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conditions that you should read carefully. |
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By using this website you agree to be
legally bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not accept
these terms and conditions then you may not use this website. The
headings shown below are for convenience only and do not limit the
applicability of any term and condition. |
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1.0 ADF Membership |
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Register: In order to become a member of the
website and to post to the website you must register an account with us. |
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Member Name (handle): Membership names cannot be offensive, sexist, or a direct assault against a company or individual. Membership names cannot contain a website address, email address, or any directory towards a commercial product or company unless approved by ADF. ADF has the right to disapprove, change, or delete any members name it does not feel appropriate without prior contact or approval by the member. |
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E-Mail Address:You must maintain a valid email address associated with your membership
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Sock Puppets: The creation of multiple accounts
("sock puppets") for one person is prohibited. Sock Puppet accounts will be
banned and marked as a “Banned Sock
Puppet”. |
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Membership
Account: You must not share your membership
account, your password or any other details of
your account with other individuals and no one
may log onto your account other than
you. |
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Posts made by
you: By becoming a member of the website you
understand that we will display your membership
account (including its status) and all posts,
articles or any information and files you upload
to the website indefinitely. |
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Priviledge:Membership of this board is
a privilege not a right and is at the absolute
discretion of Advanced Diver Forum. If you break any of these terms or behave in
a matter detrimental to the good of this website
then at a minimum you will be warned either via
Private Message or an infraction (which might
result in a temporary suspension), however if
you continue with that behavior, break
additional rules or if on review we judge your
infraction was serious then you will be banned.
Serious infringements of these terms will result
in an instant ban. |
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Unlawful Acts: If you threaten someone in any way on the
forums or via its private messaging system or
perform or condone any unlawful act or behave in
a manner which harms our community then you will
be instantly banned with no
warning. |
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Infractions &
Bans: Infractions and bans are private matters
between this website, its staff and individual
users who receive said infraction or ban. They
may not be made public or discussed on the
website. |
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Banned Account: Please be warned that the consequences of
being banned are that you will be unable to
access the website, your account will be placed
into banned status and your account will be
publicly shown to be banned and all your posts
will be shown to be published from a banned
account. |
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Banned Account: While we respect a user's desire to
request a review of the status of their account
when banned, we specifically forbid the use of
sock puppets (multiple user accounts) or another
user's account to make such a request. |
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Cancel
Membership: You may cancel your membership at any
time when your account is in good standing (e.g.
while not in receipt of an infringement or ban).
To do so please inform an administrator. Your
account will be marked with a status of
Membership Cancelled and will be deactivated.
Any posts you have made will be shown to have
been made from a cancelled
account. |
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Threat of
Litigation: Any written or verbal threat to the
staff, moderators, or owners of
Advanced Diver Forum, Advanced Diver Magazine or
its entities will result in an immediate ban
without explanation or discussion. All past
posts made from the individual threatening
litigation will be copied and turned over to
ADM attorneys for further legal
action. |
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Threat of Litigation by a paid sponsor or supporting member: Any written or verbal threat to the staff, moderators, or owners of Advanced Diver Forum, Advanced Diver Magazine or its entities will result in an immediate ban without explanation or discussion. All past posts made from the individual threatening litigation will be copied and turned over to ADM attorneys for further legal action. All paid banners, advertisement placement, and dedicated thread areas will be removed and all funds forfeited. All contracts held between the paid sponsor or supporting member and ADM will be terminated due to violation of agreed “Terms and Conditions”. All members who have been set up to represent the paid sponsor or supporting member will be demoted to a registered user, their commercial posting privileges revoked. |
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2.0 Website
Content |
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Term Discussion: If you wish to discuss these Terms then
contact us via a Private Message or email. You
agree you will not discuss the terms on the
forums or in public. |
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Politics, religion,
nationalities or anything of a sexual
nature: While we encourage discussion about a
wide range of subjects, there are certain areas,
which elicit more animosity and subsequently far
more flames. As a result you agree that
discussions involving politics, religion,
nationalities or anything of a sexual nature be
reserved for other message boards that are
better venues for these topics and will not be
discussed on this website. |
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Cross Posting / Reposting /
Reprinting: Cross Posting / Reposting / Reprinting
of information from this site, or other sites is
forbidden without written permission of the site
owner. |
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Photos: Any photos that are uploaded to our
gallery may have the websites name shown on them
in one corner to discourage image
theft. |
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Spam: Spam, data mining or recruiting our
