Tos/privacy Policy

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MADDENBOARD TERMS OF SERVICE AGREEMENT
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
MADDENBOARD provides the services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service (TOS) outlined here. When using the services provided by MADDENBOARD, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site denotes acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed at any time and without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check back with this page at any time you have questions or concerns.

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
MADDENBOARD does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you, and the e-mail address you provide will be kept private. In order to register on MADDENBOARD, registrants must be 13 years of age or older or have written consent from parents or legal gaurdian to join. MADDENBOARD does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years without parental consent, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will immediately be terminated.

CONTENT NOTICE
By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on MADDENBOARD is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither MADDENBOARD nor its owners, administrators, moderators, sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. MADDENBOARD does not directly control any content posted on the boards, and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content. You agree that while using MADDENBOARD, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in no way hold MADDENBOARD, nor its owners, administrators, moderators, sponsors or affiliates liable in any way, shape, or form for any harm or loss that may come to you or others as a result of viewing this content. MADDENBOARD is not responsible for screening content before it is posted, although an offensive language filter is installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain certain words deemed offensive or used most often in an offensive way.

ACCOUNT RESPONSIBILITY
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You are strongly encouraged to select a hard-to-guess password and not re-use that password on any other sites where it may be read by the owners or adminstrators of that site. MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!! If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant the banning of one account, all known accounts shared between a single or multiple users who use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion. Because of this rule, it is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, nor share their computers used to access the site with others, as the actions of some other person could easily directly impact all known shared message board accounts. If you must share your computer, it is highly suggested that you make sure you log out your account.

PRIVACY AND RELEASE OF INFORMATION
Under normal circumstances, MADDENBOARD will never release your provided information to any third party without a court order requiring us to do so.

COOKIES
Maddenboard uses cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use Maddenboard services in order to improve the quality of our services.

A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some website features or services may not function properly without cookies.

MEMBER CONDUCT
You agree that you will not use this service to perform the following actions:

Offensive Posting
Posts of a patently offensive nature are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language
• Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult
• Using sexual preference terms as a term of insult in any way, shape, or form
• Explaining your opinion about something by labelling it as 'gay'
• Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language
• Posting or requesting links to or material from pornographic, obscene, or hate-speech web sites
• Posting links to web sites with potentially offensive content without a clear warning
• Descriptions or details about any sexual act or sexual organs

Censor Bypassing
MADDENBOARD is programmed with a list of words that are considered vulgar under any context, and these words are not allowed to be posted. Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. The only acceptable method of posting one of these vulgar words is to completely obscure it, making it impossible to determine what the word is without context. Additionally, certain words are prohibited from being used in topic titles and user information pages; bypassing the censor to post those words where they are restricted is also disallowed.

Flaming (Insulting Other Users)
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")
• Direct insults ("Screw you")
• Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself")
• Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")

Trolling (Inciting Flames)
Posts intended solely to annoy and/or offend other posters by going against the clear nature of a board or topic are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Provoking other users to respond with flames
• Provoking fans of a particular system or game, especially on boards dedicated to that system or game
• Making misleading topic titles
• Asking obviously useless questions
• Posting false information as fact
• talking about a member that posts TOO MUCH. If a member is spamming the Moderators will deal with it. It is not your business.

Illegal Activities
Posts that violate or incite others to violate the law are not allowed.

Spamming
Posts that clearly advertise a service or product are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Any Links to sites that do not link back to Maddenboard (without permission from the Admin)
• "Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes

Off-Topic Posting
The main purpose of MADDENBOARD is to provide discussion forums for various video and computer games and their systems. It is expected that your post remain on the topic of the forum; otherwise, post need to be made in the "Off Topic" Forum.

Spoilers without Warning
Posting "spoilers" (critical plot details) about games in the title of a topic or in a message without advance warning is prohibited.
• To discuss such information in a topic, users should leave the title of the topic as vague as possible and include a warning (i.e. "SPOILER") in the topic title.
• In a message post in a non-marked topic, users should leave several blank lines in a post after a warning before revealing any vital plot information.
• This includes all sports games. DO NOT post winners and losers in the shoutbox or in the title of a thread. DO NOT post scores. And any game that is not more than 48 hours old the thread must contain SPOILER in the title.
• You WILL be banned if you do not follow this rule!!!

Disrespecting Admin and Moderators
You do not have to respect every user on the board, but you must respect the ADMIN and the MODS. MADDENBOARD reserves the right as a private board to ban anyone at anytime for disrespecting any ADMIN or MOD. That means it is the ADMIN or MODS decision on whether or not they have been disrespected. To be safe when discussing something with an ADMIN or MOD ensure that you are respectful the whole time to not give them a reason to have you banned.

Disruptive Posting
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:
• Message posts or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally
• Large blank or content-free posts
• "Bumping" multiple older topics (posting in them well after the last post)
• Posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" topics
• Intentionally hard-to-read posts or topic titles (i.e. ALL CAPS, AlTeRnAtE cApS, no spaces, no or excessive punctuation, 1337 speak, et cetera)
• Posting multiple hard-to-read or nonsensical messages in a single or multiple topics
• Posting large ASCII art

Flooding, Invading, and Board Wars
Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for:
• Flooding a board with multiple disruptive topics or posts
• Invading another board (flooding a board as a group with multiple topics or posts)
• Instigating, participating in, or retaliating in an invasion of MADDENBOARD
• Announcing or inciting a "war" or any conflict with the regular members of another board

Impersonation
Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for impersonating other boards users by creating and/or using a message board account with a name clearly intended to impersonate, mock, or antagonize another user, or otherwise falsely claiming to be another message board member.

Harassment/Stalking/Privacy
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is strictly prohibited. Posting private information without permission is also prohibited.

Unauthorized Access
Accessing or attempting to access any MADDENBOARD user account not belonging to the user in question without permission is prohibited. Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for immediate loss of all known accounts.

Bugs and Exploits
Using exploits or tricks in the MADDENBOARD code to gain privileges, access, or abilities not clearly intended by the board design is prohibited.

Usernames, Profiles, and Forms
Violating any of the above rules with a username or any part of the user profile (signature, quote, e-mail, IM) is considered a violation of the TOS.

Other
Any other activity that is clearly detrimental to the flow of conversation and normal activities of the boards and its users may also be deleted.

TERMS VIOLATIONS
Violation of the above rules may result in action taken against your account (from something as simple as a warning, to deletion of your account). Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of MADDENBOARD and its administrators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by MADDENBOARD and its administration. You agree that the decision of the moderators and administrators is final, and you may not legally contest their rulings.

Rights of the Owner
As the owner of Madden board I reserve the right to do anything I want on the board. That includes breaking any one of or all the TOS's at once if I want. Morons


WARNING: The owner of this board is a very big cowboys fan (in more ways than 2) if you are going to make derogatory comments about the boys and want to stay here you better make sure of 3 things.

1. The owner doesn't already dislike you
2. Your comment is said with some amount of tact.
3. Your comment has some form of truth to it and is not just trash talking bullpoo