Terms of use

BY USING THIS WEBSITE YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE OR IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE, YOU HAVE THE CONSENT OF YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN TO ACCESS THIS SITE. YOU OR YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN FURTHER AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE, AND ANY SUBSEQUENT MODIFICATIONS, AND THE OTHER POLICIES POSTED ON THE WEBSITES.

Your electronic acceptance of these terms of use and other posted policies through your use of this website shall have the same force and effect as if you had actually signed an agreement embodying these terms. St James Ethics Centre may change these terms of use at any time by posting changes on this website. It is your responsibility to review these terms of use prior to each use of the website. By continuing to use the website, you agree to any such changes.

The Ethics Forum, comment facilities and other interactive areas of the website are provided by St James Ethics Centre for the discussion and exploration of ethics and associated topics. All are welcome to participate in these interactive areas. However, note that St James Ethics Centre does not necessarily support or share the views expressed by any individuals on this website.

Email addresses

Registration requires that the user have a valid email address. You will be required to click on a link sent to you in an email to activate your account and your email will be used to assist you retrieve your password if you lose it.

St James Ethics Centre will not use the email address provided as part of your website user account to contact you other than as part of administration of your website account. The Centre will also not knowingly pass on your contact details without your consent unless legally obliged to do so.

If you choose to reveal your email address or other contact details within forum posts or comments on this website, you do so at your own risk. The Centre strongly advises you not to do this.

Content

The discussion forum and various comment areas on this site consist of unmoderated user-added content. While St James Ethics Centre will make every effort to quickly remove spam, offensive material or other items which are in breach of its terms of user, the onus is on site users to avoid unmoderated content areas should they wish to not risk viewing such content. To assist in this The Centre has placed ICRA labels warning of the nature of this content which will help site users avoid it should they wish.

Our discussion forum and comment areas are not link pages and are not meant for publicising web pages. It is acceptable to list URLs and refer to web pages in discussing ethics-related issues in the forums and comments pages. Postings which consist of little more than a link to another website rather than discussion in keeping with the topic at hand will be removed. Member accounts which appear to have no purpose other than including a website link in their forum profiles will also be removed. Any other postings or profiles deemed to be spam or otherwise in breach of the terms of service by the website administrators will also be removed. Contact us if you believe this has been done in error.

Posting of a person's personal information without their consent (personal phone numbers, private email addresses, home addresses, social security numbers, etc.) is prohibited. Postings of this nature will be removed.

Impersonating other users, persons or businesses is prohibited. Choosing a username or signing messages with a name to wilfully cause confusion or deception is prohibited.

This website must not be used to post any material which is vulgar, defamatory, threatening, invading of others' privacy, sexually oriented or in violation any laws in your own country or Australia.

Posts that are deemed to be in violation of these policies in any way will be removed at our discretion. Seriously offensive posts or ongoing personal attacks will result in the member being banned from the website.

No copyrighted material may be posted unless permission is obtained from the copyright owner or is otherwise acceptable in relation to copyright legislation. The Centre does not accept responsibility for posts or comments made by individual site members which are in breach of copyright legislation, but will remove such posts if requested by the copyright owners.

By posting to this forum you are giving St James Ethics Centre permission to publish the content you write for this purpose on our Ethics Forum. You have no inherent right to have your content subsequently unpublished; however, we will consider such requests if there is a valid reason.

Note that St James Ethics Centre reserves the right to remove any content or members from its website for any reason at its own discretion.

Indemnity

You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this forum and their agents with respect to any claim based upon any post you may make.

Reporting violations

Posts or comments which violate the terms of this agreement should be reported immediately to the website administrators using the contact us form or using the 'report post' link in each forum post. Please do not abuse this mechanism with petty complaints or fallacious reporting.

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By registering you agree with and to abide by all of the above rules and policies.

If you have any queries, please contact us.