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IC Mag Site Policy - Terms of Use (TOU)

Introduction: www.icmag.com is a privately owned site hosting international members and viewers - As such, our Terms of Use (hereafter referred to as TOU) contains rules which are expected to be followed in order to create and maintain an enjoyable experience for our users and readers alike. While we understand that there are conflicting laws across the globe, and what might be considered legal in one place might considered illegal in another, as a member you will be expected to follow our international posting guidelines. Our TOU applies to ALL members and visitors of this site regardless of one's location, therefore we reserve the right, as a privately owned site to edit inappropriate posts and also set and keep high standards regarding posts and content.

1. Illegal Postings: Illegal posts are those that contain Child Pornography, drug dealing or other illegal activities or images and/or information related to those activities, and are thereby not allowed on our forum(s). You accept full responsibility for the content you post as we cannot be held liable for the activities of others on our sites.

2. Duplicate/Repetitive Postings: Duplicate postings with identical or similar text are not allowed. Duplicate postings will be removed.

3. Multiple Personalities: We do not advocate the use of multiple member names for just one user. Should you do so, you may never use more than one personality in a single thread. Use of multiple usernames in the same thread will result in banishment of that and all associated member names.

4. Flaming/Trolling: Flames are posts intended to insult and provoke. Any Member engaging another Member/Moderator or Administrator with gratuitous, insulting and/or threatening behavior will be subject to being banned or placement on site wide ignore.
ICMag encourages civil and respectful discourse between it's members and staff but has to curtail those that attempt to turn an argument into a fight. There is an 'ignore' option in every members control panel to be used if a member finds themselves in a personality conflict with another member.

5. Obscene/Pornographic/Violent postings: Any use of images revealing genitalia, violence or violent atrocities will be removed and a warning will be issued. Repeated posting of these types of images will result in banning.

6. Off Topic Postings: Posted remarks that have nothing to do with the subject of the forum will be moved or deleted at the discretion of the moderators.

7. Solicitations: Threads or posts soliciting or offering the buying/ selling/ trading/ swapping/ testing/ giving of seeds, clones, pollen, cannabis, hash, or any other substance or article is not permitted in the open forum(s) and will be deleted, with the member subjected to banning without warning. Trading of seeds, clones and any other form of Cannabis genetic material is allowed only in the Veteran/Premium forum under the correct subforum for trading. The end user has the responsibility of checking local laws and doing the exchange in a safe way. No sales are allowed in the Veteran/Premium subforum. No cannabis flowers, hash, or any other substance is allowed to be sold in this subforum or on any other subforum on ICMag.
7a. Wish lists of varieties placed in posts, threads, or the members 'signature lines' area will be deleted by admin as doing so is deemed an attempt to circumvent site policy regarding solicitations.

8. Spamming: The posting of links to other commercial websites, forums, chat rooms or communities, or commercial products are not permitted. Members who have their own websites shall not be permitted to place the URL or related information in your profile area or display it in your signature, as doing so is considered advertising. There are appropriate avenues to follow regarding advertising on ICMag. Any unauthorized advertisements will be deleted as Spam and the member will be banned.
8a. As a privately owned site, we retain the right to prohibit information posted in threads, posts, and signature lines that contains information pertaining to commercial products/entities that do not pay for advertisement.

9. Banning: People who violate ICMag's forum TOU are subject to banning. Once someone has been banned from the site, we do not allow complaints from other members about it. Once banned, we are done with that individual, and no amount of complaining from other members will help. We do not justify our bans to the general membership. Those who complain about a banishment, are subject to being banned themselves.

10. Status: As long as you respect our rules you will be a welcomed member of this forum. Those who have decided to join our community and support what we stand for will be given the rights of membership. Members who abuse their member status may be issued a warning that their behavior is unacceptable. Further abuse will lead to banning.

11. Chatroom: Our chat room has moderators assigned to keep messages civil and in compliance with our forum guidelines (TOU). In order to use the ICMag chat room, a member must be in good standing on this site with a minimum post count of 5 posts and at least a week of membership. Those in our chat room are expected to conduct themselves in the company of others in a civil and unoffensive manner. This is an international site and obscene language will not be tolerated. Please be respectful so that the chat can be pleasurable for everyone - Non compliance with our forum guidelines (TOU) in chat will result in banning from chat and/or the site itself.

12. Private Message (PM): Any personal message sent by one member to another through the Conversations system or through Chat Private messages, should stay private. Posting private messages (PM's) and/or e-mails (or part's thereof) in open forum(s) is not permitted and will result in the offending member being banned. Posting of any member's personal information is strictly forbidden and will result in immediate banning.

12a. Forwarding of Private Messages (PM's) is not permitted without the original sender of the PM giving the member who wishes to forward that private information permission prior to the PM being forwarded. Any member who forwards a PM to other member(s) without first obtaining permission from the original sender will be banned if the original sender, or any recipient of that PM make a valid complaint to Admin.

13. Profile Visitor Messages (VM's): Visitor messages posted on user's profile are not private and thereby must be in compliance with the forum guidelines (TOU) applicable to posts in open forums.

14. Politics/Religion: Threads or posts pertaining to political and religious discussions, by their very sensitive nature, can incite or inflame others due to the wide and varying personal beliefs that naturally exist in a global community and will only be tolerated in The Speakers Corner forum. Political discussions pertaining specifically to cannabis laws/legalization or general current affairs are only accepted in the appropriate forums.

15. Off-site links: Off-site links to other websites that are controlled by servers that are not located in a cannabis tolerant country could possibly be used to harvest growers IP's so compromising the security of our members. Admin may elect (at their discretion) to delete any links to off server websites as a security precaution to safeguard the security of all members.

16. PM System: A minimum post count of 5 posts and at least 7 days of membership is required before being able to send/receive private messages, as well to use a custom avatar. Those who attempt to circumvent the minimum post count by turbo posting, or making posts with no worthwhile content, will have their posts deleted and/or the post count of the turbo poster reset to 0 by admin as a warning. Repeated turbo posting will result in banning without warning.

17. Social events: Outside of events that take place in Amsterdam, Barcelona or other places where weed is legal or tolerated (4:20 cup, High Times cup etc) we do not condone, encourage, nor permit discussions for private meet-ups. It is our hope that members retain their anonymity afforded them through the use of this site. Any member who attempts to solicit or arrange meet-ups is subject to immediate banishment. It is ultimately up to each member to protect their own identity by remaining anonymous at all times. Posts pertaining to private meet-ups/social events via VM's, reported PM's, or events not approved by Admin will be deleted. If you wish to make known an event, you must contact Admin for event approval prior to posting.

18. Report Posts: Please let us know ASAP if there are any postings that violate these guidelines, especially if they offend you! - Next to every post there is a link to report it for review by a Moderator, Supermoderator or member of Admin. We encourage members to use the 'Report' feature for reporting TOU violations or anything else that requires the attention of a moderator. However, abuse of this function will not be tolerated and can result in sanctions.

19. Vendor Moderators: Vendors must moderate their forum in compliance with our TOU. Supermod and Admin moderating decisions supersede that of any vendor moderator. No post(s) made in a vendor's forum by a Supermod or Admin shall be deleted by that forum's vendor moderator.
 
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