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ABestWeb™ Affiliate Marketing Forum and Affiliate Chat Rules

The objective of our services are to provide for peer-to-peer communication on issues involving your website's earnings and continuously improving it. Your usage of our services acknowledges your agreement to our terms as well as your willingness to follow these few simple rules. The rules from time to time will be updated without prior notice and you agree to abide by such updating as applicable.

Content Of Post
Messages posted to this board are solely the opinion and responsibility of the person posting the message. Please be aware that all members are able to read posts on this message board, that includes children (under 18). Therefore, please, do not post any "adult" or questionable off-topic material, as it will only be removed and a ban warning will be issued. Posts containing racist, sexual- or religious-, personal-, etc offending content will be removed and will get you banned immediately.

Board Moderation
Board moderators' decisions (editing, moving, deleting of single posts or entire threads) are final. You will accept this. Also, you will not re-edit a message that has already been edited by a moderator out of defiance of the original edit. Starting discussing such a decision on the board, will get you either a ban-warning or banned. If you feel that you have be treated wrongly, send an email with your complaints to haiko@abestweb.com and we will look into it and review the decision made. During the review period we may disable your access to the board and/or close the appropriate thread. Any creation of new aliases on the board by an offender will immediately result in full denial of review and a full ban.

Banning
If you are banned you will respect the decision of this board and will not sign up with a different alias as an effort to defraud the good will of this board nor its member base by doing such. There is no specific amount of ban warnings a member can receive before they are permanently banned, banning is based on the severity of the individual or sum of the multiple offenses.

Recruiting
Any recruiting other than by Affiliate managers for their listed [on ABestWeb] programs and/or any member who  attempts to recruit membership for another board will result in an IP Ban.

Aliases
If you create an alias account on the board impersonating, offending or extremely similar to an existing board member's alias or other inappropriate name such account will be disabled and you will be given a ban warning.

Threatening Members Or Staff
Please be aware that any threats against members, as well as threats against the ABESTWEB staff (on the board, via private message, telephone, email, fax or other written or verbal method) will be forwarded to the responsible authorities and the offender will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Warez, Hackz, etc
The ABESTWEB message board is not a place to share information about where to get illegal software and other products, how to use or to trade them, as such, all posts of that kind will be deleted. The person posting will get a warning or will be banned.

Bigotry
Any derogatory post referencing any persons (member or non-member) race, color, creed, or sexual preference (or any allegations thereof, justified or not) will be deleted ASAP, repeat offenders will be banned.

Member Identity or URL Exposing
Any member who posts another member's url or urls to their site(s), their real name or other personal information without the owners prior approval, shall immediately be banned.

Unauthorized Advertising
Unauthorized Advertisements via Pop ups or parasitic application shall be charged at the rate of ten thousand dollars per occasion.  The advertisers who allow their ads to be shown at our website shall be held accountable for each unauthorized advertisement.  The advertisers' allowance of their ads being shown on http://www.ABestWeb.com or on any of it's forum pages indicates their acceptance of our  unauthorized advertising fee clause.  Current advertising offerings can be found at http://www.abestweb.com/merchants/  .

SPAM
Postings that are designed "only" to drive traffic to a members site, or affiliated merchant site will be removed or edited as appropriate. Independent Merchants are invited to ABestWeb, but postings of a self serving nature and recruiting or requests of program feedback or improvements are NOT allowed. If a merchant desires to advertise their site they can go to http://www.abestweb.com/buy_ads.htm and if they want to be considered for a Private Forum they can go to http://www.abestweb.com/merchants .

Images
The posting of pictures that violate a copyright of any 3rd party, as well as the posting of images that are offending (adult material, etc) is not allowed in the boards, the profiles nor as avatars. Pictures of that kind will be immediately removed and the person posting will get either a warning or will be banned depending on the severity of the offense. Please, also, do not "over use" the image-option.

Claims of Action
Any claim of action against any one person or company are not allowed, any posts containing such will immediately either be locked, edited or removed (depending on severity).  Multiple postings by a member claiming action against any company or person shall result in a ban, whether such claims are real o not.

Signatures
Signatures must not be greater than three lines of text and can not contain links to adult or offensive websites! You may choose to include a picture in your signature, but it must be an image no greater than 88x31 and non-animated. Affiliate Links are not allowed in signatures.  Any signatures, that violate these rules will be deleted without notice and your signature right will be removed. ABESTWEB may allow merchants to have a larger signature for their full contact information.

General Terms and Conditions
Considering the real-time nature of this message board, it is impossible for us to review messages or confirm the validity of information posted. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the contents of posted messages and are not responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of this BB or any entity associated with this BB. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BB to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyrighted material is owned by you. Although we do not and cannot review the messages posted and are not responsible for the content of any of these messages, we reserve the right to delete any message for any reason whatsoever. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s). We reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you.

Thank you, 

Haiko de Poel, Jr.
Administrator

Last updated: June 15th 2003 

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