House rules

Standards and rules of communication on loudmemories.com

loudmemories.com gives members plenty of room to say what they thought of a concert, an artist, a venue or a festival. We would like that to be a good-natured, lively and worthwhile discussion that everyone can take part in on equal terms. Posts and reviews go up immediately and nobody reads them first, so a review is the view of the member who wrote it, not of loudmemories.com.

Introductory provision

1. By registering on loudmemories.com, I agree to these house rules.

Members

1. I may disagree with a review or criticize it harshly, but I will put it politely, and I will not attack, threaten or insult other members or artists.
2. I will not post hate speech, incite violence, or spread or express racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or other intolerance. Such posts are removed, and because loudmemories.com is run from Slovenia, they can also carry personal criminal liability under Slovenian law (Article 297 of the Criminal Code).
3. I will not deliberately provoke or disrupt a discussion (troll), and I will not impersonate another member or pass myself off as someone else.
4. What I post is about the concert, artist, venue or festival it is under, or the review I am replying to.
5. I will not advertise: no posts or links whose purpose is to sell goods, financial products or other services.
6. I will not use a vulgar or offensive nickname, profile picture, review or photograph.
7. I will not publish anyone’s personal information, or messages written to me privately, emails from loudmemories.com among them.
8. I am responsible for what I post. I will post only words and photographs that are my own or that I have the right to share.
9. What I post stays mine. I allow loudmemories.com to show it on the site and in its app, and to search engines as part of the page it is on, for as long as it is there. If I close my account, my photographs are removed, and I choose whether my reviews and ratings are removed too or stay with no name on them.
10. I will not let anyone else use my account, and I will not share my password.

loudmemories.com

1. An administrator may hide or remove a review, reply or photograph that breaks these rules or the law, without warning.
2. A member who breaks a rule for the first time, and not seriously, is warned. A member who breaks the rules seriously or repeatedly, or ignores them deliberately, may have the account blocked.
3. A member whose account has been blocked may not register a new one.
4. Where the law requires it, or a post threatens someone’s life or safety, a member’s details may be given to the police.

Final provisions

1. A new member agrees to these rules as they stand on the day they register.
2. When these rules change, every member is emailed the new text, and what changed, at least 30 days before it applies to them. Keeping the account past that date is agreeing to the change; closing it before then is saying no. A correction that changes no meaning is not emailed.

Reviews, replies and photographs go up as soon as they are posted, and nobody reads them first. What keeps them within the rules above is the people who report what should not be here.

• Anyone can report, member or not. Every review, reply and gallery has a Report link, and the support page takes the rest. Say which post it is and why it should not be here, and if it is your photograph or your words, say so.
• A person reads every report. Nothing is hidden, removed or blocked automatically, and no software decides.
• What can happen is what the rules above describe: the post stays, or it is hidden or removed, and a member who breaks a rule is warned, or has the account blocked when the break is serious or repeated.
• The author is told why. When something posted from an account is hidden or removed, or the account is restricted, we write to the address on that account to say what was done, which rule or law it broke, and that a reply disputing it will be read by a person.
• Whoever reported it gets an email at the address they gave, saying the report arrived, and is told there what was decided.
• A threat to someone’s life or safety goes to the police as soon as we see it.

If you disagree with a decision, reply to the message or write to support. You can also take it to an out-of-court dispute settlement body certified under the Digital Services Act, or to court. Who to write to, and in which languages, is in the imprint.

The last of the final provisions above says how a change reaches you. In short, the rules will not change under you without warning.

• A change to what you agreed to is told first. If a change affects what you may post, what you allow us to do with it, or what we may do with your account, we email the address on each account with the new text and what changed, at least 30 days before it takes effect.
• Staying a member is agreeing. If you keep your account past the date the email names, the changed rules apply to you from that date. You do not have to do anything.
• You can say no by closing your account before that date. Until then the rules you already agreed to are the ones that apply to you, and you choose whether your reviews and ratings stay with no name on them, as the privacy policy describes.
• Corrections are announced, not mailed. Fixing a typo, making a sentence clearer without changing its meaning, or updating a link or contact detail changes nothing you agreed to. We note such edits on the news page.