Neither Declan, his Management nor the owners or Administrators of this forum can accept any responsibility for any hurt or distress however caused, which may occur as a result of anyone participating in this forum. All participants will be deemed to have read, understood and accepted this disclaimer.
Any comments views or opinions posted on the forum are those of the member posting and should not be considered to be the views or opinions of Declan, his Management or the Administrators.
'Rules / Conditions of Forum Membership'
General
§1 - Administration
- You can email the administration at administration |at| declan-galbraith.com
- The current Administrators (admins) of this forum are AC_lincoln, Debbie, sammysquid and Steve.
The admin team will endeavor to maintain this forum as a safe and friendly site but cannot be held liable for any distress, however caused, suffered as a result of your membership of it.
The admin team will take whatever action they feel is most appropriate, which may include temporary or permanent banning, following any contravention of these rules and conditions. Their decision and the reason for it will not be a matter for discussion on the open forum. - The current Moderators (mods) of this forum are casandra and vindex.
Their job is to help the admins to watch out for rule violations. They are allowed to remove unsuitable posts/topics or edit posts that contain unsuitable content. If you have questions of any kind related to the forum you are welcome to ask the moderators either by opening a topic in the 'Ask Buddy'-forum or via personal message (PM) or email. - The current Buddy Helpers of this forum are Kimberlee and Tru
They are here to help you and maintain peace on the forum. - If a member notices an apparent contravention of any of these rules, please DO NOT TRY to deal with it, that is the job of the administration!
- If any member should receive an unpleasant or offensive e-mail or private message, copies of the relevant contact should be sent to admin who will take appropriate action.
§2 - Copyright
- All information concerning Declan, including images and music, which may be posted on this forum, is COPYRIGHT either to this forum, the artist, or his contracted agents, and therefore MUST NOT be transmitted BY ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER, to any other person, organization, address or internet site.
- The illegal downloading of any copyright protected material of DECLAN or ANY OTHER ARTIST is not permitted, nor is any offer to help or to provide assistance to any member to enable them to do so.
§3 - Personal Information
- Members' e-mail addresses may be included in members profiles for public viewing if they so wish. If any member does not wish to publish their e-mail address in their profile there is no need to do so.
- FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED NOT TO DISCLOSE TELEPHONE NUMBERS OR POSTAL ADDRESSES TO ANYONE ON ANY SITE AND THEY ARE STILL NOT PERMITTED ANYWHERE ON THE FORUM
§4 - Participation
- The participation on this forum is voluntarily, but it is also your privilege to post here, so do not take this for granted.
- New members are asked to shortly introduce themselves here.
- Note that the first few posts of any newly registered account will have to pass moderator's approval before the post is shown in any topic.
- Do not use this forum for your own promotion! Members may present their own work in the 'member renderings'-forum, but if it appears that a member is only here to present him/herself without participating in anything else, the member will lose the privilege to post at all.
- Any member wishing to take part in the Members Chat-forum has to apply to the usergroup Members Chat.
Unless an admin approved your membership this forum is unavailable for you to see. - Usernames consisting only of "Declan" followed by numbers or special characters etc. (e.g. "Declan1234") are NOT allowed. There is only one Declan Galbraith and no name that could be mistaken for him will be tolerated. Same goes for every nickname that might imply an impersonation of someone you are not (e.g. "Ms Galbraith", "Robbie Williams", "Santa Claus",...).
- Newly registered accounts do not have full features (e.g. cannot send PMs, view profiles etc.) until they can post without approval (see §4.3)
§5 - Avatars
- Members may have an Avatar with up to 100x100 pixel (Width x Height) as maximum image size.
- Avatar-images uploaded directly to this forum may be up to 6 KiB large. For larger files, you have to use an external hosting server (e.g. photobucket.com).
- Allowed are pictures of the members themselves or Declan or any graphical art. Not allowed are pictures of other people besides their own and Declan.
- Flash images or any image with moving parts are not allowed.
- Violation of these restrictions may result in a deactivation of your avatar.
§6 - Signatures
- Every member may set a signature for their posts in their profile settings.
- There are no images allowed in signatures anymore.
- Your signature-text can have up to 200 characters, but not more than 4 text-lines.
- You can have up to 3 links in your signature.
- Members may add a personal (your own site) website, YouTube or MySpace link to their signature.
- The font-size is limited to 100% - so only smaller sizes are possible.
Posting
§7 - Content
- PLEASE KEEP YOUR POSTS CHILD FRIENDLY AS MANY AGE GROUPS VISIT THE BOARDS.
- This forum is about Declan! Discussions, advertisements, links, pictures, polls or excessive enthusiasm about other artists have no place here.
- This is an English forum and all members are required to write their posts in English. If you want to post in your own language you have to add the English translation, too.
- Links to other websites must be submitted to Admin for approval and must not be posted unless that permission has been given. Discussions about posts or topics on other websites should be made on those websites NOT on this forum
- All members are responsible for the content of websites for which they post links. So do not post links to websites with content which would be inappropriate on this forum.
- Blatant advertisement links will be removed as will any link found offensive or inappropriate.
- Bad language, rude or aggressive posts, or personal arguments will not be tolerated.
- Derogatory remarks are not permitted about anyone, including artists and/or their music.
- Posts about religion, politics, and sexuality are not permitted on the forum nor should advice be sought,or given, on medical or other personal matters.
- Topics about sad or tragic news are banned in general. However, if a member feels the need to inform the forum about a RECENT loss he/she may do so, if that loss effects the member directly (close friend/relative).
- Posts are meant to have essential content. As for that, the repeating of similar closures over and over again after your replies shall not be part of your post! You may add those to your signature, that's what signatures are for! There is no use in writing "Greetings from..." after every post or adding semi-signatures to it. Posts are not letters! This behaviour only makes the topics harder to read.
- Do not make non-sensical, one or two word posts or containing just emoticons. If you do this the posts will be deleted.
- Do not make several posts to the same topic when noone else has posted in the meantime. Use the edit-button to add anything you want to your post instead of submitting a 2nd post.
- Please have a look on the date of the last post of the topic you are replying to. If it's more than a month old then think twice about posting and bringing that old topic up on top again (bumping). You shall not bump a topic unless it's necessary and very important. Topics that are being bumped without a good reason will be locked or your post might even be deleted.
(the acronym "bump" stands for "bring up my post") - Please make every effort to use correct spelling in your posts as many non-English speaking members use translating tools to enable them to read the posts.
- Please try to ensure that the nature of your post is CLEARLY obvious in your post heading. Headings like
DRAWING, BTW, I THINK, etc. etc.
do not let the members know what your post is about.
§8 - Quoting
- Do not use the quote-button as a permanent reply-button. If you reply to the very previous post, do not quote at all unless you have to refer to a very specific part in the previous post.
- If you have to quote, crop the quote to the very specific part you are referring to with your post. Do not quote the whole posts!
- Do not quote images that have been posted before. You may remove the [img]-tags and quote the link to the image instead.
- You are not able to quote a quote (so called quote pyramid).
§9 - Images/Pictures
- Members may add suitable images to their posts.
- The maximum image size is 640x640pixel.
- If you want to post larger pictures use so called thumbnails or the DIRECT link to the image. Do not post links to a website where the picture is shown!
- Make sure there are always spaces or breaks between two pictures so that the page does not get distorted by multiple in-line-images.
