Terms Of Service

All services provided by SMFNEW ("SMFNEW") may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States federal, state or city law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless SMFNEW from any claims resulting from the use of service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Customer Agreement

Every forum Administrator should agree on every term and condition before and during the signup of their free forum on smfnew.com and smffree.net including periodic verifications of these terms. You must agree with these terms and conditions to use our services.

Privacy Policy

You may view smfnew and smffree websites privacy policy here.

1) Indecent Images & Links

Your forum must not store, present or transmit any website link/image or have any relationship with adult material. This includes pornographic images of adults and/or minors along with links to such websites which store, present or transmit pornographic/indecent images. From time to time you may come across such automated computing programs of which put such material on your forum. Such programs might post pornographic/indecent images along with links to indecent sites. As your responsibility as a Administrator, you must delete, hide, or edit such posts/topics so they are no longer violating this term.

2) Misuse

Your forum must not be used to store or present junk. For instance: spamming and/or flaming. If your forum's content is purely violating this term, then we will delete the forum in question due to it being a waste of server resources. Such forums will be deleted to free up space for forums which will use space in a more appropriate way.

3) Topics & Material

Your forum must not be on a subject which discusses illegal material/topics. For example: drugs, terrorism, firearms and racial content. This includes the presentation, storage or transmission of links/images/content to potential illegal sites and substances.

4) Legal Use

Your forum's content must be legal. If we find any content which is illegal in either the United States of America or United Kingdom action will be taken upon the forum. The database will be supplied to local authorities if deemed necessary by our Administrators. You agree that your forum will not breach certain laws. These include: invasion of privacy, impersonation of others, harassment and breach of copyright laws. You must not allow any content which is or linked to Warez. This includes linking or writing about: hacking(defacement), viruses, Trojans, passwords and any programs which intend to cause harm.

5) Links / Advertisements & Promotion

Your forum must not be made to redirect to another website. You are also now allowed to tamper with any links, advertisements or any other forced content on your forum which we have placed. You may also not put any advertisements or links which can generate you a real currency. These include: Google ads, Yahoo etc..

6) Email Functions

You must not use the email function to spam email addresses which is included in your Administration panel. This is illegal and not tolerated(term 4). You may only mass email your members if something deserving is taking place on with your forum. You may not mass mail your members for other reasons, which include sales of hosting.

7) Languages

At this moment in time we only host English forums. Your posts/topics/images/links must be in English until we support other languages.

8) Hierarchy

You must not, ban, warn, or modify smfnew administration account in any way. When a issue occurs with your forum which requires us to log into your administration panel, we do so using a specified username which we will email to you beforehand. You may not modify this account in anyway unless specified otherwise.

9) Abuse of Staff

In addition to the following terms and conditions above, you agree that you will treat our staff with respect just as they treat you with respect. Our staff have the right to cancel your forum and/or disable you from entering our website if you have insulted our staff. We have the right to decline our services to anyone at any given moment for any reason. If you do not follow our terms of service, you accept that you will be declined our service.

10) Responsibility of Data

You acknowledge that your are responsible for your forum's content and it can deleted it at any time given due to a violation. We will not be held responsible if any data loss has occurred. You are solely responsible for what your members/guests post upon your forum at smfnew or smffree websites.

11) Social Sites Bookmarking

You may not post your forum link on such a site which will generate a mass ammount of traffic (1000+) to your forum. Such sites include: Digg.com and other traffic boosting sites. You may not send traffic to your site paid, or free. Such traffic could cause harm.

12) Terms and Policy Change

We may modify these terms and conditions and our privacy policy at any time without prior notice.

Our Role

If you find a forum which violates any of these terms, then please contact us as soon as possible by completeing our report form with sufficient evidence for us to disable such forums.

These terms where last updated on the 7th March 2008 9:09PM GMT.