Welcome to the Fitacio community!

Congratulations on your wholesome fitness journey, together with this awesome Fitacio community!

Beginners, seasoned pros, young, old, and people of all shapes and sizes make up this fantastic community. We're all striving for the same thing: to live a healthy and happy life! The following guidelines have been designed to guarantee that the Fitacio community remains a useful, enjoyable, and friendly place for everyone.

Fitacio Community Guidelines

1. Show Respect to All Individuals and Groups

Derogatory remarks on sex, gender, age, weight, body shape, disability, race, religion, or sexual orientation, as well as endorsements of violence against any person or group, will not be accepted and will be removed immediately.

2. Do not insult fellow community members.

• Please refrain from making derogatory remarks. You are free to disagree with the message or topic in a respectful manner, but you are not permitted to criticize the messenger. This includes assaults on a user's apparent lack of understanding, spelling, or dismissing a user for publishing a duplicate topic. We're all here to learn and improve ourselves, so please treat everyone with respect.
• If you are assaulted by another user and respond in kind, you will face the same repercussions. Please report the user instead, and we'll take care of it.

3. Do not Troll, Hi-Jack, Or Flame

Hijacking a thread means diverting it from its original topic. To "troll" is to purposefully post provocative, irrelevant, or off-topic statements in order to elicit a response. To "flame" is to make a snide remark about another member of the community.

4. No Promotion of Unsafe Weight-Loss Techniques

We will remove without warning any posts that advertise potentially dangerous or controversial weight loss products or procedures, such as non-medically prescribed vitamins or MLM items.

5. Do Not Publish Private Contact Information

For your safety, do not post personal information such as telephone numbers, emails, mailing addresses, chat or instant messenger IDs, etc.

6. Posts Must Abide By All Laws

a) Do not post messages that violate state, federal, or local laws which include, but are not limited to, anything that violates a copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or is bound by NDA (non-disclosure agreement).

b) Posts that promote or encourage illegal activities, including, but not limited to, the use of illegal substances, violence against others, and procurement of prescription drugs without a prescription, are prohibited.

7. Do Not Post the Same Topic on Multiple Boards or Groups

Please post your message to the most suitable board and only once. Please don't cross-post the same message to several bulletin boards. However, posting a question that has previously been asked by another user is not a violation; however, please utilize the search feature to determine if your question has already been posted. If you see a member ask a question that you believe has already been asked by another member, please let them know.

8. Multiple Accounts Are Not Allowed

Only one account per person is allowed. If you create an account for the purposes of deceiving other members or to work around a forum suspension, you will be permanently banned from the site.

9. No public posting of private conversations with other members or with moderators

Do not publicly post an email or private message from any other forum user, moderator, or administrator at any time.

Do not protest a moderator’s or admin’s action on the forums. If you have a question or concern about a moderator or admin action, please contact us with your concern and we will investigate the matter.

We have a zero-tolerance policy regarding threats made to moderators which will result in an immediate ban from the site.

10. No Profane, Vulgar, Sexually Explicit, or Illegal Images/Language

All images on the site, including all profile pictures and images posted in the forums, should be workplace friendly. While we reserve the right to remove any photo we feel is inappropriate. Here are some general guidelines to what is appropriate:

• no nudity (use common sense, meaning just only covering your body parts with hands or objects still constitutes nudity)
• no underwear (thongs, g-strings, etc)
• no excessive cleavage
• no hateful or violent imagery
• no images containing profanity or vulgarity

11. Violation of These Guidelines May Lead to Disciplinary Action

We reserve the right to delete posts and topics, to disable the posting privileges of any member, or to deny anyone use of our site at any time, for any reason, at our discretion without warning or notice. Conversely, we reserve the right to dismiss a reported post if we find it does not violate a guideline.

12. No Advertising, Self-Promotion, or Fund-Raising

You may not post any links or mentions of other services, websites, or businesses from which you or an associate might benefit financially or otherwise. This includes, but is not limited to; posts that contain links to offsite blog posts and social media. You also may not solicit off-Forum contact from which you might benefit, e.g. “message me for more info”, “I can get you free samples”, etc.

Requests or solicitations for donations are also not allowed. This includes requesting contributions to “pooled fund” competitions, requests for votes in any venue (online contests, etc.), and even requests for charitable contributions.

13. No Political Topics in the Main Forums

Political content is not allowed on the Main Forums. This includes images. Again please keep in mind that this forum is focused on health and fitness. We would like to keep true to this forum theme.

14. Please Post In English On The Main Forums

Because we need to ensure that our moderator team can properly understand and evaluate all posts, we request that all posts on the Main Forums are made in English.

15. Three Strikes and You Are Out

Again, the overall theme of this forum is to help one another and to discuss all things fitness and health. Anything that jeopardizes the supportive atmosphere of this forum will not be taken lightly. Any posts that violate this atmosphere may lead to consequences including warning, suspension of posting privileges, or removal of a user from the site. As a general practice (common to many forums), we will operate on a “three strikes” system. If moderators block you from 3 topics for any of the above reasons, you will be permanently banned from all of the Main Forums.

These guidelines are subject to change.

Thanks for helping Fitacio community to grow together!