CBR-Forum Acceptable Usage Policy

Maintaining a positive environment
Our main House Rule is that you respect others, including both members and the team who manage CBR-Forum.org.uk. Within the reasonable limits of personal dignity and your integrity, we ask that you follow basic rules of civility and respectfully ask that you should always aim to be polite and constructive in your interaction with other members and with the team.

From time to time one of our team needs to make a judgement call on the behaviour of a member. That person on the team always has the final say and members are expected to abide by the decisions made. We appreciate that you may not always agree with how we handle conflicts or try to keep the peace. If people act in a way that we believe is contrary to our House Rules, we'll usually let them know how we feel and will give them the opportunity to put the situation right before we choose to end our relationship with them.

We believe in freedom of speech, but recognise that with that right comes the responsibility and the need to respect those who do not share the same views or ideals. We also have an obligation to respect the law, and the rights and privacy of other people, and we take our duty of care and member safety seriously. These considerations are paramount. We respect and encourage vigorous and constructive criticism and feedback about CBR-Forum.org.uk but we don't see a reason to maintain the memberships of those who continually seek to attack us or to harm CBR-Forum.org.uk's good reputation.

The bottom line: setting the standards
CBR-Forum.org.uk is an independently owned organisation that provides services for which people may choose to pay to use. We understand that your use of CBR-Forum.org.uk is entirely voluntary and that you have the right to terminate your membership if you feel that CBR-Forum.org.uk is not for you. However, we always strive to ensure that we maintain standards that will benefit you and all other members of CBR-Forum.org.uk.

The team built the foundations of CBR-Forum.org.uk and have invested in its development, chosen how to fund it and chooses how to maintain and grow it on an ongoing basis. We respect that, without our members, there would be no reason for CBR-Forum.org.uk to exist—but we ask our members to respect that in choosing how to develop, fund, organise, manage, administer and grow CBR-Forum.org.uk, the team also chooses what is in the best interests of CBR-Forum.org.uk. Our guidelines are defined and maintained by the team that manages CBR-Forum.org.uk and that team ultimately decides whether or not people are abiding by them and acting in a way that's in keeping with our Terms of Membership.

Because the use of CBR-Forum.org.uk is entirely voluntary, we feel that if you believe our House Rules are too restrictive or you are not comfortable abiding by them, you should actively find an alternative organisation whose rules are more acceptable to you. Naturally we hope that you agree that a few House Rules are for the benefit of everyone within CBR-Forum.org.uk and that you will choose to respect them and enjoy a long and positive membership.

3 Strikes
We operate a three strike policy. 

Our warnings are permanent; and thus at the discretion of the team may issue temporary bans from a minimum of 30 minutes depending on the circumstances. If temporary bans appear not to be affective, a warning will be issued.

Users will be warned a maximum of three times before the user's account, email or IP is banned. Arguing with team members after having received a ban or a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning (not a ban). 

Users who feel they have been unfairly warned or banned are welcome to contact the relevant team leader, who will decide the outcome.

Any attempt to circumvent a ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, registering a new email account of evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as an anonymous user. 

An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact team members personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban. 

Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While we may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence. 

Moderator Obligations
If any member continually misuses any of the site's services or features; that user may at the discretion of the team withdraw those services or features from that member.

At any point if deemed necessary by a user's behaviour on the site; the site team may decided to enforce post approval, effectively moderating particular user's posts before being made visible to other users; those users effected by this policy will be notified at point of activation of which the duration being discretionary.

As stated previously; a Moderator's decision is final; questioning their method or reasoning for debate on our open forums is not acceptable; user's who do this may find their posts removed, future posts moderated, warned or their account banned.

Data Obligations
To ensure that we keep only user accounts that are active; accounts that exceed one year of inactivity will be removed from our database; users will be reminded twice with a 7 day gap once a whole year has passed . Once deleted the username becomes available for re-use and recovery of old accounts will not be possible; users can however re-register, and use the same username if its available. Posts belonging to those deleted accounts will remain on the system, but will not be associated with a re-registered account of the same name.

