Member conduct.
You agree to adhere to the rules and guidelines listed in the community Code of Conduct without question and agree to abide by any additional and/or future rules or amendments put in place by the administrators of this site.

Proper use.
You agree to not use these forums to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, invasive of a person’s privacy, pornographic, excessively violent, or otherwise violates any other applicable laws. Or to use the forums or any of the services provided, for, or in connection with, tampering, hacking, trolling, spamming, modifying or otherwise corrupting the security or functionality of these forums or any other system or device.
You also agree not to access, or attempt to access, any of the provided services by any means other than through the interfaces provided by MacGyver Online unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with MacGyver Online.

Email account validation.
You agree to maintain a current and working email address in your contact information at all times for the purpose of account validations. And understand that failing to do so may lead us to assume your account has been abandoned and result in termination of your account.
(Your email account is only visible to the administrators of this site.)

Abandoned accounts.
Any account which is left inactive for a period of 12 months or more may be considered abandoned, and may be terminated as deemed appropriate by administrators of this community.

Likewise newly registered accounts which show no activity within  the first month of registration may be considered spam or abandoned accounts and may be terminated as deemed appropriate by administrators of this community.

Ownership of posts.
While you retain full ownership of all your posts, you grant MacGyver Online a non-revocable full and perpetual license to use, display, store, copy, archive, move, edit, delete, quote, or otherwise alter or adapt any post you make in any way deemed necessary for the normal operation and/or administration of this community.

In the event of an account being terminated (voluntarily or as the result of disciplinary action) MacGyver Online shell retain the above full and perpetual license on all posts associated with the terminated account.

In order to protect our forums from malicious editing or deleting of posts, members may only edit/delete their posts for a time period of 48 hours after the post is made. Once this time period has passed you will need to contact the admin if you wish to delete or further edit your post.

Threads can not be deleted once a reply has been posted in them. This to protect the ownership rights of the replying members.

Fan fiction stories
When posting your fan fiction stories you grant MacGyver Online a separate non-exclusive right to publish, store, archive, move your fan fiction as deemed necessary by the administrators of this site. The non-exclusive publishing right ends when your work is removed from our forums.

You also accept that if your fan fiction work is deemed to be in violation of the fan fiction rules or our Code of Conduct, it may be deleted.

Freedom of speech.
You understand that although the constitution of the United States of America and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights guarantees freedom of public speech for citizens of their states and countries, this website is not a US state, nor a UN country, and the behaviors and activities of members of this privately owned website are governed by our Code of Conduct and this Terms Of Service agreement.

Privacy policy.
By using our forums you consent to the collection, storage and use of member information as set forth in our privacy policy

Limitation of Liability.
While the administrators and staff of this site do try to make sure rules and guidelines are followed, the "real-time" nature of this community means they are not always able to prevent or remove inappropriate information or messages from being displayed and therefore can not be held responsible for the content, accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message on these forums.

All posts should be considered the opinions of the respective authors and not that of the administrators or this site.

Account termination.
You understand and agree that the administrators of this board may terminate any account they deem to be in violation of this agreement or any other web site policy. You understand that you have the right to freely terminate your account at any time and for any reason via our unsubscribe form.

By posting in this community you agree to be bound by this TOS agreement.