Terms and Conditions

SkinTalk Online Community Terms and Conditions

Community Rules & Etiquette

Thank you for being part of our SkinTalk Online Community (Community). To ensure the best possible experience for all members, the Skin Cancer College Australasia Limited (ACN 155 488 467) (SCCA) has established these terms and conditions for participation (Terms and Conditions).

This is a great Community with which to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, and participate in an ongoing conversation. By joining or using this Community, you agree that you have read and will follow these Terms and Conditions. You also agree to reserve discussions and shared files and content to that best suited to this Community.

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important Terms and Conditions. If you have any questions regarding these Terms and Conditions, contact the member services department using the Contact Us page on this site.

In order to preserve an environment that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, we reserve the right to restrict, suspend or terminate your membership in this Community if you violate these Terms and Conditions.

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 enable discussion, exchange ideas, and share successes, challenges, constructive feedback, questions, and goals. If you’ve found a product or service helpful, please share your experience with the group in a respectful way.
  • Do not use the community as a vehicle to promote products, services or events of external organisations without the prior approval of SCCA.
  • Use caution. Information posted on the discussion groups and in the libraries is available for all members to see, and any content you post will be subject to defamation, competition, consumer protection and anti-discrimination laws.
  • Do not discuss active clinical cases. The community is not a consultancy service and cannot offer diagnostic or management advice on active cases. If you are uncertain about the diagnosis or management of a current case, you should refer the patient or seek a second opinion using professionally accepted methods.
  • Preserve and respect patient privacy at all times. Do not post any images, reports, or other information which may allow a patient or a colleague to be identified.
  • Continue to use the Skin Cancer Blog for discussion of closed clinical cases. If you have an interesting case study which may be suitable for the Blog, please send a concise overview of the case to info@skincancercollege.org. 
  • You are responsible for all content you post. All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal comments and materials are strictly prohibited. You may not use the Community to do or share anything that is unlawful, misleading, defamatory, discriminatory, or fraudulent.
  • Respect others’ intellectual property rights. Post only 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 sharing or re-use, or on what conditions the item or content can be shared or used. It’s also advisable to contact the owner of any material if you would like to re-use or share it, and particularly outside of this Community.
  • Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate communities. This helps ensure all messages receive the best response by eliminating "noise."

Please support the Community and report any violations of these Terms and Conditions by selecting the ‘Mark As Inappropriate’ button in the drop down options of the ‘Reply’ button next to a post. Alternatively, you can contact us by email at info@skincancercollege.org. SCCA monitors the site for inappropriate content on business days, however there is a reliance on the community to support this. If any inappropriate content is brought to the attention of SCCA we will take appropriate action. SCCA can remove content that violates these Terms and Conditions.

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 re‑join under your new email address. Simply change your settings.

The Legal Stuff

This site is provided as a service by SCCA for its members.  SCCA is not responsible for the content, including opinions and information, posted on this site by you or other members.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, SCCA and its employees and agents, will under no circumstances be liable to any member for any damages whatsoever, including any special, indirect, or consequential damages, 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.

SCCA is not responsible for any representations made by third parties in the Community, including representations as to acceptable quality and fitness for purpose.

Content should not be posted if it encourages or facilitates members to make or give effect to a contract, arrangement or understanding that either expressly or impliedly relates to price fixing, restricting outputs in the production and supply chain, allocating customers, suppliers or territories, bid-rigging, boycotting of another's business, or other any other conduct that substantially lessens competition. Content that encourages or facilitates a contract, arrangement or understanding about the following subjects are inappropriate: patient billing; prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of sale; salaries; profits, profit margins, or cost data; market shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers, suppliers or territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or suppliers.

As the Rules state, you must not post any defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials, nor can you use the Community to do or share anything that is unlawful, misleading, defamatory, discriminatory, or fraudulent.

SCCA reiterates that, although it does not actively monitor the site for inappropriate content nor exercise any editorial control over content posted in the Community, it will take appropriate action if any inappropriate content is brought to its attention, including removing such content.

