Business Advice Forum - Rules, Disclaimer & Privacy Policy! - Updated 22 July 2010.

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Thank you for your participation at Business Advice Forum, we greatly value it and know that without our members we wouldn't have a forum. In order to maintain the forum for the benefit of everyone we ask that you note the following;

1. Advertising is allowed in your signature and the Free Advertising Forums. Advertising is not allowed in other areas of the forum.
2. You may post a maximum of one article per day on Business Advice Forum and you must make at least one other helpful post, on the day you post your article. Please note that this rule refers to long articles about a particular topic. It does not refer to regular posts discussing a topic or asking questions. You are welcome to make lots of regular posts everyday.
3. Please do not copy and paste long articles from other sites, if you want to discuss an article, describe it in your own words and provide a link to it
4. Please be polite to other members at all times
5. This is an English language forum - only English language text is allowed
6. We do not allow ads or links to Paid to Click (PTC), Paid to View or Paid to Read (PTR) sites or content
7. This is a family friendly community. We do not allow links to sites that are adult or offensive in nature. We do not allow personal attacks or libelous statements to be posted on the forum
8. Lots of extremely short posts such as "Great post" & "Thanks for sharing" do not help the community. If you wish to thank another member please make the effort to say why you are thanking them & how their post was useful to you. When appropriate, please use the Thanks System
9. *Poor quality posts that are used to promote your signature link and/or run up your post count are not allowed. Please ensure that your posts are helpful, on topic (i.e. relevant the the thread posted in and not just general advice) and original (i.e. not repeating something that has already been added to the thread)
10. Please use the Report Post button to report any post that does not comply with our guidelines (you will see the button underneath the member's username and avatar, to the bottom left of their post)
11. Each individual is allowed one account only on Business Advice Forum. Duplicate accounts are not permitted
12. Please read our thread on Staying Safe Online - For Children, Teenagers and Adults Too!
13. Please read the disclaimer below.

*Members who make short unhelpful posts will be sent a friendly reminder PM. Members who continue to do it will be given an infraction. Two infractions and the member's signature will no longer display on the forums. Four infractions and the member account will be banned.

Thanks for your participation and enjoy your time on our business forum.

[Fergal]

Thank you for taking the time to visit our business and personal success forum. Please be advised that posts on Business Advice Forum represent the personal views and opinions of the person making the post. These opinions can be informed and extremely useful but they should not take the place of professional advice.

Business Advice Forum should be used entirely at your own risk. The advice, suggestions and other services provided on this forum are not guaranteed or warranted in any way. Business Advice Forum makes no representation or warranties with respect to the accuracy, applicability, fitness, or completeness of the content published on this site. If you wish to rely on or apply any of the information on this site you do so at your own risk and take full responsibility for your own actions.

Business Advice Forum disclaims any warranties (express or implied), merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. We shall in no event be held liable to any party for any direct, indirect, punitive, special, incidental or other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of material or content or links on this site, which is provided “as is”, and without warranties. All links are for information purposes only and are not warranted for content, accuracy or any other implied or explicit purpose.

Please be aware that you can never be entirely sure of the identification, qualifications, knowledge, opinions or motives of other members of our community.

We hope that you enjoy and benefit from your time on Business Advice Forum and we would be delighted to help you in any way we can.

Thanks again!

[Fergal]

Business Advice Forum's Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Business Advice Forum website.

We request that you provide a user-name and email address on our registration page. The user-name you provide is a name of your choosing and does not need to include any identifiable information. We require a valid email address for verification, as part of our methods to prevent forum spam.

The Way We Use Information:
We use the registration information you provide about yourself only to complete your registration. We do not share this information with outside parties.

We use email addresses to answer the email we receive and to send you Admin emails, related to your Business Advice Forum membership. These emails are infrequent and you should expect less than 15 such emails per year. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You can access and amend all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by logging in to Business Advice Forum and visiting the User CP. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.

You can also correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Google Cookies
We may publish Google ads at some time on Business Advice Forum. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on publisher sites. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to publisher sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please use the Business Advice Forum Contact Form.

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BusinessAdviceForum.com respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow our Notice and Procedures for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement below.

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright
If you believe that you hold a claim of copyright infringement against BusinessAdviceForum.com, please submit notice of your claim using our contact form.

To be effective, the notification of your claim of copyright infringement should be written and should include the following:

• A statement that you are the owner of the exclusive right you claim has been infringed, or a statement that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that has allegedly been infringed.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate.
• Your signature. (The signature may be electronic.)
• The identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. (If you claim that multiple copyrighted works have been infringed you can submit one notification with a list of the allegedly infringed works.)
• Identification of the material that you claim to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit BusinessAdviceForum.com to locate the material.
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit BusinessAdviceForum.com to contact you, including your address, telephone number, fax number and, if available, an electronic mail address. You can provide contact information for the owner of the exclusive right that you claim has been infringed if you are not the owner, but rather authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
• A statement you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

BusinessAdviceForum.com will respond to any copyright complaints in a timely manner. Should you be the copyright holder of a specific piece of content featured on this site without your permission, BusinessAdviceForum.com will remove it in a timely manner once notified.