Welcome to kingsnake.com!

As with any website, business or community, there is a Terms of Service (TOS). Below you will find the TOS you agree to by utilizing kingsnake.com. Staff, volunteers, and users of kingsnake.com monitor and enforce these rules. The rules can be summed up relatively quickly, with more details provided below.

• Be honest.
• Do what you say you will do.
• Only do legal things – YOU are liable.
• Do your research, take your time, think and be smart.
• Be kind.

Our forums, message boards, photo galleries, newsletters, and classifieds are for discussion, entertainment, and community purposes. We make no claims of accuracy about information you might find there. Readers rely on information and advertisements posted on kingsnake.com at their own risk.

By Registering for a kingsnake.com User Account, You are Agreeing to abide by the Terms of Service

Advertising

The majority of the TOS violations on kingsnake.com are for advertising inappropriately.

• Advertising, except mentioning events, is not allowed in the discussion forums, or photo galleries. Advertisements go in the classified ads sections only.
• Advertising is the solicitation or statement that you have animals and/or items for sale, trade, wanted, free/being given away, stud service, for adoption etc. Advertising is promotion of websites, newsletters, products, etc.
• Kingsnake.com has an extensive classifieds area to meet your advertising needs. The photo galleries and the classifieds have their own set of terms of service.
• If someone asks for enclosure feedback, you should share your personal experience (good and/or bad) with companies A, B and/or C. If someone is learning about XYZ species, and you breed them, be helpful, and feel free to let them know you have some posted in the classifieds.
• You should recommend good companies – it happens naturally and should fit in the conversation. A pattern of regularly recommending a specific company (your own or others), especially with little other helpful contributions, may be taken into consideration when evaluating if a pattern of commercial activity is present.
• All posts that state or imply "Look at/check out my/this website" will be removed.
• Users may post the URLs of websites, as it is part of a contribution to the overall discussion. Users with a pattern of responding with directions to a particular website or domain that begins to look like an attempt to thwart this rule, the overall pattern will be considered when determining if it is advertising/promotion.
• Posting the same message to multiple forums/message boards (cross posting, spamming) is annoying advertising and will be removed. If there is a need for this, contact kingsnake.com staff. Large-scale or repeated spamming efforts are grounds for immediate termination of your account.
• You may include a link to personal websites, including social media (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.), in your signature, even if it is a commercial/business link.
• However, you may not include specific items for sale, prices, advertising slogans, or any other text or images that are commercial in nature. Links to other marketplaces and forums are prohibited, just as they prohibit links to kingsnake.com.
• You may include a small personal or business logo/avatar for use as part of your signature. Logos/avatars may not be placed within the body of a message. Any graphic/image used as part of your signature must be 170x50 pixels or smaller — no exceptions.
• Spamming, sending unsolicited promotional emails or sending advertising through our message system or using our site's email system to our users is a violation and may be grounds for immediate termination of your account.
• Posting pyramid schemes and get rich quick offers are a violation, and are propagating mail fraud; violators will be turned in to the US Postmaster. This violation is grounds for immediate termination of your account.

Other Terms

Kingsnake.com prefers fewer rules and minimal censorship, but here are a few specifics we expand upon below:

• Be honest.
• Do what you say you will do.
• Only do legal things.
• Do your research, take your time, think and be smart.
• Be kind.

Be honest.

• No posting under another individual's username and/or email address.
• No impersonating another user or a host/staff member with a misleading username, signature, or statement.

Only do legal things – YOU are liable

• Only post images, links, etc. that you own the rights to or have permission to post.
• YOU are responsible for what you post and liable for any and all infringements.
• Click here if you believe you have an item here used without your permission.
• Technical disruption of our site is a serious violation and may result in legal recourse.
• Threats of violence will be reported to appropriate law enforcement agencies.

Do your research, take your time, think and be smart.

• Using kingsnake.com solely to post warnings or notices about other persons or businesses, whether a kingsnake.com classified vendor or not, is a violation and may be grounds for immediate termination of your account.
• Contribute to the community by sharing more than the bad.
• Think and be Smart
  • If a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is. Check the vendor or seller out. YOU are responsible for who YOU send money to.
  • Not all advice is correct. Not all experiences are repeatable; however, we can learn from them all. Be smart and consider multiple parties’ input before making your decision. YOU are responsible for your actions.

Be kind.

• Discuss and debate on our forums – especially if you disagree and especially when you have proof.
• NO personal attacks. Discuss the topic.
• NO threats, nor harassment.
• Using our site's communication system for the purpose of harassing or sending obscene materials, profanity, or racial, sexual, personal, or religious slurs or personal attacks to another registered user is a violation and may be grounds for immediate termination of your account. If you believe you are a victim of such an incident, please contact the site coordinator of the appropriate site for assistance.
• NO posting of obscene materials, profanity, racial, sexual, personal, or religious slurs or hate to kingsnake.com.

Please note: No rulebook is ever complete. It is always better to be safe and ask before posting, than to post something questionable or in a questionable manner. If you have concerns about something of a questionable nature, please contact us.

Account Violations & Resolutions

Please keep in mind that by registering and using our sites and services, you are agreeing that you have read, and will abide by, our Terms of Service.

• We reserve the right to delete, remove, or edit content posted or published on our site. If you violate our terms of service, kingsnake.com staff may delete, remove or edit your messages. We will not edit forum posts simply for content, grammar, spelling, layout, or meaning, but reserve the right to edit for violations of the TOS, triggering our profanity or URL/email filter, the inclusion of identifying personal information about others, technical problems, and other unforeseen complications.
• All services we provide on these sites are granted as a privilege. If you violate that privilege, knowingly or unknowingly, we may contact you and ask you to stop, suspend or ban you. If warned and you persist or become abusive, belligerent, or argumentative with us, we reserve the right, at our discretion, to refuse service, limit or block your access to our website, have your account terminated, contact your Internet service provider, and/or cancel your advertising and/or other services.
• Occasionally, we may inform a user about a violation, or post a general warning to a forum or photo gallery, but we have no policy guaranteeing any user will be warned about violations, nor any threshold of violations that may result in action against an account.
• If you have had your ability to log in, post to the forums, or upload rescinded, or had posts or images removed, you may contact Community Review. Any public discussion of actions against a user's account will be removed, and we will not discuss any action against a user's account with anyone but that individual.
• Any individual whose account was terminated for violations of our TOS may NOT re-register in any format, under any circumstances. Attempting to circumvent this system by registering under a different name or alias will cause the account to be immediately terminated. Anyone who knowingly assists in fraudulently obtaining an account will lose their site services and will themselves be banned. Attempting to circumvent this system by posting under the name of, or having posts made by, another account user is also prohibited.

Reporting Violations & Site Abuses

• Photo Galleries: All photos contain a 'report photo' link. To report a photo (or attached message), use the link provided there (found below the photograph).
• Discussion Forums: All messages contain a 'report abuse' link. To report a message, use the link provided there (found next to the author's name).
• Classified Forums: All ads contain a 'report abuse' link. To report an ad, use the link provided there (found above the contents of the ad). If you have a problem with or complaint against a kingsnake.com classified vendor, please review the classifieds terms of service and the complaint/rip-off page and, if necessary, file a complaint with the classifieds forum abuse coordinator.
• Others: If there is an issue that cannot be handled through the above reporting methods, please contact us through the Contact Page for assistance.