TheChathouse™ Rules (and Terms...)

1. Use of an offensive Handle is not allowed.
2. Profanity; gender, sexual-preference, religious, ethnic slurs; or unwelcome overtures of any kind to other chatters will not be tolerated. The friendly attitude in TheChathouse™ will not be compromised. If you are being rude to other chatters, you may find yourself kicked out of the room and you will be reported to your domain administrator.

   These forums are meant to be places of civility, decency and enlightened cordial conversation. Unfortunately, some will ignore this notion, you need not be among them. In our "Public Access" rooms, you can check an abuser's domain and find the administrator of offenders by checking with an InterNIC Whois lookup. In our "Members Only" rooms, you may report abusers by sending E-Mail to abuse@thechathouse.com using "cut" and "paste" to document the offensive behavior.

3. Signing into multiple forums is not allowed. Always use the "exit forum" button when leaving a chat room. (If you do not, you will delay another chatter's entry for five minutes.)
4. Harassing other users, including impersonation of other users will not be tolerated. Handles that impersonate will be blocked.
5. Discussing obscene topics or harassing others in a public forum is prohibited.
6. Soliciting of any kind is prohibited.
7. Posting adult or pornographic pictures in a public forum is prohibited.
8. Abuse of HTML, including but not limited to: repeatedly sending very long messages, leaving tags open (such as blink tags, color tags) so that text is unreadable to other users, or any malicious hacking that makes it difficult to read the screen, is not acceptable.
9. Masking or hiding your IP address is not allowed. We repeat: YOU ARE NOT ANONYMOUS, despite the use of fake ID's. We maintain a database of all IP addresses associated with legitimate and fake ID's. Even if your IP address changes constantly, the time stamp is all we need to identify you. If criminal activity is involved, your Internet Service Provider must cooperate in your identification.

1. You use TheChathouse™ at your own risk. TheChathouse™ disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether expressly or implicitly . TheChathouse™ makes no warranties that it will meet your requirements, or that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free. We cannot guarantee the accountability or reliability of any information obtained through TheChathouse™.
   
   
2. Text, images, and sounds transmitted on or through TheChathouse™ may be subject to proprietary rights (such as patents, trademarks or copyrights); in that case, you may need express authorization from the holder of those rights to distribute that content on TheChathouse™. By submitting Content to any part of TheChathouse™, you automatically grant -- or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted -- TheChathouse™ a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, transmit and display such Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such Content.
   
   
3. To the full extent permissible under the applicable law, TheChathouse™ shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use TheChathouse™ You understand and agree that any content downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of The Chathouse™ is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damages to your computer system or loss of data that results in the download of such data content.
   
   

Please treat this House as you would your own.
This is an International Forum, so please represent your Country with honor.