Welcome:
First of all welcome to Back Stage Graphics and we hope you plan on being here for a while, but if you do there are some rules you must follow. Everyone here loves all things design and sports. please let's keep it that way and don't do anything that would stop people from enjoying the site. Please enjoy the site, have fun, and follow the rules and there will be no trouble.

Contents:
1. GFX Criteria
2. Everything You Need To Know
3. Legal Information

GFX Criteria:
There are guidelines you must follow when posting, but not limited to, wallpapers, sigs, posters, and avatars. No posting of any explicit material unless it is a form of artistic expression. For all Wallpapers YOU MUST POST A DIRECT LINK. For signatures post them as an image in the post using the [img][/img] tags. Avatars follow the same criteria as sigs.

Everything You Need To Know:
Here is a list of everything you are not allowed to do with the punishment listed next to it, if you are caught doing one of these things by the mods or admins the listed punishment will be enforced on you. If you follow these rules everything will be fine and we won't have to discipline you, which we really don't want to do so don't make us.

Ripping - Deletion of Post
Repeated Ripping - Ban of 1 to 3 days
Spamming - Warning, Then Ban
Creating Multiple Accounts - Warning, then IP Ban

Legal Information:
Intellectual Property - Intellectual property of others is highly regarded due to the effort, creativity and hard work put forth by those individuals. With that in mind not plagiarizing others works, respecting copyrights, patents, trade secrets and trademarks, are encouraged. All posts made on this forum are property of the posters, subject to the license granted below. All other material and content on: www.backstagegfx.com are the property and copyright of Back Stage Graphics and all rights are reserved. By posting material on Back Stage Graphics' site, you grant to the site a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, edit, modify, adapt, publish, translate, communicate to the public, perform and display the submitted content (in whole or in part) worldwide for the full term of any rights that may exist in the content.

Compliance with Laws, Rules and Regulations - Not participating in discussions related to illegal or unlawful activities, including issues determined to be against the official rules of the games we engage in are encouraged. This obligation is inherent with the principles upon which this community is founded.

Personal Responsibility Towards the Community - The Back Stage Graphics community expects that you will exercise caution, good sense and proper judgment when using the services of this forum. You agree NOT to use the Services of Back Stage Graphics for any of the following activities:

1. Impersonating any person or entity, including but not limited to, any other users or any of the BSX personnel or crew,falsely stating or otherwise misrepresenting your identity or affiliation in any way, or forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or other posting.
2. Any fraudulent, distateful, illegal purpose, or any use which violates the accepted standards of the Internet and/or our own community, whether or not expressly mentioned in this Agreement, as well as any activity that could damage Back Stage Graphics reputation and good will.
3. E-mailing, uploading, or otherwise transmitting or using the Services in furtherance of the use or distribution of any unlawful, harmful, harassing, defamatory, tortious, libelous, abusive, threatening, vulgar, sexually explicit, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, or any material that is invasive of another's privacy or exploits children, or transmitting any sexually explicit materials, including images and other content.
4. Transmitting material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage, destroy, disrupt or otherwise impair a computer's functionality or the operation of Back Stage Graphics' (or anyone else's) Services, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information, or transmit any materials that otherwise violate Back Stage Graphics' rules or policies.

Disclaimer
We do not claim the rights to any pictures used on our site, or posted by the members of our site. All rights of photo's are due to respective owners. If you plan on posting any work that includes pictures that you do not own, you must provide appropriate citation to the photos respective owner(s).