Site Terms and Conditions – Moderation

Terms and Conditions

Using this site is subject to the following terms and conditions

Registration

Registration is not required to access this site. Users must be registered and logged in to write to the site. By registering all users agree to these Terms and Conditions and Moderation Rules .

Copyright

Intellectual Property rights including Copyright for any material published on the site is unchanged by its publication on this site. EIDA content remains the property of EIDA, and is subject to Australian copyright law and international laws. Using (viewing, copying, printing and distributing any content on this website for any purpose other than personal use or for non-commercial purposes requires written EIDA approval.

Users warrant and guarantee that their uploading of information to this EIDA site does not breach any copyright law or any other law. EIDA will not accept responsibility for copyright breaches by the user or by others of the material submitted to this site. Website material may be viewed, copied, printed and distributed only for your personal use or non-commercial purposes. Any copyright and other intellectual property notices relating to the original material must be stated. Use of this site and the provision of services, and intellectual property exchange are subject to Australian law.

intellectual property must not be published without the owners’ written and express consent.

Quoted or referenced material must be appropriately attributed to its author.

Privacy

Do not provide this site with any information that, if publicly disclosed, may cause embarrassment or any material loss.

Legal Disclaimer

Statements made on these forum pages by users are not necessarily the wiews or opinions of EIDA or our sponsors.
 
EIDA reserves the right at its absolute discretion, to remove any content. 

Moderation Guidelines

EIDA encourages open discussions amongst users on important issues affecting our industry and its people. Individual users of this site may disagree with the statements of other subscribers. Please ensure that the discussion is both constructive and tolerant and Compliant with Australian lawsEIDA reserves the right to monitor and remove any input which breeches our Moderation Guidelines stated below: as expressed in a nutshell directly below, and in full below that.

Report to EIDA site administration (contact@eida.asn.au) any comment that you believe breeches our Moderation Guidelines. EIDA reserves the right to remove or allow any material on this website.

If you have any questions about our guidelines, contact contact@eida.asn.au

EIDA Moderation Guidelines Summary

EIDA encourages comments and constructive and civilized debate. EIDA reserves the right to monitor all posts and the right to remove or edit any comment which breeches our moderation guidelines.

EIDA Guidelines in Full

Threats

Threatening or abusive Statements will not be tolerated.

Discrimination

Discriminatory remarks are unacceptable. For information about what constitutes discrimination we recommend http://www.hreoc.gov.au/ [2].

Slander & Libel

Do not make false or malicious claims about other people or organisations.

Spam

All comments are filtered through spam filtering technology. The technology isn’t perfect, so a human being makes a final decision on the appropriateness of all contributions.

Advertising

EIDA provides this discussion platform for the electronics industry and our community. Information about your business or industry is acceptable. Promoting of goods and services or employment matters is permitted on this forum only in the “Promotion” forum.

Anonymity

Pseudonyms are fine, but don’t impersonate another person or use an alias to appear in the forum as two different people (and for example agree with yourself).   EIDA makes no representation about preserving any attempt at anonymity and your identity may be disclosed by intentionally or unintentuionally or for legal reasons or by changes in site features. Other users are clever and can often work out another users identity.

Privacy

Always consider and respect the privacy of others . See: http://www.privacy.gov.au/      and http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/

You should not provide or enter any information at this site that you regard as private or confidential. We do not guarantee to protect any information provided.

Web Links Links to material on other websites that are relevant to your comment can be shown.  EIDAeserves the right to check these links to remove any which lead to material reasonably considered offensive or inappropriate in line with these moderation guidelines.

Illegal Activity

Do not use this website to conduct any illegal activity or solicit the performance of any illegal activity.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property of other entities mustnot be published without their written and express consent. The intellectual property ownership of all material published on this website remains unchanged by its publication on this site. Any material published on this website forum may be reproduced only with the following acknowledgment:

“Originally authored by (insert name of author) and published on EIDA website eida.asn.au with page reference and data

And in accordance with the terms and conditions of the site.

Widgets Do not attempt to upload the coding for any device designed to effect the functionality or operation of this site or its servers or the functionality or operation of any users’ computer systems (for example, by transmitting a computer virus or other harmful component, whether knowingly or not).

Uniqueness Organisations, entities and groups must not post comments on behalf of their individual members. Comments must be submitted by individually registered users. Eida Forum is designed to allow individuals to express their unique points of view. Eida Forum asks that organisations do not petition their members to automatically submit pre-prepared identical responses, such as the words of a petition, as excessive repetition impedes the conversational flow of a forum.

Moderation

EIDA allows user comments to be published automatically in real time.  EIDA reserves the right to moderate before posting at any time for any purpose. New users can expect their first posts to be manually moderated.  The fact the EIDA may moderate the site does not mean that EIDA has a role to protect users from in appropriate content.