Forum Terms of Use

FORUM TERMS OF USE
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Membership Name - Rules

1. Business names are not permitted to be used as forum membership names, except where permission by Administrators or Moderators has been granted.
2. Uppercase membership names or excessive use of special characters (such as NEWMEMBER or N$w M$mb$r) are not permitted and such accounts may be deleted including associated posts.
3. Administrators including members of our Support Team reserve the right to delete accounts whereby their usernames contain abusive, vulgar, defamatory, and sexually-orientated terms.

Posting Rules

1. By accepting these Terms of Use upon registration, each member agrees he / she is solely and legally responsible for the information he / she posts. Read more about Your Individual Liability.
2. Be respectful of other members at all times. Flaming or abusing (incl. bullying, belittling or humiliating) other members in any way is not acceptable. Any post deemed disrespectful or defamatory of another member or party will be removed, and the poster will be at risk of being banned. Read more about Be Respectful.
3. Be respectful of Moderators and Administrators even if you disagree with particular decisions. Their time is dedicated voluntarily to keeping the Homeone Forum a happy place.
4. Duplicate posting is not allowed.
5. Spamming is not permitted.
6. Advertising within posts is strictly not allowed by non-advertisers of Homeone Australia & New Zealand without the approval of an Administrator.
7. Each individual is allowed only one (1) membership account only. Multiple memberships are not permitted and may result in the deletion of all of the user's membership accounts and associated posts.
8. Posting, or pointing to, unacceptable content (as outlined in these Terms of Use) is prohibited.
9. Hyperlinks to a member's own, or, affiliated business is strictly prohibited within posts, and may result in an immediate ban without warning.
10. It is your responsibility to ensure you do not infringe on someone elses copyright. If you're posting third-party content at https://forum.homeone.com.au, you need to ensure you own or control the rights to the respective content and / or it is acknowledged appropriately. You agree to bear any and all costs associated with arising damages, including legal and court fees.

PM Rules

1. Posting Rules apply to Personal Messages (PM's). Please see Posting Rules for more information.
2. Businesses found to be spamming via PM will have their accounts immediately cancelled; and
3. Unsolicited commercial PM's by any forum member is also prohibited, and the respective member will have his / her account deleted immediately without warning.

Signature Rules

Individuals

1. Members may provide 5 lines of information. Each line may contain a link to a personal website, or personal blog within the boundaries of acceptable content but must NOT; contain business information whatsoever, point to a commercial site nor contain phone numbers, email addresses, or any other contact information.

Businesses

1. Members representing a business are prohibited from providing any commercial information within a signature if they have less than 50 posts.
2. Members representing a business with 50 or more posts, may only use two lines of information; providing only a business name - on the first line - and a link to a commercial site - on the second line. Taglines / slogans are not accepted.
3. Paid advertisers may include an additional three (3) lines of information only upon, and not before, approval by either a Moderator or Administrator.

NOTE: All members are prohibited from providing duplicate links in their signature.

Posting Images & Avatars - Rules

1. Members are prohibited from uploading any images that are abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country, the country where “Home Renovation & Building Forum” is hosted or International Law.
2. By uploading an image, you certify that you have the legal right, consent, or license to distribute that image for the entire period the image is published at the Homeone Forum, otherwise, you agree it is your responsibility to promptly remove the respective images and that you bear any and all costs associated with arising damages, including legal and court fees.

Privacy
We do not and will not disclose any personal member information except where a court order is provided.

If you disagree with the Forum Terms of Use, do not become a member or cease usage of your existing account immediately. For existing members, please contact us so we can arrange deactivation of your forum membership.

Members who do not adhere, or discourage in any way other members in adhering to these rules do so at the risk of being banned with or without warning.

Homeone Australia & New Zealand reserves the right to amend the Forum Terms of Use, and without notice.

It seems we have a number of threads where members find it difficult to agree to disagree without starting a slanging match and being rude. Regardless of who starts this the disrespect is not acceptable. The original poster of any thread may be asking for advice or comment or maybe sharing an exciting moment with the rest of us and is not to be treated with disdain or to have their thread turned into a slanging competition between others. Members are expected to be capable of being mature enough to disagree without being rude to each other. Continued rudeness and disrespect to other members may well result in a ban and will not be tolerated. This is for ANY member of the forum, be they advertisers with the website or not. This forum does not favour any one group. Please stick to the topic without making personal comments about other members. If you disagree violently with someones opinion find a way to say so politely or don't post at all.
I would like to repeat the following point from the first post above.

<Quote>2. Be respectful of other members at all times. Flaming or abusing (incl. bullying, belittling or humiliating) other members in any way is not acceptable. Any post deemed disrespectful or defamatory of another member or party will be removed, and the poster will be at risk of being banned. <end quote>

<We appreciate the value of all members be they be ordinary public or have experience in the building and related industries> <We appreciate the valuable contributions you have made to the forum to date> <We welcome lively debate between members> and would like to see everyone continue to provide helpful input. But please keep in mind that it is possible to disagree with another member without resorting to abuse or ridicule.


Please re-read the Forum Terms Of Use posted above and make sure that you understand them.
kexkez
Homeone Support Team