TERMS OF SERVICE - PLEASE READ

You agree, through your use of this service, not to impersonate any other person or entity, whether actual or fictitious, or agree not to have more than one member account. Multiple accounts on Depression forums are not permitted. Any member found to have more than one account will be suspended. Suspended members found creating additional accounts will be banned. You agree that you will not use these Forums to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of another member's privacy. "We reserve the right to inform the authorities of any inappropriate posts that threaten another person" or otherwise is in violation of any law. Any such violation is cause for suspension and or banning.
Members who register with an inappropriate or triggering moniker, (member name), shall immediately have their name changed or be deleted from our member database.
Please do not use your real name or your personal photo AS YOUR AVATAR. Your member name or av pic could become dangerous on this forum or anywhere on the web.
Your personal photo used in your private profile though, is safe from prying eyes.

Posting another members personal details, photos or web site details is forbidden and will result in being banned. Excessive, aggressive posts against other members, moderators and admin; or flaming will not be tolerated.

'Flaming', Inciting, or "Bashing" is best defined as posting or responding to a message in a way clearly intended to incite useless arguments, rants, and/or for launching personal attacks, insulting, being hateful, useless criticism, name calling, swearing and other bad behavior. Please do not bring your issues with bashing doctors, meds or Pharm companies or other message boards here. We are all here to learn to heal from and cope with Depression and dragging your personal issues through the mud is not helpful to members healing nor productive to our mission here as well as hijacking another member's topic or any comments meant to incite anger, which is cause for your immediate suspension and banning.


You should be aware that the Moderators and Administrators are the life blood of this Forum. Without this volunteer staff, this Forum will cease to exist. It is in violation of the TOS to abuse the staff that works so hard to offer this free site to you. Moderators have the express authority and the right to manage their assigned rooms in a manner that they feel is in the best interest of this Forum and the entire membership. Should you have a problem with a moderator that you cannot work out PRIVATELY, please send a PM to Forum Admin and we will investigate the matter.
Public posts directed at the staff, for the entire membership to read, whether it is of a technical or personal nature, start unnecessary incidents which are quite disruptive and can be upsetting to the membership. It should be clearly understood that we expect you to give us an opportunity to handle these matters off of the public board.

FURTHER CLARIFICATION

It is further agreed to and understood that the Administrators and Moderators, at their sole discretion, can and will remove or put a warning on members from having further access to this site when it is deemed that violations of our terms of service (TOS) have taken place.

Such violations will include any and all actions that have a clear intent to disrupt, interfere and incite other members. The ability for all members to come here expecting a safe and comfortable environment to seek help, support and information will always be paramount in our decision. We will do everything in our power to defend the integrity of this site against abuse and inappropriate posts. Willful and intentional actions to cause harm, destroy trust, inflict damage and destruction to the smooth operation of this site will be grounds for immediate termination. This includes inflammatory posts AND the use of our private messaging system as a tool to send malicious or otherwise upsetting messages to the general membership. Private messages are an integral part of our system and the rules governing the use of our PM facility are expressly part of the terms of service agreement.

It is agreed to and understood that the Administrators and Moderators have a responsibility to protect this site from intentional or otherwise unintentional inflicted harm. At their sole discretion, any active member deemed to be using this site with no other obvious intention or purpose other than to disrupt our operation will have their rights to this site terminated. It is in the best interest of this forum and all of its members that we take any and all necessary steps to protect this site from malicious acts and damaging actions.

You alone are responsible for the content of your messages, and the consequences of any such messages. Recommending any Pharmacy on the Internet for medications without a prescription or disseminating misleading information could have dangerous results or could actually delay someone from seeking the proper medical attention that they need. Administrators reserve the right to terminate your registration/membership if they become aware and determine, in its sole discretion, that you are violating any of the Terms of Service or the following guidelines.
You may not post to Depression Forums, copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any material subject to any Rights, the burden of determining that any information, software, images or any other content on the DF is not protected by Rights rests with you.
Also, by posting, you accept that all rights to the material you post will become the copyright of Depression Forums. If you do not agree, then do not post here. This is required to allow the DF staff to edit posts in order to maintain our posting guidelines. Your use of this forum is confirmation that you agree to the transfer of copyright upon completing your post.
ADVERTISING

Any use by you of any other subscriber's information, personal or otherwise, for any commercial or non-commercial purpose or to obtain direct financial gain (e.g. mass marketing) is prohibited. Any such use shall be deemed to be a violation of these Terms of Service. Depression Forums.org is to be used by you for your personal use only.

Links are not to be posted in these forums without the permission of the administration.
General or medical news items are not to be posted without the permission of the administration. Sources and or references must be posted as well.
Commercial uses of Depression Forums.org are strictly prohibited unless prior written consent from the Administration has been granted, which is highly unlikely.

You agree that you will not use Depression Forums.org for links, chain letters, junk mail, 'spamming,' solicitations (commercial or non-commercial) or bulk communications of
any kind including but not limited to distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a list.
You agree not to post any websites or copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by this Forum. You also agree not to post any websites in your posts or signature, unless given sole permission by the Forum Administration. You agree not to post any Internet Pharmacies for the purpose of advertising them for profit or suggesting to obtain illegal or legal drugs without a prescription. You also agree to stay 'on topic' in posts, do not cross post or duplicate messages to other areas of the forums, create long subject lines, post commercial or non-commercial advertising, or post any other type of SPAM on these boards. Depressionforums is PG rated.
DEPRESSIONFORUMS.ORG relies on donations to maintain these forums on the Internet. We rely on your donations, which are very much appreciated, to help in supporting and improving your forums.
Helping DF

Any member who continues to post, send PMs and actively use this free service understands that they do so under all the terms of service described above.
We are PG rated forums that comply with Health on the Net's HONcode.

And lastly, it should be clearly understood that the use of this private, free site, which is open to public registration, is done so as a privilege and not as guaranteed right. You are a guest here, free to come and go as you wish as long as some very simple rules, regulations and guidelines are adhered to.

*Freedom of Speech? Although the constitution of the US guarantees that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, this website is not Congress. Freedom of speech rights do not extend to this privately owned website. The TOS/Guidelines of this website governs the behaviors and activities of the members. If you choose not to follow the guidelines agreed to during registration, and with our Terms of Service & Guidelines, the result is a disabling of your account.


It is our pleasure to host this site and make it available 24/7 to those members who use it respectfully and graciously. That is why we are here and these are the members we are here for.

This site cannot run smoothly without some necessary regulations.
We also reserve the right to take action against anything we feel is not appropriate.

As user you are agreeing to read these guidelines regularly and check for updates!
Although we would be saddened to hear that some members may choose to leave under these terms of service, we do understand that they have every right to make such a decision.
Your sole recourse for dissatisfaction with Depression Forums, is to discontinue membership at DepressionForums.org

Administration reserves the right to amend the TOS from time to time by updating this page. Your continued use of this site will indicate your acceptance of the revised TOS.
Please periodically review this page for updates, to ensure that you are familiar with the most current version of our TOS .

Please also refer to our DF Member's Guidlines/Posting Etiquette
as this is an extention of our Terms Of Service (TOS)

We appreciate you being here. Your contributions, whether seeking help or graciously offering support, have a far-reaching impact. Please be responsible.