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Forum Rules

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Forum Rules

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IMPORTANT: Ausphotography is an active member of a global anti-spamming network. By registering as a member on Ausphotography, you agree that if you place Spam on Ausphotography, any/all all information recorded about you and held on the site databases, can be provided to the anti-spamming network, by the Ausphotography administrators or moderators. You will also be banned immediately and permanently from Ausphotography. We reserve the right to refuse or remove any member from Ausphotography, with or without reason. Ausphotography is privately owned and membership of the site is not a Right.

[1] Members are required to provide a user name, password and valid email address, and are entitled to only one account. From 21st March 2009, user names can only contain A-Z,a-z, 0-9 and 'space', all other characters will not be accepted. User names must not contain swearing, sexual, or sexually suggestive wording, offensive words or any wording that could be taken to represent another person, or identity, including but not limited to user names that could be construed as identity theft or misrepresentation. If the site Administrator or Moderators deem necessary, your user name may be changed, you will be advised if this is to be done. Duplicate accounts will be deleted. If a member is found to be actively using multiple accounts they may be removed from membership (all accounts) without recourse.

If you have misplaced or forgotten your account details, do not create a new account. Contact site administrator via the contact us link at the bottom of the site pages and we will locate your account and provide you with relevant access information. Creating a new/second account could see your access to the site permanently removed.

[2]We require members joining after 9th November 2009 to provide a valid location. For example, if you list your location as NSW, but your IP address shows you are in another Country completely, or your location is listed as junk (eg: asdgd / ghfgdsd ), you risk being banned from Ausphotography without notice.

[3] All information that you disclose may become public information and caution should be exercised when deciding to share any of your personal information or discussing another person, website or organisation on the site. This includes providing your address, phone number or other personal information to another member. Please exercise caution. You are legally responsible for all content that you load to the site. The Administrator(s) reserve the right to access any or all content that you transmit using the site, or that may be stored within the site and it's databases.

To protect Ausphotography from legal action, any data transmitted using the site software may be scanned for content, captured and viewed by the administrator, this includes the private messaging system. Any member using the site for illegal purposes will/may be banned.

[4] Members should be treated with respect and courtesy. Members are requested not to insult or make personal attacks on other members. Remarks deemed to be libellous, defamatory, slanderous or offensive will be deleted, "Flame bait" postings, identical or similar repeat postings will also be deleted.

If you find yourself on the receiving end of an attack, please report to Site Administration/Moderators.

Spamming other members is not permitted, either publicly or via the Private Message/Email systems within the site. Spamming will result in a permanent ban from AusPhotography.

[5] Strong profanity/swearing is not acceptable, neither is excessive swearing in posts. Use of abbreviations or symbols that can be inferred to and/or represent strong swearing is not permitted.

Posting any comment/post or answer that is: abusive, hateful, racist, bigoted, sexist, harassing, threatening, inflammatory, defamatory, knowingly false, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, promote/show illegal drug use or are overtly sexual are not allowed.

Remember that children visit the AP website and some are members.

[6] Information regarding copyright infringement may neither be requested nor discussed. This relates specifically to requests for software copyright infringement, discussion or promotion of software copyright infringement, or requesting/providing access to serial number generation software, or download information regarding potential copyright infringement of software, but is not limited to these.

[7] Personal classifieds advertisements, including employment offers, must be placed in our classifieds forum. Please read the separate Rules about advertisements within the classifieds forum (also viewable as a 'sticky' at the top of the Site Matters Forum). Advertisements for goods, services, employment or other commercial offers must not be included in forums or galleries without first obtaining permission from the site administrator. Commercial Advertising can be arranged for a fee. Advertisements deemed to be commercial in nature, which have not been approved by site administration, will be deleted. Members with less than 50 posts cannot post links that purely promote a commercial site, on any part of Ausphotography.

[8] The community feature of Ausphotography allows member to create Social Groups for less formal discussion. Even though members can create ‘Invite Only’ groups, be aware that Administrators and Moderators can access all Social Groups and that the Ausphotography Forum Rules apply to all posts to Social Groups.

[9] Ausphotography has restrictions on photograph sizes presented on the site. These restrictions are 1024 pixels on the longest side in all areas of the site, with the exception of the panoramic forum which allows 1200 pixels. File sizes are also set to a maximum 250KB for all forums, 350KB for panoramic. Linked photos must also adhere to these pixel sizes. Use of large fonts is built into the site software, however, unnecessarily large fonts may be removed/edited by administrator or moderators. Failure to abide by these restrictions could see your photographs removed from threads.

[10] Any photograph a member presents on Ausphotography, whether by uploading to the site or 'linking in' from elsewhere must be copyright owned by the member. Breaching copyright is a serious matter with legal implications and could result in an immediate and permanent ban from Ausphotography. Links directing members to other sites, where third-party owned item(s) are displayed, is allowed.

