Acceptable Use Policy

Please print a copy of this agreement, read it carefully and keep it somewhere safe.

This community website has been developed as an information source for the local community. Most of the website is available to anyone, but some of the interactive services such as the Discussion Forums and Market Place are only available to registered members who require a login to the website.

Anyone can apply for a website login by following the links on the Homepage through ‘Login’.

Members must use these facilities and services responsibly and with sensitivity to others and by signing this agreement you are making a promise to do this.

Do not let anyone else use your login name and password to access the website.

Some material on the Internet is protected by copyright, trademark or statutes and laws which protect the creator of that material. Transmission, distribution, or storage of other people's information, data, or material is therefore illegal. If you are in any doubt about any material you want to transmit via the website, please contact us.

We reserve the right to remove, at our discretion any material transmitted via the website facilities which could be considered unlawful, defamatory, abusive, threatening, obscene, hateful, could encourage a criminal offence or could otherwise violate local, national or international laws. Again, if you are in any doubt about any material, please contact us and ask.

To ensure that the above conditions are complied with, connections to the website will be recorded. If it is suspected that someone is contravening the ‘Acceptable Use Agreement’ described here, that person's usage of the website will be monitored and if found to be unacceptable, further access to the website will be denied.

For research purposes, records will be kept to identify general patterns of website usage, eg. number of people using the local information services, number of people logging on per week, etc. Research data will not be kept on any individual's usage of the website. By signing this agreement you accept that we will conduct anonymous statistical research about website usage.

Members must abide by the rules of acceptable use outlined in this agreement. You must understand that should any of you not comply with these rules we can discontinue any services provided through the website.