membership is forbidden. |
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Posting legal
liability: You agree that you will not post or
upload any material which might give rise to
legal liability on our part to a third party and
you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless for
any liability how so ever arising resulting from
the material posted or uploaded by
you. |
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Hijack Thread: You agree that when posting in an
existing thread you will not hijack the thread
or attempt to take it off
topic. |
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Troll, Flame,
Insult: When posting you will not spam, troll,
flame or insult members. |
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Profane Language: Excessively profane, insulting or mean
spirited language is not allowed
here. |
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Harassment or bullying: Harassment or bullying or threats of any
sort are not tolerated and may result in an
instant ban of your user
account. |
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Personal
attacks: You agree and understand that the
debates may become passionate but you will not
to resort to personal attacks. If you feel that
you have been attacked, you will not retaliate
but instead use the "report this post to a
moderator" link at the bottom of the post to
notify us. |
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Illegal activity
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activity are not allowed on the
board. |
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Company’s URL: A user may include their company’s URL
within their signature line, you may not link to
any other commercial sites within your
signature. |
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Signature lines: Signature lines are not available to registered users. This is implemented to prevent new accounts that are seeking advertisement without sponsorship and sock puppet members with multiple illegal accounts. Only members who have obtained higher rank such as ADF sponsors, supporters, will be allowed special signature lines and banners.
Signature lines must be limited to four lines and are subject to review by ADF staff for improper links and content. Signature lines cannot contain links or content to web sites that are determined as direct competition with Advanced Diver Magazine.com.
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Delete any signature: We reserve the right to edit or delete
any signature we do not feel is appropriate for
the website. |
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Nudity or overly provocative
images: Nudity or overly provocative images or
racist or offensive images may not be used for
Avatars or submitted anywhere on the
website. |
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Moderators and
administrators: You agree that moderators and
administrators at their discretion and when they
deem it in the best interest of Advanced Diver Forum, may edit or delete avatars, pictures,
posts, articles, map entries, threads or any
other information submitted to the website. They
might also split threads to ensure a thread
stays on topic and/or give infractions (which
might result in a temporary or permanent ban) to
users who fail to follow these rules. They will
also ban users when necessary. |
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Moderators and
administrators: You agree that the moderators and
administrators have the last word in any dispute
and are responsible for the smooth running of
the website and have final interpretation of
these terms and conditions of
use. |
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3.0 Diving Medicine
Forum |
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Medical discussion: The Website, its owner, its moderators,
administrators and affiliated health
professionals provide this forum for the
discussion of general questions concerning
diving medicine only. |
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Medical discussion: It is intended to be for general
discussion and educational purposes
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Medical advice: Information provided by members,
moderators, administrators and/or health
professionals is in no way intended to serve as
actual individual medical advice, diagnoses, or
to provide treatment plans. |
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Doctor/patient
relationship: In no way does participating on these
forums constitute a formal or informal
doctor/patient relationship. |
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Contributions to the Diving
Medicine forum: Contributions to the Diving Medicine
forum are not limited to physicians, doctors or
other health professionals. In fact, all members
are invited to participate. |
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Responsibility or liability: ADF assume no responsibility or liability
for the accuracy or reliability of any
posts. |
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Responsibility or liability: It is possible that some information may
be inaccurate, incomplete or otherwise
flawed. |
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Post Reviews: The information in these posts is not
reviewed and is by no means endorsed or verified
by the Advanced Diver Forum moderators,
administrators or owner. |
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Health care
professionals: While your health is important to us,
you are responsible for your own health care. In
the event you feel you have any medical concerns
regarding actual illness, injury or other
possible risks, you should consult your
physician or other health care professionals as
you deem necessary and as soon as
possible. |
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Emergency Medical Services: Any diver who believes that he or she (or
a buddy) may have an urgent medical problem,
including but not limited to any life
threatening conditions, should initiate
Emergency Medical Services contact immediately!
Next, he or she should contact both a personal
physician, and the Diver's Alert Network
(DAN). |
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4.0 Trips / Holidays
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Thread Count: One thread only per
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Commercial
offerings: Any commercial offerings should be
identified as such and may only be made from
site sponsors. |
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Bumping: No "bumping" allowed. Legitimate
questions are fine, but please do not post just
to get a better position in the
forum. |
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Purchase a
"sticky": You may purchase a "sticky" if you want.
