Miscellaneous

The materials displayed on this website, including without limitation, all editorial materials, information, photographs, illustrations, artwork and other graphic materials, and names, logos and trade marks, are protected by copyright, trade mark and other intellectual property laws. Any such content may be displayed and printed solely for your personal, non-commercial use within your organization only. You agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any such material to any third party without the express prior written consent of DSMtuners.

We do not delete accounts, posts or other content posted on our community. If you no longer wish to participate on our site, disable all email notifications in your account options and stop posting. If you wish to no longer be identified with our community, we will be glad to remove your email account information and first/last name from your profile in an effort to remove certain identifying characteristics. We will not delete or change your username. After account modification of this nature, you will no longer be able to participate in this community and this action is not reversible.

All member-submitted content, including but not limited to forum postings, blog postings, photographs, videos, links, etc, is granted to DSMtuners with perpetual electronic publishing rights. Any content posted on this community becomes a part of the community, even if you no longer are. Your ability to edit/delete your posts may also be time-limited, depending on how the administrator has set up the forum. You may request an item to be removed at any time, but we will decide when and if to remove content from our community.

To the extent permitted by law, DSMtuners disclaims all warranties with regard to the information and applications contained on the website and your use of the website, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall DSMtuners, its contractors, agents, or employees be liable for any damages whatsoever (including special, indirect or consequential) arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of the website whether in contract, at common law or in equity, or on any other basis. All content contributed by members of our community express the views of the author. The owners of DSMtuners will not be held responsible for the content posted by our members.

DSMtuners respects the privacy of our visitors and site members. We commit ourselves to protecting your privacy and explain in detail what information we collect and how it is used below.

What we collect
DSMtuners collects personal information from you when you register to participate, enter a contest, or complete a survey on our website. Personal information consists of your email address, first name, last name, password, street address and zipcode. If you enter a sweepstakes, contest or survey we may also ask you for some demographic information such as your age or income range. Other information collected may include your IP address, browser type and operating system.

How we use this info
The information collected is used for administration purposes and to help improve the services we provide. This information will not be sold, rented or disclosed in any way to outside parties unless required to do so by law. We also may disclose aggregated information (for example, X number of our viewers visit the Gallery section) to third parties.

Use of cookies
We set and access cookies on your computer each time you access our website. These cookies are used to determine whether you have been to our website before, to automatically store your password, and to ensure the efficient use of ad rotation.

Receiving Email from us
We occasionally send out email to our members to announce site news and updates (no more than once per month). This email only goes out to those who have chosen to receive email from our website. If you no longer wish to receive news or updates, you can change this option setting in your profile.

This policy is subject to change, so please check back periodically. Direct all questions regarding this policy to the webmaster.

Why we didn't allow registrations using free email accounts (like Hotmail or Yahoo):

Free web-based email accounts make it difficult to block banned users from posting in our forums. It's easy to setup multiple free email accounts, which makes it possible for an individual to setup multiple DSMtuners accounts using different email addresses. This creates an obvious problem when trying to keep problem members out for good.

You must use a unique email address to register on our site. This can be one issued to you by your ISP , a registered domain name, or your office email address. Those are your only options available if you're interested in posting messages or content on our site. We apologize to all those people who depend on free web-based email accounts to do their web browsing, but we must take all the necessary steps to ensure that our community maintains a high level of quality. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience.

If you would like to set up your free email account to receive notifications from our site because you rarely check the email account you registered with, it is possible to do so. Most free email accounts allow you to check email from multiple accounts. For example, in Yahoo Mail, you can go to Mail Options > Mail Accounts. Then set up a new account using the username/password/server path from your ISP email account (the one you registered with). Another way to do it is to set up a Rule in Outlook (for your registered email account), that forwards all email from DSMtuners to your free email account. We hope this helps.

What you should know if you use an AOL account to connect to our site:

If you are an AOL user, you may find it difficult to participate on our site. Without going into heavy detail on how vBulletin (our forum software) works, let us just say that AOL makes it difficult for forum administrators to ban specific AOL members from posting. AOL uses dynamic IP addresses, which means that many AOL users share the same IP address. This means that if we ban an AOL IP address, many other AOL users can potentially be affected when trying to login to our site.

