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Forum and Blog Rules

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Welcome to the forum,

Below is the agreement you signed when you joined the forum.

While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

By accessing “Egypt4u” (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”, “Egypt4u”, “http://www.egypt4u.com/forum”), you agree to be legally bound by the following terms. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all of the following terms then please do not access and/or use “Egypt4u”. We may change these at any time and we’ll do our utmost in informing you, though it would be prudent to review this regularly yourself as your continued usage of “Egypt4u” after changes mean you agree to be legally bound by these terms as they are updated and/or amended.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

This forum system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you have entered above; they serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. The e-mail address is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one).



Below is our extended rules.


The rules refer to the Forum and to the Blogs.

Only 1 account per person is allowed on Egypt4u, other created accounts will be deleted.

Sharing of accounts between friends or family is not allowed, each person wanting to post on the forum is required to setup their own account.


Posting Etiquette
Everyone is welcome on this forum and we hope that you enjoy being here. You are free to post whatever is in your mind but we ask you not to use foul language, make personal insults and keep within our rules listed here. Posts that are made, and are believed by moderators or admin to be intentionally to cause trouble will not be endured. Attacks on individuals or problems brought from other forums will not be tolerated. Such posts may be edited or deleted.

Posts that contain just a URL (Link) without a brief explanation of what the link contains will be deleted.

Any personal email addresses or personal telephone numbers will be removed from the forum (this is to protect you from spam etc)

All posts in blogs and the forum must be written in English.

The management reserves the right to move, edit or delete any posts they consider harmful to the forum or to Egypt4u and to delete the registration of any member that brings the forum into disrepute. The management also reserves the right to alter any members profile as they see fit.

Links to businesses or websites that conflict with Egypt4u (ie. advertising property, tours and shops) will be removed.

Real names may be removed if the nature of the post is to name and shame, members real name may be used if the member is happy with this.

Posts about commercial websites (with or without links) that the management considers to be in direct competition with Luxor4u will be deleted.

Links to any kind of social network sites, forums or blogs related to Luxor will be removed.

Members who register with names that are clearly designed to confuse others into thinking they another member will have their registration deleted immediately.

Reported abusers of the Personal Messaging system, who repeatedly insult or harass other members, will have their membership deleted.

Insults or abuse of any relgion may be edited or deleted.

Posts that go well off the original topic may be edited/deleted or split into a new topic.

Members must not replace any text or posts that have been edited or removed by the moderators.

New topics that are started to continue on from a topic that has been previously locked will be deleted.

Admin have the right for what ever reason to put any member on a moderation queue which means their posts will not show until one of the Admin/Moderators have approved it.

Members who spam the forums with advertisements or links will have their account deleted. Members who post multiple posts one after another in the same thread may have some posts removed.

Any queries about moderation should be sent in a Private Message to one of the Moderators or Admin. posts on the forum querying any kind of moderation may be locked or deleted.

To keep this a fair and pleasant place, persistent offenders of our rules will be warned and may end up being banned.



Games
Egypt4u may edit or delete any score in the games section due to suspected cheating or a bug in the system causing an abnormal score.



Photo Album
Egypt4u may edit or delete any photo or comment in the photo album that contains inappropriate content.



Copyright
http://www.egypt4u.com/copyright.html
If you use any part of any post in your own blog or website please include a link to the original post on Egypt4u. Topics may be shared via the facebook, twitter or google+ icon buttons which are placed below each topic title.



Signatures (available at 50+ posts)
Members are free to add signatures to their posts using whatever inoffensive words they chose but advertisements and links to commercial sites or sites in direct competition with Egypt4u are not allowed. An exception is made for people who have websites or advertising through Egypt4u to provide a basic text signature. Signature content should not be more than 300px x 100px otherwise it makes the forum look messy, anything above this size will be deleted. Flash or pictures for advertising in signatures are only allowed under special circumstances.
If you place a link to your website in your Signature, then we ask for you to place a link back on your
website http://www.egypt4u.com or you can use our flash link by copying and pasting the below code in your html.

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<center> 
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="399" height="72" id="Egypt4u_flash" align="middle"> 
   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> 
   <param name="movie" value="http://www.egypt4u.com/tops/Egypt4u_flash.swf"> 
   <param name="quality" value="high"> 
   <param name="bgcolor" value="#004080"> 
   <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> 
   <param name="menu" value="false"> 
   <embed src="http://www.egypt4u.com/tops/Egypt4u_flash.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#004080" width="399" height="72" name="http://www.egypt4u.com/tops/Egypt4u_flash.swf" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" wmode="transparent" menu="false"> 
</object> 
</center>


Classifieds
Members can place advertisements for the sale of their personal belongings free of charge in the classifieds section. Links to sites that offer the same services as Egypt4u are not allowed. As Egypt4u will have its own shop and will offer an accommodation service and tours of Egypt advertisements offering anything similar will be deleted. Any members wanting to let or sell flats, offer tours, advertise shops should contact the management for details of Egypt4u terms. Members found 'touting' businesses that conflict with Egypt4u (ie. flats, tours and shops) through the Personal Messaging system of Egypt4u might have their Private Message ability disabled, persistent offenders will be banned.



Advertising
Advertising of Commercial businesses is not allowed and any topic/post will be deleted unless conducted in the proper way through Egypt4u advertising in the way of a flash banner at the top of the forum. Contact admin@egypt4u.com for more information.
Events that are not in competition with Egypt4u may be advertised free providing you give a minimum of 10% discount to Egypt4u members, Please PM DJKeefy or email admin@egypt4u.com first for approval.



Warnings/Banning
If a warning is issued to a member for what ever reason the following restrictions become active on our network of forums:
1 Warning: Posts made by you will be on a moderators queue for 1 Week, any posts you make will not be seen on the forums till an Admin/Moderator approves it.
2 Warnings: Posts made by you will be on a moderators queue for 1 Month, any posts you make will not be seen on the forums till an Admin/Moderator approves it.
3 Warnings: You will be banned from the forums for 1 Month
4 Warnings: You will be banned from the forums for 3 Months
5 Warnings: Banned from the forums forever.

Please note: If you are temporary banned from the forums , you can not open a new account to access the forums, doing so will lead to a permanent ban.
Anyone on a permanent ban will have any new account they try to make deleted.




Management Note
Finally, we would like to stress that the views expressed on the forum may not necessarily be the views held by the management and as we do not endorse them we will not be held responsible for them. As Egypt4u is privately owned and privately funded the decisions of the management in all matters concerning the site are final.


Happy posting.


DJKeefy.


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