Guidelines

FortuneCity is not responsible for the content of any Personal Home Page, nor do the opinions and views expressed in the Home Pages necessarily reflect those of FortuneCity. The contents of the Personal Home Pages are not reviewed in any way before they appear in FortuneCity.

FortuneCity is only capable of giving away 20MB of free web space thanks to the sponsorship of our advertisers. Each page that you create will have an advertising banner automatically inserted into it.

Before you create a page here on FortuneCity, you must read and understand these rules. Contact us if you are unclear as to what may or may not be housed at your site.

The listing below are web practices which, when discovered by our staff, will result in your entire web site being deleted, possibly without prior notice. Read carefully:

1. You may not remove, resize so as to render invisible, unreadable or otherwise block by use of software, any of the banners that FortuneCity inserts onto your pages. The FortuneCity robot will automatically insert one banner per page at the top of the viewable browser window. This is the consideration "payment" for 20 mb of our server space. Our banner is depicted below.

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2. You may not set up a 'Gateway' site on the FortuneCity server. A gateway site is one which only provides an entrance to the actual site located somewhere else.

3. You may not use your web space for providing material or links to material that is grossly offensive to the Web community. This includes any the following:

-Blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity

-Promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities, such as instructions regarding weapons, promoting "spam" emails, computer viruses or material infringing intellectual property rights of third parties.

-Promoting physical harm or injury against any group or individual

4. You may not password protect any link provided on any of your pages located on the FortuneCity server.

5. Pages may not contain, nor contain links to, any of the following:

- copyrighted material

- frontal nudity or display of genitals

- sex, pornography, obscene material, tasteless images. This includes anything considered adult material, and any form of child pornography

- foul language

- hate propaganda

- anything illegal to include illegal software, warez or hacked software, serial numbers, mail fraud or pyramid schemes

- material insulting to another person(s) or Company. - material that could be considered defamatory or libelous

- material that exploits children

- material which attempts to collect personal information about users

- material infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties including, but not limited to trade marks, domain names, personality rights, names of individuals, publicity rights, logos, graphics, designs, films, music, providing information or material allowing one to circumvent manufacture-installed copy protected devices and any other form of cracker utility.

6. You must not use your web space for 'data warehousing' - using our space as storage for large files which are only linked from other sites. You must provide a reasonable amount of content to accompany such material in order that at least some of the traffic to your site comes directly via us.

7. No commercial pages promoting or describing any kind of business except in the commercial district. You may provide a link to a commercial site so long as the link may be construed exclusively as a service to your visitors and you receive no personal payment or consideration by providing that link. Again, what is permitted and what is not is our call to make.

8.Your site may not contain commercial advertising or clickable banners other than those inserted by FortuneCity.

9. You may not use unsolicited email to promote your site

10. FortuneCity reserves the right to block or delete any site due to inappropriate behavior by the webmaster towards FortuneCity, its staff or its residents which has been validated on public or private forums.

11. You should not copy any other page and/or images without prior consent from the originator of the other page and/or images

CITIZENS WHO ARE FOUND IN BREACH OF THESE RULES ARE SUBJECT TO HAVE, WITHOUT NOTICE, THEIR CITIZENSHIP CANCELLED AND FURTHER ACCESS DENIED. FORTUNECITY.COM FURTHER RESERVES ITS RIGHT TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ANY CITIZEN IN BREACH OF THESE RULES AND TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES REGARDING THESE CITIZENS.

Additionally, we at FortuneCity ask that you comply with the following. Your site will not be deleted solely for non-compliance in these areas, however you will not be accepted for a volunteer FortuneCity position nor will you be considered for FortuneCity webrings, awards, or prizes.

1. You should ensure a valid and readily accessible email address is posted on your page(s)

2. You should use 'index.html' as your initial (first page to display) document file. You may incur problems with your site later should you not do this.

3. Your page should be active -- that is, it is either receiving 'hits' or is being updated/posted to. Sites which neither receive any hits or are not being updated within a 60 day period will be considered 'inactive'. Sites which remain inactive for an extended period of time may be removed by us to make room for other users. We assume that you came here because you want the free space offered and will use it to good purpose.

4. You are strongly encouraged to develop a site related to the 'theme' of the district you choose to reside in. If you cannot find an appropriate district, drop us a line. Perhaps we can add a new district relating to your desired theme.

Rainbow Park is a children's area and only 'G' rated material that is approved by the district ministers is permitted. Millenium Park is a family district and strongly dissuades anything that is not 'G' rated.

You, as the author of your pages, take full responsibility for its contents. As the author you state your page contains nothing illegal, obscene, pornographic, degrading or abusive to another person, including pages that promote hate group propaganda and child pornography. As the author, you also state that nothing on your page is copyrighted material and that any links to other servers have been approved by that organization. As the author, you also state that nothing on your page infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party. You agree that FortuneCity has the right to remove any page it determines, in its sole discretion, has violated these rules and to cancel your citizenship and take against you whatever measures will be deemed appropriate, including legal action and disclosing information about you to law enforcement authorities and other interested third parties. Citizens who are in breach of these rules agree to indemnify and hold harmless FortuneCity.com for any loss, claim, damage and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from or in connection with the contents of any personal homepages or of any chat or messages on a bulletin board found to be infringing or illegal. By submitting your pages, you agree to all the above terms.

Fortunecity makes no guarantee as to availability of service. To the fullest extent permissible by law, Fortunecity excludes all liability with respect to accuracy, content or availability of information on its website. The materials in this site are provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Fortunecity does not warrant that the function contained in the materials available on this website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the servers that makes them available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Any merchandise products or services available to users or citizens from links from this website are provided by third parties who are not necessarily affiliated or connected with Fortunecity. To the fullest extent permissible by law, Fortunecity.com excludes all liability under any circumstances (including negligence) for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials on this site. Applicable laws may not apply to all those who access the website.

FortuneCity makes no guarantee as to the availability of service

If you have any further question(s) regarding page content contact, [email protected].

We support your Freedom of Speech and expression, however, we ask that you understand that there is a responsibility associated with this right.