Code of Conduct

While using the Typeboard, you agree not to:

• Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Site and services;
• Post or transmit any unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable or harmful information of any kind;
• Post or transmit any information or software that contains a virus, worm, Trojan horse or other harmful or disruptive component;
• Post or transmit materials in violation of another party’s copyright or intellectual property rights; or
• Alter, modify, change, hide or otherwise obfuscate your identity as used for registration on this site in any manner or form.
• Undertake activities that violates any applicable laws or regulations not specifically referenced herein.

Typeboard has no obligation to monitor the Site or Site-related services. However, you acknowledge and agree that Typeboard has the right to monitor the Site and Site-related services and to disclose any information necessary to operate the Site properly, to protect itself and to comply with legal obligations, applicable legislation and/or official governmental requests.

You agree and certify that for the purposes of registration on this site all contact and identification details you provide to Typeboard are true and correct in every particular.

Typeboard reserves the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that are unacceptable, offensive or in violation of this Agreement. Typeboard also reserves the right to prohibit any user who, in the Typeboard’s sole discretion, violates the Code of Conduct or other terms of this Agreement from using the Site and related services. Such prohibition may occur without notice to the user.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless to Typeboard against any and all claims, damages, costs or other expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from (a) your breach of this Agreement, (b) your violation of the Code of Conduct and/or (c) your activities in connection with the Site or Site-related services.

Your Submissions

You acknowledge and agree that, by submitting any resource, link, information, content or other materials (”Content”) to Typeboard, you grant Typeboard a royalty-free nonexclusive, worldwide license to link to, publish, reproduce, distribute, adapt, perform, display and sublicense the submitted content and otherwise use the material in any way that the Author wants in any media.  Further, by submitting Content to Typeboard, you acknowledge that you have the authority to grant such rights to Typeboard.

It is important to note, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute. This means you are perfectly free to take what you have produced and re-publish it somewhere else.

Submissions which include the following content are prohibited:

• Content involving nudity, including but not limited to, nudity or partial nudity of children of any age.
• Content that exploits children or minors or that discloses any personally identifying information beyond a first name about persons under the age of 18.
• Content that disseminates personal information about another individual for malevolent purposes, including libel, slander, defamation or harassment.
• Content that has as its sole or primary purpose to advertise a particular product or service that, in the sole judgment of the Author, does not otherwise have redeeming value to the community. The Author may allow the uploading of some such content for a fee, at its sole discretion. Such advertising content may be treated differently than other content (i.e. through indications that it is an advertisement, or exclusion from some indices or searches).
• Content that is or may be deemed to be grossly offensive to the community, including but not limited to, blatant expressions of bigotry, prejudice, racism, hatred and profanity.
• Content promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities.
• Content depicting cruelty to animals.
• Copyrighted content or material that is used without the express permission of the owner.
• Content intended to abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others (such as the rights of privacy and publicity).
• Content that contains software or other material protected by intellectual property laws unless you own or control the rights thereto or have secured all necessary consents and/or licenses.
• Content or other material that contains viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of this sites servers or another users computer.
• Content that violates any applicable laws or regulations not specifically referenced herein.

Moderation Terms

When it comes to moderation, ideally we won’t moderate comments, as long the material does not breach our site Code of Conduct.

We normally moderate comments reactively, checking whether a comment has breached our Code of Conduct after an individual has let us know of their concerns via the ‘Report this Comment’ link, which can be found next to every comment.

If the Administrators of Typeboard believe that a comment has breached our Code of Conduct, we will quarantine the comment (effectively removing it from public view) and let the original author of the comment (and author of the article) know via email. We will also give comment author the opportunity to modify or rephrase and resubmit their comment before we permanently delete it.

If we deem a comment that has been reported is legitimate: (i.e. does not breach our Code of Conduct), we will leave the comment intact, and email the complainant to let them know why we have come to this conclusion.

We will do our best to respond to reports of potential breaches of our Code of Conduct within forty-eight hours.

All deleted or moderated comments moderated by the Administrators of Typeboard will be marked with the text “[comment removed]” or “[comment moderated]”.  It is important to note that the author of the original article also has the ability to remove or moderate comments that are not on topic or that breaches our Code of Conduct. We actively encourage them to adopt an identical marking policy for moderated comments.

All comments are published live, however we have a spam filter which sometimes might hold your comments from going live until it is looked at by one of our Typeboard editors, your comment will then be published if it follows our Code of Conduct.

Typeboard also requests that authors  do their best to be independent, objective, fair and as positive as possible when it comes to moderating comments.  However if  there is any uncertainty with regard to the suitability of any particular comment then we encourage you to contact the Typeboard Administration team via the ‘Report this Comment’ link and we will review the comment as soon as possible.

Please note that ‘Off-topic’ comments are permitted as they can sometimes provide additional or information not directly related to the original article subject. Typeboard reserves the right to remove ‘Off-topic’ comments if they are deemed abusive to authors, or other contributors. We will not hesitate in removing “Off topic” comments if they are more likely to detract from the quality of the article or breach the site Code of Conduct.