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Agreement between User and .NET Collective
This is a legal agreement between you and .NET Collective with respect to your access and use of the .NET Collective web site, Discussion Forum, Chat Room and other facilities associated with this web site, (collectively, the "Service"). You must accept without modification all of the terms, conditions, and notices contained in these Terms of Use in order to access and/or use the Service. If you do not accept these Terms of Service in their entirety, you may not access or use the Service.

Note: Although the .NET Collective does not yet support an on-line chat service, this agreement includes the Term of Service for this facility when and if it becomes available.

1. We reserves the right to make changes. We reserves the right to make changes to these Terms of Service from time to time without notice and it is your responsibility to review these Terms of Service and determine such changes. Notification of changes to these Terms will be posted to News forum under the Announcements category. Continued use of the Service shall be deemed acceptance of any changes to these Terms of Service.



2. You must be 18 years of age. Do not register an account, enter a Chat Room or post, upload or e-mail any content if you are under the age of 18 years.



3. Be honest about your registration details. During account registration you agree to provide and maintain true, accurate, current and complete information as requested by the registration form including your current proper name (First Name and Last Name).



4. The .NET Collective agrees, where possible, to protect details provided by you and certain other information about you as defined by our Privacy Policy.



5. Use a single login account. Each individual may only register a single login account, unless otherwise authorized in writing by the .NET Collective.



6. Do not impersonate anyone. Do not impersonate any person or identity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity or disguise the origin of any content¹. Impersonation of official .NET Collective staff ² is strictly prohibited.



7. Treat everyone with respect. If you disagree with someone's point of view, argue ideas rather than attacking individuals or groups. Derogatory statements, insults or threats that cause any participant to feel discomfort will not be tolerated.



8. You are responsible for your own content¹. Because this is a public meeting place, the views and opinions expressed in the Chat Rooms or on the message boards of .NET Collective may not necessarily reflect the views of the NET Collective or its staff².



9. Compose carefully-reasoned comments and do not use oversize fonts, JavaScript or advanced HTML commands. Be sure to take time to pause and think before you click: you cannot revise what you have posted to a Chat Room, no matter how angry or embarrassing, and you have only 15 minutes to edit and revise your Discussion Forum posts. Repeatedly sending the same or nonsensical text in a Chat Room or message board or using oversize fonts, JavaScript or advanced HTML commands is prohibited.



10. Watch your language. Any content¹ or references to content that is offensive, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit language, sexual innuendoes, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, threatening, or racially, ethnically or religiously degrading or otherwise objectionable will not be tolerated. This includes attempts to "mask" such words by using abbreviations, blanks, asterisks or other symbols.



11. Stay on-topic.Your discussion must relate to the subject of the particular Chat Room or Discussion Forum in which you participate. If you wish to suggest a new Discussion Forum topic, you may do so by sending e-mail to forum@dotnet-collective.com. Do not upload or post any content¹ that is repetitive, or intentionally irrelevant to the topic scope of the related forum.



12. Guard your (and others') personal safety and privacy. Do not collect or store personal data about other users without their prior consent. Do not post anyone's private information including their full name, personal phone number, email address or postal address in a Chat Room or Discussion Forum without their prior consent. Do not post a private e-mail address you have received from someone else unless the author and e-mail address owner has given you specific permission to do so.



13. Do not advertise. Commercial information is not permitted in the .NET Collective Discussion Forums and Chat Rooms unless authorized by the .NET Collective. Specific forums may allow limited description of commercial products where the forum usage guidelines explicitly permit this. Do not upload, post or e-mail any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, 'junk mail', 'spam', 'chain letters, or any other form of solicitation.



14. Do not post copyright material. Instead, post or e-mail hyperlink references to web content¹ or cite reference information (author, title, publisher, etc.). Do not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, database right or other similar right of any party.



15. Do not post any personal or commercially private material. Do not upload, post or e-mail any content¹ that is regarded as private by another. Do not upload, post or e-mail any content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships. Do not upload, post or e-mail any content that content that infringes any intellectual property rights of any third party.



16. Do not post or reference illegal content. Any content¹ or references to content that contains or promotes any harmful or illegal activity including applicable regional, national or international laws or regulations will not be tolerated. This includes but is not limited to references to Warez or Cracking sites or sites.



17. Do not post or reference pornographic content. Any content¹ or references to content that contains or promotes pornography, nudity or is deemed as adult only will not be tolerated. This includes references or hyperlinks to sites that infer sexual content.



18. Do not post any harmful content. Do not upload, post or e-mail any content¹ or reference to content that contains computer viruses or any other computer code, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality or security of any computer software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment. Do not upload, post or e-mail any content or hyperlinked content that could harm minors in any way.



19. We accept no liability for products or services referenced by this site or discussion content. Where we may provide hypertext links to other sites we do so for information purposes only, and such links are not endorsements by us of any products or services in such sites and we accept no liability nor make any endorsement or approval of the same.



