Please Read This Agreement Thoroughly From Start To Finish, Failure To Do So Or Skipping Sections May See Your Membership Rejected Without Notice Or You Permanently Banned From This Forum Without Warning!

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

As from the 26/10/2009 our signup procedure has changed, we no longer accept ANY free email accounts AT ALL, this is mostly due to spammers but also for security reasons, please see below.

Signing Up To This Forum:

To become a member you will now need to use a valid ISP email address **, we will no longer accept free or non genuine ISP email accounts (i.e. Hotmail, Yahoo, yeah.net, GMail etc etc), if you sign up using one then your membership request will automatically be rejected without notice by our system, when you signup you will also be asked to give a brief reason as to why you want to become a member, please give a proper and genuine reason for wanting to do so, ones such as "wanna join" "join" "sign me up" "Hi there" "interested" or any other short and non creative or informative reasons will see your request denied, simply put, don't waste our time.

PLEASE NOTE: If however you have a genuine reason for not being able to use your ISP email address you will need to contact us to discuss an alternative method of verifying your membership application, please email help@SPAMscanningtasmania.org for help. (removing the SPAM trap first)

We can, and do check, any membership requests that we consider non genuine, suspicious, or not satisfying the reasons for wanting to becoming a member, if you still cannot satisfy us we will simply deny your request without notice, you have been warned!

** Once signed up members are then free to change and use which ever email address they prefer, a valid ISP email is only for signup verification so we know your a genuine member, your email address will never be passed on or given out.

Fair Use Policy:

Once becoming a new member it would also be beneficial to all, and appreciated, if you could post just a quick introduction about yourself and what you like to monitor in the appropriate section on the forum, this allows members to get to know you and what part of the hobby interests you or what you like to listen to, and it also helps break the ice a bit to!

User Names / ID's:


When signing up to become a member please be sure to use an appropriate and suitable Forum Name and USER ID, any stupid, offensive or out right inappropriate names will see your membership cancelled and your account deleted immediately, so please be sensible and think carefully before choosing a username and account ID.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON POSTING:

Posts regarding cordless telephones (or any communications carried over the Public Switched Telephone Network - PSTN) are not allowed to be discussed on this forum what so ever and if you do so you will be warned only once before your account is deleted, this is NOT negotiable, if in doubt of the suitability of your intended post please seek advice from a Staff member.

Please also be aware that any information of a sensitive nature that could endanger the lives of any person(s) or organisation(s), including but not limited to Police, SES, TAS and TFS are strongly frowned upon, should we deem your post as not acceptable or if your information is of a to sensitive nature we shall, at our own discretion, remove and or edit your post with or without warning, but where possible we shall attempt to contact you first asking for it to be edited and or removed, however if we deem the information posted by you needs to be removed or edited immediately for security reasons then we shall do so and then contact you to discuss why it was removed or edited, this is for the safety and security of all concerned and to make sure that those that protect us are in turn protected and allowed to do their jobs unhindered and safely.

THE AGREEMENT:

By proceeding past this point and registering for an account, you are indicating your agreement to not use this Forum to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy or otherwise in violation of ANY other laws. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright on that material or permission from the copyright holder has been given (we will ask for proof). You agree not to link remote images or files unless you have the permission of the file owner and host. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages & information, and you agree to indemnify and hold anyone else, including Scanning Tasmania and the Forum Administrator & Staff, harmless with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s).

Take warning now, we will not hesitate what so ever to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a court order being issued or a Police request being received in relation to any messages or content posted by you on this Forum. Failing to comply with a Court Order or refusing to assist Police in anyway can carry penalties which may extend to imprisonment and or a large fine, so don't think for a minute that we won't pass on any and all information that we have on you! When using this Forum your IP address and other information about your visit is stored.

Further more, by registering for an account on this forum you indicate your agreement that the contents of all messages are your, and yours alone, responsibility and therefore agree not to hold Scanning Tasmania, the Forum Administrator & Staff or any other entity associated with this Forum or web site responsible or in any way liable for damages of any kind with respect to the content of any message on the Forum and to the extent permitted by law you waive all rights to make any claims against Scanning Tasmania, the Forum Administrator & Staff or any other entity associated with the Forum & site. You also agree that if you have a complaint about a message contained within the Forums your first and only action will be to notify an Administrator or Staff member so that we may remove the message if necessary and when timely possible.

Deliberate acts of spam, flooding, advertisements (unless in the appropriate section), chain letters, pyramid schemes, hacking the forum and solicitations are also inappropriate on this forum and are not wanted in anyway shape or form, if your caught doing so you will be banned without question or warning and your details passed on to any appropriate authorities.

If you have an issue or problem with another member because of dealings with them off the forum or in person then we ask you to keep it off here, do not bring your personal or private matters on to this forum to sort out as we will not tolerate personal attacks, bad mouthing of others or any other form of bad behaviour or harassment towards others due to things that have not happened within this forum, that we are not responsible for or are not in control of, we are not here to act as judge, jury or executioners for anything other than direct forum related matters and we will not enter into or become involved in any such matters or incidents unless it has happened on this forum, bottom line is if you have a personal / private issue then take it up with those in question in private and not on this forum, airing your grievances or issues publicly or taking these sorts of matters up with others in the forum may result in suspension or termination of your account with or without warning.

Membership to this Forum is a privilege, not a right, and we reserve the right to edit or remove any post, thread, user account, private message or other information from the Forums at any time we see fit. We make no guarantee or promise that the Forums will be available at any particular time or from any particular location, we use shared hosting and as such outages and downtime are inevitable. We are not compelled to provide Forum access to everyone who requests it and may limit or suspend Forum access to anyone or everyone with or without explanation at any given time.

Please understand that it is impossible for us to confirm the validity of posts on this forum, we also do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented here. The messages here-in express the views and or opinions of the author(s), and not necessarily the views of ScanningTasmania and it's Staff.

The Staff of this forum have a busy job to do as well as having their own private lives to live and while it may not look like there is much to do on here there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes, please respect the Staff and remember that they have the final say in ALL matters, if you are given a direction by one please follow it immediately, if you have a problem with a member of Staff then please contact the owner of the forum to discuss the matter in private and do not resort to airing the matter publicly on the forum as you may find your account suspended until the matter has been sorted.

If you disagree with ANY of the above terms or conditions in anyway at all then please do not register an account with us and leave this site immediately.

We look forward to having you as apart of our growing scanning community and we do hope you enjoy your stay with us and will contribute as much as you can to help others out, please remember that it costs us money to keep this forum and the web site running and while it's not mandatory we do appreciate donations if people can afford it, we don't expect much and even a few dollars here and there is enough to help us keep things running, if you would like to make an anonymous donation please see our web site for information on how to do it.

Regards,
Scanning Tasmania Owner / Administrator.