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Blog Acceptable Use Policy
The intent of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Acceptable Use Policy is to create a positive environment where people are able to publicly contribute their views to the listening tour blog, without fear of abuse or harassment or exposure to offensive or otherwise inappropriate content.
When contributing your views to this blog, please ensure that you:
- do post material to the forum that is relevant to the issues currently being consulted on;
- do protect your personal privacy and that of others by not including personal information of about yourself or about others in your posts to the blog, (such as names, email addresses, private addresses or phone numbers);
- do represent your own views and not impersonate or falsely represent any other person;
- do not be abusive, harass or threaten others;
- do not post anything which:
- racially or religiously vilifies others,
- incites, induces or aids violence, discrimination, harassment, victimisation or hatred towards others, or
- is likely to offend, insult or humiliate others, particularly on the basis of their race, colour, descent, national origin, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or any disability;
- do not make defamatory or libellous comments;
- do not use insulting, provocative or hateful language;
- do not use obscene or offensive language;
- do not post material to the blog that infringes the intellectual property rights of others;
- do not post multiple versions of the same view to the blog;
- do not promote commercial interests in your posts to the blog; and
Posts that do not comply (or do not appear to comply) with the above points will not be posted on the forum or may be removed.
Your personal information and privacy
By posting onto the ‘Listening Tour’ blog, or emailing us, you will be supplying us with ‘personal information’.
We collect this in case we want to contact you to get permission to use your comments in a report and/or to add you to the mailing list if you request to do so (optional). As part of the posting process, blog contributors will also be invited to provide certain demographic information (optional). This information is collected in order to evaluate the extent to which various demographic groups are accessing the blog.
Your personal information submitted for the ‘Listening Tour’ blog will only be used in the context of the Listening Tour and for related activities/purposes.
For further details, see the Commission’s Privacy Policy.
Copyright
By posting onto the ‘Listening Tour’ blog, you grant the Commission permission to include your post on its website and to permit others to reproduce your post subject to the terms of the Commission’s Copyright Notice.