The Saga Zone site has been designed to be as friendly, welcoming and as safe as possible for all of our Zoners to use. In order to ensure everybody enjoys using our online community, we have created some House Rules.

These House Rules outline what is considered acceptable behaviour and language on the forums and profile content. By registering with us and using the facilities provided, you are agreeing to abide by these House Rules.

Any posts, profile content or behaviour, which violate these House Rules, may be edited or removed altogether by Saga Zone Hosts and we reserve the right to suspend or ban any users who continually break these House Rules.

These House Rules have been drawn up for everyone to have fun, so please do read them carefully and respect them.

Many thanks and happy networking!

Do not

1. Behave in an insulting, threatening, rude or provoking manner to another Zone member or Saga staff.
2. Be hateful towards a specific group of people. These discussions are open to people from all backgrounds.
3. Racism, homophobia, or religious intolerance have caused problems in the past and are now forbidden topics in the forums. Please do not post anything that might fall into these categories and find another venue to exercise your freedom of speech.
4. Swear, use hate-speech or make obscene or vulgar comments
5. Break the law. This includes breach of copyright, defamation, condoning or promoting illegal activity and contempt of court (by making posts that could affect the outcome of an impending court action).
6. Post spamming content (posting/sending the same comment, topic or Private Message multiple times). This includes chain emails.
7. Advertise commercial interests or post surveys.
8. Impersonate or falsely claim to represent a person or organisation.
9. Post in a language other than English. We don't have the resources to support multi-lingual discussion.
10. Discuss other members disrespectfully on the site or post anyone's personal details or private messages without their permission.
11. Make posts that are not relevant or related to the topics covered by the forum or within the spirit of the community discussion.
12. Use multiple accounts. Only one account per person and one person using an account are permitted. This includes banned accounts.
13. Use avatars/user pictures/images that contain images of a sexual nature, or contain offensive language. This includes using the site to overtly invite sexual liaisons or contain explicit sexual content in profiles, personal messaging, forum posts or blogs.
14. Deliberately flame (attack) the Hosts/Moderators. Discussions between the Host should remain private; any complaints, grievances or publicly questioning our actions on the open forums may lead to the topic being locked/deleted, a warning or possible ban.

Open site information

Some parts of the site are available for viewing by non-members, ie members that are not logged in. Please see our guidelines below:

The things that are private

• Private Messages
• Private Galleries
• Private Blogs

Things that are friends only

• Anything marked as friends only (!)

Everything else is public to members and non-members except:

• Personal Information on the profile which is private.

The following forums are members only

• Caring
• Health
• Fantasy Village
• ALL Social Events
• New Members
• Today's birthdays
• Feedback forum

The following Galleries are members only

• Holidays
• Events
• People
• Other

You have to be logged in to enter any club, the Community Calendar, Stock Exchange Game, Short Story competition or Photo Exhibitions.

Check your settings

If you want to change your privacy settings for blogs and gallery images, you can do this via the Profile tab, under Edit my settings.

We reiterate again that you are responsible for the information that you post in the open areas, so please do be cautious if it is of a sensitive nature. Thank you.