Community Rules & Etiquette and Privacy Guidelines
Thank you for being part of our community. To ensure the best possible experience for all members, we have established some basic guidelines for participation.
By joining and using this community, you agree that you have read and will follow these rules and guidelines. You also agree to reserve discussions and shared files and content to that best suited to the medium. This is a great medium with which to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, and participate in an ongoing conversation. Questions should be directed to our member services department via the Contact Us link on this site.
Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important guidelines. If you have questions, contact the member services department. In order to preserve an environment that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership in this community for anyone who violate these rules.
The Rules
- Respect others. Focus on the content of posts and not on the people making them. Please extend the benefit of the doubt to newer guests and members; there’s no such thing as a stupid question.
- Respect the purpose of the community. Use the community to share successes, challenges, constructive feedback, questions, and goals instead of products or services that you provide. If you’ve found a product or service helpful, please share your experience with the group in a respectful way.
- Use caution when discussing products. Information posted on the discussion groups and in the libraries is available for all to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.
- All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited. Do not post anything that you would not want the world to see or that you would not want anyone to know came from you.
- Respect intellectual property. Post content that you have personally created or have permission to use and have properly attributed to the content creator.
- When posting items in our collaborative environment, please indicate if the item is not available for reuse. It’s also advisable to contact the owner of any material if you would like to reuse it.
- Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate communities. This helps ensure all messages receive the best response by eliminating "noise."
Discussion Group Etiquette
- State concisely and clearly the topic of your comments in the subject line. This allows members to respond more appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for members to search the archives by subject.
- Send messages such as "thanks for the information" or "me, too" to individuals, not to the entire list. Do this by using the "Reply to Sender" link in every message.
- Do not send administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” to the group. Instead, use the web interface to change your settings or to remove yourself from a list. If you are changing email addresses, you do not need to remove yourself from the list and rejoin under your new email address. Simply change your settings.
Legal, Privacy, and Security Notices and Disclaimers
This site is provided as a service for the members of IBTTA. IBTTA is not responsible for the opinions and information posted on this site by others. We disclaim all warranties with regard to information posted on this site, whether posted by IBTTA or any third party; this disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall IBTTA be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of any information posted on this site.
Do not post any defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials. Do not post any information or other material protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright owner. By posting material, the posting party warrants and represents that he or she owns the copyright with respect to such material or has received permission from the copyright owner. In addition, the posting party grants IBTTA and users of this site the nonexclusive right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material.
Messages should not be posted if they encourage or facilitate members to arrive at any agreement that either expressly or impliedly leads to price fixing, a boycott of another's business, or other conduct intended to illegally restrict free trade. Messages that encourage or facilitate an agreement about the following subjects are inappropriate: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of sale; salaries; profits, profit margins, or cost data; market shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or suppliers.
IBTTA does not actively monitor the site for inappropriate postings and does not on its own undertake editorial control of postings. However, in the event that any inappropriate posting is brought to the attention of IBTTA we will take all appropriate action.
IBTTA reserves the right to terminate access to any user who does not abide by these guidelines.
Legal, Privacy, and Security Notices and Disclaimers
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Ownership
This website is protected by the United States and foreign copyright laws. All images and information contained in the website are, to the extent possible, copyrighted and otherwise proprietary. IBTTA trademarks and service marks displayed on this site are the exclusive property of IBTTA. Content may not be reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of IBTTA, except that users may download pages or other content for their own personal use on a single computer, but no part of such content may be otherwise or subsequently reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, or transferred, in any form or by any means, except with the prior written agreement of, and with express attribution to, IBTTA.
Disclaimer
The information contained in this website is presented in good faith and believed to be correct. However, IBTTA makes no warranty or representation, express or implied, that the information contained or referenced herein is accurate or complete. IBTTA shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, compensatory, or punitive damages resulting from the use, access, or inability to use this information, nor shall IBTTA be liable or responsible in any way for possible errors or omissions in the contents hereof, or for damages of any nature whatsoever resulting from the use of or reliance upon information contained herein.
Nothing in this website is to be construed as a recommendation to use any product, process, equipment or formulation, or as an endorsement, certification or approval of any product, service, or company, unless specifically stated to the contrary by IBTTA.
Links
IBTTA makes no representations and provides no warranties whatsoever concerning third party sites. The fact that IBTTA has provided a link to a third party site does not constitute an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship or affiliation by IBTTA with respect to such third party site or its owners or providers or any products or services mentioned or offered at the third party site. IBTTA expressly disclaims any responsibility for the content, the accuracy of the information and/or quality of products or services provided by, advertised on, or sold through, all third party sites.
Privacy
IBTTA collects and utilizes different kinds of information from users of the website.
Like most websites, this one uses “cookies” for several legitimate purposes. These include remembering user IDs and passwords and differentiating between repeat and new users. It is the policy of IBTTA that data generated by cookies is used for internal purposes only (e.g., to improve the site and site-related services for users). The data compiled via cookies is considered confidential and will not be sold to entities outside of the organization.
IBTTA may ask for your address, phone number and/or email address when you place an order for a product or service, when you complete a survey, register for a conference, apply for membership, or on other occasions. In each case, the objective is to have your contact information so that IBTTA can serve you better. From time to time, IBTTA may use your address, phone number or email address to provide updates and other information that may be of interest to you. The email addresses of those who communicate via email and who register through the site are collected, but IBTTA does not currently sell any email addresses to any third party.
IBTTA may aggregate information on what pages users access, and this information is used to enhance online offerings information and services.
IBTTA also collects information volunteered by users, such as survey information and/or site registrations. This information is kept confidential and, again, is used for internal purposes.
Security
IBTTA has taken reasonable precautions to ensure that your transactions and personal information are safe. Your transactions with IBTTA are protected by Verisign 128 Bit SSL certificate, which is currently the highest industry-standard encryption system used across the Web.
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It is a system, which exists partly in your Internet browser and partly on our Web server computer. It encrypts (or encodes) your signals before sending them to our system using a special algorithm that is unique to IBTTA. We use the latest 128-bit encryption technology to ensure that your information is sufficiently scrambled.
For any other information please contact us using the Contact Us page.