Renovate Forums TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE (TOU)

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FORUM RULES IN A NUTSHELL:
Friendliness First. Please ensure that your whole post is respectful of the feelings and cultures of all others.

Consider whether your post is more suited for another forum. See the Home Page (renovateforums.com.au) for the full list.
Assist your readers by making your topic heading as relevant and descriptive as possible.
Do not post your email address or phone number. This could then be used as Spam. Use the PM system (you can include your email in a PM though).

DON'T LIE:
We hate people who lie to us... If you come from India, say so, don't say you are in Melbourne. Don't lie.

DON'T SPAM:
If you spam these forums you will be banned from here and reported which will in turn see you denied access to many thousands of other forums and blogs around the world.

GENERAL DISCLAIMER:
Comments and advice on this forum should be considered as general in nature, and you should always seek expert advice on matters that might affect yours and others safety, liability and insurance cover. These may include, but not be limited to, topics of electrical safety, gas safety, tool and machinery safety and modifications, etc.

PLEASE NOTE:
Considering the real-time nature of these Forums, it is impossible for us to constantly review messages or confirm the validity of information posted.

We (the owner, Administrators and Moderators) are not responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. Any comment, recommendation, or opinion stated on this forum are those of the member alone and express the views of the author of the message, not the views of the Forums owner, Administrators, Moderators or any other entity associated with these forums.
Any user who feels that a post or Private Message message is objectionable or spam is encouraged to contact us immediately by clicking on the Report Post icon report.gif found at the bottom of all posts an messages.

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FULL FORUM RULES

RENOVATE FORUMS is an internet forum where members discuss and seek information from other members in relation to renovation and like topics, in a family friendly environment. We do this on a site that for members is largely free from advertising and in a manner that is suitable for General viewing.

When you joined Renovate Forums, you clicked a button and by doing so you agreed to the following Terms and Conditions of Use:

1.0 - Overview1.1 - Your legal obligation - By accessing Renovate Forums, https://www.renovateforums.com.au, you agree to be legally bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all of the following terms you must not access and/or use Renovate Forum.
1.2 - Jurisdiction - These Terms of Use governing access to, and use of, Renovate Forum shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws (Commonwealth and State) in force in the State of Victoria. These laws include, but are not limited to, Commonwealth and State privacy and criminal laws, the Copyright Act 1968, and the Spam Act 2003, among others.

2.0 - Changes to these Terms of Use:
The Administration Team of Renovate Forums (hereinafter referred to as the "Admin Team" or Admin) may change these conditions at any time. Whilst every attempt will be made to inform you of any changes, it is your responsibility to review these conditions regularly as your continued usage of Renovate Forums after changes mean you agree to be legally bound by these conditions as they are updated and/or revised. A brief summary of changes made is included at the foot of these Terms of Use.

3.0 - Material you may NOT post:
You agree NOT to post material or links to web-sites that contain material, that is:3.1 - abusive, obscene, divisive or vulgar
3.2 - defamatory, hateful or threatening
3.3 - racially motivated
3.4 - sexually-orientated
3.5 - Incitement to commit breach of any Commonwealth or State law or regulation.
3.6 - offensive to reasonable adults
3.7 - inappropriate on a family friendly forum
3.8 - infringes copyright
3.9 - infringes on right to privacy
3.10 - denigrates any particular group, incorporated body or individual
3.11 - false or deliberately misleading
3.12 - naming companies or products involved in disputes or grievances (naming & shaming)
3.13 - in violation of any laws be it of your country, the country where Renovate Forums is hosted or International Law
3.14 - posts that the Admin Team, at its absolute discretion, consider to be trolling
3.15 - considered by the Admin Team to be an ongoing promotion of a competitive website


Any breach of Clause 3.0, at the sole discretion of Renovate Forums, its Owner or Administrators, may lead to you being subject to disciplinary procedures detailed in Clause 4.0 and/or with notification of your Internet Service Provider if deemed appropriate by the Admin Team. The IP address of all posts are recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions.

4.0 - Breaches of these Terms of Use: The Admin Team, at its absolute discretion, may decide that a member has breached Renovate Forums Terms of Use.
Penalties that the Admin Team, at its absolute discretion, may apply are:

• Immediate and Permanent account deactivation / ban or,
• Account deactivation/ban for a period that Admin decide is appropriate or,
• A formal warning or,
• Removal of offending posts.

