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Welcome to the IATM Americas Forum, by maintaining an account with us and posting on the IATM Americas Forum, you hereby agree to follow the rules displayed in this section.

These rules apply to all Forum categories and will make your stay as pleasant and constructive as possible, please take some time to read these guidelines.

General Rules:

• Respect the netiquette: familiarize yourself and get to know the forum before you post.
• Always be polite and respectful.
• As this is an international website, the official language is English. We hope to offer the site in other languages in the future.
• Use a title that describes the content of your post. Use standard writing. Messages should not be typed in ALL CAPS, non-English characters, etc. to draw attention.
• Inappropriate posts will yield banishment.

Interaction with other members:

• Be polite when posting. Rudeness, intolerance, being disruptive or unpleasant are not accepted.
• Be nice to each other and respect the moderator. Profanity and insults will not be tolerated. If you have a problem with another member turn to the respective moderator and if the moderator can't help you send a private email to the web administrators.
• Do not provoke other users or incite trouble. Do not allow others to provoke you.
• Please respect the opinions of others and choose your words wisely. Each user has their own point of view, and these views must be respected.
• If a topic becomes a debate, you may debate the subject itself but not the intellect or credibility of other members.

Posting Messages and Material:

• Keep the focus: postings or questions outside the scope of a certain forum will either be moved, locked or simply be deleted without comment.
• Political discussion not directly related to IATM is prohibited, we are not here to complaint about the problems or to blame those who have created them but rather to work together and create effective solutions for beneficial change.
• Discussion on religion and religious matters are not appropriate.
• No discussion or debating about the rules or their interpretation. The interpretation of these rules is solely up to the owner of this forum and can change at any time without prior notice. Posts debating these rules will be removed.
• Attachments/files posted: Each attachment/file posted has to have accordance to the forum topic.  Inappropriate material  posted will yield banishment.
• Do not spam. Do not contact any member to suggest your product or service, the only promotional postings allowed are job requisites and we will provide a channel for that.
• You may not link, in any manner, to sites or images containing pornography, sexually explicit, gross violence, or are determined by web administrator to be detrimental to the community. No illegally obtained copyrighted content will be accepted. Please abide by the copyright owners wishes as for posting, pasting and linking their content. Always site your source, even if the material is not copyrighted. Any posts that encourage illegal intent will be removed and the account disabled.
• You may not post words or URLs that are censored by adding spaces, dots, or substituting characters.
• You may not post on behalf of any banned member in any public manner. This includes all forums, private messages and e-mail features.
• When stating facts, statistics or newsworthy information, please be sure to include an HTML link or reference to a publication. If you are merely providing an opinion, please state clearly that in your post.
• No cross posting (CP), CP refers to duplicating your post in different forums at GGA or the linking to threads or posts already started. Post your message once, to the appropriate forum and nowhere else or it will be locked or deleted without warning.

These rules can be changed without notice though normally we announce changes via forums. The Administrator reserves the right to ban any member for actions that s/he deems negative to the beauty that we are trying to bring to the world.