In using this website you are deemed to have read and agreed to the following terms and conditions:

Definitions

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and any or all Agreements:

  • "user", “you” and “your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting these terms and conditions.
  • "Channel Sea Farms", “ourselves”, “we” and "us", refers to the Channel Sea Farms team as the owners and operators of this website and persons appointed pro tempore by us to undertake activities relating to services operating from this website including, for example, moderating the discussion forum (the "forum").
  • “party”, “parties”, or “us”, refers to both the user and ourselves, or either the user or ourselves.

Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalisation and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

General

Please carefully review the following basic rules that govern your use of the website. Your use of this website constitutes your unconditional agreement to follow and be bound by these Terms and Conditions of Use. If you do not agree to them, do not use the website, provide any materials to the website or download any materials from the website.

These Terms and Conditions of Use apply to the use of the website and do not extend to any linked third party sites. These Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy, which are hereby incorporated by reference, contain the entire agreement (the “Agreement”) between the parties with respect to the website. Any rights not expressly granted here are reserved.

We reserve the right to update or modify these Terms and Conditions at any time without prior notice to you. Your use of the website following any such change constitutes your unconditional agreement to follow and be bound by these Terms and Conditions as changed. For this reason, we encourage you to review these Terms and Conditions of Use whenever you use the website.

We provide this website as a public service to our users.

Permitted and Prohibited Uses

You may use the website for the purpose of sharing and exchanging ideas with other users.

You may not use the website to violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law, including without limitation any applicable laws relating to antitrust or other illegal trade or business practices, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, any Australian laws, rules, and regulations governing the export and re-export of technical data

You may not upload or transmit any material that infringes or misappropriates any person's copyright, patent, trademark, or trade secret, or disclose via the the website any information the disclosure of which would constitute a violation of any confidentiality obligations you may have.

You may not upload any computer code that is intended to maliciously affect the normal operations of this website, nor subject the website's network or servers to unreasonable traffic loads, or otherwise engage in conduct deemed disruptive to the ordinary operation of the website.

You are expressly prohibited from using this website as a carrier service for the storage, propagation and/or transmission of software that is intentionally designed to be harmful to other users' software assets.

You are strictly prohibited from communicating on or through the website any unlawful, harmful, offensive, threatening, abusive, libellous, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful, fraudulent, sexually explicit, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable material of any sort, including, but not limited to, any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law.

You are expressly prohibited from compiling and using other users' personal information, including addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses or other contact information that may appear on the website, for the purpose of creating or compiling marketing and/or mailing lists and from sending other users unsolicited marketing materials, whether by facsimile, email or other means.

You also are expressly prohibited from distributing users' personal information to third-party parties for marketing purposes. We shall deem the compiling of marketing and mailing lists using users' personal information, the sending of unsolicited marketing materials to users, or the distribution of users' personal information to third parties for marketing purposes as a material breach of these Terms and Conditions of Use, and we reserve the right to terminate or suspend your access to and use of the website and to suspend or determine, with prejudice, any pecuniary or other interest that you may hold.

We note that unauthorised use of users' personal information in connection with unsolicited marketing correspondence also may constitute violations of various state and federal anti-spam statutes. We reserve the right to report the abuse of users' personal information to the appropriate law enforcement and government authorities, and we will fully cooperate with any authorities investigating violations of these laws.

User Contributions

We do not solicit confidential or proprietary information from you through the website and any material, information, or other communication you transmit or post ("contributions") to the website will be considered non-confidential.

Considering the dynamic nature of the community, it is impossible for us to review or confirm the genuineness of user contributions posted on this website. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or usefulness of any user contribution posted in the forum or elsewhere on this website and we are not responsible for the contents or privacy of any message. Forum contributions express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily our views. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless in respect of any claim based upon transmission of your contributions.

You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display any contribution you make including, but not limited, to your account name, and any personally identifiable information you post.

Forum Code of Conduct

We may, but are under no obligation to, monitor or review any areas on the website where users transmit or post communications or communicate solely with each other, including but not limited to user forums and email lists, and the content of any such communications. We have no liability related to the content of such communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise.

We may edit or remove content on the website at our discretion at any time.

Except where specifically provided, all messages posted on this forum can be best written in the English language.

If you have reason to believe that any material posted on the forum contravenes these Terms of Use, you may report such matters to the forum moderators.  We are under no obligation to acknowledge or take any action based on these reports.  Please use the "report to moderator" feature wisely; frivolous use or, in our opinion, abuse of this feature may result in the suspension or termination of your account.