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Forum Rules
Working together and abiding by the rules will help preserve the integrity of our community and make it a more enjoyable place to be.
By continuing to visit, use, post in or interact with our site and/or forum in any way, you accept the following rules and conditions. Please read them carefully. If you do not agree with any of the rules or terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing our site.
You agree to use this site and/or forum only for purposes that are permitted by this agreement and any applicable law, regulation, or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions.
Age Restriction:
Use of our website and/or forum is restricted to persons legally permitted to enter into a binding contract. By accessing our site and/or forum, you represent that you are 18 years of age or older and are legally permitted to enter into a binding contract. If you’re not 18 years of age or older, you must be at least 13 years AND under the supervision and with the consent of your parent or guardian, who agrees to be bound by this agreement, and that any information you provide us is not inaccurate, deceptive, or misleading.
Member Conduct
Rule #1....First and foremost, NO BULLYING!! This includes but is not limited to being rude, abusive, insulting, obscene, disrespectful, harassing and the list goes on. You’re an adult and know how to behave in a public place. Any person behaving badly and exhibits the above traits, and such will be banned.
Please be kind and respectful. Treat others with courtesy, even if you disagree.
Disabled People Network reserves the right to refuse service, deny membership, terminate membership and access to any person with or without cause, and to remove or edit content in our sole discretion.
Only ONE username per person allowed. This will help reduce / eliminate the chance of trolling. Users discovered having multiple accounts will have ALL accounts removed.
DO NOT share your personal address, phone number, username, password, or any other detailed information within this forum. If you feel comfortable enough with someone you’ve met on the forum to share this information, do so through the private messenger. You alone are responsible for maintaining your confidentiality and security of yourself. Disabled People Network is not responsible or liable for bad or dangerous outcomes and / or results from you divulging such information.
DO NOT promote or encourage illegal activity. In an attempt to control such behavior, and to aid in civil and criminal legal matters, we reserve the right to retain information of the account, whether the account is active, non-active or deleted, which may include user information, IP address etc… and disclose any user content or electronic communications of any kind to satisfy any legal or regulatory requirement or official request.
NO racial, sexual, sexually explicit, nudity, violence, or suggestive content topics, links, avatars, signatures, etc…
NO religious bigotry.
DO NOT post content of ANY KIND or ANYWHERE that promotes hatred of any race, ethnicity, sex, gender, or religion.
NO online dating ads, no topics or links discussions referring to online dating. There are tons of “dating sites.” Go there to look for dates.
DO NOT send unsolicited emails to fellow members.
DO NOT provide a hyperlink to ANY website containing nudity, vulgarity, threatening, sexually explicit content, abusiveness in any way, harassment or inhumane activity, behavior, or graphics,
DO NOT impersonate any person or entity.
DO NOT post advertisements or any other form of commercial solicitation without prior written authorization from the Company.
DO NOT post or transmit computer viruses or any other malicious software.
DO NOT engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the site and/or the servers and networks which are connected to this site.
DO NOT infringe the intellectual property rights of any third-party, including but not limited to, the copyright, trademarks, patent, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary information and rights.
Choose the best forum category to post your topic and/or question in. DO NOT start a duplicate thread in multiple forum categories.
DO NOT post unsolicited advertisements outside of the Vendor / Buy Sell or Trade forums. They will be removed, and you run the risk of being banned from the forum in whole. At this time, we do not offer a Vendor / Buy Sell or Trade category. If we see the need for it in the future, it might be added.
Political posts are allowed in the forum, however, if you don’t abide by Rule #1, your post and or reply to a post will be removed and you might be as well. There are times in life that you must agree to disagree and leave it at that.
Gun talk and Constitutional Rights talk are allowed in the forum. The same Rule #1 applies and not adhering to that rule will cause your post and or reply to be removed and you may be also.
We know that political and gun talk is a “hot button topic” right now. If you don’t want to read it, scroll on by.
As you have the sole responsibility of securing your personal information, you also have the sole responsibility of securing your account, your username and password. In short, you are also reliable for controlling access to your computer. Therefore, you agree that you are solely responsible for all activities and posts that occur under your account and password.
DO NOT post screenshots or other stolen and copyrighted material from elsewhere on the internet. By posting content on this site and/or forum, you warrant that you are the owner and author of the posted content, or that you have obtained the prior written consent from the third-party owner to post it. When posting third party content, you agree to plainly post the name of said third party adjacent to said content.
