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User Agreement

Access to this web site and use of the forums and other services offered here are subject to the terms and conditions of this user agreement and copyright notice and all applicable laws and regulations, including laws and regulations governing copyright and trademark. By accessing the services, you accept, without limitation or qualification, all of the terms and conditions in this user agreement. Reef Frontiers reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. The changes will appear on this screen. By using the services of this web site, you agree in advance to accept any changes. Reef Frontiers is governed by Administrators and Moderators (RF Staff). Users must obey and respect the directions and decisions of moderators at all times. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary action, including the suspension or removal of membership status. The removal/banning of a member or IP address is at the sole discretion of the moderators and administrators of Reef Frontiers. Reef Frontiers reserves the right to refuse or revoke membership status to anyone for any reason, without explanation. You agree to have a valid email address for use with this site at all times. Email addresses can be updated at any time in the User Control Panel. Membership status may be refused or revoked at any time if invalid email addresses are used. Our site thrives on communication and part of our functionality thrives on the use of valid email addresses. You agree not to post or transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically, degrading, sexual or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including, but not limited to, any material which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, violate the rights of others, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law. You will be responsible for, and indemnify and hold harmless Reef Frontiers and representatives against, any claim arising from any material that you post or transmit. We reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you. You acknowledge that Reef Frontiers does not control the information available on the message boards, chat rooms and other user and member-generated pages and that any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content presented or disseminated on any bulletin board, chat room or on any other user or member-generated pages are those of their respective authors who are solely liable for their content. Although Reef Frontiers may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, message boards and other user and member-generated pages on this web site, neither Reef Frontiers nor any of its agents, representatives or licensers is under any obligation to do so. Reef Frontiers reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the message boards. Political or religious posts by their nature can become very controversial and therefore are subject to removal at any time in order to avoid potental "flame" wars. The member-generated content of this web site contains information, facts and opinions from various individuals and organizations. They are provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which are imposed by and incapable of exclusion, restriction or modification under the laws applicable to this agreement. Neither Reef Frontiers nor its affiliates endorse or are responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement on the service or the sites. Any communication or material you post or transmit is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. You assume full responsibility for anything you post or transmit, and you grant Reef Frontiers the right to display this material on its web sites. Reef Frontiers makes no ownership claims to any material you post or transmit and agrees that all submitted materials, text, graphics and files remain the sole property of their creator. Your use of this web site is at your own risk. Neither Reef Frontiers, nor any of its agents, representatives or licensors shall be liable to you or anyone else for any loss or injury or any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or similar damages arising out of your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, the services of this web site and the information available on this web site or arising out of any action taken in response to or as a result of any information available on this web site. You hereby waive any and all claims against Reef Frontiers arising out of your use of the services of this web site and the information available thereon. Reef Frontiers does not review or monitor any web sites linked to the member-generated content of this web site and are not responsible for the content of any such linked web sites. Your linking to such web sites is at your own risk. We will not offer any information about you to any company. However, you should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., name, email address, phone number) on a bulletin board, chat room or on any other user or member-generated pages, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other parties. Users will abide by the Reef Frontiers Commercial Posting policy. Sponsors and 3rd party sellers (such as fellow Reef Frontiers subscribers) on this site sell their products as part of their own business or interests. Therefore members should research and verify any claims made by any seller of goods and services for their own protection. Reef Frontiers can not be held responsible for any failure, defect, inaccurate descriptions, inaccurate performance guarantees or inaccurate promises for any products or services initiated and concluded here on Reef Frontiers. Reef Frontiers is first and foremost a reef discussion, information sharing site. Reef Frontiers is not to be used as a glorified classified ad site or to be used in place of other sites such as eBay or Craig's List. As such we implement registration and post requirements in our for sale forums. Users are not to arbitrarily make posts just to up their counts just to post in these forums. Any of this action is subject for membership removal. Reef Frontiers does not host any vendor feedback forums as they tend to spiral out of control quickly due to many different personal experiences with vendors or sponsors (or private parties) amongst the whole community. As such, it is against Reef Frontier's policy to air out one's issues about sponsors, local fish stores, or private deals which have been made or may have gone bad. We would ask all those who have issues like this or similar in nature to work these kinds of problems out in private. Reef Frontiers staff retains the right to retain or remove such posts from the general forums. This User Agreement and any disputes arising out of or related to the services of this web site shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the United States.

Reef Frontiers Site Navigation

Here are some screen shots of the various menus which are outlined with information on how to get around Reef Frontiers. Starting with our home page at http://www.reeffrontiers.com/ we have a main menu section that looks like this: Each item is described below briefly: Home Page = Reef Frontiers Home Page Forums= The discussion area to exchange info with everyone else Fish Gallery= Our vast library of fish pictures and information Coral/Invert Gallery= Our vast libray of coral and invertebrate pictures and information Member Photo Gallery= This is the place for our members to upload the pictures you would like to share with the rest of the community. Equipment Gallery= Our vast library of equipment with pictures and information and a place to provide your feedback as well. Resource Library= Our vast library of reef related articles that have been gathered and organized to make it easier for our members to get educated. Reef Frontiers Chat= A place where our members can chat with one another real time. Premium Membership= Information on how to become a premium member which gives you more gallery space, web space and a RF email address. Our next two menus are located on each and every page that loads. Some are the same links that are on the main menu above, so I will only address the unique ones, but want you to know that these menus exisit: Sponsors= A current listing of all of our great sponsors where you can quickly link to their web pages as well as a quick way to find out how to get a hold of them. Please go to our sponsors when looking for your products, they may get you a nice price. User CP= This is where you go and update your personal information, your RF browsing preferences, your signatures, your passwords, etc RF Store= We have set up a place so you can buy your very own RF related merchandise such as t-shirts, mugs, mousepads, etc ... FAQ= Frequently Asked Questions on how to generally use the vbulletin forum software. Also includes our user agreements along with our posting policies. Members List= A complete listing of our members Calendar= A calendar which can be used to post important upcoming events. New Posts= Just want to see the new posts that have been made since your last visit? Click on this link. Search= Search our site, use the quick search box or choose the advanced search feature. Quick Links= A variety of frequently used tasks in one menu. New Posts, Mark Forums Read, Buddy List, Edit key user profile items, Private messaging, subscribed threads, and see who's online. Log Out= kind of self explainatory. One last menu bar is one that shows up when you are reading a thread: Thread Tools= Check out the tools to see what is available. This is the easiest way to subscribe to a thread to get notifications on updates to the information. Search this thread= a quick way to search only within the thread you are reading Rate this thread= A feature not used very often but available for use. Display modes= play with this feature to choose the style of displaying the threads that fits your needs.