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Forum Terms & Rules

By registering, using or reading BucksVAG.net you hereby agree to the following terms and conditions:


You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of ANY law. This is not only harmful, but legal actions can be taken against you. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or you have consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also inappropriate to this forum.


We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information presented, and the messages express the views of the author, and are not necessarily the views of BucksVAG.


Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify a moderator for the forum the topic was posted in immediately. We have the rights to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary.


You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this forum, and any related websites to this forum. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any information we have about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any information posted by you.

Changes.


The administrators reserve the right to add, modify, or remove any of these rules at any time without prior notice. Rule changes apply to past, current and future posts.



If you send an offensive Private Message to another poster, be it unsolicited or not, be aware that it is their full right to complain to us about it, and should we find that PM to be indeed offensive, we will not allow you to use the PM system, and upon repeated complaints (from one or all) treat this as any other public issue - we will ban that user altogether from the website.


Furthermore, in radical situations, when a couple of posters constantly attack each other or harass each other - in public or via PM - We will bar BOTH sides from exchanging ANY word on the forum (in public or via PM) with each other. If they continue to do so, one or all, they will be banned.


This will NOT be a forum used for personal feuds/flaming.


Moderation.

We reserve the right to moderate any content we (the team) determine contravenes these rules. While we do not wish to silence people, and fully believe in freedom of speech, from time to time content has to be removed. In some cases we do not take these decisions right away, so there may be a period of time between actions.


Bans and warnings.

Rule breaking may invoke the forum 'warning system' which can result in any member being banned either temporarily or permanently. If an official warning has been issued, a yellow or red icon will be displayed in the users avatar/profile to indicate the severity of the warning. According to the nature of the rule breaking, users will receive a 'yellow' warning for the first two instances of rule breaking. Any subsequent occurrences may result in the user receiving a temporary or permanent ban which will be symbolized by a 'red' warning icon. In severe cases at the discretion of the team, members may receive an immediate 'red' warning resulting in an instant ban.



Specific details of any bans and/or warnings will remain the business of the BucksVAG team and the poster(s) involved. No other member will receive any information about this, including if they themselves were the offended party.


Not every 'offence' must or should end in a ban. Of course this is down the discretion of the team and is not open to debate.


However, if someone is repeatedly offensive or disruptive then he/she has no place here. Again, not as a punishment, but, rather as a measure of removing a cause of constant friction from the forums.


Posting Guidelines.

In addition to the above General guidelines a set of posting guidelines has also been created.


Please post topics in the correct forum. It takes a lot of time and effort to run this board and it will make the BucksVAG team's life a hell of a lot easier. It means better navigation of the forums for everyone, and stops the place looking cluttered.


Please try to practise general netiquette. What does this mean? Well not writing your posts or their subjects ALL IN CAPITALS. This is not only annoying, but it makes you look like you've got some kind of anger management problem. Also practice good English, and refrain from using ‘txt’ speak. You're using a keyboard to type with, not a mobile phone key pad.


Please don't just register for an account and not bother to post. It will only cause the admin team more headaches come user account review. Also do not register more than one account per user. If this is found then both user accounts will be suspended pending investigation.


Signature pictures.

We feel, that with increasing amounts of posts on the forums, its important to make sure posted content is not distracted in any way. With the every growing popularity with signature images on forums these days its important that these do not take over. Therefore we have enforced a limit of sizes for signature pictures, this is to help keep the forums looking clean and tidy.


Images: 1 image only, 175 X 150 pixel limit and file size not exceeding 25kb

Text: No more than three lines of text of any font size. For text of font size 12 and above there is a one-line limit.


Any images observed to be over the limit will be removed.


Private Messaging.

Private messaging (or PM for short) allows users to send private messages to one another via the forum (please note you must be logged in to use this). As a 'Standard Member' There is a limit of 50 messages that can be saved in your PM inbox. 'Premium Members' have an unlimited amount of messages stored in your PM inbox.


Avatars.

With the new forum software its now possible to upload, or link to, your own Avatars. Size limit for Avatars is 100 x 128 pixels and file size limit for upload is 64k. Avatars which are seen to be abusive, vulgar, hateful, obscene, profane or sexually oriented will be removed. Repeated abuse will lead to the Avatar upload system being disabled for all users.


Classifieds (For Sale, Wanted)

1. Privately owned items only - i.e no commercial selling. Unless you are a subscribed advertiser.
2. A price must be clearly stated in either the post or subject line of the post. Ads posted without a price will be deleted.
3. To better help identify your ad use a good description of the items For Sale in the thread title field i.e. "MK4 Wheels" or "MK5 Steering Wheel"
4. Only place your ad if you are the legal owner of the item offered - i.e. items posted on behalf of someone else will be deleted.
5. If you're linking to an Ebay or Pistonheads listing please include details of the item in your post. If your posting a Pistonheads listing please also include the price. i.e. posts just containing a link will be deleted.
6. Only members with 100 or more posts and with a length of membership of 3 months or more may place a classified ad.

Any member found to have ripped off / conned another member of this Forum will have their account banned.
BucksVAG.Net will, in no way be held responsible For ads and content posted in the Wanted / For Sale section. The Wanted / For Sale section is provided as-is and posts/content remain the sole responsibility of the poster. If a dispute occurs you are encouraged to contact the seller / buyer and attempt to resolve the issue directly.
The Moderator team will review all posts and any found to be in breach of the rules would be removed at the discretion of the Moderator. Any fraudulent activity will be fully investigated and where necessary, reported to the applicable authorities with all relevant information of the poster being passed to said authorities.


Here at BucksVAG.net we make every effort to make your time on the forum as enjoyable as possible. We believe it's important that we run a clean and friendly environment on the forum. So in return we would like you, the user, to abide whenever necessary, to these rules listed. We accept this is a long list to take on board but please be aware that usage of this website does constitute acceptance of these rules.


We hope that you will find this forum to be one of the most friendly and informative VW boards on the web, and on behalf of the BucksVAG would like to thank everyone for making it the place it is.


Cheers

The BucksVAG team


If you have any questions or comments about these forum rules, or, use of these forums, please contact the Administration team via the forum or Admin @ BucksVAG.net (removing the spaces).