Acceptable Usage
These usage guidelines describe the proper kinds of conduct and prohibited uses of the Sowhatslocal services (“Sowhatslocal services”) provided by Sowhatslocal Pty. Ltd. ACN 129 581 951 (“Sowhatslocal”). These usage guidelines are not exhaustive and Sowhatslocal reserves the right to modify them at any time, effective upon posting of the modified usage guidelines to http://www.sowhatslocal.com.
By registering for and using the Sowhatslocal Services, and thereby accepting the Sowhatslocal Terms and Conditions, you also agree to abide by these usage guidelines as modified from time to time. Any violation of these usage guidelines may result in the termination of your account in the manner described in the Sowhatslocal Terms and Conditions.
1. Your general resposibilities
The Sowhatslocal Services consists of:
- In the case of the Sowhatslocal Business Member Service, it will enable:
- Proactive rating service;
- Event Service for Businesses on a tickertape format;
- Local Web page under the local community Web page section;
- SMS service to update their information or notify/Activate of events; and
- Local business information.
- In the case of the Sowhatslocal Personal Member Service, it will enable:
- Personalised searching of local events, business and entertainment based on a member’s selected profile options when registering;
- Ability to register events on the website; and
- Access to local information via SMS service which will search based on a member’s personal profile and the specific location they are in at that moment in time.
- In the case of the Community Service, it will enable:
- Profit sharing with the local community based on the amount of revenue that was contributed by the local registered businesses and members; and
- Free access to the site for selected businesses, Charities (Not for profit originations), education facilities, and councils, not for profit community projects, subject to approval.
Generally, Sowhatslocal will not directly control any use that is made of the Sowhatslocal site, however, Sowhatslocal provides the Sowhatslocal Services with the goals of
1.1. ensuring security, reliability and privacy of the Sowhatslocal Services and the users of the Sowhatslocal Services;
1.2. maintaining an image and reputation of Sowhatslocal as a responsible provider of the services described above; and
1.3. encouraging the responsible use of the Sowhatslocal Services and prohibit any degrading, libelous, racist, content deemed not to be in good taste or illegal uses.
1.4. Sowhatslocal will use its reasonable endeavours to act on information that is not deemed reasonably appropriate, when found, but Sowhatslocal does not take any responsibility for the posting of inappropriate information, for example and without limitation, foul language and obscene pictures or content
Consequently, Sowhatslocal expects you, and all other users of the Sowhatslocal Services, to use them with courtesy and responsibility.
Violation of these usage guidelines is strictly prohibited and may result in the immediate termination of the Sowhatslocal Services you receive from Sowhatslocal. You remain solely liable and responsible for your use of the Sowhatslocal Services and any and all content that you display, upload, download or transmit through the use of the Sowhatslocal Services.
Indirect or attempted violations of these usage guidelines, and actual or attempted violations by a third party on your behalf, are deemed to be violations of the usage guidelines by you.
2. Illegal or harmful use
You may use the Sowhatslocal Services only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution, sale, or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or these usage guidelines is strictly prohibited.
Sowhatslocal reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to restrict or prohibit any and all uses of the Sowhatslocal Services or content in your advertisements and to remove any materials from its servers as it considers at its sole discretion to be harmful to its servers, systems, network, reputation, good will, other Sowhatslocal customers, or any third party. Examples of such material include, without limitation, any material that falls within the following categories:
Infringement
Material which is an infringement of intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights including, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights used without proper authorization from the copyright owner and Sowhatslocal. Infringement may result from, among other activities, the unauthorized copying and posting of pictures, logos, registered trade marks, slogans, software, articles, musical works, and videos.
Offensive Materials
Material which constitutes the transmission, dissemination, sale, storage or hosting of any material that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, racist, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.
Harmful Content
Material which constitutes the dissemination or hosting of harmful content including, without limitation, viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other computer programming routines that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, program, data or personal information.
Fraudulent Conduct
Material which offers or disseminates fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions (for example and without limitation, make money fast schemes, chain letters, pyramid schemes), or the furnishing of false data on any signup forms, contracts or online applications or registrations, or the fraudulent use of any information obtained through the use of the Sowhatslocal Services, including, without limitation, the use of credit card numbers.
3. System and network security and integrity
Violations of Sowhatslocal’s or any third party’s server, system or network security through the use of the Sowhatslocal Services are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Sowhatslocal may, at its sole discretion, investigate incidents involving such violations. Sowhatslocal may involve and cooperate with any law enforcement agency if a criminal violation is reasonably suspected. Examples of server, system or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:
Hacking
Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems, server or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system, server or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system, server or network.
Interception
Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network, server, or system, without express authorization of the owner of the system, server, or network.
Intentional Interference
Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, news bombing, other flooding techniques, deliberate attempts to overload a system, broadcast attacks and any activity resulting in the crash of a host. Intentional interference also includes, without limitation, the use of any kind of program/script/command, or send messages of any kind, designed to interfere with a user’s terminal session, via any means, locally or by the Internet.
Falsification of Origin
Forging of any TCP-IP packet header, e-mail header or any part of a message header. This prohibition includes the use of aliases or anonymous remailers.
Avoiding System Restrictions
Using manual or electronic means to avoid any use limitations placed on the Sowhatslocal Services such as timing out.
Failure to Safeguard Accounts
Failing to prevent unauthorized access to accounts, including any account passwords.
4. E-mail
You may not distribute, publish, or send any of the following types of e-mail:
4.1. Unsolicited promotions, advertising or solicitations (commonly referred to as “spam”), including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements, except to those who have explicitly requested such e-mails.
4.2. Commercial promotions, advertising, solicitations, or informational announcements that contain false or misleading information in any form.
4.3. Harassing e-mail, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages.
4.4. Chain letters.
4.5. Malicious e-mail, including without limitation “mailbombing” (flooding a user or Web site with very large or numerous pieces of mail) or “trolling” (posting outrageous messages to generate numerous responses).
4.6. E-mails containing forged or falsified information in the header (including sender name and routing information), or any other forged or falsified information.
In addition, you may not use Sowhatslocal’s mail server or another website’s mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the account holder or the website. Posting the same or similar message to one or more newsgroups (excessive cross-posting or multiple-posting) also is explicitly prohibited.