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Hi Helio, If we make a private forum and no public can see it, then we cannot convey any ill will to anybody. Would you recommend that we set up an account for you guys so you can come in to review our forum occasionally for compliance with the terms of service agreement? We don't want just any idiot or company to send you a DCMA notification or threat letter alleging false claims without merit, and then we get shut down without review. The instructors members of the forum just want to remain anonymous and be supported by each other to promote aquatic safety and growth of their efforts. I know it's free and you guys can do whatever you wish but we just want to know where the line is drawn and how you guys review and operate so we can best comply with the terms. We want to host a support group for female swim instructors that have a lot to gripe about. There is no proprietary information or techniques to be revealed or infringed upon and we can submit court transcript documents to prove our claims before even setting up a forum account. The company that will attempt to silence the forum members does not employ those members, they are independent contractors and they have the right to contract them anyway they want legally. These members want freedom of speech with each other and need support. There is no warez, porno, copyright stuff, slander, defamation, or any of the sort. We will maybe link some embedded youtube reviews of children that are not correctly trained or songs. I don't want to sound complicated but I just figure to ask before I waste your time. Thanks and looking forward to your reply. RE TOS: By signing up with HelioHost for any service, you agree to the following: - Your site will contain no illegal content. - You may not infringe on any copyrights through your site. - Your site will not be of a pornographic nature and will refrain from providing pictures and/or photographs of nude men and women. - Your site will not email, personal message, instant message, or communicate any kind of "spam," or unsolicited bulk advertising of any kind. - Everything displayed on your site will be your property. HelioHost assumes no responsibility for any content displayed by customers of our services. - We will not be held responsible for loss of content, revenue, or traffic in the event of a systems failure. - We reserve the right to change the Terms of Service with or without prior notification. - We reserve the right to delete, change, or edit your account or your content with or without prior notification, including, but not limited to cases arising from abuse of these Terms. - WE WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSSES THAT OCCUR IN ANY CONDITIONS THROUGH OR AS A RESULT OF OUR SERVICES!!!

Thanks for the fast reply. Oh I forgot to ask this. When I install the SMF forum, is there a system feature for me to restore the sql database backup from my old forum? I was wondering if I have access to phpMyAdmin or something in a control panel to restore such database so I can get my forum running again with all the data that was on it before. I only asked about the topic of forum because I was concerned for if the company does not want their employees to participate in the support forum and they complain to Helio saying we are out of line and in violation falsely. We don't want to be shut down or suspended for a complaint that is not valid because we are not publicly publishing junk or bad things about the company. I appreciate the input, we are not going to be even remotely close to excessively stupid. Thanks again

Hi Helio, I have some questions to ask before I decide to set up an account. May I upload and install an SMF forum on the free hosting? My forum may be a little controversial but it will be private. Members have to register and abide strict guidlines to even see the postings inside. There will be some postings that may be visible to the public but it will be monitored by admins to maintain correctness and etiquette. Nobody is going to slander anybody, and it will be moderated. The topic of the forum will be for members of a trade and company to gripe about daily problems with the job and trade and relive stress. It is basically a support forum for instructors to whine and give their opinions of industry and company issues. They may say harsh things out of frustration due to harassment on the job by the management organization. They may [bleeped!] about their superiors and cite situations but may not write the superiors names out to avoid problems of exposing names to other users. There will not be threats or anything that violates the standard terms and conditions of any forum board. We don't want to violate your terms and conditions so we are asking first to avoid any complications. If there are other guidlines we need to know, please let us know before we decide to start. Looking forward to your reply Thanks