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Two Wheeled Texans Advertising/Spam Policy
The Intent of TWT's Advertising/Spam policy
 The Two Wheeled Texans website is intended as a place for private individuals to come together to form friendships and share information with the rest of the riding community. It is NOT a place for people to get free advertising! We recognize that there will be individuals who may work for, or own, a business that can offer valuable services or products to our members. We encourage such people to join, but their primary purpose for being here is to participate in the riding community as another enthusiast and NOT to troll for customers. If you have a product, service, or an event you wish to promote, then please read below about the various options we do provide.
SPAMMING IS NOT TOLERATED
If you work for, or own, any kind of business that views our users as potential customers and you post information about your business here without prior permission from the site owner, that is spam! It does not matter if you are an individual working out of your garage or if you are on a mission to save every motorcycle rider money. The bottom line is that TWT does not offer free advertising, for members or non-members. Direct contact of users via the PM utility or by email for commercial purposes is also strictly prohibited. Spamming is grounds for immediate account deletion.
NO user shall include links to commercial/private websites selling products or services within their signature, use business names as their username, or use their avatar as advertising! ALL such content will be removed.
Why should you advertise with or sponsor the Two Wheeled Texans community?
Options For Commercial Users
- TWT Affiliates: The TWT Affliliates list is a single page that displays the name, contact information, and a website link if applicable, for the company. The listing is alphabetical. Inlcusion in the list requires that the business offer some form of standing discount or special deals for the TWT members. This information will also be included in the list. If you wish to have your information included on this list, please submit it to Tourmeister at admin@twtex.com for consideration. It is not necessary to be a member of TWT to be an Affiliate. However, if you are a member, you may not post about your business anywhere on the TWT site!
- TWT Vendor: TWT Vendors are registered users that have paid a fee to be able to start a new thread in the TWT Vendor forum. Paying this subscription fee entitles the users to create ONE new thread in the Vendor forum. If the users wish to create any additional threads, they must pay the fee again for EACH thread. The users may not discuss their products/services in ANY other forum! Go here to pay the subscription fee. The subscription term is one day.
- TWT Commercial Event Poster: TWT CE Posters are registered users that have paid a fee to be able to start a new thread in the TWT Commercial Event forum. Paying this subscription fee entitles the users to create ONE new thread in the Commerical Events forum. If the users wish to create any additional threads, they must pay the fee again for EACH thread. The users may not discuss their events in ANY other forum! Go here to pay the subscription fee. The subscription term is one day.
- TWT Site Sponsorhip: TWT Sponsors are registered users that have paid to have their own dedicated subforums. Sponsors will be put into a Sponsor Usergroup so that other users may quickly and easily identify them as such so there is no confusion about who the other user may be talking to. "TWT Site Sponsor" will be displayed under the username of each sponsor in all their posts.
Sponsor Activities on TWT
- Sponsors are NOT to make any posts of a commercial nature in ANY forums. Sponsors are expected to confine their business related posts to their dedicated subforum ONLY.
- Sponsors may reply to general questions regarding products or for technical information by users in other forum sections. However, they should be general replies, as in pointing out the options for various products and their advantages/disadvantages, and not like, "Call me and I will sell you what you need."
- Sponsors WILL NOT get into arguments about business related matters with users in public. ALL such problems should be handled privately, NO EXCEPTIONS!
- Sponsors are NOT general forum moderators and should not try to act as such in the course of any discussions on the site.
- Sponsors may not have links to their websites in their signature line
- Sponsors may not use company names as their username
- Sponsors may not use the custom description field under the username to promote their business
- Sponsors are expected to abide by the Forum Rules just like all the other users.
- Banner advertising: Users may take advantage of TWT's banner advertising. However, TWT does not provide graphic art services at this time, so you must provide your own images.
- Banners must be submitted for prior approval by Tourmeister
- Banner image may be emailed to admin@twtex.com
- User may provide link to image to be used
- Banners will display in both the top and bottom locations
- On every new page load, each of the four locations independently selects a random banner from the total pool of banners to display
- Banners must be 325 wide by 75 high in JPG or GIF file format
- Banners may not contain animation unless the entire banner image changes - each phase of the image must display at least 3 seconds
- Banners may link to the advertisers website
- Start of advertising period will be date that banner is posted
- Banners may be changed at the beginning of each monthy term
- Banner Advertising users may not have links to their websites in their signature line
- Banner Advertising users may not use company names as their username
- Banner Advertising users may not use the custom description field under the username to promote their business
- Banner Advertising users are expected to abide by the Forum Rules just like all the other users.
- TWT reserves the right to refuse advertising and/or links to sites at its descretion.
It is required that an advertiser be a registered member on the TWT site. Payment may be done with PayPal here or by mailing a check. The user will be added to the TWT Advertiser usergroup. This will allow the forum's built in subscription service to control the advertising duration. Near the end of each monthly term, an automated email will be sent out to remind the advertiser that the end of the term is approaching in case they are planning to make changes in the images or in their status as an advertiser before the start of the next monthly term.
If you are interested, please contact Tourmeister at admin@twtex.com or by the PM service here on the site BEFORE you use the subscription service to pay.
- Fees for commercial content:
- Commercial Event Poster is $20 per thread
- Sponsor
- $25 (1 month)
- $125 (6 months - one month free)
- $250 (12 months - two months free)
- Banner
- $50 (1 month)
- $250 (6 months - one month free)
- $500 (12 months - two months free)
- Refund Policy:
- There is no refund of Vendor fees.
- One month Sponsor/Banner term - There is no refund once the term has started.
- Six or twelve month Sponsor/Banner terms - If the term is cancelled, all completed months will be billed at the full rates of $25/mo for Sponorship and $50/mo for banner advertising. This total will then be deducted from the amount paid. For example, if you cancel 7 months into a one year term for a combined Sponsor/Banner contract, the total will be 7 * $75 = $525. Thus the refund would be $750 - $525 = $225.
Acceptable Content of Ads and Posts- The content of all images used for banners or included within the body of posts must conform to the standards for the TWT site regarding the prohibition of sexually suggestive, vulgar, or crude imagery and language. The TWT staff will be the final arbiter of all disputes regarding image content and reserves the right to refuse submitted banner material and to pull offending material that may be found in the body of posts without prior notice.
- Images used in banners may not be animated beyond having the ENTIRE image change to a new image. If such image rotation is employed, the minimum time per image display should be 3 seconds. Rapidly flashing imagery is not allowed!!
Complaints Regarding Commercial Activities on TWT
Any user should feel free to contact the TWT staff regarding perceived violations of the policies stated here. ALL complaints will be promptly investigated. Violations of TWT commercial policies may result in termination of Affiliate, Vendor, Sponsor and/or Banner advertising privileges at the discretion of the TWT site owner.
TWT reserves the right to modify this policy as needed.
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