By posting content on the site, you also grant and warrant that you have the authority to grant, Disabled People Network, a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide right and license to publish, display, adapt, modify, translate, publicly make available, reproduce, use, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any, and all content. If you do not wish to grant DPN such rights, please do not submit or post content to the site.
Quotes are permitted, but please always plainly credit your source
An IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT LAW regarding recipes or tutorials… Under current copyright laws, ingredient lists, and supply lists are not protected by copyright law, however, the instructions for a recipe or tutorial are. As are the videos and photographs, they are copyright protected. It is permissible to post the recipe ingredient list and/or supply list but you must adapt the instructions, videos, and photographs to be your own original content. My source was http://www.copyrightlaws.com
Absolutely NO AFFILIATE LINKS to be shared on this forum. DO NOT post them in content, topics, replies, avatars, signatures or anywhere else. If someone asks you for a link and you want to send them an affiliate link, you can send it to the requester by private message. This prevents us from having to post a disclaimer on every forum or post that their used in. If you disobey this rule, your post and/or reply will be removed, and your account runs the risk of deletion.
Disabled People Network allows members and vendors to buy, discuss and exchange items. However, Disabled People Network is not responsible for these transactions, and you agree that participating in such transactions is solely AT YOUR OWN RISK.
You agree to refrain from engaging in any inappropriate conduct when using this site and/or forum. Inappropriate conduct will not be tolerated and may result in a termination of member privileges. Inappropriate conduct is any conduct or behavior deemed by us, in our sole discretion, to be harmful to the online community, and our readers.
Site Administrator and Moderator(s) are an important part of this site. They are established members who have shown a knowledge of and adherence to the forum rules and attempt to keep the forum civil and spam free. They are volunteers and do not work for or represent Disabled People Network Their words and actions are their own. They do not have permission to engage in any sort of business as a representative or under representation of Disabled People Network or this site.
They will do their best to intercept and delete all posts that doesn’t adhere to the rules. However, there are times we can’t be there 24 / 7/ 365. If for some reason, we miss one, please email us at disabledpeoplenetwork@gmail.com and let us know the username of poster, date and time of post, along with what category it’s posted on, and we will review it and see if it warrants deletion and penalty.
You are not allowed to download, other than page caching, or modify any portion of our site and/or forum, unless you have prior written permission from Disabled People Network to do so.
The permission to use our site DOES NOT include any resale or commercial use of our site or its contents. Nor does it allow a plagiarized use of our site or its contents.
DO NOT download or copy account information for the benefit of another merchant.
DO NOT use of any type of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering, and extraction tools.
NO parts of this site, in part or, as a whole can be reproduced, duplicated, copies, sold, visited, resold or otherwise exploited for any commercial use without Disabled People Network’s prior written permission.
NO framings or utilization of framing techniques, to enclose any trademark logo, or other proprietary information, including but not limited to, images, text, page layout, or form of this site without Disabled People Network’s prior written permission.
DO NOT use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing Disabled People Network’s name or trademark without our prior written permission.
Any unauthorized use immediately terminates the permission granted by Disabled People Network. Disabled People Network assumes no responsibility to monitor the site and/or forum, but we may do so from time to time, at our sole discretion. Member posted content may be removed from the site at any time with or without cause and without prior notice.
All members have a right to have their account disabled. If you’d like your account disabled, it will require written request. In an effort to safeguard users’ accounts, we may, but are under no obligation to, require validation of the request to disable the account.
Accounts that have no content attached, the account can be completely deleted from the system.
Accounts that have content attached to them, Disabled People Network will disable the account, however, we in our sole discretion, may choose to not remove the content attributed to the account. We have the right to evaluate each request to remove content on an individual basis.
Some of the factors used in evaluating whether the users’ content will be removed or not include, but are not limited to, the number of content entries, the length of content, traffic to the content, the potential impact on the forum and/or thread’s continuity, the age of the content, and the age of the account.
Terms of Service
Accessibility Statement
Disabled People Network provides our service to you subject to the following conditions. If you continue visiting, using, posting on, or interacting in any way with our site and/or forum, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully. If you do not agree to any of the terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing the site.
You agree Disabled People Network reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time, and you agree that each visit you make to DisabledPeopleNetwork.com shall be subject to the current terms and conditions as published on our website.