We apologize if this happens to you, but you'll have to take it up with the people at AOL - not us. They choose to use dynamic IP addresses, which makes it difficult on all forum administrators. They've also shown no interest in helping sites like ours solve the problem or track down fraudulent or problematic users of their service. Until they change the way they conduct business and the way they address site owners like us, we'll continue to encourage all AOL users to consider alternate ways of connecting to the internet, especially if you plan on participating in online discussion forums like ours.

DSMtuners is in no way affiliated with Diamond Star Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, Chrysler, Eagle, or Plymouth corporations. We are a web community based around DSM owners who celebrate the modifying of their DSM for increased performance and sanctioned racing.

Our Mission
The number one goal of DSMtuners is to promote the sharing of information and ideas regarding modifications, parts, and the real world results of those modifications. We are an inclusive community that isn't selective in our registration process, however we do demand a certain level of respect and maturity from our members in order to foster a positive atmosphere. We have a small set of rules and policies that everyone is required to follow.

Our site features one of the largest (if not the largest) group of DSM enthusiasts on the internet. We have the highest number of knowledgeable and experienced DSM enthusiasts around who are willing to help others. With that, however, comes an even larger number of new DSM enthusiasts who need to be educated. We work as hard, or harder than any other auto enthusiast site on the web to ensure the beginner enthusiasts get as much out of our site as the hardcore racers. We discourage elitist and negative attitudes and encourage teaching and helping. At the same time, newbies are encouraged to do their own research and to not spread rumors and misinformation. We feel this creates an environment everyone will benefit from for years to come.

DSMtuners takes pride in having a community that's knowledgeable, experienced, and most of all helpful and friendly; attributes that are difficult to find all in one site. Register today for access to ask questions in our forums, share your project build in our DSM Journals section, post photos in our photo gallery, post ads in our free classifieds system, and to search our tech information database for valuable DSM modification information.

Company Background
DSMtuners was built by Chris Raymond, an avid DSMer who wanted to create a DSM portal with features that had not been available at that point. The idea wasn't to create another Forum, as there was already one available. Chris wanted to find ways to organize content differently and give DSMers more ways to share their passion for the DSM. This drive led to the DSM community's first Parts Catalog database, where DSMers could browse all of the parts available for their DSM. It also led to a number of other firsts in the DSM community, like the first dynamic DSM Photo Gallery and Timeslips/Dyno database, the first true Classifieds system with member ratings, the first DSM Journals, and other innovative features not previously found in the online DSM world.

While any "average Joe" can open up an online forum or message board these days, we've invested countless hours in building content and features that make our site unique and more complete. While other DSM sites come and go, and others sit stagnant with old information, we continue to find ways to revolutionize the online DSM world. What sets us apart is that forums are only one aspect of our site, as where they are the only aspect on other sites. We create content ourselves regularly and introduce sections and features that are not found on your typical "forum" sites.

DSMtuners is among the last of a dying breed. In a world where large corporate networks are buying up automotive forum sites left and right (and ruining them in some cases), we continue to be family owned and operated by a DSM owner and enthusiast. We truly believe that our smaller focus allows us to stay more involved and maintain a higher level of quality and innovation when compared to networks who are focused more on how the next acquisition will help their bottom line and their position in the market. We feel that DSMtuners is driven by something different than those large corporate networks - the idea that we can create something better than what's currently available, which in turn, will end up making a positive impact on the enthusiast community we serve. It's our unrelenting desire to improve the DSM community that keeps us working hard to bring you a better DSM site. The status quo is simply not acceptable.

Why participate on our site instead of a competing site owned by one of these large corporate networks? Because we're fully dedicated to what we've built and truly want to improve the community we serve. So what's the difference between a network that buys up all their sites as opposed to a network that builds them from scratch? One is usually driven by money and the other usually isn't - usually. Though the large corporate networks may employ car enthusiasts, that doesn't necessarily mean their sites are run by a passionate enthusiast who has a direct emotional tie to the site. Any network that buys up sites instead of building them on its own is not going to offer those communities the same level of attention you'll receive on sites like ours. That is only an opinion, and there will always be an exception to that, but we have seen enough evidence to validate this observation. We recommend that you support sites and networks that have your best interests at heart, as opposed to the "Walmarts" of the industry. Help us build a better auto enthusiast community. Login and participate today, and refer people you know! Together we can make a difference.

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