Rules

Subject: Rules Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:50 pm

Cafe rules

Any Member is welcome to contribute to the Cafe, however there are few rules you'll need to keep in mind when submitting your post or commenting on someone else's.

Using content

You may browse, download, view, print, copy on to hard disk of your computer and use any material from the website for your own personal, Private non-commercial purposes. You may not foward another members post without the explicit permission of that person. Any other use requires OII's prior written consent.
You may not adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any site content except for your own personal, private, non-commercial use.

Registering

You must register to contribute to the website.
Impersonating another person (including public figures) by adopting an identical name or by claiming to be that person is not permitted, nor is using a fabricated name that contains offensive words or connotations.
You must supply a valid email address so you can receive an email with instructions on how to confirm your registration. (Please note: your email address will not appear on the website.)
You must provide a nickname of your choice and a place name (your country, city, suburb or town) which will appear on the website in your Profile. Offensive or inappropriate nicknames must not be used.
You are only allowed one login. Intentional Multi logins will result in the deletion and banning of all usernames of that person . In the event of Inadvertant use of multiple names the Moderator should be informed so the user can be reduced to a single name.
You may register on behalf of an organisation, school or community group; however, we require the organisation's telephone number or postal address so we can verify that you are authorised to represent the organisation. (Those details will not be displayed on the web page without the consent of the organisation in question)
You must agree to the terms and conditions which govern the use of this website before you register.

Contributing
Descriptions, comments and tags must be in a language appropriate to the language group you post to as far as is possible (babblefish is fine just let us know that's what you are doing ).
Abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-explicit material must not be submitted.
Your contribution (words and pictures) must be your own original work, or you must seek the permission of the copyright owner to use their work.
Contributions that are culturally insensitive, or offensive to others on racial, ethnic, religious or other grounds; should not be contributed.
Comments made about someone else's contribution to the site must be constructive and polite, and not made with disruptive intent.
Repeated postings of the same contributions will not be accepted.
You may not post any advertising or promotional materials, spam, chain letters or similar without the explicit concent of the Moderators.
You may not post any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of, or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
URLs (website addresses) added to the site must not contain anything that presents access or safety problem, or is offensive or unlawful.
No personal information about anyone else, such as telephone numbers, home address, age, name, etc may be submitted as part of your contribution without that persons explicit consent.
Children should have the permission of their parent or guardian before making a contribution to this site.

Moderation

All contributions to this website will be subject to review by the Moderators . The Moderators reserves the right, at their sole discretion, to choose whether to include or not include submissions for use .
The Moderators reserves the right to edit or modify any submissions, or remove any contribution at any time, if moderation rules are broken.
Contributions that include the following will be automatically rejected:
- offensive language
- personal information such as contact details without the explicit consent of the person named.
- abusive or threatening comments about or to others
- allegations about members that could harm their reputation
- anything that will intentionally cause offense to other members
- material of a pornographic nature
- computer code or URLs (website addresses) (except where expressly permitted by the site)
- any item believed to be stolen, or illegally obtained or held
- advertisements, promotional material or spam (Without the Moderators permission)
- contributions submitted under an offensive or inappropriate nickname.
- any post that seeks to give diagnosis or medical information beyond personal opinion .
- any other material deemed by the Moderator's as unsuitable.
We may use your real name and email address to contact you to verify any information related to your contribution during the moderation process.

Alerting the moderator

You are encouraged to alert the moderator to any contributions that you believe break the site rules. Use the exclamation mark in the top right corner of the post to alert the Moderators.
You should include full details of the incident including all posts concerned.
We will investigate legitimate complaints made about any contributions and advise the person making the complaint of the outcome.
The Moderators reserves the right to remove any contributions during the investigation, and reinstate removed content.

Breaking the rules

If you deliberately break any of the rules, you will be banned as a user and the offending contributions will be deleted from the system.
If the moderator deems that you have broken the rules unintentionally, you will be sent an email which informs you why your registration or contribution has been rejected. You may then resubmit your registration or contribution with the appropriate changes made. The email will include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your membership. This may include the removal of offending contributions or suspension of your membership and your ability to participate.
If you continue to submit offensive or inappropriate contributions to the website, and the Moderators considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, we may use whatever information you have given us to stop any further infringements.
If your contribution/s infringes any law, is contributed with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act, you will be banned from the website and we will pass on information to the police.
If you'Alert the Moderator' with disruptive intent, you will be banned from the site.

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