DTV Forum Guidelines
On-line Forum Pty Ltd (ONF) provides its Forums in order to assist consumers exchange information about digital terrestrial television.
ONF acknowledges that consumers will wish to exchange information about digital television services and products and their virtues, including prices, but it does not provide its Forums as vehicles for gratuitous advertisements by suppliers or their associates.
ONF may delete postings it judges to be gratuitous advertisements for products or services and may restrict the privileges of, remove, or ban, members it judges have been responsible for posting gratuitous advertisements. Suppliers of products judged by ONF to be in breach of any of these guidelines, as well as persons judged by ONF to be associates of such suppliers and to be in breach of any of these guidelines, can expect long suspensions for an initial guidelines breach, and increasingly lengthier suspensions for subsequent breaches.
Definition of "Advertising"
For the guidance of forum participants, gratuitous advertising means advertising that is not called for in context. Where ONF forms the opinion that some advertising is uncalled for and appears to be coming from a supplier or an associate, ONF will apply the following penalties - an initial suspension of supplier and/or associate for a first offence for one month, with a ban on the creation of threads for one month after reinstatement, to (2nd offence) suspension for three months, plus a ban on thread creation for further three months, to (3rd offence) 6 months suspension etc, to (4th offence) final banishment.
Account Misuse
Misuse of your account by being an annoyance or hindering the experience of other forum members is not acceptable. Such misuse may include, but is not limited to:
- Non-adherence to the Forum Advertising Rules;
- Spamming (malicious or not) any forum or subforum;
- Misuse of the Private Messaging System and/or Email System;
- Harassment of other members;
- Use of a sign-on name or avatar to impersonate another member or an unrelated person;
- Continually ignoring the description of a forum. That is, posting non-related threads in non-related forums.
Personal Information
ONF respects the National Privacy Principals of the Privacy Act. We will endeavour to take steps to protect any private information from misuse or unauthorised disclosure. Members ARE NOT allowed to post personal information including names, email addresses, phone numbers of any other person. Members ARE NOT allowed to post copies of emails from other persons on the DTV Forum without the prior consent of that person. The ONF Moderators have the right to delete any references to personal information that they have been made aware of, and suspend or ban the member who posted that information.
Interest-based Advertising
ONF has commissioned Google, as a third-party advertising company, to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to·not having this information used by these companies, click here.
Author's Responsibility
Considering the real-time nature of this message board, it is impossible for ONF to review messages or confirm the validity of information posted. Please remember that ONF does not actively monitor the contents of posted messages and is not responsible for any messages posted. That legal responsibility remains with the forum member who is the author of the message.
All comments, opinions and advice contained within these forums are written by third party members not related to nor employed by ONF or its nominated subsidaries. Views and comments are not condoned by, nor shared by ONF nor its subsidaries, and forum members post under their own risk.
Any matter deemed illegal will be referred to the relevant authorities if warranted.
Misuse of the forum should be reported to On-line Forum Pty Ltd using the reporting facility available on each forum message.
ONF has the ability to remove objectionable messages and will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if it is determined that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realise that particular messages may not be removed or edited immediately.
No correspondence will be entered into by ONF, nor its nominated representatives, on any breach of these guidelines.