You further agree that you will comply with any applicable state and federal laws and regulations, local laws and rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and that you are solely responsible for your compliance and posts.
You agree the failure of Disabled People Network to enforce a provision of this Agreement in no way constitutes a waiver of any provision of this Agreement.
You agree we are not responsible for any user-generated content and accounts. Content submitted express the views of their author only.
You agree we may remove or modify any Content submitted at any time, at our sole discretion, with or without cause, with or without notice.
You agree requests for Content to be removed or modified will be undertaken only at our discretion.
You agree we may terminate your access to all or any part of the Disabled People Network website and/or forum at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice.
You agree we reserve the right to refuse service, deny or terminate membership and access to any person with or without cause, and to remove or edit content, in our sole discretion.
You agree all content you submit, upload, or otherwise make available to the Disabled People Network may be reviewed by staff members. All Content you submit, or upload may be sent to third-party verification services (including, but not limited to, spam prevention services). Do not submit any content that you consider to be private or confidential.
You agree you are responsible for maintaining your confidentiality and security of yourself, your private identifying information, your account information, your password and for controlling who accesses and uses your computer. Therefore, you agree that you are solely responsible for all activities and posts that occur under your account and password.
You agree to use this site and/or forum only for the purposes that are permitted by this agreement and any applicable law, regulation, or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions.
You agree to refrain from engaging in any inappropriate conduct when using this site and/or forum. Inappropriate conduct will not be tolerated and may result in a termination of member privileges. It is at our discretion to determine what we consider inappropriate conduct. Inappropriate conduct is any conduct or behavior, deemed by us, to be harmful to the website, online community, and our readers. As outlined on our rules page, they include but are not limited to the following:
Rule #1....First and foremost, NO BULLYING!! This includes but is not limited to being rude, abusive, insulting, obscene, disrespectful, harassing and the list goes on. You’re an adult and know how to behave in a public place. Any person behaving badly and exhibits the above traits, and such will be banned.
Please be kind and respectful. Treat others with courtesy, even if you disagree.
You agree to using only ONE username per person allowed. This will help reduce / eliminate the chance of trolling. Users discovered having multiple accounts will have ALL accounts removed.
You agree not to share your personal address, phone number, username, password, or any other detailed information within this forum. If you feel comfortable enough with someone you’ve met on the forum to share this information, do so through the private messenger. You alone are responsible for maintaining your confidentiality and security of yourself. Disabled People Network is not responsible or liable for bad or dangerous outcomes and / or results from you divulging such information.
You agree not to promote or encourage illegal activity. In an attempt to control such behavior, and to aid in civil and criminal legal matters, we reserve the right to retain information, which may include user information, IP address etc.… and disclose any user content or electronic communications of any kind to satisfy any legal or regulatory requirement or official request.
You agree not to submit or link to any content which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, threatening, spam or spam-like, likely to offend, contains adult or objectionable content, contains personal information of others, risks copyright infringement, encourages unlawful activity, or otherwise violates any laws. You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that content or your conduct.
You agree to not posting racial, sexual, sexually explicit, nudity, violence, or suggestive content topics, links, avatars, signatures, etc.…
You agree not to engage in or involving yourself in religious bigotry.
You agree not to post content of ANY KIND or ANYWHERE that promotes hatred of any race, ethnicity, sex, gender, or religion.
You agree to no online dating ads, no topics or links discussions referring to online dating. There are tons of “dating sites.” Go there to look for dates.
You agree not to send unsolicited emails to fellow members.
You agree not to provide a hyperlink to ANY website containing nudity, vulgarity, threatening, sexually explicit content, abusiveness in any way, harassment or inhumane activity, behavior, or graphics,
You agree you will not impersonate any person or entity.
You agree to not post advertisements or any other form of commercial solicitation without prior written authorization from the Company.
You agree not to post or transmit computer viruses or any other malicious software.
You agree you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the site and/or the servers and networks which are connected to this site.
You agree you will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third-party, including but not limited to, the copyright, trademarks, patent, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary information and rights.
Choose the best forum category to post your topic and/or question in. DO NOT start a duplicate thread in multiple forum categories.
You agree to not post unsolicited advertisements outside of the Vendor / Buy Sell or Trade forums. They will be removed, and you run the risk of being banned from the forum in whole. At this time, we do not offer a Vendor / Buy Sell or Trade category, therefore you agree not to post unsolicited advertisements anywhere on Disabled People Network. If we see the need for it in the future, it might be added.
