In general, you may post any material written in a courteous and mature manner, providing that it is on-topic for the forum to which you are posting.  We will not interfere with the communication of thoughts and ideas as long as the presentation is constructive and appropriate for all those capable of reading the forum. 

You may NOT post or place in a signature any material that:

• Attacks or insults other users.  Feel free to ideas, but do not turn your disagreement into an attack upon the poster or any person or group. 
• Engages in name-calling, harassment, or threats.
• Contains obscenity, vulgarity, profanity or is sexually explicit.  This includes using letter, number, or character combinations that represent the obscene or inappropriate word.
• Disparages any religion, race, nation, gender, or sexual orientation. 
• Infringes upon anyone's privacy rights. 
• Is off-topic for the forum.  These Forums are provided to enable members to help each other and for informational purposes for topics within or linked to security and the security industry.

Furthermore, you may NOT:

• Post comments in threads for the purpose of drawing attention to another thread on a different subject. 
• Cross-post the same topic to multiple forums or the same message to multiple threads.
• Make replies to posts that do not pertain to or are irrelevant to the original topic or posting messages to reserve a reply spot with the intention of posting to it later. 
• Post with the intent of stirring up trouble or to incite disruption.
• Use the forum to debate private issues. 
• Post any material that is copyrighted by anyone other than your self.
• Advertise products or websites that are not related to security or the security industry.
  Please note that these rules also apply for communication to any Suretek employees. This includes emails.

Action that we might take in regard to a post in violation of these rules on the Suretek Forum will vary depending upon the transgression.

It may include any number of the following (in order of severity):

• Editing of the post or signature. 
• Removal of the ability to have a signature or Link and image posting privileges. 
• Deletion of the post/thread. 
• Closing of the thread. 
• A Warning. Warnings are given for less severe message board infractions. Anyone given three warnings for message board miss-conduct will have their account banned. 
• Suspension (results in user being unable to access the Suretek Forum for the duration of the suspension at the discretion of the management team at Suretek. Any subsequent warnings after a suspension will result in banishment). 
• Banishment (results in the user's forum posting privileges being revoked. At the discretion of the management team at Suretek. 
• Legal Action (i.e. contacting law enforcement personnel in regard to a threat)

Those who violate the rules of the boards may or may not receive any warning before action is taken. In the event that a warning is given, the warning will be recorded and may result in further action should the user show a pattern of engaging in prohibited conduct.

  
Things the Suretek management team will most likely NOT respond to:

• Private Messages asking for a response to a particular thread. We read as many threads on these boards as possible and respond to those to which we feel we can best contribute. Asking us to look at or respond to a certain thread will not cause us to answer a question that we otherwise wouldn't. 
• Rumours regarding internal Suretek matters. Although we would love to debunk every crazy rumour that surfaces, if we start responding to that kind of post certain people will just use them to try to bait a response out of us. We are not going to play that game. The lack of a response from us is not an acknowledgment of truth, just a sign that we won't dignify such threads with a response.

In addition, answering Private Messages is at the discretion of the individual Suretek team member or Suretek management team.