Commercial User Policy Addition.

Commercial User Policy

As a commercial user utilizing the free public forums of BeginnerTriathlete.com, please make all efforts to follow these guidelines, in fairness to those who choose to pursue legitimate paid advertising, and who keep this site online with their support.

Definitions:

Commercial User: Any registered BeginnerTriathlete member who:

A) Owns or operates a triathlon or sports-related business.

B) Is employed by a triathlon or sports-related business

C) Produces and sells triathlon or sports related merchandise or sells triathlon or sports related services.

***Commercial User Policy***

Signature Disclosures:

--Commercial users must fully disclose their affiliation in their signature. For example:

VP Sales: QRS Bicycles
Owner: TUV TriStore.com
Head Coach: WXYZ Training
A single URL may be included in the signature
Sales information, product advertisements, pricing information, or other 'sales pitch' information is not allowed in signatures.

Forum Participation Guidelines and Restrictions:

--Commercial users must always post in a 'responsive' manner with regards to any product or service they (or any entity with which they have a direct business relationship with) sell or represent. Meaning, discussion contributed must be limited to responses to specific questions or prompts from BeginnerTriathlete members, or corrections of misinformation. In other words, a BeginnerTriathlete member has to bring it up first.
--Pricing information and other sales dialogue must be confined to private conversations with BT users (PM or email).
--Commercial users may not use the public Classifieds forum to post products or services, unless prior permission is granted from the site administrator.
--Please be honest when representing yourself on BeginnerTriathlete.com. Using two or more user accounts concurrently is prohibited. If you operate duplicate user accounts on BeginnerTriathlete and post as a shill, or post in a manner that hides your commercial affiliation, the entire posting history of all your accounts will be wiped from BeginnerTriathlete, and the action will be made public. BeginnerTriathlete.com reserves the right to check/verify all incoming internet IP addresses for verification.

Exceptions

Threads may be started in order to solicit user input and opinions regarding a product/service in development. Any abuse of this exception will not be tolerated.

A couple examples:

If you are a Commercial user and a user posts a question about your product/service, you may post a reply containing only such information as requested. However, if a user asks a general question such as "how can I increase my running speed" or "what's a good book for...", please do not suggest your product in reply.

Similarly, if you are a retailer and a user asks a question specifically about your retail business, you may reply with such information. But if a user asks "where can I find an xyz bicycle?", please do not advertise your own business in response.

If you are interested in advertising on BeginnerTriathlete.com through graphical ads, text or our newsletter please contact [email protected] .