Political posts are allowed in the forum; however, you agree that if you don’t abide by Rule #1, your post and or reply to a post will be removed and you might be as well. There are times in life that you must agree to disagree and leave it at that.
Gun talk and Constitutional Rights talk are allowed in the forum. You agree to abide by the same Rule #1 outlined in the rules page, and not adhering to that rule will cause your post and or reply to be removed and you may be also.
We know that political and gun talk is a “hot button topic” right now. You agree that if you don’t want to read it, you will scroll on by.
As you have the sole responsibility of securing your personal information, you also have the sole responsibility of securing your account, your username and password. In short, you are also reliable for controlling access to your computer. Therefore, you agree that you are solely responsible for all activities and posts that occur under your account and password.
You agree, to never post screenshots or other stolen and copyrighted material from elsewhere on the internet.
You agree to NEVER POSTING or SHARING AFFILIATE LINKS on this forum. You agree to not post them in content, topics, replies, avatars, signatures or anywhere else. If someone asks you for a link and you want to send them an affiliate link, you agree to send it to the requester by private message. This prevents us from having to post a disclaimer on every forum or post that their used in. You agree that if you disobey this rule, your post and/or reply will be removed, and your account runs the risk of deletion.
License and Site Access
You agree, by posting content on this site and/or forum, you warrant that you are the owner and author of the posted content, or that you have obtained the prior written consent from the third-party owner to post it. When posting third party content, you agree to plainly post the name of said third party adjacent to said content.
By posting content on the site and/or forum, you warrant that you are the owner and author of the posted content, or that you have obtained the prior written consent to post said content from a third-party owner. When posting content originating from any third-party, you agree to plainly post the name of the third-party adjacent to or within the content you derived from them.
By posting content on the site, you also agree to, grant and warrant that you have the authority to grant, Disabled People Network a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide right, permanent, and unlimited license to publish, re-publish, display, adapt, modify, translate, publicly make available, reproduce, use, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any, and all content. You retain copyright over the content. If you do not wish to grant Disabled People Network such rights, please do not submit or post content to the site.
You agree all content you submit, upload, or otherwise make available to Disabled People Network’s website and or forum may be reviewed by staff members.
You agree all content you submit, or upload may be sent to third-party verification services (including, but not limited to, spam prevention services). Do not submit any content that you consider to be private or confidential.
Quotes are permitted, but you agree to always credit your source plainly.
An IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT LAW regarding recipes or tutorials… Under current copyright laws, ingredient lists, and supply lists are not protected by copyright law, however, the instructions for a recipe or tutorial are. As are the videos and photographs, they are copyright protected. It is permissible to post the recipe ingredient list and/or supply list but you must adapt the instructions, videos, and photographs to be your own original content. My source was http://www.copyrightlaws.com
Disabled People Network allows members and vendors to buy, discuss and exchange items via Private Messaging Only. However, Disabled People Network is not responsible for these transactions, and you agree that participating in such transactions is solely AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Volunteer Moderators and Administrators
Site Administrator and Moderator(s) are an important part of this site. They are established members who have shown a knowledge of and adherence to the forum rules and attempt to keep the forum civil and spam free. They are volunteers and do not work for or represent Disabled People Network. Their words and actions are their own. They do not have permission to engage in any sort of business as a representative or under representation of Disabled People Network or this site. They will do their best to intercept and delete all posts that doesn’t adhere to the rules. However, there are times we can’t be there 24 / 7/ 365. If for some reason, we miss one, please email us at disabledpeoplenetwork@gmail.com and let us know the username of poster, date and time of post, along with what category it’s posted on, and we will review it and see if it warrants deletion and penalty.
You acknowledge and agree that you are not allowed to download, other than page caching, or modify it, or any portion of it, unless you have prior written permission from us.
You agree that permission to use our site does not include any resale or commercial use of our site or its contents.
You agree permission does not allow you to plagiarize our site or its contents.
You agree you will not be downloading or copying account information for the benefit of another merchant.
You agree you cannot use data mining, robots or similar data gathering and extraction tools on our site and/or forum.
You agree you cannot reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, visit, resell or otherwise exploit this site for any commercial use without prior written permission from us.
You agree you cannot frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trademarks, logo, or other proprietary information, including but not limited to images, text, page layout or form, of this site without prior written permission from us.