No correspondence concerning such Admin Team decisions will be entered into and no public discussion will take place on any Admin decision.

5.0 - You are responsible for what you post:
5.1 - In all dealings with Renovate Forums or its members, you remain solely responsible for the content of your posts and messages.
5.2 - You agree to indemnify and hold blameless, this forum and their agents with respect to any claim based upon any post you may make.
5.3 - In the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by yourself, we reserve the right to disclose whatever information we know about you.
5.4 - You agree to waive all rights to legal action against the Owners or Administrators of Renovate Forums for anything arising from your membership of Renovate Forums.


6.0 - The information you post: As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in a database. Except as stated above, this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, but neither Renovate Forums nor vBulletin shall be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

7.0 - Your Renovate Forums account: You agree to have only one account at Renovate Forums. If you forget your password or User Name, please contact [email protected] your details it will be sort out for you.

8.0 - Admin rights to edit: You agree that the Admin Team of Renovate Forums have the right to remove, edit, move or close any post/topic without notice at any time should they see fit.
If you find a post objectionable then please use the 'Report Post' button: report.gif Found at the bottom of each post.

9.0 - Photos:
9.1 - Clause 3.8 prohibits the posting of material that infringes copyright.
9.2 - Posting your own photos on WWF, means that you automatically renounce any copyright.
9.3 - All photos should be resized to 800x600 (or close equivalent) to maintain uniformity across all areas of WWF.
9.4 - We prefer that Manage Attachments or Insert Image be used where possible.
9.5 - Links to external sites may be deleted from posts by Admin.

10.0 - Politics, Religious and Racial restriction: As a general rule we do not allow discussion of politics, religion or race because of their contentious nature. Posting of the same will be moderated and may be deleted.

11.0 - Private Message (PM) service:
11.1 - The Private Message (PM) service at Renovate Forums must not be used to harass or abuse anyone.
11.2 - The Private Message (PM) service at Renovate Forums must not be used to promote any other organisation without Admin consent unless you are specifically requested to do so by the member to whom such promotional PM is addressed.
11.3 - Members receiving unsolicited, spam, scam or otherwise nuisance PM's should use the 'Report Message' button. report.gifFound at the bottom of message box
11.4 - Private Messages (PMs) must remain private. As a general rule, no Private Message (PM) will be made public except where the received PM is in contravention of clause 11.2 above in which case it may be forwarded to Admin using the Report Message button.
11.5 - Private Messages - Admin rights. Messages posted are not the responsibility of this forum and the Admin Team are not responsible for the content or accuracy of any of these messages.

12.0 - The Spam Act 2003: The Commonwealth Spam Act 2003 regulates the sending of unsolicited commercial electronic messages and generally prohibits the sending of such messages. An unsolicited commercial electronic message may include an email or a message sent via Renovate Forums Private Message system. The Spam Act 2003 also prohibit the use of address-harvesting software or address-harvested lists for the purpose of sending an unsolicited commercial electronic message.

The Spam Act 2003 is currently enforced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and provides penalties of up to $1.1 million for each contravention. Renovate Forums reserves the right to refer any possible breaches of the Spam Act 2003 that come to its attention to ACMA or other appropriate law enforcement agency.

If you spam Renovate Forums your post(s) will be deleted, you will be banned and your IP and email addresses along with your User Name will all be submitted to Stop Forum Spam which will see you automatically banned from joining or using many thousands of Forums and blogs world wide.

13.0 - Admin Decisions final: Decisions made by The Admin Team are final. Discussion of Admin decisions on the forum will not be tolerated.

14.0 - Renovate Forums - Privacy Policy: Your privacy is important to us, and we uphold the National Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988.
As a user you agree that any material published on the forum may be in the public arena and no guarantee of privacy is offered or implied.
Renovate Forums collects and stores Member information only so that the Forum can operate. Member information will not be used in any other way and will not be sold, rented or otherwise imparted.

Members should however be aware that information they supply in their Profile may be visible to other members and to non-member guests viewing Renovate Forums.

Be assured that Renovate Forums will treat your personal information strictly in compliance with privacy legislation.

15.0 - Renovate Forums - Advertising Guidelines: Renovate Forums is a forum where members discuss and seek information from other members in relation to renovation and like topics and is NOT to be used as a cheap advertising medium for any commercial interest, whether related or not.
15.1 - Blatant advertising in any Forum other than The Market Place is inappropriate and will not be tolerated.
15.2 - Advertising in the wrong area and without permission will result in the add being deleted and the advertiser receiving infractions and losing forum privileges, continued advertising may result in the advertiser being banned from the forums.