Please contact an administrator for
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5.0 Rebreather and Dive Equipment
Marketplace |
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Criticize, comment
: The for sale forums are not a place to
criticize, comment on or in other way speak to
the reliability or history of products for sale.
Messages commenting on the quality or value of a
deal negatively are expressly forbidden as are
messages that “flame”, “troll” or otherwise
negatively attack a company for their business
practices. Honest, fact-based criticism can be
posted in the appropriate forum else where on
the site. |
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Under-cutting: Posting competing or counter offers to an
advertisement in this forum immediately after
another company's post simply as a means of
under-cutting the first advertiser is expressly
forbidden. |
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Members must
read: All members must read any and all sticky
or announcement threads related to additional
rules or restrictions that may exist in a
particular For Sale sub-forum. |
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6.0 Advertising /
Sponsorship |
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Unrelated Commercial
Relations: This website maintains commercial
relationships with numerous companies which are
unrelated to the ownership of this
website. |
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Advertisers
privileges: Advertisers (also known as Sponsors) are
entitled to no extra privileges nor may they
break or disobey these terms in any
way. |
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Jurisdiction: Advertising on this site is subject
exclusively to United States of America, Florida
law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of
The State of Florida courts. |
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Maximum liability: The maximum liability we accept in
relation to advertising on the site in respect
of any dispute with us is the amount paid for
advertising by the advertiser in the current
calendar year. |
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Advert /
sponsorship: Adverts are only accepted from the
company paying for the advert / sponsorship, you
may not advertise on another company’s
behalf. |
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Advertisers advert: After advertising payment has been
received then adverts will be uploaded to the
site as soon as possible. |
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Advertisers Term: Advertising rates are valid for 1 year
from the initial payment being
received. |
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Endorsement: Advertising does not imply endorsement
of a product, service or user by the website or
its owner Advanced Diver Magazine
LLC. |
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Agents of the
companies: Neither this website its owner or staff
are agents of the companies advertising on the
website. |
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Advert payment: Adverts must be paid for in advance. They
may be cancelled by the advertiser at any time
and we will then remove the advert and the
identification that the user is a Sponsor but no
refunds will be given.. |
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Exclusive jurisdiction: You agree that this website including its
use and membership is governed exclusively by
United States of America, Florida law and that
State of Florida courts shall have exclusive
jurisdiction over any disputes arising with or
through this website or the website owner Advanced Diver Magazine
LLC. |
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Personal
jurisdiction: You agree to personal jurisdiction by
United States of America, Florida Courts for all
matters relating to this website or the website
owner Advanced Diver Magazine
LLC. |
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Unenforceable: In the event that any provision of these
terms and conditions of use of this website is
held unenforceable, it will not affect the
validity and enforceability of the remaining
provisions. |
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Opinions of their respective
authors: All posts and articles on this website
are the opinions of their respective authors and
may not reflect the views of this website or its
owner, you agree that Advanced Diver Forum, its
owner, all previous and future owners and all
moderators and administrators can not be held
responsible or liable for the content of this
website or the authenticity or accuracy of any
information available on this
website. |
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Scuba Industry
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in the Scuba Industry and post on their behalf
then you have accepted these terms and
conditions on their behalf. |
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Safety-oriented: This is a safety-oriented board and our
recommendation is that each diver should seek
formal accredited training on how to operate his
or her unit and we do not recommend any other
course of action. We encourage you to avail
yourself of as much formal accredited training
as possible. A competent instructor will be able
to see safety concerns that you might
miss. |
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Liable for the content,
authenticity or accuracy: The posts and articles written by the
moderators and administrators are their
individual views and you agree neither this
website nor its owner or previous or future
owners are responsible or liable for the
content, authenticity or
accuracy. |
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Liability: We accept no liability (including
without limitation) in either contract, tort,
negligence, statutory duty or otherwise (to the
maximum extent permitted by applicable law)
arising out of the use of or access to or
content contained on this website (which
includes without limitation) any errors or
omissions contained in this website or if the
website is unavailable and we shall not be
liable for any direct or indirect:
* economic
losses (including without limitation loss of
revenues, data, profits, contracts, use,
opportunity, business or anticipated
savings);
* personal injury or death;
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loss of goodwill or reputation; or
* special,
incidental, consequential loss or damage,
suffered or incurred arising out of or in
connection with this website and these terms and
conditions.
