topic if nothing significant will be added. This practice is known as revival or Necroing.
3.12. When quoting a previous post, one should only include the relevant portion of that post.
7. Intellectual Property - not uploading images in technical areas.
Medium - 3 Points
2.01. Strong, vulgar, obscene or otherwise harmful language regardless of the intent.
2.05. Libellous, defamatory or otherwise tortuous language.
2.06. Impersonation of another person or persons.
2.07. Posting, distributing, transmitting or promoting illegal content.
2.09. Abusing the Committee Feedback for your own benefit and/or with malicious intent.
3.07. One should think twice before posting, consider the feeling of others and how they may or may not perceive your contribution.
3.11. One should try to refrain from lashing back at a poorly behaving member or participating in a flame war; instead, notify a committee member of the event using the "Committee Feedback" Button.
6. Links - dubious links
Major - 7 Points
2.02. Alienate or antagonise other Club VR-4 Members.
2.03. Racially, ethnically or otherwise, objectionable language.
2.04. Harassing, intimidating, stalking or threatening other Club VR-4 Members.
2.08. Invasion of another’s privacy.
2.10. Actions that are hurtful or harmful to minors.
2.11. Posting, providing, transmitting or otherwise making available any materials or information infringing on the rights of a third party.
5. User Prohibitions - logging and posting as someone else.
6 - 1 week - posting/replying ban.
13 - 3 Week - posting replying ban.
20 - 1 year Ban.
Prior to an initial infraction you will normally receive a warning from a Club VR-4 Committee member, this allows you to reconsider you actions before any infractions are applied.
The Committee reserves the right to take any decision that it considers to be in the best interests of the Club, including, but not limited to, imposing bans outside of the infractions guidelines, taking action in respect of events occurring outside of CVR4, other unforeseen circumstances that may arise, etc.
Appealling
Anyone issued an infraction has the right to appeal. This should be done by clicking the "Committee Feedback" Button located within the Infraction Private Message, this must be done within 7 days of the infraction being issued; it must include a full explanation as to why you feel the warning should be reviewed. The Club VR-4 Committee will then review the appeal, and the decision made will be a final decision and cannot be appealed a second time.
5. User Prohibitions
Unauthorized access to registered areas of Club VR-4 by non-members is strictly prohibited. If you have a user password allowing access to a members area of this Site, you may not disclose or share your password with any third party(ies) or use your password for any unauthorised purpose.
Members given posting bans found to be registering one or more new users or using other usernames (whether previously registered by them or registered by others) in order to post and/or reply, will be permanently banned.
Users agreeing to (or believed to) post messages on behalf of a banned users may be banned as appropriate.
New Registered Users (i.e. those who have been registered for less than three months, have less than 10 non-spam posts, and have not signed up for full membership) are not allowed to list items/vehicles for sale on the forums. Any query in this respect should be directed to the Committee using the Committee Feedback and Contact processes. The Committee may look at special requests sympathetically. Attempts to circumvent this restriction may result in warnings, infraction points or bans, as deemed appropriate.
6. Links
Club VR-4 may provide links to other websites or resources. Because we have no control over such websites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such external sites and resources, and do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such websites or resources
7. Intellectual Property
Club VR-4 reserves the right to use any technical information and photographs posted onto the website by you, either in the forum, garage or gallery, for any Club VR-4 purpose, including advertising, merchandise, avatars etc.
All images relevant to the thread must be uploaded to Club VR-4 to retain the threads future value, images will be proactively uploaded to Club VR-4 by The Club VR-4 Committee, if not done by the poster; this ensures thread relevance and coherence - images uploaded in this fashon will be subject to the same conditions.
Any user may edit their posts for a period of 40 days. After this time the post will be automatically locked and it's content become the property of ClubVR-4. Any user may subsequently request the Committee to remove part or all of a specified post, but this is wholly at the discretion of the Committee who will look at such requests sympathetically.
8. CVR-4 Membership
To assist in the running costs of the website, ClubVR-4 introduced full Club Membership, for which a fee is payable. Please note that this fee could be subject to change without notice.
Subscribing to full Club Membership brings additional benefits over and above access to the public forums, such as receipt of a Membership Pack, access to the "Members Area" of the forum, product & services discounts negotiated with third parties, preferential rates for Club events and priority stand places at our many meets across the country throughout the year.
Membership packs will be processed the first week of every month.
However, Club VR-4 welcomes all Galant and Legnum enthusiasts and understands that not everyone would benefit from full Club Membership.
Therefore, any posts by Registered Users will not be moved to the Members Area unless they contain information which is a direct benefit of full Club Membership, such as discounts that have been negotiated for full members.
Any technical information posted in the public forums can and may be copied to the Members Area for ease of searching, but the original thread will ordinarily remain in its original posted location.
Any queries regarding Membership must be posted in the appropriate section of the forum or via the contact us link, or they may not receive a response.
9. Club VR-4 Sponsor System
The Club VR-4 Sponsor system is available to anybody who wishes to increase their prominence on Club VR-4, or to contribute further to the running of the Club and website.
The cost for one year's Club VR-4 Sponsor status is £50. Please note that this fee is subject to change without notice.
The cost includes full Club VR-4 membership, but the username will be shown in green with a Site Sponsor title underneath.
A Site Sponsor is entitled to have their own forum and/or an advertising banner.
10. Selling & Buying.
With the exception of the restriction upon New Registered Users as referred to in Section 5, anybody may buy and/or sell goods and services on the Club VR-4 forums.
Club VR-4 expects those involved in any such transactions to be clear and transparent in their dealings.
However, Club VR-4 will not get involved in any dispute between parties to a transaction, and as such, 'Buyer Beware' should be observed at all times.
Posts offering illegal goods or services will be removed.
The Committee will take any other steps it feels are required to be of benefit to the Club and its members.
