Guidelines

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Below you will find our Message Center Guidelines. Please read them over carefully. We are a family-friendly site that honors Steve Perry and we have set a few boundaries to ensure everyone's security and comfort. By joining and becoming a member, you are agreeing to follow the guidelines below.

We reserve the right to implement warnings, edits, deletions and terminate memberships and access, and our decisions will be based on these Guidelines.

1. 1. Profanity - Please do not use profanity or "adult" content in your posts, Personal Messages, signatures, profiles or anywhere in the Message Center. This includes using disguised words in an attempt to bypass our language filters.

2. 2. Mr. Perry's Privacy - Steve Perry's private life is just that, private. Our moderators will delete, edit or lock any posts or threads containing any questions, observations, guesses, rumors or anything else about his life, outside of what he has made public.

3. 3. Respect Each Other - Respect all members and their opinions. Slamming of members will not be tolerated. If someone is perceived as breaking a guideline, please send an email or PM to one of your Admins or Moderators and let us take care of it.

4. 4. Respect Journey - The current, as well as the past, lineup of Journey is to be treated with respect - bashing of them is not permitted. In this, we follow Steve Perry's example.

5. 5. Unauthorised Merchandise And Recordings - At steveperryfans.com we do not allow posts containing links, discussion, or promotion of sites that offer illegal merchandise, including but not limited to, downloads, pictures, videos, DVDs, etc. eBay is an exception where legitimate second-hand items are concerned, but the thread will be monitored carefully.

6. 6. Solicitation - Solicitation, in any form, is not allowed.

7. 7. Respect Mr. Perry - Pictures of Steve Perry are wonderful, however please show him the respect he deserves and not use terms that are salacious in any way.

8. 8. Copyright Images - Images may be used in the Message Center at the discretion of the site owners and removal of such images may be required for reasons including, but not limited to copyright, rudeness or obscenity, or compromising Steve's privacy.

9. 9. Hot-linking - Direct linking to pictures on other websites: hot-linking - is not allowed. Pictures, graphics and other items found to be hot-linked will be removed.

10. 10. Respect The Moderators - Respect our Moderators; they do not make the rules, they only enforce them. Everyone that works here does so on a voluntary basis and because of their admiration of Steve Perry - they deserve our support. If you feel a situation has been handled inappropriately, please contact an Administrator by PM or e-mail.

11. 11. Confidentiality - If your post has been edited/deleted or moved, an e-mail or PM explaining why will be sent to you. Please do not post topics in the Message Center asking why they were removed and/or challenging the Moderators or Administrators in public. Those threads will be deleted immediately. We respect everyone's privacy and since we did not discuss or make your change public, we ask the same respect in return.