20. Treat .NET Collective moderators with respect. Participants are expected to show respect toward .NET Collective moderators. Should there be a disagreement, a .NET Collective administrator or managers's decision will be final. If you feel that a moderator has treated you unfairly, you may send an e-mail to forum@dotnet-collective.com for review.



21. Please help! If you think that a breach of these terms has taken place in a Discussion Forum posting, please notify the forum moderator using the "Report !" button displayed above each forum message. If you witness such breaches in a Discussion Forum, Chat Room or anywhere else on the site, please notify abuse@dotnet-collective.com immediately including:
    (a) A copy of the offending post and the name, (b) URL of Chat Room or web page, and (c) Your reason for concern.



22. Appropriate actions to prevent breaches. You agree that the .NET Collective administrator's or manager's decision shall be the final arbitrators in assessing if and when any breach of terms has taken place and the appropriate action to undertake. We reserve the right to take whatever action is deemed necessary to prevent such breaches including but not limited to the following:
    
    
    1. Issue warnings to offending users and/or adjust their rankings or warning ratings;
    
    
    2. Delete, move, filter or otherwise limit access to offending content;
    
    
    3. Limit available Discussion Forum, Chat Room or other Service features to offending users;
    
    
    4. Inhibit or limit viewing of web site content by offending users;
    
    
    5. Suspend, delete or ban user accounts of offending users;
    
    
    6. Suspend or remove access to the chat server;
    
    
    7. Inhibit or disallow an offending individual or group from registering new accounts;
    
    
    8. Record sufficient information to identify an offending individual;
    
    
    9. Report activities of an offending user to their internet service provider, employer or relevant authorities;
    
    
    10. Take legal action against an offending individual or group.
    
    
    
    



23. We may moderate or reorganise content. .NET Collective moderators may from time to time and without prior notice; edit, move, archive, or remove any content. Old forum postings may be automatically removed after a prolonged period of time. We reserve the right at any time and without prior notice to move, modify, suspend or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice.



24. We may remove unused user accounts. NET Collective reserves the right to remove a user account and related data including e-mails if it remains inactive for a prolonged period of time.



25. We may suspend or discontinue the service. We reserve the right at any time and without prior notice to suspend or discontinue the .NET Collective Service.



26. We accept no liability. The .NET Collective accepts no liability or responsibility whatsoever for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system whilst linked to this web site. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for content, including (without limitation) any errors or omissions in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any content. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content including reliance on its accuracy or completeness. You also understand that by using our Service, you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.



27. We are not responsible for content. You understand that all content that are publicly posted or privately transmitted are the sole responsibility of the person from which the content originated. This means that you, and not the .NET Collective, are solely responsible for all content that you upload, post or e-mail via the Discussion Forum, Chat Room or other Service facilities. The views posted by others do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the .NET Collective. We do not control the content posted via the Discussion Forum and therefore do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of the content.



28. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold the .NET Collective, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents or partners harmless from and against any direct or indirect loss or damage (including consequential loss and loss of profits, goodwill or business opportunities including reasonable legal costs arising from any third party claim in relation to any content you upload, post or e-mail through the Discussion Forum or the site, your use of the Discussion Forum and our site, or your breach of the provisions of these Terms. This indemnity may be enforced by an Indemnified Party in his own right.



29. Legal validity of Terms of Service. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.



30. Dispute resolution. In the event a dispute arises between you and .NET Collective, our goal is to provide you with a neutral and cost effective means of resolving the dispute quickly. Accordingly, you and .NET Collective agree that any claim or controversy at law or equity that arises out of this Agreement or our Services ("Claims") shall be resolved in accordance with one of the subsections below or as otherwise mutually agreed upon in writing by all parties.
    
    
    
    
    1. Amicable resolution. Before resorting to the other alternatives below, your agree to make every attempt to first contact us directly to seek an amicable resolution through dialog.
    
    
    
    2. Alternative Dispute Resolution. Alternatively, .NET Collective will consider reasonable requests to resolve the dispute through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation, as an alternative to litigation.
    
    
    
    3. Binding Arbitration. For any Claim (excluding Claims for injunctive or other equitable relief) where the total amount of the award sought is less than $AU10,000, you or .NET Collective may elect to resolve the dispute through binding arbitration conducted by telephone, on-line and/or based solely upon written submissions where no in-person appearance is required. If in-person appearance is required, it shall be held in the city of Brisbane located in the State of Queensland, Australia.
    
    
    
    4. Court. Alternatively, any Claim must be adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction located in the State of Queensland, Australia. You and .NET Collective agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the Queensland state courts or Australian federal courts located within the State of Queensland, Australia.
    
    

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¹ For the purposes of this agreement we define "content" as any potentially copyrightable material including but not limited to formatted or unformatted text, program code, hyperlinks, data, calendar events or multimedia files such as images, sound, video or flash graphics or similar that is posted, uploaded, e-mailed or stored via the .NET Collective web site or web site software.

² For the purposes of this agreement we define ".NET Collective staff" to include Discussion Forum administrators, moderators, volunteer assistants, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents or partners.