Forum Updates ~ 5/09/2010

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Welcome September! This is the first set of updates this month and I am afraid I have nothing to sweep you off your feet, just a few technical alterations and formalities this week, we have to have the boring weeks sometimes I promise I will make up for it with the introduction of some exciting new features over the coming weeks, there's seriously a lot going on behind the scenes at the moment and you will be seeing some of this very soon!

Anyway this week, as I said a lot of administrative kind of things, so try not to fall asleep!

• Become a Habbox Donator is now part of the 'Help/Questions/Feedback' section
• Slight changes to the Habbox Forum Terms & Conditions
• Changes to Rule A2
• Changes to Rule A10

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The 'Become a Habbox Donator' forum has been moved under the "Help/Questions/Feedback" as to reduce the amount of forums in the important "Habbox" section.

Thanks to nvrspk4 for this suggestion, he gets 30 rep points and the Sunday Updates Award.

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Some while ago now we had to remove the sale of Habbox VIP and introduce Habbox Donator, for some reason the Terms & Conditions were never updated to echo this.

This has now been done, the Terms & Conditions now read: (Updates in blue):

By using this website, you are agreeing to the following Terms and Conditions:

• We can (WITHOUT ANY PRIOR NOTICE) edit, close/lock, move, duplicated or publish any of your posted content because as soon as it is posted, you are the author of the content, but it becomes property of Habbox UK Forum.
• You will follow the Forum rules formulated below.
• The Moderators and Administrators have the right to use their discretion in regard to the rules when executing punishments as a result of rule violation.
• You give us the right (WITHOUT ANY PRIOR NOTICE) to edit, caution, temporarily ban or permanently ban your account, as well as your IP, or take any other measurements that we feel necessary.
• Although the Administrators and Moderators of Habbox.com and habboxforum.com will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of Habbox.com, habboxforum.com Forum, or Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. (developers of vBulletin) can be held responsible for the content of any message.
• We will not delete user accounts, user threads, posts or otherwise submitted content to our web site.
• The Administrators of habboxforum.com may terminate / remove / transfer / modify / limit your service at any time without notice.
• The Administrators of habboxforum.com have the right to read all Private Messages sent between users of this forum, to make sure the Forum rules are followed.
• If you have access to add anything to a calender you must take responsibility for what you add, we advice you keep your date of birth etc private however if you do give it out, you are doing so at your own risk.
• Although Habbox Forum does their best to keep your details protected, we are not responsible for any of your details given out through this forum. We strongly recommend that you don't use the same email, password and date of birth for this forum as you use for Habbo Hotel.
• Habbox (including competition staff) are not responsible for giving out competition prizes run by other Habbox members if they are not run by Habbox itself.

Should you ever donate to Habbox, or become Habbox VIP you will warrant the following:

• Habboxforum.com reserves the right to terminate/remove/transfer/modify/limit any or all parts of your subscription at any time without notice.
• Nobody at habboxforum.com or Habbox.com would get to see your credit/debit card details or ask for them, only PayPal get access to them, Go to www.paypal.com for more information. We would like to add that they are the company that processes most of Ebay's credit/debit card transactions and many other worldwide organisations as well.
• Refunds will only be given at the Habbox owners' discretion.

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For clarity, a fourth clause has been added to Rule A2:

A2. Do not post inappropriately ~ Habbox Forum has an audience that includes younger members, and as such all content must be suitable for those members. You must not:

• Talk about adult subjects in an explicit manner.
• Swear or avoid the forum filter in any way (including by using abbreviations)
• Post images, videos or links that with inappropriate content like gore, nudity, obscenity or annoyance.
• Post links which may cause a nuisance to other forum members, such as "Rick Rolling" etc.

Members are reminded that the rules are merely a guideline and the moderators and administatrators shall apply them within their discretion.

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Rule A10 has completely been reworded to read:

A10. Please do not post links to Internet Marketing which you involves your gain at the expense of our members ~ Referral marketing is a method of internet marketing that relies on gaining new customers by referrals, usually through word of mouth. Referrals can be an annoyance for members, and therefore they are not allowed, they are also not allowed in signatures. This rule also covers sites which pay you per click on certain links.

This is as we do not feel it fair for users to post links with the sole intention of making financial gain from our users, with things such as pay-per-click links, this rule does not apply for sites which (only) include Google Adsense.

Members are reminded the rules are applied at the discretion of Moderators & Administrators.