Terms and rules

GrandOldTeam prides itself on offering Everton fans a place for intelligent and respectful debate about the issues that matter to them, offering a feature-rich, intelligent and moderated forum for our readers to share their own personal views on all things Everton FC related. We're enormously proud of the websites ethos, one which we thinks accurately represents the Evertonian community as the very best in the World.

We do ask that all visitors follow our terms and rules to ensure these forums remain user-friendly.

Contributions must not:
a ) Contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
b ) Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
c ) Promote sexually explicit material;
d ) Promote violence;
e ) Promote discrimination based on race, sex religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, age or any other reason;
f ) Infringe any intellectual property right including but not limited to any copyright, database right, trade mark, patent, or design right (whether registered or not) of any other person;
g ) Be likely to deceive any person;
h ) Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
i ) Promote any illegal activity;
j ) Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
k ) Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
l ) Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
m ) Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; or
n ) Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful at such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
o) Break any applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
p) Poor, profane or obscene language of any type is not welcome - even in jest.
q) Be religious, racial or political. There are other forums on the Internet suited for exactly this type of discussion, and ask that you please conduct such discussions on those forums.

Moderators
Our Moderators keep control of the various forums. The moderation team is here to keep the forums safe, sane, and secure. The forum rules are here to help us do that, and to ensure that these forums are of the highest quality. Read them. Know them. Please do not try to circumvent them.

Our modetators utilise a warning system, detailed below;

Warning System
30 Points = Suspended for 2 Days.
60 points = Suspended For 7 Days.
80 points = Suspended For 14 Days.
100 points = Permanently Banned.

The most common warnings are;
Inappropriate Language: 5 points
General Behaviour Warning: 20 points
Off Topic: 20 points
Minor Spamming: 20 points
Posting Abusive/Offensive Material: 60 points
Spammed Advertisements: 100 points

"Report to Moderator" Function
This forum has a "Report to Moderator" function built into its software (located directly beneath all posts). The purpose of this function is to aid moderators in their duties. As you can imagine, it's not easy (nor plausible) for a small team of people to read every last post in every last thread on the forum, so this is where we need your help. If you see a post that you believe is in violation of the forum's Rules and Guidelines or Terms of Service, it would be highly appreciated if you could use the "Report to Moderator" function to bring it to our attention.

High Maintenance Members:
Please note, any member who extracts an "extra ordinary amount of time" from the moderators or administration may lose some of their forum privileges. An "extra ordinary amount of time" is defined as anyone who requires excessive mod or administrative intervention. Excessively causing, creating, or adding to difficulties for other members or moderators, or, excessively complaining of being a "victim" of another member puts you in the category of high maintenance.

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This Service is only available to users who are at least 16 years old. If you are younger than this, please do not register for this Service. If you register for this Service, you represent that you are this age or older.

You agree to not use the Service to submit or link to any Content which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, threatening, gory, 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.

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. If content you post violates our terms, and therefore our advertisers terms which incur financial penalty to us, we will look to recover any lost revenue

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These terms may be changed at any time without notice.

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