User Terms and Conditions

Prior to completing registration on DistinctSports.com all users must accept the following:

While the administrators and moderators of this site will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to this site express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this site have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

This website uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you enter into our registration form; they serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. The e-mail address is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one).

While a member of our website you must also read and obey our user guidelines and applicable site policies. 

User Guidelines 

1. Users have plenty of opportunities to submit personal content to DistinctSports.com for everyone to see. This information whether in the chat rooms, the forums, user profile pages, any comment systems, news articles, links, or media of any kind must not solicit or promote political or commercial endeavors, pornography, hate speech, or indecency. If these conditions are breached the user may have their account closed and their IP addressed banned without warning.

2. Submitting someone else's copyrighted content as your own will not be tolerated. Original user works submitted as content may be posted with the author's name and information which we will display.

3. Failure to abide the forum rules, harassment of other users, excessive repeat posting, irrelevant posting, or suspicious and/or malicious behavior will result in a warning followed by account closure and IP banning should the behavior persist.

Privacy Polices:

General

We collect some non-personally identifiable information automatically and some in our online forms and surveys. Non-personally identifiable information might include your IP address, the type of browser or operating system you use, the domain name from which you linked to our site, and other general information which we would ask for. We use this non-personally identifiable information to help administer our website; and we may share it with affiliates of Distinctsports.com.

Our site's online forms and surveys may also request or require users to give us personally identifiable information (such as their name and e-mail address). We may use the information from our online forms and surveys to contact the user, but users may opt-out of receiving future e-mails. We will not sell or disclose your personally identifiable data to any third party that is not an affiliate of Distinctsports.com unless: (i) we first obtain permission from you; (ii) we need to share it with agents or contractors who perform services for us; or (iii) we are required by law to disclose it.

Distinctsports.com is not responsible for the privacy policies of any of the websites which are linked to from our website.

Online Communication

This site makes forums, message boards, chat rooms, user profiles and/or news groups available to its users. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. By posting information, you also give Distinctsports.com the unlimited right to use and republish the information as we deem proper.

Cookies are also used on our website for the purpose of identifying users who are online and saving any preferences or settings you may wish to set.

Content Policies:

Copyrights

All media shown on Distinctsports.com were either obtained direct from their source with expressed permission, were obtained through other websites and are considered public domain or were submitted by users of this website as their own personal works or as public domain material. All submitted media is reviewed carefully in order to validate their source and any copyright notices and URL linkage shall accompany all such pictures as requested by the valid copyright owner. We do not claim ownership of such media and will display it only with the copyright holder's permission. Any media displayed on Distinctsports.com bearing the Distinct Sports logo are the intellectual property developed by Distinct Sports, LLC. Such media may not be used apart from Distinctsports.com without the express permission of Distinct Sports, LLC.

All text articles are developed either by Distinct Sports, LLC or users of Distinctsports.com who have submitted the articles in which case Distinct Sports, LLC claims only the right to display such articles and will do so with the necessary author/copyright information where required.

In the event of a violation or supposed violation of any copyrights by Distinctsports.com all complaints should be directed to the This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it whereupon any materials shall be immediately removed or the proper notices shall be displayed with the materials.

Disclaimers

Distinct Sports, LLC is not responsible for any content displayed on other websites which are linked to from Distinctsports.com, however, it being in our best interest to keep only the most relevant and quality links we ask that any websites linked to from Distinctsports.com with questionable content be reported via our feedback page. We also do not claim complete accuracy for any of the informational content of Distinctsports.com and are hereby not liable for any losses which may arise from such information. It is, however, our main focus to attempt to gather and display the most accurate information possible so we request that any inaccurate information be reported via our feedback page as soon as it is noticed.

URL and Content Submission

By submitting a URL or any content for inclusion in Distinctsports.com you consent that the content you provide may be included as part of the content of Distinctsports.com. We will review all submitted materials and decide whether or not such URLs or other content provided meet our qualifications. Distinct Sports, LLC will be the sole determiner of the placement or inclusion of any URL's or content submitted. The following are some of the primary guidelines we follow in determining a URL for inclusion in our directory:

• The website URL has in it's name some relation to the sport it covers.

• The website is broad in its coverage or appeal of a sport (I.E. - covers history, rules, news, etc.)

• The website specifically covers ONLY the sport in which it is being submitted for.

• The website has a working and easy to use navigation structure.

• The website's graphical layout is friendly to the eyes and not too cluttered.

Websites of official governing bodies of a sport at the international or national levels are more likely to be accepted even if the above guidelines are not met.

We do not accept the URLs of websites which are simply online stores with no non-commercial informational content.