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Terms and Conditions

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Terms and Conditions

Introduction from the Admins

Firstly an apology…! We make no apology for the nature of these terms and conditions. Our overriding priority is in safeguarding the safety and privacy of younger forum members, the younger cast and their families – online and offline. Some may find them overly prescriptive or negative and we understand therefore why some people may prefer not to be members.

Our requirements around identification and age verification may seem unusual but they are there to limit the inherent risks associated with the Private Messaging system and unmoderated communication between members, especially young people. Anonymity is not accepted on the Forum as this conflicts with the need to promote child safety. All identity and age information is confidential and available only to the Admins.

The forum operates with child safety related procedures based upon guidelines published by the Home office in the UK and the FTC in the US. A copy of the procedures and moderation guidelines are available from the Admins on request by parents or other appropriately concerned parties. The forum also has recommendations for children and parents called “"Child Safety” which are available here: {link here}.

This is a human moderated forum under the definition of those government guidelines. PMs are however NOT moderated and members, especially children and their parents, should exercise maximum caution in their use.

The administrators (“Admins”) of this forum are:

Ruth Balkansky (jabka)
Nikkie Romaine (Nikkie-Nikkie)
John Higginson (JohnH)


Terms and Conditions

Membership

In registering and remaining a member of Billy Elliot The Forum (“the Forum”), members agree to be bound by both these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) and with the Rules of The Forum (“Rules”) as amended from time to time by the Admins. If they do not agree with the Rules and Terms when and if amended they will resign from the site and request the admin to deactivate their account.

Members are required to correctly identify themselves to the Admins through their private profile information. If members fail to provide adequate information or if the Admins believe it appropriate, members will not be allowed access to the PM system or other features and their posts may be pre-moderated.

Anyone who, due to a) conviction of any offence or b) inclusion on any official list or c) information that would be revealed through Enhanced Disclosure (or similar) in any jurisdiction, would likely be prevented from volunteering or working with minors unsupervised is not eligible to be a member of the Forum. Furthermore if members’ circumstances in this respect change after registration they agree to resign from the Forum and request the Admins to deactivate their account.

Members believed to have provided incorrect identification or age information will at the discretion of the Admins be directed to correct it or have their membership of the Forum revoked.

Members are allowed only one account on the Forum.

Members under the age of 16 require the approval of a parent to register.

This is a private members club. Membership is entirely at the discretion of the Administrators.


Moderation and Posting

No profanity is allowed - This is an "all ages" forum. Where members need to use a word in context for a post (e.g. when quoting a line from the show) and appropriate *'s are placed in the word, this will be allowed. What will not be tolerated is if it is used towards another member or in relation to another members post!

No discrimination of any kind will be tolerated. Members found to be posting anything racist, sexist, ageist, homophobic, religious or any other kind of discrimination will have their membership of the Forum revoked without notice.

The Forum, it’s PM or alert systems shall not be used to procure information for the purpose of spam or for unsolicited emails to members.

Information about age, personal email or personal links shall not be posted publicly and will be removed.

Posts may be moderated, edited or deleted without consultation or warning. The decision of the Admins is final.

All posts must be written in English not in ‘text speak’ or coded languages, so as to be understood by all.


Privacy

{See in more detail the full policy here {link here}.}

Admins and moderators will not routinely monitor the PM system however the PM system should not be regarded as private and should not be used to break any of the Rules of the Forum. Such information will be stored on our service providers systems and remain accessible by admin in case of requests by law enforcement or major disputes or complaints.

All data held (including any IP addresses logged) by the Forum systems will be voluntarily given to genuine law enforcement without warrant if requested in investigation of any nature including copyright matters.

The Admins may attempt to identity and age verify registering members using various public sources and may request further information to do this.

The Admins cannot guarantee that its systems are secured or backed-up and that any posts or content uploaded will not be lost or deleted without warning. The Admins will make reasonable efforts on request by members to delete content posted on line in error but cannot undertake to delete the content from PMs, archives or backups.

The Admins and the Forum’s IT service providers make reasonable efforts to ensure the privacy of email addresses and the contents of PMs on its systems, however it cannot guarantee the information will not be “scraped” from the website or that systems will not be compromised and information lost/stolen. Consideration should therefore be given by members to the content posted and for using an email address they can discard if SPAM becomes a problem

The Admins cannot guarantee that all content on the forum, whether uploaded by Admins, moderators or members, is free from viruses and/or other security threats and all members or guest viewers are responsible for maintaining their own virus protection.



Commercial activity, Ownership, Responsibility and Copyright

The views represented on this forum are those of the individuals who posted them and do not necessarily reflect those of the owner or Admins.

The Admins do not support copyright infringement. Posting or deep linking of copyrighted material is not allowed. Members should be careful in linking to material on sharing sites such as YouTube.

Posts, images, videos etc uploaded to the forum remain the copyright of the poster however images may be watermarked to track subsequent downloads.

This is a non-commercial website. The posting of advertising or the linking to external websites for commercial purposes is not allowed and will be deleted.


Contact Points, Notifications and Complaints

If you have any problems or questions, please PM an Admin.

You can also send an e-mail to: admin[at]billyelliottheforum.me.uk {remove the [at] and replace it with @}.

Most of all have fun!

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