The Site may contain interactive services, including, but not limited to, discussion
groups, news groups, bulletin boards, chat rooms and blogs (collectively, “Public
Forums”), which may allow you to post, transmit or submit information, including,
but not limited to, writings, images, illustrations, audio recording and video recordings.
We may or may not actively monitor use of, or content or materials posted on, our
Public Forums. Similarly, we may or may not exercise editorial control over the
content of any Public Forum. As a result, you may be exposed to content on our Public
Forums that is inaccurate, fraudulent or deceptive or that you find offensive or
objectionable. Your use of Public Forums is at your own risk.
However, we reserve the right, but are not obliged, to monitor our Public Forums
and to remove or alter any content, which we consider, in our sole discretion, constitutes
a misuse of these rules. We may restrict, suspend or terminate your use of these
services or the Site where we believe that there has been such a misuse.
The following examples constitute a misuse of our Public Forums:
- using the services for any improper, unlawful or immoral purpose, causing any nuisance
by your use of the services or causing the operation of the services to be jeopardised
or impaired;
- using the services to create, host or transmit (whether in a Public Forumor otherwise)
any defamatory, offensive, or obscene material or engaging in activities which would
cause offence to others on grounds of race, religion, creed or sex;
- using the services to harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way;
- using the services to create, host or transmit any material that threatens or encourages
bodily harm or the destruction of property or would constitute a criminal offence
or give rise to civil liability;
- using the services to create, host or transmit material which infringes the copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity or other intellectual property
or proprietary rights of any other party;
- using the services to create, host or transmit unsolicited advertising material
to other users;
- using the services to create, host or transmit any material that harasses another;
- using the services to make false, misleading, deceptive or fraudulent offers to
sell or buy products, items or services or to send chain letters or pyramid schemes
and the like;
- adding, removing or modifying identifying network header information or copyright
management information including author names, publication dates or clearance agency
names in an effort to deceive or mislead;
- using the services to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others or
to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, our or a third party’s security measures,
computer software, hardware, electronic communication system, or telecommunications
systems;
- using the services to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about
third parties without their knowledge or consent or to engage in screen scraping,
database scraping or any other activity with the purpose of obtaining lists of users
or other data;
- using the services for any activity which adversely affects the ability of other
people or systems to use the services or the internet generally, including, without
limitation, flooding and hacking;
- reselling, repurposing or redistributing any services provided by us our contractors
or our licensees without our prior written consent; or impersonating any person
or entity or using a false name that you are not authorised to use.
- encouraging, condoning or glamorising under-age drinking, drunk-driving or excessive
consumption of alcoholic beverages
- disclosing any personally identifiable information about yourself or any other party
(e.g. telephone number, geographic address or any other information from which an
individual’s identity or contact information can be derived)
This list only serves to provide examples and is not meant to be an exhaustive list
of the type of unacceptable uses of the Public Forums that may result in the restriction,
suspension or termination of your use of the Public Forums or of our Site. Due to
the global nature of the Internet, users hereby agree to comply with all local rules
regarding on-line conduct and acceptable content. Users also agree to comply with
any applicable rules regarding the export of any data from any country.
Any content, information or material posted to a Public Forum (“Postings”) will
be deemed not to be confidential or secret. You understand that personal and other
information (e.g., username, email address, phone number) that you post on or through
Public Forums is generally accessible to, and may be collected and used by, others
and may result in unsolicited messages or other contact from others. You should
not include any personally identifiable information about yourself or any other
person in any Postings. We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to remove
any Postings that contain personally identifiable information. We shall not be liable
for the use or misuse of any information or data, including personal information,
that you post on our Public Forums.
You represent and warrant that your Postings are original to you, do not infringe
on another party’s intellectual property rights, are not obscene, vulgar, offensive,
malicious, discriminatory, defamatory or otherwise unlawful, that no other party
has any rights thereto, and that any “moral rights” in your Postings have been waived,
and you grant us a royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable,
non-exclusive and fully transferable, assignable and sub-licensable right and license
to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works
from, distribute, perform and display such Postings (in whole or part) and / or
to incorporate them in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or
later developed for editorial, commercial, non-commercial, promotional or any other
purpose.
We are not responsible for maintaining your Postings and we may delete or destroy
them at any time.
CONTENT, INFORMATION AND MATERIALS POSTED BY USERS TO PUBLIC FORUMS ARE NOT ENDORSED
BY US. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO EVALUATE AND CONFIRM THE ACCURACY OF INFORMATION
PROVIDED BY OTHER USERS ON OR THROUGH PUBLIC FORUMS. The opinions expressed in Public
Forums are not necessarily ours. Any statements, advice and opinions made by participants
are those of such participants only. We shall not be held responsible for any statements,
advice, opinions or other content or materials on Public Forums. You release us
from claims and demands of every kind and nature, known and unknown, howsoever arising
out of or in any way connected with a dispute with another user of the Site.