To ensure a pleasurable experience for all members, you must adhere to the following rules (fuller details are available in our Terms and Conditions) Content Posted on the Site and Prohibited Content. a. The information that you supply to special-mates.co.uk and post on the Website must be accurate and conform to reality. b. Special-mates.co.uk may review and delete any content, messages, special-mates.co.uk Messenger messages, photos or Portraits (collectively, "Content") that in the reasonable judgment of special-mates.co.uk violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of members. c. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. Special-mates.co.uk reserves the right to amend this list at any times and to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Service and terminating the membership of such violators. It includes Content that: is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; constitutes a Portrait or photographs of any third person used without their permission; harasses or advocates harassment of another person; involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming"; promotes information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or promotes conduct, or that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous; promotes an illegal or unauthorised copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files; contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18; provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes. d. You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct. e. You shall not include in your member Portrait any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses. f. You shall not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service or to attend parties or other social functions or networking for commercial purposes. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other members. g. Although special-mates.co.uk cannot monitor the conduct of its members off the Website, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our members from such advertising or solicitation, special-mates.co.uk reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a member may send to other members in any 24-hour period to a number which special-mates.co.uk deems appropriate in its reasonable discretion. Prohibited Activities Special-mates.co.uk reserves the right to investigate and terminate your membership if you have misused the Service, or behaved in a way which could be regarded as inappropriate or whose conduct is unlawful or illegal. The following is a partial list of the type of actions that you may not engage in with respect to the Service: You will not impersonate any person or entity. You will not "stalk" or otherwise harass any person. You will not express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by special-mates.co.uk without our specific prior written consent. You will not post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary information without obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. You will not post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment. You will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Service. You will not transmit or post any material which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party in the UK or any other country in the world. Feel free to visit our 'Terms and Conditions' for fuller details of membership rules By following these rules you will ensure that special-mates.co.uk can provide a pleasurable service to all of it's members.