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Supportive members may publish an unlimited amount of texts. With a Free account, you may publish 5 texts per week.

In order to avoid a flooding of works by single individuals on the Home & Today's Texts pages, there is a limit of 5 texts per hour which applies to all members.

Supportive members may save an unlimited number of texts in their archive. There is a limit of 125 texts for a Free account. If you've reached that limit, you will need to delete a few texts to make room in your account in order to save new texts, or optionally, become a supportive member and obtain a Supporter account for more features and no such limits.

There is no limit for supportive members. With a Free account, you can send 25 messages per week.

All information about members are kept and processed digitally. We will never pass on any of the details of your PoetBay account to anyone outside of our site.

Concerning the financial details of supportive members, we do not have access, nor do we store such information on our systems. PayPal is in full control of that information security.

On the page to sign in, there is a link where you may order a password reminder. The reminder is sent to the email address used for the registration of your account on PoetBay.com.

All texts published on PoetBay.com can be read by anyone connected to the internet. The only exception is texts saved in a hidden diary where you are the only one who can read the texts. Search engines, e.g., Google and Yahoo, regularly index websites. This means that your texts can be found on the search engines indefinitely.

We screen all pictures before they are used in order to protect against copyright infringements. It may therefore take up to 24 hours before the picture appears on the website.

Simply contact us by providing your current author name, and the name you would like to appear on your account instead, and we will make the change for you.

A Supporter account has additional features such as the ability to :

• Write and publish an unlimited number of texts per week (texts can be selected by the Editors to be featured on the home page)
• Write and save an unlimited number of texts in your archive
• Send an unlimited number of messages per week
• Save 500 private messages in each of your boxes
• Write an extended & more decorated presentation
• Create a unique address for your page, ex.: www.poetbay.com/bill
• Create books from your texts with a picture cover (books can be selected by the Editors to be featured on the home page)
• Present your art or photography as exhibitions (pictures from exhibitions can be selected by the Editors to be featured on the home page)
• Illustrate your texts with images
• View a log of visitors to your page
• View which of your texts has been bookmarked and/or applauded by others

In addition, as a supportive member, you will be a contributing factor in keeping PoetBay online by helping to defray the yearly costs.

To become a supportive member, you can pay the fee for a Supporter account on PoetBay by following the link which appears in your account (My Page). If you pay directly through the site, your account will be immediately updated.

No, all texts and pictures will still be here.

To delete your account, you need to be logged in to fill out this form. This is necessary to make sure the correct author account is deleted.

All author information & materials, such as your name, your texts, pictures, and private messages will be permanently deleted EXCEPT for the comments you've written on other authors' texts. All materials which get deleted cannot be recreated.

You decide if you want to make your email address public or keep it private. To make the email public you have to change the settings on the Options page of your account.

Please report any offensive texts and messages using this this form.

Any offensive texts, comments, messages or pictures published by other members should be reported. Every reported material will be examined immediately, and a course of action will be determined with the Terms as a guideline.

Report any plagiarism using this this form. It is not permitted to copy texts or pictures from other authors. We will swiftly deal with plagiarism.

Report any copyright issues using this this form. It is not permitted to use texts or pictures from other creators without explicit authorization from them. We take all reports of copyright issues very seriously, and we promptly investigate to resolve them.