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Copyright : This website retains all rights and
privileges and copyright to any and all content
posted and files uploaded (except for
photographic material or articles identified as
all ready being copyrighted, in this case you
grant Advanced Diver Forum a non revokable license
to display the content or file in perpetuity.),
to its user and other data
bases. |
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Privacy Policy: By agreeing to be bound by
these terms and conditions, you are agreeing to
be bound by our Privacy Policy. |
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Risk: Access to and use of this website is at
the user's own risk and we do not warrant that
the use of this website or any material
downloaded from it will not cause damage to any
property or person, or otherwise minimize or
eliminate the inherent risks of the internet
including but not limited to loss of data,
computer virus infection, spy ware, malicious
software, trojans and worms. Also, we accept no
liability in respect of losses or damages
arising out of changes made to the content of
this website by unauthorized third
parties. |
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Right to monitor all internet
communications: In order to maintain the security of its
systems, protect our staff and detect fraud and
other crimes, ADF reserves the
right to monitor all internet communications,
including web and email traffic relating to this
website. Monitoring includes (without
limitation) checks for viruses and other
malignant code, criminal activity, and use or
content that is unauthorized or unlawful or
material that may cause offence in any way. We
may share this information and any other
information we might hold with law enforcement
officials if asked to do so. |
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You agree to indemnify the
current and any previous and future owners for
any loss or damage howsoever caused resulting
from any breach by you of these terms and
conditions of use. |
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Subject to change by us without
notification: The contents of this website, including
these terms and conditions of use, are subject
to change by us without notification. Your
continued use of the website after any change/s
signals your acceptance of said change/s. You
should check these terms and conditions of use
whenever you use the website. Additionally we
shall not be obliged to remove any outdated
information from the website or to expressly
mark it as being outdated. |
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8.0 Commercial Advertisement, Equipment Sales, RBW Member Sales |
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Commercial postings: Commercial postings or postings about
commercial suppliers / stores / operations are
only allowed about or to site sponsors /
advertisers. Any other posts will be
deleted. |
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Member “For Sale” section: The “For Sale” section of ADF is a benefit and not a right of ADF members. Excessive for sale items by a member will be treated as commercial posting. |
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Member Equipment Sales: AdvancedDiverMagazine.com allows ADF members to post their personal used scuba related equipment for sale within the specified “For Sale” sections only. |
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Excessive Member Equipment Sales: AdvancedDiverMagazine.com reserves the right to determine if a ADF member is actually making commercial sales and pretending like they are personal sales. This determination will be concluded by the number of “For Sale” items and “Type of Items” the individual has posted from the time they became a member of ADF. If a ADFmember is determined to be making commercial sales they will be required to become a minimum of a ADF supporter. If the ADF member is determined they are actually a commercial equipment manufacturer they will be required to comply with all set standards for commercial posting. |
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For Sale Items: ADF has the right to disapprove and remove any “for sale” item posted if it is determined not to follow the direction of Advanced Diver Forum's scope. |
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Commercial Sponsor Specials: ADF has the right to disapprove and remove any “for sale” item posted by a supporting member or commercial advertiser if it is determined to directly interfere with the “for sale” items company supporting ADF. |
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9.0 Dive Charters, Special Events, Training Courses, etc... |
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Member Dive Charters: All ADF member dive charters announcements are required to be approved by ADF administration. |
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ADF Sponsor and Supporting Member Dive Charters: ADF sponsor and supporting members may announce specific dive charters that they are organizing and hosting. ADF sponsors and supporting members may not announce other member dive charters that they are not directly involved with or attending. |
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Member Dive Training Courses: All ADF member dive training course announcements are required to be approved by ADF administration. |
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ADF Sponsor and Supporting Member Dive Training Courses: ADF sponsor and supporting members may announce dive-training courses that they are organizing and hosting. ADF sponsors and supporting members may not announce other member dive-training courses that they are not directly involved with or attending. |
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Special Events: All special events must be approved by ADF administration. |
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10.0 ADF Policies and Operations Procedures |
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Memorial Forum Time Delay: All dive accidents and incidents posts will be delayed for a minimum of 48 to 72 hours after the accident occurred. This delay of time is designed to allow officials to notify immediate family members. |
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Memorial Forum Moderation: All new threads and posts within the “Memorial Forum” are required to be approved by a ADF moderator prior to release. Posts or threads determined unfit for release will not be approved. |
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Accidents and Incidents: All new threads and posts within the “Accidents and Incidents Forum” are required to be approved by a ADF |
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