Date: May 2018
Welcome to the Melbourne IT Support Community. This is a place provided by Melbourne IT for our users and customers, to help with the exchange of ideas, tips, techniques and constructive discussions relating to our products and services. By accessing and using the Melbourne IT Support Community, you agree to comply with these Terms of Use, including the Melbourne IT Privacy Policy and any other terms and conditions or policies set out on the Melbourne IT Support Community or on our main website at http://www.melbourneit.com.au/. (collectively, the "Terms"). All our terms and conditions and policies can be located at http://www.melbourneit.com.au/policies/.
The Melbourne IT Support Community is a place of sharing and learning, and above all, a public place for collaboration. It is important you respect the privacy of other users, and also protect your own. For this reason, the disclosing or soliciting of any personal information (whether belonging to you any other person) is prohibited within the Melbourne IT Support Community.
Melbourne IT respects and protects the privacy of our customers, and the Melbourne IT Privacy Policy provides details of our approach to privacy and how we collect, use and protect personal information.
However, in the event you post personal information within the Melbourne IT Support Community this can be easily obtained and used by others and we cannot protect this from happening - any personal information you disclose in the Melbourne IT Support Community will be at your own risk and you will be responsible for any third party use of such personal information (whether such use was permitted by you or not).
We encourage you to be an active and involved user of the Melbourne IT Support Community, however, any posts you make must not:
We reserve the right to remove or edit any posts we deem inappropriate or which include any third party content or link(s) to any third party content or websites. We may, in our discretion, contact you to provide comments about your posts.
If you notice any offensive or inappropriate postings or behaviour, you can report these by selecting the confidential "Report Inappropriate Content" link under the 'Options' menu on the applicable post.
You are solely responsible for all posts you make in the Melbourne IT Support Community, and for exercising careful judgment in evaluating and taking action based on other users' posts. Posts will be made by various users with differing levels of technical experience and competency - from beginning novices to experienced users - and Melbourne IT is not responsible for the accuracy of posts in the Melbourne IT Support Community. You agree you assume the risk of reading and acting upon any information posted in the Melbourne IT Support Community by any users.
In accessing and using the Melbourne IT Support Community, you also must not:
In posting to the Melbourne IT Support Community, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable licence (including the right to sub-license) to use, reproduce, adapt, modify and communicate to the public your posts and any other information you make available on the Melbourne IT Support Community, without restriction of any kind. Should you cease using the Melbourne IT Support Community for any reason, this license will survive and continue.
All content available on the Melbourne IT Support Community is our property, or the property of our licensors or registered users.
Content posted by users on the Melbourne IT Support Community may contain links to third party websites. We do not approve or endorse, are not responsible for, and have no obligation to monitor, any linked third party websites. Where you access such third party websites, you do so entirely at your own risk.
The Melbourne IT Support Community is a place for users to connect, collaborate and assist each other. It is important for all users to be respectful of other users, and the Melbourne IT Support Community as a whole. We may edit or remove any posts which, in our sole discretion, we consider violate the Terms or which we consider inappropriate for any reason. We may also amend your username or remove your username from any posts at our discretion. Lastly, if we believe you have violated the Terms, we may also restrict or suspend your use of the Melbourne IT Support Community or even ban you, without notice.
In the event we take any of the action outlined in the Terms, our decision to do so will be final and we will not be obliged to provide you with reasons or enter into correspondence with you regarding our decision.
While we hope no disputes arise between you and any user, we have no obligation to resolve any such disputes should they arise.
It is important that all information you provide to us is accurate, complete and up to date. We may suspend or terminate your account and access to the Melbourne IT Support Community if information provided is found to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
You do not need an account to read postings in the Melbourne IT Support Community, only if you want to contribute.
We reserve the right to modify, delete, suspend or discontinue the Melbourne IT Support Community (including postings) at our discretion and with or without notice. We may update the Melbourne IT Support Community from time to time as we see fit.
You indemnify Melbourne IT and its licensors from and against all claims, damages, losses, proceedings (whether legal or administrative) and expenses (including but not limited to reasonable legal fees) incurred by Melbourne IT or its licensors arising in connection with (i) any personal information (whether belonging to you or another person) you disclose and/or solicit in the Melbourne IT Support Community, and (ii) any resulting use of such personal information by you or any third party (whether such use was permitted by you or not).
We acknowledge that certain jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of warranties or liabilities, and we accept that in such jurisdictions the following limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. In such jurisdictions, if permitted by applicable legislation, the liability of Melbourne IT and its licensors shall be limited, at our option, to resupplying, repairing or replacing the relevant goods or services (or payment of the cost of resupply, repair or replacement).
Subject to the foregoing, you agree that:
Notwithstanding the above, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage to the extent caused by you, or to the extent such loss or damage results from any failure by you to take reasonable steps to avoid or minimise your loss.
We reserve the right to modify the Terms at any time, effective 30 days after publication of the updated Terms on the Melbourne IT Support Community or our main website http://www.melbourneit.com.au/.. We recommend you review the Terms regularly to ensure you are aware of the latest updates. Any continued use of the Melbourne IT Support Community after any Terms have been updated will constitute your acceptance of the updated Terms.
If there is any inconsistency between these Terms of Use, and any other applicable terms, these Terms of Use will prevail. These Terms of Use do not create a partnership, joint venture, agency or employer-employee relationship between you and Melbourne IT. If any provision in the Terms is held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal then it is severed and the remainder of the Terms shall remain in full force. You must not assign your rights and obligations under these Terms of Use without our express prior written consent. A provision or, or right created under these Terms of use, may not be waived except in writing by the party granting the waiver, or varied except in writing signed by Melbourne IT and you. The law in force in the State of Victoria, Australia governs these Terms of Use.
The Melbourne IT Support Community is owned and operated by Arq Group Limited trading as Melbourne IT (ACN 073 716 793).