[11] Ausphotography allows Google Earth kml/kmz files to be uploaded (attached). For security reasons Members are not permitted to geo-locate personal locations (eg. homes, places of work or other geographic locations that could be considered personal).

[12] Use of the Free Site Gallery is based on participation in other areas of the site. Using the Site Gallery as a free hosting service and not being a regular active contributor to the forums etc, could see your membership restricted or cancelled. The Site Gallery is not available to members with less than 30 days members and less than 50 posts (both criteria must be met to gain access), however you can view thumbnail images in the Gallery.

[13]Members with under 50 posts and 30 days membership are not allowed to post 'complaints' on Ausphotography. Complaints are deemed as threads or posts that complain about service or supply standards for products, manufacturers or suppliers.

[14] Competitions run on the site are voted on by members in a Poll to determine the winner. The results of the Poll are final and no dispute over the results will be entered into. Our Competitions each have their own set of rules that must be abided by. Competition Rules are located in the relevant competition forum. In the event a prize competition results in a draw, a snap 60 minute poll will be conducted to determine the winner. If at the end of the 60 minutes, a winner is still not decided, the poll will continue in 10 minute segments until one entry is determined the winner.

[15]Because our members are of a wide age range we have to take this into consideration regarding this topic. We will allow tasteful, mature, artistic nude photography, as long as no genitalia is visible, and the poses are not sexually suggestive. No full frontal below the belt shots. All nude photos will be heavily moderated and will be removed by a staff member if we feel it is inappropriate for the public display. The moderator's decision is final and we will not enter into discussion on the matter. Most importantly, the model in the photo must be over the age of 18 and has given consent to both the photo being taken and the image posted on a public forum.

[16] Your site 'signature' is for placing a link to your personal website, providing information about your camera gear, listing your re-work statement, or other general information. It is not to be used to place large text, photographs or images. We allow signature images to be up to 40 pixels high and 600 pixels long. You are allowed 7 lines for your signature and only font sizes 1 and 2 may be used in members signatures. Do not place your email address/messenger system email in your site signature. Advertising items for sale is not permitted in members signatures. For sale items must be placed in the Classifieds section only. Commercial signatures may only be used by authorised site advertisers.

[17] Threads are not permitted for promotion of sites similar to Ausphotography. Blatant, direct, promotion of other photographic forums is not allowed. Comment or reference to another site as part of an ongoing discussion in a thread is permitted, provided that the thread or post is not blatantly promoting the other site and is in context with the thread topic and discussion. This also includes using the private messaging (PM) system to promote other sites.

[18] Links or pointers to other websites and references to products and services offered by third parties are provided to you for convenience only and do not constitute an endorsement or approval by us of (a) the organisations that operate such websites; (b) the content, privacy policies or other terms of use on such websites; or (c) such third party products and services.

We have no control or responsibility over websites or content maintained by other organisations, or for products and services offered by third parties, we do not assume any liability for your use of any of the foregoing, which use you acknowledge and agree shall be at your own risk.

[19]Requesting/Providing Financial, Medical or Legal Advice on Ausphotography:

Australian Photography is a website with broad topic coverage. However, when it comes to medical, financial and legal advice, it's always recommended to seek advice from a qualified professional, rather than asking about it on Australian Photography. As such, Australian Photography takes no legal responsibility for posts seeking or providing Medical, Financial or Legal advice. Members use any advice provided via Ausphotography at their own risk. The site owner, moderators or members cannot be held liable for any Medical, Financial or Legal advice posted on the site.

[20] Ausphotography Administrators and moderators cannot and do not review every single post, nor are we responsible for the content of any posted message. However, we reserve the right to edit, move, or delete any message whatsoever, which may be done with or without explanation.

If an administrator or moderator edits any post/thread, users are not to re-edit that post/thread and reverse, remove or change any edits done by the administrator or moderator.

Should you disagree with an Administrator or Moderator's decision regarding one of your posts, please contact that person, or one of Admin/mod team privately. Publicly challenging a staff member may result in banning, regardless of who is deemed right. For example: a moderator closes or removes your thread. Opening a new thread on the same topic or to insult or challenge the moderator may lead to your being banned.

Should an Administrator or Moderator contact you requesting changes in your posts, your signature, your posting style, or any other comments, you are expected to cooperate completely.

[21] Members must not behave in a way that could be construed as an attack on the site. This includes hacking the site via back-end or front-end, DOS (Denial of Service) attacks and similar criminal attacks.

[22] Files uploaded to AusPhotography must not:

(1)violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including without limitation those governing pornography, false advertising, deceptive practices, or copyright)

(2)contain programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data, or personal information.

[23] Under no circumstances will the owner of the Ausphotography site, Administrators or Moderators be liable in any way for any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted or made available in any other way via the website, by a member of AP.

[24] If you disagree with these terms and conditions, you are able to have your account deleted from the Ausphotography site, by contacting the Administrator.

[25] As these Site Terms and Conditions may change periodically, members should ensure they familiarise themselves with them from time to time.

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