Community Content Standards

When posting contributions to the community, you must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. These standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions to the community must:

• be accurate (where they state facts);

• be genuinely held (where they state opinions); and

• comply with applicable law in the country from which they are posted.

Contributions to the community must not:

• be defamatory (a defamatory comment is one that may damage the reputation of a person or organization);

• be in contempt of Court (i.e. your contribution must not contain anything that risks prejudicing current or forthcoming Court proceedings);

• be threatening, abusive, harassing or invasive of a person’s privacy;

• be sexist, racist, profane, blasphemous, homophobic or otherwise discriminatory and/or offensive;

• promote violence or advocate, condone or assist any unlawful act;

• describe violent intentions towards other people or organizations;

• be pornographic, sexually explicit, obscene or lewd;

• be used to impersonate any person or to misrepresent your identity;

• infringe any copyright, database right, trade mark or any other intellectual property, confidentiality or privacy rights of any person or organization; or

• Otherwise violate any law.

In addition, your contribution must not post a link to a website that contains, or directly links to, material that contravenes any of these standards. In particular, you must not post a link to:

• Offensive material (pornographic, discriminatory or gratuitously violent); or

• unlawful material (such as material that condones or encourages unlawful acts, breaches intellectual property law or encourages others to do so, hacks or causes technical disruption to online services or describes how to conduct an unlawful act).