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Hello and welcome to the e-Stewards Community forum.

Community Guidelines

See guidelines below by clicking here.

Terminology

• Forum: An online discussion site where people can have conversations in the form of topics, and replies.
• Sub-Forum: A collection of topics specific to a certain overarching category. Topics are displayed from latest to oldest. It is defined by a title, and a description.
• Topics: A collection of replies displayed from oldest to latest. It is defined by a title with a message of the intended discussion.

How To

• How to register.
• How to create a topic in a forum.
• How to create a reply to a topic.
• How to create a poll.

Frequently Asked Questions

• What does subscribing to topics do?
  • It allows you to receive email updates when someone has replied to that specific topic. This helps keep you up-to-date with discussions.
• What kind of topics can I create?
  • If you have something you want to share, ask, or even discuss about -- creating a topic is the best way. An example would be, "How are you guys helping your communities out?" With replies discussing that specific topic.
• Can I discuss pricing?
  • Please follow the Anti-trust law in regards to discussing costs. Click here to access the Anti-trust statement.See guidelines below by clicking here.

If you have any additional questions or comments please do not hesitate to ask by replying to this topic.

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Guidelines

By accessing “e-Stewards Community” (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”, “e-Stewards Community”, “http://forum.e-stewards.org”), you agree to be legally bound by the following terms. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all of the following terms then please do not access and/or use “e-Stewards Community”. We may change these at any time and we’ll do our utmost in informing you, though it would be prudent to review this regularly yourself as your continued usage of “e-Stewards Community” after changes mean you agree to be legally bound by these terms as they are updated and/or amended.

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You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country, the country where “e-Stewards Community” is hosted or International Law. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned, with notification of your Internet Service Provider if deemed required by us. The IP address of all posts are recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that “e-Stewards Community” have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should we see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, neither “e-Stewards Community” nor phpBB shall be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

Please follow the Anti-trust law in regards to discussing costs. Click here to access the Anti-trust statement.

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Anti-Trust Statement

In addition, all forum users agree to be aware of, understand and not violate the US Federal anti-trust laws. The US Federal antitrust laws prohibit combinations in restraint of trade that occur whenever competitors within a field of business exchange information that has the purpose or effect of fixing, raising, maintaining, or stabilizing prices (or otherwise limiting competition). Should such a conspiracy in restraint of trade be found to occur on the e-Stewards community forum, BAN/e-Stewards, its directors, its officers, and its participating members would be held liable for substantial damages (including treble damages).

Thus, when using this BAN/e-Stewards sponsored forum, members are urged to meet the following requirements:

• Do not, in fact or appearance, discuss or exchange present or future price-related information, including:
  • Individual company prices, price differentials, markups, discounts, credit terms, marketing strategies, etc.;
  • Individual company data on costs, production, capacity, inventories, sales, etc.;
  • Transportation rates (particularly contract rates) for individual shipments;
  • Company bids on contracts for particular materials, company procedures for responding to bid, etc.; and
  • Matters relating to actual or potential individual suppliers or customers that might have the effect of excluding them from any market or influencing the business conduct of firms toward them.
• BAN/e-Stewards requires all forum participants to be sensitive to the risks of potential anti-trust abuses where this BAN sponsored forum is concerned. In the event that any such improper discussion or exchange occurs on a BAN sponsored forum, BAN and its participating members maybe held personally liable for substantial damages if the association does not actively and aggressively police its ranks on this issue during the meeting as necessary. If you believe that illegal activities may be occurring, please speak out and/or advise a BAN/e-Stewards member immediately.
• Remember that the conduct of each participant on the BAN/e-Stewards forum involves BAN/e-Stewards and its associates and, if improper, implicates them. Therefore, each participant has a responsibility to observe these rules. Your awareness of the need to observe BANs anti-trust policies is essential in assuring the continuing success of BAN/e-Stewards and its programs.