Use of this site requires that you provide a functioning unique EMail address, username and password. All information (with the exceptions of telephone numbers and age) posted to this site becomes public information, exercise caution when providing any personal data. If you object to material posted by another user, please Contact Staff.

Agreement to these policies implies authorizing us to remove or modify any data you submit to this site for any reason we feel constitutes a violation of our policies, whether stated, implied or not.

This site may contain links to other web sites and files. We have no control over such content and can not ensure it will not be offensive or objectionable. We will, however, remove links to material that we feel is inappropriate as we become aware of them.

Cookies must be turned on in your browser to participate as a user in this site. There are both essential and preference cookies.

Essential cookies are used here to hold your username, encrypted password, and date of visit, allowing you to login. Users can login with their username and password to change any information in their profiles. In case of lost password, users can send an e-mail to the Site Administrator or use the lost password link.

Preference cookies are used here to record viewing options (whether or not to display certain forums and/or modules). Modern browsers control cookies in encrypted database files, to increase security and preclude cookie "harvesting" by hackers. Older browsers often wrote small data files on your hard drive.

The site may also verify your IP address to help preclude spammers/scammers.

If you authorize contact by Email, the site may use the newsletter module (if you sign up for it) or other module to contact you; and/or other members may use the site's mail service to contact you (however, they will not know your Email address unless and until you reply). If you do not authorize such contact, only the site administrator might Email you, if necessary, about the status of your account.

the site may use the advertising module. If so, the content and behavior of advertised links is beyond our control. If the module is enabled, you can "opt out" of advertising tracking by clicking the box in your profile (in which case, the site would only include you as "aggregate, anonymous, non-personally-identifiable" information). Such information, for example, might be that X number of users from a particular state or city, expressed interest in a specific advertisement. There would be no names, email, IP, or physical addresses, phone numbers, etc.; provided from members who "opt out". If the advertising module is not in use, the "opt out" box will not be displayed in your profile.

If, at any time, you desire to cancel your account; simply click the "delete my account" link in the menu. After verification via your provided email account, all data pertaining to your account will be deleted. This is NOT like Facebook's faux "deletion" (really just an inactivation), here the deletion is complete, irrevocable, and irreversible.

The Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act governs collection and use of information pertaining to minors, especially those who are pre-teenaged. To help assure compliance with that law, minors are prevented from using the site's programming to EMail any member who isn't in the staff. You acknowledge and agree to the collection, processing and possible sharing of personal information, only as above stipulated.

You are fully responsible for any information or file which you supply. You agree that you will not post any copyrighted material that is not owned by yourself or the owners of this site; further that you will not post any information which is vulgar, harassing, hateful, threatening, invading of others' privacy, sexually oriented, or which violates any laws having jurisdiction over this site or yourself. If the site staff learns that you provided false information during registration, you may be permanently banned.