Terms & Conditions

The Delia Online Chat is provide by rchat@random, an online facility developed by the Random House Group Digital.

Whilst we do not intend to censor questions, as long as they fall inside the rules and guidelines of this forum and the website, we do reserve the right to move, modify, censor or delete questions, or even to ban registered users who blatantly disobey these rules, at our discretion and without explanation.

Registration

• You are allowed to have only one account.

• You are responsible for all posts that originate from your user name account.

• You may not post on behalf of any banned user.

General Conduct

• Our most simple but most important rule - Be polite, respect other users, the guest and their opinions.

• If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all - and, if you're just joking, make sure that it is clear to everyone that you mean no disrespect to any other participant.

• We do not tolerate rudeness and foul language under any circumstances. Any user who is intentionally unpleasant, insulting or disruptive will have their membership disabled without warning.

• Any posts that encourage illegal intent will be removed and the account disabled.


The following activities are forbidden. Moderators may use their discretion as to whether or not to take action, depending on the nature of the post. However, the consequence of any of these activities will likely result in the user and all of their questions being deleted, with all content removed.

• Signature Spam - making posts to show your signature.

• Thread Trashing – posting negative comments about other questions.

• Flaming - doing anything to personally insult, degrade, belittle, or demean another user.


Content

Random House websites including rchat@random are often visited by children of all ages, throughout the world. Please help us to maintain a facility that is presentable to children.

• All content must be in the English language and not abbreviated texting

• You may not post censored words or URLs by substituting, adding or removing characters.

• You may not post any combination of words, letters or characters that could be interpreted as rude or offensive

• Any posts that encourage illegal intent will be removed and the account disabled.

• You may not link, in any manner, to sites or images containing sexually explicit content, gross violence, or those that are determined by moderators to be detrimental to the community.

• Spelling & Grammar – please make every effort to spell words and structure your sentences and paragraphs so that they is propper.

• Repetition – do not post strings of repeated characters or words

• Quotes - please only use the quote facility to reply to posts wherever it is really necessary, and reduce the content in the quote to specific sentences or paragraphs.

Commercial Activity

• You may not solicit any external source to post on this chat regarding any current or future company, services, or products that you are associated with.

• You may not post any posts that are commercial by nature.

• You may not recommend, praise, or belittle any products, services or companies; without first hand experience of those products or services.

• You may not post commission, referral or affiliate links

Tips

If you feel that you are being disrespected by another user, do not react, please forward your concern to a moderator or administrator and we will deal with the situation.

Public posts debating these rules and/or moderators' enforcement of such, may be removed without comment. However, we encourage feedback and invite you to use our help desk (coming soon) if you have any questions or concerns.