MECHANICAL DESIGN FORUM RULES - please read

Introduction
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General rules
By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

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You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated, knowingly false or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country, the country where "Mechanical Design Forum" is hosted or International Law. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned, with notification of your Internet Service Provider if deemed required by us. The IP address of all posts are recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that "Mechanical Design Forum" have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic or posts at any time should we see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, neither "Mechanical Design Forum" nor vBulletin Solutions, Inc. (developers of vBulletin) shall be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised. The forum management reserves the right to terminate any user's membership for any reason at any time without explanation.

Rules regarding multiple accounts
Members are permitted to hold a single account which must be used for all circumstances. Anyone using multiple accounts without the express permission of the Forum administrator are at risk of having all their accounts banned from use in the Forum.

Sensitive information / confidentiality
You agree that information posted on the message boards or through the private messaging system does not breach confidentiality agreements with a third party. The "Mechanical Design Forum" does not accept for any breach of confidentiality agreements, breach of copyright, infringement of trademark, patents or intellectual property. Members accept full liability and responsibility for information that they post on the forum.

Trolling (purposely posting messages designed solely to provoke strong reactions) will not be tolerated.

Self promotion policy
The "Mechanical Design Forum" is first and foremost a technical resource for its members. It is not acceptable to self-promote within the forum. It is acceptable for members to use their company logo or branding in their avatar. It is acceptable to use signatures to promote company or services offered. Links to company websites are permitted in signatures. It is not acceptable to use the forum private messaging system to spam members or solicit for business. Constant and willful pushing against the limits described herein - what some would call "almost breaking the rules" - will not be tolerated.

The rules concerning self-promotion are also applicable to members who have purchased official advertisements within the forum.

Although the administrators and moderators of "Mechanical Design Forum" will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this site, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of "Mechanical Design Forum", nor vBulletin Solutions, Inc. will be held responsible for the content of any message.