Rules and Etiquette

Note to spammers: - all links embedded within our forum are marked with a "nofollow" directive to crawlers from search engines, so any links you leave behind to your sites for Ugg boots, body part enlargement supplements, get rich quick sites or other such things will not gain you any improvements in search engine rankings.

By registering for membership to HRC you agree to act in a manner that is respectful of the fellow members and law abiding. This prohibits, but is not limited to the following:

1. Thou shalt not discuss or promote software, music or movie piracy, or any sort of illegal activity.
2. Thou shalt not flame, insult, ridicule or otherwise be disrespectful of other members of the community or the community itself.
3. Thou shalt not use vulgar or abusive language
4. Thou shalt not spam the forum with MLM scams, weight loss programs, how to increase the size of private body parts, how you can make us rich quick with your proven plan, or otherwise wasteful, stupid or unrelated topics.
5. Thou shalt not use the forum as a blatant advertising tool, any and all advertisement that do not relate to the subject being discussed will be removed from our forum, or, left up to mock and ridicule.
6. Thou shalt not use any provided web space to share illegal files or content.

Failure to abide by these rules can lead to removal of your content and possible banning of your profile. Common sense prevails, just respect your fellow forum members and we will all have fun and learn a lot.

Registering for membership lists you under the typical member status. The following membership levels currently exist:

• Member - Allows access to personal profiles of other members, posting in the forum, adding of links to the links directory, posting classifieds and posting links to your music in our Members' Music Directory.
• Contributor - Adds to the above by allowing the contributor to submit articles for posting on the website with full credit being given to the contributor. if you wish to contribute, register for membership, and then contact us to request being upgraded
• Moderator - All of the above plus the ability to edit and delete forum posting and threads. This level is achieved by personal invitation of the site administrators.
• Administrator - Has full control over website content and user administration.
• Banned - People that have this title have broken the above mentioned rules.

Privacy Policy

The information given in registration is the sole property of HRC and will never be sold, traded or otherwise given to anyone. We have no interest in promoting spamming or any form of annoying online marketing. Your information is kept private except for what you allow to be seen in your personal profile.

The Home Recording Connection web site does use cookies on the visitors machine to authenticate users logged in status and track which user they are, as well as the use of cookies by HRC's third party advertising systems and to support visitor analytics systems. These cookies are not dangerous and not intended to exploit any theft of information in any way, they are simply a tiny text file storing a string of characters that are used strictly for tracking user visit and geolocation information to show the users more relevant advertisements and give us a more accurate view of who uses this web site so that information can help us make it more useful for those using it.

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