CHAT FORUM RULES

We encourage you to be responsible and to respect our community as well as others participating within the community. Your conduct should be guided by common sense, basic "netiquette", and these chat guidelines.

We do not allow any of the following activity that:

• Repeatedly uses language inconsistent with the community standards of the area from which the chat originated.
  
• Impedes or otherwise prohibits communication; disrupts the discussion including, without limitation, participate in topical chats that are offensive to the topic and repeatedly posting off-topic comments in a topical chat.
  
• Contains highly explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of sexual acts, including but not limited to sexual language of a violent or threatening nature, directed at another individual or group of individuals, particularly when unsolicited.
  
• Contains vulgarities directed toward another individual or group.
• Depicts violence in a gratuitous manner, without journalistic or artistic merit, primarily intended to agitate or cause emotional distress.
  
• Is intended to victimize, harass, degrade or intimidate an individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. Hate speech is unacceptable anywhere on the service.
  
• Contains or facilitates the transfer of software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
  
• Contains material that defames, abuses, threatens, promotes, or instigates physical harm or death to others, or oneself.
  
• Is illegal or incites illegal activity, such as instructional information on how to build a bomb and/or make counterfeit money.
  
• Infringes anyone else's intellectual property rights, including, but not limited to, any copyright, trademark, rights of publicity, rights of privacy, or other proprietary rights.
  
• Attempts to harvest or collect member information, including member id.
  
• Impersonates or represents any person or entity in an attempt to deceive, harass or otherwise mislead another member. You may not pretend to be an employee or representative of Foreign Trade Online, or affiliates.
  
• Attempts to get a password, or other private information from a user. Remember: Foreign Trade Online employees will NEVER ask for your password.
  
• Links to and/or references content not allowed under these guidelines.
  
• Otherwise uses the service in a manner deemed inappropriate by Foreign Trade Online.
  

Note: It is important to remember safety while online. Always use caution when providing any personal information about yourself anywhere online. It's also a good rule-of-thumb to check the Privacy Policies of any unfamiliar or new web sites you visit. When communicating in a chat room be mindful that many people will be able to view it and the inclusion of information such as your name, your address or telephone number is never recommended.

Take advantage of chat forum's /IGNORE feature.
Chat forum is provided with an /IGNORE command. To stop receiving private messages from someone in a chat room, simply enter /IGNORE ADD username.

Violation of the above may cause:

• account being suspended to prevent the user from having the privledges in the chat forum for an undefined period of time, and there will be no compensation for time lost on the accounts due to suspension for abuse.
• account being removed without refund in extreme cases of abuse, fraud, slander of Foreign Trade Online, advertising other chats, hacking, or other breach of contract.