Please take a moment to read our rules and policies in full since some may differ to your expectations.

If you agree with the following rules and policies then please click on the 'Accept' button at the bottom of the page. If not (or if you are under 13 years of age) then please click on the 'Cancel' button instead. By registering to use these forums you confirm that you meet the criteria set forth below and you further agree to abide by all of the rules and policies set forth herein.

Are you under the age of 13?

If you are below thirteen years of age then you may not use these forums. Please DO NOT REGISTER if you are below the age of 13 or you risk being permanently barred from our community. The Federal Trade Commission's Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) requires that web sites are to obtain parental consent before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13.

Contact Information & Privacy:

The Dead Puppies Society and our host, JetstreamServers.com, respects your right to privacy and will not trade or sell your contact information to any third party and will not use any contact information to solicit you in any way whatsoever. You chose whether or not to display your email address or other contact particulars to other users of the community. The only time we may disclose this information to others is as may be required by law (court order for example) or when investigating possible illegal activity or conduct that may be in breach of our rules or policies. You should be aware that all posters IP addresses are logged and in order to complete your registration with us, you need a valid email address.

We need to place one cookie on your PC. This is for your benefit only and contains information to help our forums display which messages you have or haven't read yet. No personal identifying information or post contents are contained in this cookie. The forum provides a link that will remove this cookie for you if you wish.

Although we strive to maintain privacy regarding your contact information, you agree that the contents of any message you post on our forums can be considered public domain and may be freely used, referenced or redistributed by persons visiting our forums.

Moderation & Posting Rules:

Although messages posted are not the responsibility of these forums and we are not responsible for the content or accuracy of any of these messages, we reserve the right for ourselves and our agents to edit or delete any message for any or no reason whatsoever. Generally we only moderate posts that are in breach of our rules or policies or threads that have not been accessed for some time. If you do find any posts are objectionable then please contact abuse-|at|-Dead-Puppies.com with a link to the post in question. We are particularly concerned with hate language and we will not hesitate to ban frequent or extreme offenders breaching any of our rules or policies.

All posts must be in English and may not be commercial solicitations.

YOU MUST ONLY POST IN THE RELEVENT FORUM and should not take a thread off topic. You can start a new thread and link any side issues as needed. You agree not to spam on the forums or harvest contact information for commercial gain. Posts should only be made once and in one forum only. You may not cross post. A moderator may link a thread to several forums if necessary rather than cross posting in multiple places. Posts may only be bumped if they are beneath closed posts. Junk posts such as random characters, irrelevant garbage or a short message that adds nothing new to a thread (such as just 'LOL') are prohibited. Basically, don't spam or flood please. Thanks!

You agree to refrain from swearing, profanity, foul language, discourteous behavior, racial, national or sexual slurs or other innapropriate or illegal behaviour on these forums. No warez links or crack how tos or posts of a pornographic or sexual nature please. No links to innapropriate content please. This is a family friendly site.

You agree not to use these forums to post any material which is illegal or that may generally be deemed to be vulgar, defamatory, inaccurate, harassing, hateful, threatening, invading of others privacy, sexually oriented or violates any laws. Our reference to swearing includes acronyms such as WTF and variations and mispellings. We understand that sometimes posters will wish to vehemently disagree with someone else's post. This is fine but personal attacks or responses resorting to vulgar language are not permitted. One can agree to disagree and post one's point of view without getting personal or in to a flame war.

Should a moderator or forum administrator intercede in a thread due to it getting out of hand, he she may optionally close the thread (temporarily until people cool down or permanently) or request that members make no more than one more post on the subject (closing arguments.) You may not continue such "flame" topics by starting a new thread or post more than the one time as directed but you may edit your existing posts as desired.

You further agree that you will not post any copyrighted material that is not owned by yourself or the owners of these forums.

Liability:

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Nipponzan Myohoji, it's host, members, employees, associates and moderators from all and any liability, express or implied. Nipponzan Myohoji does not guarantee service, which is provided on an as-is basis and is not responsible for the content of any post. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless these forums and their agents with respect to any claim based upon any post you may make. We also reserve the right to reveal whatever information we know about you in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by yourself.

Other:

Nipponzan Myohoji and/or our host, JetstreamServers.com, reserves the right to modify these rules and policies at any time, without notice. For your convenience, a link to our current rules and policies appears at the top of every one of our forums.

Our most important rule is to have fun on the forums! If you act politely, considerately and sensibly then most of the rules and regulations are covered. These forums are here for your benefit. Please use them!