PRIVACY POLICY
Tennis Forums has created this privacy
statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following
discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web
site:
Tennis Forums
Important Note to Children under 13:
Children under 13 are not allowed to participate in any way, shape, or form on
this website.
Tennis Forums is a general audience community
site that allows users to interact with other users via the
Tennis forums. All users MUST be
13 or over to participate. If you are under 13 you must be supervised by a
parent.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
This Web site does NOT request any personal
information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows
you to be personally contacted, in order to participate. Your Internet Service
Provider (but not your e-mail address) of visitors, the e-mail addresses of
those who communicate with us via e-mail and signs up for our message forums.
This information will never be shared or sold.
The web site server logs will store the IP
address of individual accessing this web site. The IP address, through your ISP,
can identify the household where the user accessed this website. This
information is not accessible by our website or our staff, but we may report
unlawful activity to your ISP in order to identify you for possible legal
action.
This IP address will never be shared or revealed
unless under the following circumstances:
1) If a government agency, or an attorney,
subpoenas your private information, or makes a formal and official request for
discovery pursuant to any legal action, or pending legal action against YOU.
2) If our attorney requests this information
relevant to a pending or current legal matter in which you are a potential or
actual party or otherwise contributed in some way to the causation of the legal
matter at hand.
Since we do not collect any personal information
on this Web site, we do not share any personal information with any third
parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes.
This site utilizes forums which can potentially
result in the disclosure of personal information publicly. If we become aware of
this (regardless of the users age), we will delete any personal information
including, but not limited to, email addresses, phone numbers, names, and home
addresses immediately. Please note that we DO NOT store logs of conversations.
EXTERNAL LINKS
This site contains links to other sites. Tennis Forums is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such
Web sites.
PUBLIC FORUMS
This site makes chat rooms and message forums
available to its users. Please remember that any information that is
disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your personal information to others. This
site does not collect any personal information from the chat rooms or
message forums that can personally identify you in any way. Email addresses
are required in order to register for the message forums, but those are
never shared with any third parties and are only used for registration
purposes. In addition, users must be 13 years or older in order to register
to the forums. As mentioned previously, if your child is under 13 and has
registered for a forums account, please contact us immediately with their
username and we will have it removed immediately.
Tennis Forums will never require a user to
submit any more personal information other than what is required for activity
participation. (Age verification and chat nickname)
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this privacy
statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you
can write us an email at:
Contact Us
Disclaimer
You agree not to use this forum to post any material that is vulgar, defamatory, inaccurate, harassing, hateful, threatening, invasive of the privacy of others, sexually explicit, or illegal. You also agree that you will not post any copyrighted material that is not owned by you or tennissmash.net.
You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this forum and their staff with respect to any claim based upon any post you may submit. tennissmash.net reserves the right to reveal any information we have about you in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message that you may post.
We reserve the right to delete any message posted on this forum. If you find any posts objectionable or offensive, please contact the forum administrator at Contact Us
The Federal Trade Commission's Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) requires that Web Sites are to obtain parental consent before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13 years old, you may NOT use this forum. Do NOT register if you are under the age of 13 unless you are supervised by a parent.
Multiple handles are prohibited. If you wish to change your Username at any time, please request permission to do so by writing to Contact Us.
Promotional messages are disallowed and will be removed. Please refrain from posting commercial advertisements except where explicitly designated.
Conflicting opinions are expected to be expressed, and dynamic exchanges are encouraged, however, as noted above, insults and personal attacks are not permitted and will not be tolerated.
Please do not paste the full text of articles into the Forum from other news services and publications. This may be a breach of copyright laws, so add a little extra to make it your own, if not such posts may be removed. Short excerpts and quotations within the limits of fair use are acceptable, however.
Forum users and visitors wishing to request an e-mail address of another individual should Contact Us as an intermediary. TC will then attempt to contact the other individual and secure their written permission to reveal their e-mail address. Failing the receipt of that written permission, no individual's e-mail address will be revealed.
Tennis Forum content may not be reproduced without the express written consent of tennissmash.net.
Failure to comply with these rules may result in revocation of Forum privileges and may also lead to further action taken against the offender.
No posting of p0rn0graphic material or links. No links allowed in signatures. Sites being promoted can only be done so in the website promotions forum. Those continually breaking the rules will be banned for 7 days. Repeat offenders will be banned permanently.
Links in threads - If a thread is created it must have content in the thread, DO NOT just make a thread and put in a link. You MUST have content in your threads if you are linking your thread to another site...Eg: making a thread in advertising forum and you post a link and no content, your thread will be removed
By registering to use this forum, you meet the above criteria and agree to abide by all of the above rules and policies.