Welcome! This Bulletin Board System (BBS) is owned, managed and administered by the company. The company provides services according to the nciku BBS Service Provisions. Please read them carefully. All users must abide by the Service Provisions.

1. Rights and Obligations for BBS Users

1.1 Users who agree to the company website User Service Provisions and registered at nciku.com can become nciku BBS users with fundamental rights, but users must abide by the Service Provisions.

1.2 Users have the right to issue information in the specified scopes on the boards where they have been given authority.

1.3 Users must strictly abide by the User Service Provisions and announcements by the BBS management issued by the company and they must independently assume the legal responsibility which may emerge in the process of issuing information on the Internet.

1.4 The company BBS users have the obligation of observing national laws and decrees and the related BBS management regulations.

1.5 The company BBS users have the obligation of observing network etiquettes.

2. BBS Opinion Regulations

2.1 Users must not issue information that is against basic Constitutional principles, a hazard to national security, leaks national secrets, tries to overthrow the government, damages national unification and social order; users must not issue information that damages national honor and interest; users must not issue information that is forbidden by laws and decrees.

2.2 Users must not issue information that instigates ethnic hatred, ethnic discrimination and damages ethnic unity; users must not issue information that damages national religion policies, propagates heretical ideas or superstition.

2.3 Users must not issue information that instigates others to break laws, disseminate rumors, cause public disturbance, damage social stability; users must not issue information concerning pornography, gambling, violence, terror, et cetera.

2.4 Users must not issue information that instigates illegal congregation, illegal associations, illegal parades and strikes, or gatherings together as a mob to cause trouble; users must not issue information that organizes activities in the name of illegal non-governmental bodies.

2.5 Users must not issue any articles bearing personal resentment; users must not issue information that insults or defames others or concerning others’ privacy; plagiarism is strictly prohibited; users must not issue information that damages others’ legal rights of intellectual property, et cetera.

2.6 It is strictly forbidden to issue information that damages the legal rights of a third party, e.g. (including but not limited to these) virus codes, hacker programs, software deciphering registration information.

2.7 It is prohibited to issue topics and replies that are not related to the BBS tenets or to upload irrelevant pictures.

2.8 Malicious posting, such as issuing one same article in many different boards or occupying one same board page with one ID, is prohibited.

2.9 It is prohibited to post many articles with one ID and occupy the board page with one ID.

2.10 It is prohibited to disturb order within the BBS. Users must not issue information that harms order within the BBS.

2.11 When a user is publishing an article on a board, they should abide by the related regulations of this board other than just the Service Provisions.

2.12 Any form of advertising is forbidden on the BBS without the company’s written permission.

3. Management System (Board Managers)

BBS administrators (BM) are responsible for daily affairs. An administrator’s job includes:

3.1 Responsibility for censoring contents of the whole on-line community.

3.2 Responsibility for guiding the direction of contents and unearthing propaganda.

3.3 Being responsible for problem solving, answering questions, management and supervision in the administered areas according to the on-line community arrangements.

3.4 Being responsible for supervising administered affairs including BBS public order maintenance, selection of excellent articles, organizing BBS activities, et cetera.

4. Punishment Against Violation of the Regulations

4.1 Users must promise to receive the company’s penalizations and agree to publicize their ID if they violate the regulations. The company has the right to give people related to violations a mandate for supervising and punishing.

4.2 If users violate the Service Provisions or the company’s related regulations, the company has the right to penalize according to the nature and seriousness of the case, subjective conditions and punishments in progress.

4.3 If the user conducts any illegal activities by utilizing the BBS, the company will penalize according to the regulations of 3.2 and reserves the right to investigate the user’s legal responsibility.

4.4 The company is not obliged to inform the user before issuing penalties. The company will send the user a notice after penalization but we will not inform the user before or afterwards about the following: deletion of information in violation of the Service Provisions, BBS credit reductions, BBS grade drops, cutting or stopping of some services (including stopping the user’s right to posting).

4.5 The user must promise to accept that the BBS system record can be used as electronic information proof of breaking the law, Service Provisions or the company’s other regulations.

5. Copyright Statement

5.1 Copyright of this BBS’s original articles belongs to the author. The copyright of articles pasted from other media belongs to the original author. If an article has a copyright statement then ownership should be determined by this statement.

5.2 The company has the right to use articles published in its BBS for free for other purposes by means of pasting, quoting, translating, extracting, including but not limited to the website and electronic periodicals, excluding those with a copyright statement that removes the rights mentioned above.

5.3 If an article published in this BBS is not the user’s original article, the user should have the article author’s permission and add "paste" or "reprint" when publishing, observing the original article and media’s copyright statement, noting the source and author. The user must independently assume legal responsibility. Disputes caused by the user’s behavior must be discussed by the user and the original author.

5.4 Any pasting or quotation of original articles contained in this BBS must meet the regulations below:
(1) Note the source as www.nciku.com when used in non-commercial, non-profitable or non-advertising purposes.
(2) The author’s permission is a must when used in non-commercial, non-profitable or non-advertising purposes, there should be notice of the author’s full name, scope of mandate and the source www.nciku.com.
(3) Any revision or deletion within the article must have the permission of the original author. Please note the author’s full name, scope of mandate and the source www.nciku.com.
(4) If there is the statement "no reprint or no quotation" in the author’s copyright statement, take this as the criterion.

6. Statements of Non-responsibility

6.1 Users should read these Service Provisions with care. If any dispute occurs, users cannot refute by using the excuse of not having read the Service Provisions carefully

6.2 The user (including BMs) only stands for their own point of view when communicating or posting any comments and has nothing to do with the view points held by the company. The user takes sole responsibility for what he writes.

6.3 The company is not responsible for any psychological or physical injury or economic disputes and losses that may occur during the course of BBS users’ knowing each other and contacts among them.

6.4 The company has the right to delete information without informing the user when we consider it necessary and we do not assume responsibility for the user or a third party.

6.5 If the BBS user issues information that violates laws or harms others’ legal rights, the content provider will assume the legal responsibility, The company does not accept any responsibility.

6.6 The company specifically calls for the user’s attention that the user promises to agree that the company has the right to change, cut or stop BBS services by means of verbal notice before or afterwards without taking any responsibility for the user or a third party. If it causes loss for a third party, the company does not take responsibility of any form, such as returning payment, paying for the losses or compensation.

7. Appendices

7.1 The company has the right to revise or add Service Provisions when necessary and the company will announce changes and amendments in the BBS headline. If you disagree with the revised and added contents, you may stop using the BBS and if you continue to use the BBS then we consider this your agreement with the revised and added contents of the Service Provisions.

7.2 The company uses announcements on the nciku.com webpage, the BBS and system information as the main means of conveying information to users. The announcements go into effect as of the date of publication. In some cases the company might inform you by log in attention, email, common mails or telephone, but the company does not have an obligation to inform users on an individual basis.

7.3 The company’s related regulations have the same effect as the Service Provisions and users should together observe this. The company’s regulations include but are not limited to user service provisions and those related service provisions, regulations and announcements that could possibly be added.

7.4 Service Provisions come into force as of the date of issue.