RAIL - Back On Track Terms Of Use - Rules

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TERMS OF USE

RAIL - Back On Track provides information on its website "www.backontrack.org" and associated services eg. message board, in good faith. The services provided on this website are provided "as is" and without warranty.

RAIL - Back On Track does not guarantee or make any claims about the quality, accuracy, suitability or completeness of the site. Users should not rely on opinions expressed throughout the site to make any decisions. Every effort is and has been made to ensure that the RAIL - Back On Track website is secure, however there is no guarantee that the site is error free, virus free and accessible at all times.

You may receive a username and password to access certain areas of the RAIL - Back On Track website. It is the responsibility of the user to maintain the confidentiality of both the username and password. RAIL - Back On Track is not responsible for any damages caused due to failure of the user to keep confidentiality, for any reason.

In no event will the administrators, volunteers and participants be liable to any party for damages occurred through the use of the RAIL - Back On Track website.

RAIL - Back On Track abides by the law in Australia in relation to online activities. Users must ensure that they are aware of any local laws which might be applicable to their usage of the site. RAIL - Back On Track does not represent that all content is appropriate for all legal jurisdictions.

While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators, or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator, moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

This forum system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you have entered above; they serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. The e-mail address is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one).

No liability is entered into, or imputed by participants at RAIL - Back On Track.

Multiple user accounts by the same person are not permitted at RAIL - Back On Track. If you have a problem with accessing your account, please do not just re-register, email admin@backontrack.org for assistance.

Advertising on this board is not permitted, and posts incorporating such will be removed without notice unless approved by admin prior to posting. Registrations for advertising purposes will be deleted.
Commonsense and courtesy do go a long way however! Thanks for your cooperation!!

Do not post copyrighted material on this board. If you wish to discuss material that is copyrighted, you can post the URL of the material. Short excerpts (a paragraph or so), properly referenced to source are considered as fair dealing.

No participant shall use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this site and services, or take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of this site and/or servers.

RAIL - Back On Track Admin may remove or refuse to accept a user's registration at any time. RAIL - Back On Track admin may terminate this service at any time.

All forums are closely monitored here at RAIL - Back On Track. If threatening or illegal activity is detected this is notified promptly to law enforcement agencies. Participants are urged to contact admin/moderators if they feel in anyway uncomfortable with any communications, your privacy and confidence is always respected.

RAIL - Back On Track is privately funded and resourced. Donations are neither solicited nor expected. Your time is precious enough.  Administration has no commercial connections with any railway.  We are just concerned citizens.  Administration has no connections with any political party.

User agreements/Terms of Service may seem prescriptive and harsh, but they are only there to do deal with the odd troll and other folk that seek to disrupt. Please join in here, the water is fine!

Except where otherwise explicitly authorised, any material on this website which may be construed as electoral comment under any State or Commonwealth Law is authorised by Robert Dow, 13 Storr Cct Goodna Qld 4300.

Updated: 19 August 2006

Updated: 27 June 2011