Grasscity Forum Rules

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It is the responsibility of all members to read the rules that apply to the forums of Grasscity.

GRASSCITY FORUM RULES

Terms and Conditions

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By posting information and/or material including - but not limited to - text, sounds, data, photos and images ("Material") on the Forum, you explicitly agree to the following terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions Forum").

Article 1 - General

1. You acknowledge that you are entirely responsible for all Material posted by you on the Forum and that your use of the Forum is entirely at your sole risk.
2. You acknowledge and guarantee that by using this service you have reached the age of 18 years.
3. You acknowledge that Grasscity.com has no control over or responsibility for the truth or accuracy of any Material posted on the Forum by other users. You agree that you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.
4. Your use of this service is subject to all applicable national and international laws and regulations.

Article 2 - Obligations Users

1. You agree that you will not post any Material on the Forum that is +unlawful, +harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, fraudulent, +immature, +indecent, +vulgar, +obscene, libelous, that may be invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racially/ethnically discriminating, in any way connected with child pornography/sex, or otherwise objectionable.
2. You agree not to impersonate any person or entity, or host or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity or to forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Material posted on the Forum.
3. You further agree not to post any Material for any business or commercial purpose. (We offer our service for free and are dependent on sales from our online shop. Advertising for others directly hurts us in our revenue and therefore hurts the financial backing of the forums.)
4. You agree not to post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, any form of lottery of gambling, or any other form of solicitation on the Forum.
5. You also agree that you will not harvest or collect information about the users of this service.
6. You further agree not to post any Material that infringes the intellectual property rights of any party.
7. You further agree not to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in this service.

+ Subject to the discretion of Grasscity.com Administration

Article 3 - Rights Grasscity.com

1. Grasscity.com does not pre-screen, monitor, or edit the Material posted on its Forum. However, Grasscity.com reserves the right at its sole discretion
(a) to immediately suspend or terminate your access to the Forum, or parts of it, and/or
(b) to edit, or require you to edit, Material posted on the Forum, if in Grasscity.com's judgment the Material concerned does not comply with these Terms and Conditions Forum, in case of requests by law enforcement and/or unexpected technical or security issues or problems.
2. Grasscity.com is not responsible for any failure or delay in removing such Material. You acknowledge and agree that Grasscity.com may preserve Material and may also disclose Material if required to do so by law or in the good faith believes that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
(a) comply with legal process;
(b) respond to claims that any Material violates the rights of third-parties; or
(c) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Grasscity.com, its users and the public.

Article 4 - Intellectual Property Rights

1. You hereby guarantee that the Material posted by you on the Forum is original and does not contain anything which infringes the intellectual property rights of any party.
2. You agree that the Material submitted or made available by you will not be treated as confidential or proprietary.

Article 5 - Warranties

* Grasscity.com disclaims all warranties of any kind as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Forum or as to the accuracy or reliability of any Material obtained through the Forum.

Article 6 - Liability

* In no event shall Grasscity.com, its subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, agents or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering of the Website or this service be liable for any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, any direct and indirect damages, resulting from your use of the Forum.

Article 7 - Indemnification

* You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Grasscity.com, its subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, agents or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering of the Website or this service against any and all claims of third parties based on the assertion that your use of this service, including the Material you post, transmit or make available through the Forum, infringes upon the rights of a third party.

Article 8 - Miscellaneous

1. Grasscity.com reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions Forum at any time. Such modifications shall be effective immediately upon either posting of the modified Terms and Conditions Forum or by notification to you.
2. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions Forum is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, then such invalidity or unenforceability shall not have any effect on any other provision of these Terms and Conditions Forum, all of which shall remain in full force and effect.
3. These Terms and Conditions Forum are governed by the laws of the Netherlands. The district court in Amsterdam has the exclusive jurisdiction regarding any and all disputes relating to these Terms and Conditions Forum.

*Additions/Clarifications:

1. Signature Limits: All signatures should not exceed the following size limits and you can't have both text and images within a signature. Animated signatures, avatars and profile pictures are not allowed.
Text Signatures: 4 lines normal size or 8 lines small size and up to 90 characters per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed.
For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size.
2. Posting porn and nudity is not allowed. That also includes links to porn. Note: Artwork containing nudity that is posted within The Artist’s Corner will be allowed at the discretion of the Administrators.
3. Please refrain from posting meaningless threads and one word (or short) nonsense posts. Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not tolerated.
5. Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations is not allowed. We also do not allow discussion that indicates the use of guns, violence, theft or drug trafficking.
6. Hookup requests and offers are not allowed. This includes mail order requests and offers.
7. Advertising and posting a link to a competitor are not allowed.
8. We ask that you refrain from posting in all caps. So-called "Yelling" will be deleted from the forums.
9. Only one account per each member is allowed.
10. Please refrain from posting about getting animals or children high.
11. Descriptions are listed for each forum so please post in the appropriate forums. Repeatedly posting topics in forums that aren’t appropriate for the topic is not tolerated.
12. Please be aware of the information that you to provide to other members. Posting advice that can harm others will not remain in the forums.
13. Posting tutorials on how to make drugs is not allowed.
14. Trolling is not tolerated.
15. Discussing the moderating actions of an Administrator, Super Moderator or Moderator within the open forums creates unnecessary drama and is not tolerated. Please send a private message to ReformMaryJaneLaws, if necessary.

Note: All rules apply to the reputation and private messaging systems and also to comments posted within galleries and profiles.

Administrators, Super Moderators and Moderators are here to help you but also keep in mind their decisions are final. They have the power to ban members and alter/delete posts as they feel necessary to protect the forums and the interest of Grasscity.com.

Please be aware of the updated listing of all Administrators, Super Moderators and Moderators.

If there are any questions about the forum rules, please contact ReformMaryJaneLaws.

Updated 09.01.2008