Terms of Usage & Conditions of Service

To maintain an environment conducive to quality, please agree to the following few basic guidelines and requests before using this website:

By using the website, you agree to abide by the following simple common sense rules:

- All content is moderated for foul language and commercialized promotional posts.

- Always be respectful of other users, the website, the moderators and the owner. We put the website online in good faith, please use it in good faith.

- Be descriptive, specific, and succinct in your postings. This way your opinion and point is clearly understood and referenced. Remember, people from all over the world read here with English as a second language.

- Because your posting may be more pertinent to another on going discussion, or it might spawn its own thread, it may be moved as the administrator and/or moderators see fit.

- Before posting in a forum, please read the forum rules for that forum. They are listed at the left of the topic page for each forum.

- Links to adult content, pages with links to adult content, near adult content, or messages describing anything against the law will be removed as soon as possible. Any discussions of those are off topic.

- No press releases, newsletters, web pages, or copyrighted content may be inserted into xcore-clan.com posts or content. Minor fair use excerpts of less than one paragraph (4 sentences) may be used if the content is publicly available on the Internet. All other forms of inserted content from press releases, newsletters, web pages, or any other copyrighted content placed into messages will be removed without exception. A link to the content is acceptable and appropriate.

- Periodically the owner of Xcore, Evelien Pieteraerens, will post her opinions & comments, they may not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Xcore Gaming Clan users and/or Xcore Gaming Clan Members.

- This forum system is not a venue for personal or private vendettas. Keep your personal business as just that - personal. This forum is not a venue for the resolution of personal disputes with members or companies.

- Please do not drop promotional URL's, signature files, nor specifics that would lead people to your site. Signing your name is fine, however commercialized posts or resume signatures will be edited. We tend to err on the side of caution to protect the integrity of the system. Affiliate based URLs are not allowed anywhere on the system.

- Please keep your language clean and decent. This includes personal inflammatory language as well as obscenities.

- Any on site private discussions with moderators or administrators related to board policy or actions may be shared in public if we feel it is necessary.

- Please stay within the topic area of the forum you are posting a message in, and within any topic that another poster may have started.

- You agree not to hold the www.xcore-clan.com administrator or its members liable for anything stated within the forums.

- Signing up a user name that is an obvious domain name or product name will be removed. This is out of unfair promotion considerations as well as trademark implications.

- Since Xcore is interactive & everyone who participates in xcore-clan.com is "in it together", please treat others the way you wish to be treated. One way to guard against misunderstandings is to read over your response before you post it. Flaming: flaming or personal attacks are not allowed or tolerated. Should anyone use inappropriate language, start a personal attack, or engage in hate speech, they will be barred from all further discussions.

- The forums are not a venue for advertisements in any way. It will be the sole discretion of xcore-clan.com staff as to what constitutes an advertisement.

- We do not allow review my site posts. It is impossible to deduce which posts are honest requests and which are promotional.

- You are responsible for your own posts and agree not to hold the administrator liable for any messages posted.

- You will not copy and retransmit any information out of these forums without first getting the permission of the original author of the message and/or the www.xcore-clan.com administrator.

- Discussions about moderator or administrator actions are welcome in email or local private messages, but should not be discussed in public forums. This is out of respect for the members and moderators or policy involved.

- Self-promotional URL drops and whisper campaigns are strictly forbidden within the forums and will be edited out.

- Claims of action, flames, and calls to action against any company or person will be removed.

- Messages posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster.

- Anyone posting a nother members personal details or web site details without permission will be banned.

- When a message is placed in any forum system, you are granting a soft license to the site to use it.

Privacy Statement

Xcore-clan.com is owned and operated by Evelien Pieteraerens.

Evelien Pieteraerens has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate the commitment to privacy.

The following discloses t he information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: Xcore Gaming Clan (http://www.xcore-clan.com).

This site contains links to other sites. Evelien Pieteraerens is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

We may use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we may use cookies in other parts of the Xcore website, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

Privacy Policy

For our part, we will do our best to protect your privacy and respect your posts. We will not edit or otherwise misrepresent what you write without cause.

We reserv e the right to edit any and all content that has been placed on xcore-clan.com

We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Service from time to time without notice and are retro active.

Public Forums

This site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Se curity

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Chi ldren's Guidelines

We do NOT collect online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent.

We do NOT collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent.

We do NOT distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information with out prior parental consent.

We do NOT give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent.

We do NOT entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity.

Contacting Xcore

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the Xcore website, you can contact:

Evelien Pieteraerens

E-mail: adminstrator@xcore-clan.com