Having said that, Renovate Forums does welcome members from the industry and will afford them limited opportunity to publish their offers and information to members.

To this end, Renovate Forums has developed guidelines for the Admin Team to follow in respect of posts by members who have a commercial interest and/or those members who simply have a personal website. Those guidelines are as follows:

• All members may (if they wish) include a website address in their Profile.
• Members with more than 10 posts may also include a website address (if they wish) in their Signature and that website address will then appear in the Signature at the foot of every post they make.
• Members may include in any post, any website address other than one in which they have some commercial interest so long a it is pertinent to the thread or post.
• Members with a commercial interest in a website may only advise members of offers, etc with one post in any one of the following forums: ANNOUNCEMENTS, or MEMBERS' BUSINESSES & SERVICES, or SPECIAL DEALS & OFFERS FOR MEMBERS & Guests. Any more than one post or any posts in other forums will be considered as blatant advertising and will be deleted and the member may be banned.

• The inclusion of logos, trade marks or links to other social media websites such as Facebook, is not permitted.
• Only one topic may be made in any of the three sub forums however you may reply to your topic as required to update the original post. Admin can assist to correct any errors that you are unable to access.
• Any member of the Admin Team at his/her absolute discretion, may move a post from general view where that post may breach these guidelines. The Admin Team will discuss the moderated post which and act accordingly when a decision is made. This may take a day or more.
• Members who are deemed to be 'bumping' posts to keep a company or product in view will be warned once only. This includes 'cross posting' - posting the same or similar post in more than one forum.
• Members posting in the Trade Centre forums should also read the Forum rules at the head of each forum that are part of these guidelines.
• Members posting in the Trade Centre forums need to be aware and accept, that other members may reply to your post. The Admin Team accepts no responsibility for negative replies to your post in these forums provided such replies do not breach Renovate Forum Terms of Use.
• Breaches of these guidelines may result in either: a once-only warning via a Private Message and/or email, or, for a serious or repeated breach, in the offending member being banned from the forums.

The Admin Team are determined to enforce these guidelines with fairness for all. Should you find an instance that these guidelines have not been followed, please report the post.

16.0 - Conditions of Use of vBulletinThis policy explains in detail how “Renovate Forums” (hereinafter: we, us, our,) and "vBulletin" (hereinafter they, them, their, vBulletin software) use any information collected during any session of usage by you (hereinafter “your information”).

Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing “Renovate Forums” will cause the vBulletin software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter “user-id”) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter “session-id”), automatically assigned to you by the vBulletin software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within “Renovate Forums” and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.

We may also create cookies external to the vBulletin software whilst browsing “Renovate Forums”, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the vBulletin software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter “anonymous posts”), registering on “Renovate Forums” (hereinafter “your account”) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter “your posts”).

Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your User Name”), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a personal, valid e-mail address (hereinafter “your e-mail”). Your information for your account at “Renovate Forums” is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your User Name, your password, and your e-mail address required by “Renovate Forums” during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of “Renovate Forums”. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the vBulletin software.

Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at “Renovate Forums”, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with “Renovate”, vBulletin or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I forgot my password” feature provided by the vBulletin software. This process will ask you to submit your User Name and your e-mail, then the vBulletin software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.

Our forums are powered by vBulletin a bulletin board solution released under License. The vBulletin software only facilitates internet based discussions, vBulletin are not responsible for what we allow and/or disallow as permissible content and/or conduct. For further information about vBulletin, please see: www.vbulletin.com

You agree not to post any 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 Renovate Forums is hosted or International Law. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned, with notification of your Internet Service Provider if deemed required by us. The IP address of all posts are recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that Renovate Forums have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should we see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, neither Renovayr Forums nor vBulletin shall be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

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These rules and Terms of Use above may be subject to changes and updates from time to time, these changes will be listed below as they occur, along with a summary of the change(s)

Summary of Changes

• 22nd August 2015 - New rules (Terms Of Use (TOU)) completed.
• 7th September 2015 - Final update and upload to Forums
• 11th May 2016 - Added new Report Post icons/button
• 24 September 2024 - Changes made to wording from Woodwork Forums to Renovate Forums