Community Rules

Community Rules & Etiquette and Privacy Guidelines

Thank you for being part of our community. To ensure the best possible experience for all members, we have established some basic guidelines for participation.

By joining and using this community, you agree that you have read these guidelines and rules and will abide by them.  We ask that you also ensure that your discussions, shared files and content are suitable for this medium.  This is a great medium with which to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, and participate in an ongoing conversation.

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important guidelines. If you have any questions, contact the member services department via the Contact Us link on this site. In order to preserve an environment that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate the membership in this community of any individual who violates these rules.

The Rules

  • Respect others. Focus on the content of posts and not on the people making them. Please extend the benefit of the doubt to newer guests and members. There is no such thing as a stupid question.

  • Respect the purpose of the community. Use the community to share successes, challenges, constructive feedback, questions, and goals instead of products or services that you provide. If you’ve found a product or service helpful, please share your experience with the group in a respectful way.

  • Use caution when discussing products. Information posted on the discussion groups and in the libraries is available for all to see, and comments are subject to defamation laws.

  • All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited. Do not post anything that you would not want the world to see or that you would not want anyone to know came from you.

  • Respect intellectual property. Post content that you have personally created or have permission to use and have properly attributed to the content creator.

  • When posting items in our collaborative environment, please indicate if the item is not available for reuse. It’s also advisable to contact the owner of any material if you would like to reuse it.

  • Do not post reviews, comments or other content that amounts to advertising, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain-mail, mass-mailings or any form of spam.

  • Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate communities. This helps ensure all messages receive the best response by eliminating "noise."

 

Discussion Group Etiquette

  • State concisely and clearly the topic of your comments in the subject line. This allows members to respond more appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for members to search the archives by subject.

  • Send messages such as "thanks for the information" or "me, too" to individuals, not to the entire list. Do this by using the "Reply to Sender" link in every message.

  • Do not send administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” to the group. Instead, use the web interface to change your settings or to remove yourself from a list. If you are changing email addresses, you do not need to remove yourself from the list and rejoin under your new email address. Simply change your settings.

 

The Legal Stuff

Disclaimer

The information contained within this website is of general nature and intended purely as background reading for the participants taking part in FPA Communities discussions and projects. Changes may occur in circumstances at any time that may affect the accuracy or completeness of the information presented within any section of the FPA Communities site.

FPA Communities has taken all reasonable care in producing and presenting the content contained herein, however, it does not accept responsibility for any loss, expense or liability that you may incur from using or relying on the information sourced from this website.

 


Third-party content and links


FPA Communities accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of third-party content or links, or your reliance on any information contained within any such content available through our site. The comments published on FPA Communities represents a wide range of views and interests of the participating individuals and organisations. Statements made during online discussions are the personal opinions of the commentators and do not necessarily reflect those of FPA Communities or the FPA. FPA Communities at all times and at its absolute discretion, reserves the right to remove reasonably offensive comments in line with our guidelines and rules. The FPA has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content.




Privacy Policy

At the FPA we recognise that your privacy is very important to you – it is to the FPA as well. We handle personal information provided by and about people every day. By personal information we mean information or an opinion about a person whose identity is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained.

To find out more about how the FPA collects, holds, uses, corrects, discloses and transfers personal information, please read the FPA privacy statement in full at https://fpa.com.au/about/privacy/