Terms of Use

To make this a friendly place (as well as useful and non-threatening), please follow our simple “terms of use” guidelines.  If for any reason you can’t abide by these rules, please don’t use the site.  We control the site, so that means we get to make the rules for it.  Please understand that if you break the rules, we will have to ban you from the site—sorry, but we’ve gotta keep things under control.  There’s enough ugly stuff in the world—if you’ve just got to get some hatred off your chest or came here to harass people, please go rant someplace else.

Spam

Please don't spam. Spam is annoying. We all hate spam (except some people actually like the Spam you can eat).  What is internet spam? Spam is posting the same message, sending the same message to multiple members, and generally harassing people with junk messages or advertising. You get the picture.  NO SPAMMING.  Please.  If you are reported for spam, or we think you are spamming on our site, we will have to ban you, and that’s no fun.  So, don’t do it.

Advertising and Promotion

This site isn’t intended to become flooded with a whole bunch of empty advertising, because all the good useful information about making jewelry could get lost in all the static.  Plus, we pay for the running of our website from the advertising dollars we earn.  This doesn’t make us bad people or sharks, we are just making a living working very hard, just like you.  Show some respect.

So, while you MAY mention your business or website in your personal account profile, or tastefully make mention of your business in your discussion threads, DO NOT use this site to excessively, blatantly advertise solely for the purposes of self promotion—otherwise you may be banned from the site.  There are plenty of free classifieds sites out there for that sort of thing—this isn’t the place for it.  So, NO EXCESSIVE ADVERTISING.  If you want to purchase advertising on our site, we would be utterly delighted to help you—please contact us.  Please note that if you blatantly advertise on this website, without adding any relevant helpful content, you will first receive a warning message reminding you of these terms of use, and your ad will be deleted.  If you continue to post blatant advertisements, you will be simply be banned from the site. 

This also applies to donations and charities – please don’t use our site for requesting donations.  NO ASKING FOR MONEY OR DONATIONS.  AND, same thing goes for promoting your latest business venture, pyramid scheme, or “get rich quick” idea.  Please, no such scams or blatant requests for business ventures on this site. NO BUSINESS VENTURE INVITATIONS.

Unfortunately, we need to use our judgment here and we will delete content and ban members from making-jewelry.com who are just here to engage in shameless self-promotion without adding any relevant, valuable content to help others who enjoy the site.

Insults and Harassment

There is nothing wrong with a respectful debate, disagreement, or constructive criticism.  Respectfully disagreeing with someone - including us - in a constructive manner is welcome. We want to make the site useful and valuable, and of course sharing your opinion (in a well mannered and reasonable way) is fine.

However, while you may have a good reason to be upset or angry about something, this isn’t the place for YELLING at people and getting downright nasty.  If we deem you are threatening, toxic, profane, abusive, and/or nasty—be prepared to be banned from using this site.   And, we will just have to use our judgement, so stay out of the gray areas.  Sorry, we get to make the rules ‘cause it’s our site.  If you don’t like the rules, you can go off and make your own website and post whatever you want on it.  (You meanie.)

Also, no porn on the site, please.  We like to post and share your photos and other stuff, but this is an all-ages site so please don't post any porn or otherwise x-rated materials, or we will delete it (and you may be banned from the site). 

If You've Been Banned in Error

If you've been banned or had your account deactivated by us and you think it is in error, please let us know. We’re reasonable people. We will take a look and consider re-instating your account if there was a misunderstanding or error.

Our network (and these rules) might not be a great fit for everyone, so if these rules don’t work for you, that is ok, just don’t use the site. Banning people sucks, and we don’t like it one bit, so don’t make us go there and have to do it.

More Legalese and Disclaimer Stuff (the lawyers made us do it)

Making-Jewelry.com makes no claims or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its links to other resources.  Reference in this website to any specific commercial business, product, process, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by making-jewelry.com.

Your Privacy

Your privacy is important and we respect it.  We will not disclose any of your personal information to anyone (unless required by law), unless you give us express direction and permission to use your name and contact information as the author or submitter of content on the site.  You control what you post on the site, so please only post something you want to share, and use good judgement in not divulging personal information about yourself. Sadly, there are bad people out there who may do things like identity theft or other harrassing behaviors--don't make it easy to become a target--protect your privacy.  Never ever divulge personal, private information about another person.  You will be banned for that behavior.

Links

We appreciate your interest in sharing our site.  You do not need our permission to create direct links to the www.making-jewelry.com site.  In the interest of providing information, we may include links to other websites, but we do not authorize or have any responsibility for them, nor do we have any business ties to them.  We are not in any way responsible for the content or behavior of any linked websites, and we do not have any liability whatsoever for claims or damages against any web site maintained by a third party. Content and Privacy Policies are the responsibility of the respective owners of each website.

Whew!  That’s it.  By using this site, you consent to the terms as outlined above.  If you disagree with these terms, please do not use the site.   Thanks for following our Terms of Use, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the site!

Best Regards,
The Making-Jewelry.com Team