Terms and rules

The providers ("we", "us", "our") of the service provided by this web site ("Service") are not responsible for any user-generated content and accounts ("Content"). Content submitted express the views of their author only.

You agree to not use the Service to submit or link to any Content which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, threatening, spam or spam-like, contains personal information of others, risks copyright infringement, encourages unlawful activity, or otherwise violates any laws.

All Content you submit or upload 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.

We reserve the rights to remove or modify any Content submitted for any reason without explanation. Requests for Content to be removed or modified will be undertaken only at our discretion. We reserve the right to take action against any account with the Service at any time.

You are granting us with a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your Content in connection with the Service. You retain copyright over the Content.

These terms may be changed at any time without notice.

If you do not agree with these terms, please do not register or use this Service. If you wish to close your account, please contact us.

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available in our footer and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

Log files are maintained and analyzed of all requests for files on this website's web servers. Log files do not capture personal information but do capture the user's IP address, which is automatically recognized by our web servers.

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Cookies

This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. Any cookies that may be used by this website are used either solely on a per session basis or to maintain user preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.

Personal information

All personal information we collect is kept securely and is not shared, sold or otherwise passed on to any person or company outside of Off Topix management. We only collect personal information which you willfully supply. We only ask you for the information we require to process your request. Once this information has been used it is deleted. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We ask you to provide a name and email address when contacting us, this information is essential for a reply from us. We do not keep personal information collected in this manner, once used it is deleted.

Query logging

Off Topix does not monitor, view, share, store or in any other way make available queries you may enter into forms on our website unless it is needed explicitly for the service in question (e.g. contact forms). Search queries you may run are not logged or stored by us however third party search services such as Google may log such queries.

Public forums

Users are reminded that some sections of our forums are viewable by the public and as such we warn you to be careful when posting personal information on them and advise against it.

Community forums

The forum on our server is powered by Xenforo, a software platform created by XenForo Ltd. The passage hereunder describes how information is collected and stored with the XenForo software.

Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name, a personal password used for logging into your account and a personal, valid e-mail address. Your information for your account on forums is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us (USA). Any information beyond your user name, your password and your e-mail required by the forums during the registration process are at our discretion what is mandatory and what is optional. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. At all times you can view from your account any personal information you have provided by selecting the Settings or User CP menu option on our forums. Also, at any time, you have a right to request removal of any of this information and your account from our system. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the forum software.

Your password is ciphered so that it is secure, as your password is the means of accessing your account on our forums, please keep it safe. Under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with Off Topix, XenForo or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the forgotten password feature provided by the forum software. This process will ask you to submit your username and the email address you registered with, then the forum software will generate a new password to reclaim your account. If, for whatever reason, you are unable to access your email you can request a new password to be set manually upon presentation of proof of your ownership of the account in question.

Private messages will remain private, Off Topix will never monitor, view, share or in any other way access messages sent between you and any other user unless expressly asked to do so. We will only view private messages when given expressed written permission from you and only if we believe there is near or immediate risk to the safety of our users and their data. In such cases you will be informed of any progress made.

External links

Off Topix is in no way responsible for the content, security or privacy policy of websites outside of the Off Topix website. Once you leave the Off Topix website you will be subject to that sites privacy policy.

Policy changes

Off Topix reserves the right to revise and make changes to this policy at any time. The up to date version will be available from offtopix.com.

The following is not allowed at Off Topix:

1. Content that infringes upon any rights (including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks);
2. Abusive, threatening, defamatory, racist, or obscene Content;
3. Viruses or any other harmful computer software;
4. False information or libel;
5. Spam, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
6. Pay per click / affiliate program type links;
7. Terrorism;
8. Hacking materials or information (video game hacks are allowed though);
9. Warez, Copyrighted Materials, Roms, CD-Keys, Cracks, Passwords, or Serial Numbers;
10. Excessively large signatures, signatures with obscene content, or overly distracting signatures;
11. Content that is invasive of privacy or impersonation of any person/entity;
12. Links to porn or posting pornographic videos or images;
    Note: We do have a Taboo Tavern / 18+ forum where nudity is allowed. This rule does not apply to that forum.
13. PM Advertising. Do not private message (private conversation) someone to advertise something (This includes asking/inviting someone to your website/forum, asking for post exchanges or asking someone to be a staff member);
14. Status Advertising. Do not advertise in the your profile posts;
15. Shoutbox Advertising. Do not advertise in the shoutbox;
16. Trolling. Trolling is someone who is here with malicious intent (starting arguments, antagonizing other people, insulting people, or being excessively negative).

*Note: The rules are subject to change at anytime and the staff reserves the right to use their best judgement in determining what shouldn't be allowed here even if it isn't listed in the rules above.

Some sections have their own (stickied/pinned) rules/guidelines in addition to the above rules so be sure to read those as well. Please don't post anything that is not allowed here and remember to treat everyone with respect.

Any questions, feel free to contact us.

Thanks Everyone,
Off Topix Administration