The server is backed up daily and copies of the database are archived for 5 days; the database and the site's contents is also periodically downloaded and secured in case of system wide failure. 

Please refer to our privacy policy for data usage.

House Rules
It is very important to understand that this site is used by many different people with their own beliefs, personalities, thought processes and skill levels of all ages; with this in mind, we need to make it very clear what is expected of your use of this site and towards others; this AUP is to underline key points that have been raised over the years to make the site usable and appreciated by all.

1. Remember, our members are real people and thus you should treat them with respect.
2. By using this site you acknowledge that you should avoid anti-social behaviour, or any behaviour that is designed to offend or bait other members. 
3. Members are asked to not act as “back seat moderators”. If members note an issue which contravenes something in our policies, they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the Team . Please use the “post report” feature to report posts. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who constantly “act” as moderators may be warned.
4. We request that you do not link your avatar to an image stored on our site, and that you refrain from using images or lengthy information in or as signatures.
5. No nude/explicit pictures are to be posted, linked or thereby exposed to the site as content (includes showing the image on our site from an external source); although this site is intended for adults, please try and keep your posts respectful and clean. 
6. Members are urged to ensure that their posts\threads are in the correct forum section; and that posts remain suitably on topic; members who frequently post in the wrong section or digress topics may have their posts removed or subjected to appropriate posting restrictions or ban.
7. Avoid "FAO" and similar directed threads (For Attention Of); if you wish to bring a thread to someone's attention; PM or Email them using the appropriate links; These kinds of posts will be removed without notification and persistent offenders may be warned or have their future posts moderated.
8. Free-load Advertising (soliciting) is strictly prohibited; users advertising their own companies, or companies they have connections with may have their posts moderated or warned. If users wish to advertise their services on our site, please contact a member of the team who will advise you of the process and procedure to follow to obtain advertising space either paid or beneficial.
9. Please avoid Flaming! This site does not support flaming of any kind. If you have a problem with someone or something someone said, keep it civil and take it off site or off the public forums; use Private Messaging to resolve your issues. This site completely supports and encourages you to express your opinions, just make sure you provide your fellow members the same respect and courtesy that you deserve. If there is a concern that needs to be brought to attention, please use the "Report Post" feature to report the post and express your concerns with the post.
10. Intergroup banter is fine for those in the know, but allot of members may not be aware of your Intergroup connections or sense of humour, and could be construed as flaming or inappropriate behaviour, any banter that is deemed inappropriate or perceived as anti-social will be removed; and the offending member's future posts being moderated or warned.
11. This site is UK based, and intended for a UK/English speaking audience, please take the time to write your posts in full UK English, short mobile text format is deemed not acceptable as this will effect search results; continual disregard for the language will see all future posts by that member being moderated.
12. You are requested to use and maintain one up-to-date valid account with one email address and to use site's features & fields for their intended purpose.
13. Hacking or attempting to hack the site, along with cause of disruption through DOS (Denial of Service) attacks or similar, we will report these to the internet crime department for investigation; and where possible prosecute.
14. Users are advised to avoid asking questions or to reveal methods that may undermine bike security (e.g. disabling HISS); this line of questioning or divulge of information will result in the post being removed and the poster warned.
15. Threads that are started that contain material that is not suitable for corporate environments, must contain the letters NSFW for Not Safe For Work in the title.

By Registering and you're continual use of this site you agree to be bound by these conditions.

NOTE: CBR-Forum.org.uk holds the right to change the above AUP or Terms & Conditions at any time; it is your sole responsibility to review them regularly.

This site is always in development, and thus services and features may be modified, added or withdrawn at any time with little or no warning if development or site security requires it.

This site is hosted by a 3rd party and may be effected time to time by issues that are out of our control.

Our site is also to adhere to our Service Providers Terms of Use - if we are contacted about activities, or content that is available through our site that is an infringement of our providers terms and conditions; the site may be withdrawn from service while content or activity is removed/stopped. 
Specifically : Adult material - includes all pornography, erotic images, or otherwise lewd or obscene content.