You agree you cannot use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing Disabled People Networks’ name or trademarks without prior written permission from us.
You agree any unauthorized use immediately and automatically terminates the permission granted by Disabled People Network
You agree you will not solicit personal information from anyone under 18 years of age.
You agree Disabled People Network assumes no responsibility to monitor the site and/or forum but we may do so at random and at our sole discretion. Member posted content may be removed from the site at any time with or without cause and with or without prior notice.
You agree all members have a right to have their account disabled. You understand and agree that if you’d like your account disabled, it will require written request. In an effort to safeguard users’ accounts, we may, but are under no obligation to, require validation of the request to disable the account.
You agree if your account has no content attached, the account can be completely deleted from the system.
You agree if your account has content attached to it, Disabled People Network will disable the account, however, we in our sole discretion, may choose to not remove the content attributed to the account. You also agree we have the right to evaluate each request to remove content on an individual basis.
You acknowledge and agree that some of the factors we use in evaluating whether the users’ content will be removed or not include, but are not limited to, the number of content entries, the length of content, traffic to the content, the potential impact on the forum and/or thread’s continuity, the age of the content, and the age of the account.
We may remove or modify any Content submitted at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice. Requests for Content to be removed or modified will be undertaken only at our discretion. We may terminate your access to all or any part of the Service at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice.
Electronic Communications
You agree to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on the website. You agree that any and all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. If you do not consent to such electronic communication, you agree to stop using the website immediately,
You agree these terms may be changed at any time without notice.
If you do not agree with these terms, please do not register, or use the Disabled People Networks’ website and/or forum. Use of the website and/or forum constitutes acceptance of these terms. If you wish to close your account, please contact us at disabledpeoplenetwork@gmail.com
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us here at Disabled People Network.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.
Disabled People Network’s website and/or forum is governed by the following privacy policy.
If you have questions about your personal information, please contact us at disabledpeoplenetwork@gmail.com
The information we collect, and process include:
When you voluntarily submit your information through the website for the purpose of subscribing to newsletters, leaving comments on blog posts, registering as a member, and posting in the forum, we receive and store the following information. These include:
Your name or username.
Your email address.
Your IP address.
Other ways this information is collected and submitted is by:
You fill out our contact form.
You browse this site. See "Cookie policy" below.
You fill out fields on your profile.
How we use your personal information
We may use your personal information in the following ways:
For the purposes of making you a registered member of our site.
In order for you to contribute content to this site.
We may use your email address to inform you of activity on our site.
Your IP address is recorded when you perform certain actions on our site. Your IP address is never publicly visible.
Other ways we may use your personal information.
In addition to notifying you of activity on our site which may be relevant to you, from time to time we may wish to communicate with all members any important information such as newsletters or announcements by email. You can opt-in to or opt-out of such emails in your profile.
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you in the course of your interaction with our site. This information may include technical information about the browser or type of device you're using. This information will be used purely for the purposes of analytics and tracking the number of visitors to our site.
Your personal information will not be sold, shared, distributed, or reveal email addresses or other personal information without your prior written consent.
You can decline to submit personal information at any time. However, if you decline, we may not be able to continue to provide service to you. In order to request deletion of your personal information, please send an email to disabledpeoplenetwork@gmail.com but in some cases we may be required to keep your information by law. In such a case, it would no longer be active and would be kept separately in an archive.
Keeping your data secure
We are committed to ensuring that any information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable measures and procedures to safeguard and secure the information that we collect.
Cookie policy
Cookies are small text files which are set by us on your computer which allow us to provide certain functionality on our site, such as being able to log in, or remembering certain preferences.
We have a detailed cookie policy and more information about the cookies that we set on this page.
Your Rights
You have a right to access the personal data we hold about you or obtain a copy of it. To do so please email us at disabledpeoplenetwork@gmail.com If you believe that the information we hold for you is incomplete or inaccurate, you may contact us to ask us to complete or correct that information.
You also have the right to request the erasure of your personal data. Please contact us if you would like us to remove your personal data.
Acceptance of this policy
Continued use of our site signifies your acceptance of this policy. If you do not accept the policy, then please do not use this site. When registering we will further request your explicit acceptance of the privacy policy.
Changes to this policy
We may make changes to this policy at any time. You may be asked to review the updated policy again and re-accept the revised information.
