Members of the Egea forum are required to abide and agree with all terms set below in order to participate in our community.



You agree to accept all liability and responsibility for any contribution you make. Considering the real-time nature of this website, it is impossible for us to review or confirm the validity of information posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any contribution, and are not responsible for its content. The views expressed are those of its author, not necessarily the views of Egea or any entity associated with Egea.

Off topic comments do not improve the clarity of the threads, Web Staff may move or edit off topic posts.

Egea subscribes to the freedom of expression. Be kind to others, keep it positive. Be tolerant, understanding and respectful of other people's point of view. Do not ridicule others for their beliefs, opinions or views. Please take into account the difficulty many people have in expressing their precise feelings and emotions in a written message. If you strongly disagree or are upset over somebody's contribution, simply respond by stating your point of view. If you feel someone has broken the website rules, please send a u2u to the 'moderator' to inform the moderators.

The following is prohibited on the Egea website:

1. Racial, ethnic, minority or gender based insults or any form of discrimination.

2. Insulting (irony and sarcasm can be insulting), flaming, harassing or threatening anyone.

3. Posting of material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, hateful, or invasive of a person's privacy.

4. Provocation for the sake of provocation.

5. Spam or unauthorized advertisements of any kind.

6. Use of any other language than English on the Forum posts and front page content. (except posts on the congratulations and event organizing sub-forums)

7. Attacks on staff members.

8. Failure to use your real name and entity (or city if no entity is established) in your profile.

9. the creation of unauthorized 'clones'

Guidelines to applying the rules:

1st offense:

Moderators will post complaint and/or rule violating post on the moderators subforum so it can be discussed. Moderators will ask user to comply with the rules. the suspect post will be replaced by a link to rules page & the original content of the post will be deleted.

2nd offense:

Moderators will post complaint and/or rule violating post on the moderators subforum so it can be discussed. Moderators will ban user for 48 hours.

3rd offense / Major offense:

Moderators will post complaint and/or rule violating post on the moderators subforum so it can be discussed. Moderators will ban user permanently.

Ultimately the entity contact person is responsible for the compliance of the contributions to the website of his or her entity and its acknowledged members with the rules.

The interpretation of these rules is discussed in the moderators board. The application of the rules by the moderators is not up for debate. We reserve the right to ban anyone who violates the rules.

The rules are not designed to anticipate any given situation, and consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure this community is not disrupted or abused in any way.

Kind regards,

The Egea website staff :)