User Guidelines

User Guidelines for Audiobook Community

Username: You agree to choose an appropriate username (no obscene words or phrases), provide accurate information (i.e., full, true name and current, valid e-mail address), and promptly update this information if it should change. You acknowledge that you will not impersonate any other person, including any other member of this community. All material and information that you submit shall be true.

Posting & Commenting: Your words are your own. Lively participation is vital to the community's success, but please remember that we are communicating without the benefit of body language and voice inflection. Words can sometimes be misinterpreted. It is imperative that participants converse in a courteous, respectful manner. Differing opinions and viewpoints are normal and foster lively debate, but please keep your comments relevant to the subject being discussed and not about the person who offers a differing opinion than your own.

Please be polite! Posting the same material repeatedly (i.e., spamming) anywhere on this site is prohibited. Spam will be deleted. Please do not copy another participant’s material and post it in another part of this site or anywhere else. We discourage disruptive conduct; persistent off-topic comments; and comments that incite others to violate the Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, or Guidelines.

Posting sound files and/or images that you do not own, or have explicit permission from the owner to post, is strictly prohibited.

Content on this site is for information and entertainment purposes only and is in no way intended to be a substitute for professional legal consultation or advice.

Harassment: Any unlawful, harmful, threatening, sexually explicit, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, racial and/or ethnic slurs; hateful content; or otherwise objectionable material, including profanity and/or redacted profanity (symbols, such as * and #, used in place of letters), as we determine in our sole discretion, is prohibited.

Safety: Your safety and privacy — as well as those of others — are important to us. Please refrain from posting personal information such as your street address, phone numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers, the names of your children, schools, etc. See Ning's teen safety tips here: http://about.ning.com/safety/teensafetytips.php

Objectionable Material: Those who administer this site will do their best to monitor material that you and others provide to the site, but please remember that administrators and moderators may not be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you find objectionable material, it is best not to comment about it on the site. Instead, send an email message about your concerns to abchelp@audiofilemagazine.com. Also, please report any misuse or misconduct by email to abchelp@audiofilemagazine.com. As soon as possible, we will review the situation and determine what action, if any, needs to be taken. Occasionally, we may need to communicate with you personally concerning your participation or related matters. Those communications are not intended to be made public, and you agree not to post those communications on the site or anywhere else.

We reserve the right to modify these Guidelines in whole or in part from time to time, and we will notify you by posting revised Guidelines to the site. Your continued participation on the site after the revision will constitute your acceptance of the revised Guidelines.