The Community and this website are protected under Australian and international copyright and other laws governing protection of intellectual property (IP) rights. IP rights in images, trade marks and other content on the Community or this website are owned by SCCA or our licensors.

Do not use, share or post any information or other material protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright owner. By posting material, you warrant and represent that you own the copyright with respect to such material or have received permission from the copyright owner. In addition, you grant to SCCA and users of this site a perpetual, non-exclusive and royalty-free right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material.

SCCA reserves the right to terminate access to any user who does not abide by these Terms and Conditions. If you breach these Terms and Conditions, then in addition to any other remedies we may have, you will be responsible for all duties, charges and legal fees (on an indemnity basis) we incur in enforcing our rights.

Downtime and Limitations

Access to the Community may occasionally be limited due to scheduled maintenance. Availability and access to the Community relies on various factors outside SCCA’s control, including, without limitation, your internet service provider, telecommunications provider or equipment used to access the Community.

While we will use reasonable endeavours to ensure you have continuous access to the Community, SCCA will not be liable to you or any other person for any claim or to any other extent for loss or damage caused by such factors. You will have no claim against SCCA in respect of loss of access to or functionality of the Community.

Privacy of personal information

Any personal information you provide in the Community, including and similar to your name, telephone number and e-mail address, will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

External Sites

The Community may provide links or references to external websites for your convenience. We do not control or endorse these websites, and are not responsible or liable to you for the accuracy, legality, or any other aspect of the content of external internet sites or for any damage or injury arising in connection with your access to such websites. You should read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.

Remember the Risks whenever you use the Internet

While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition, other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through our site have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.

For any other information please contact us using the Contact Us page.

Jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Queensland, Australia.

Collection Notice Statement - SkinTalk Online Forum

Skin Cancer College Australasia Limited (ACN 155 488 467) (SCCA) is committed to protecting the privacy of individuals and their personal information and complies with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).  Please read this carefully as it will have important consequences for you in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information you provide to SCCA. 

You understand that:

  1. SCCA is the party who is collecting your personal information and can be contacted using the Contact Us form or alternatively you can write to us at info@skincancercollege.org.
  2. Where possible, SCCA will collect your personal information directly from you. In certain circumstances, SCCA may be required to collect personal information from third parties, depending on the nature of your enquiry.
  3. The purpose of SCCA collecting your personal information is to provide you with access to our SkinTalk online forum, and you acknowledge and agree to your personal information being collected and used for, and in connection with, this purpose and any other purpose described in our Privacy Policy.
  4. If we do not collect this personal information in connection with the purposes in paragraph 3, then: you will be unable to access the SkinTalk Online Forum; SCCA will be unable process any enquiry or complaint, or supply you with information; and we will be unable to send you direct marketing communications (unless you have consented to such communications through your other dealings with SCCA).
  5. Your personal information being disclosed to the following classes of people and organisations in connection with the purposes in paragraph 3: SCCA, its personnel and related entities; third party service providers including without limitation marketing service providers, IT service providers and other parties who assist us in providing our products and services to you; and any other organisation as expressly covered in our Privacy Policy.
  6. It is possible some of the information collected for use of the SkinTalk Online Forum may be disclosed to SCCA’s related body corporate or service providers outside of Australia. You consent to your information being disclosed to a destination outside Australia for this purpose, including but not limited to the United States of America and you understand and acknowledge that Australian Privacy Principle 8.1 will not apply to such disclosures of your personal information.
  7. SCCA’s Privacy Policy sets out the process as to how you can access and correct any of your personal information collected under this form as well as to how you can make a complaint if SCCA has breached the Privacy Act in the handling of your personal information. SCCA’s Privacy Policy is available at www.skincancercollege.org/privacy-policy/ or can be otherwise provided by requesting a copy from SCCA.


By registering your account on SkinTalk Forum, you confirm that you have read our Collection Notice Statement above and acknowledge that Skin Cancer College Australasia will collect, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with that Collection Notice Statement and as otherwise detailed in our Privacy Policy at skincancercollege.org and, to the extent it is necessary, that you give you voluntary express consent to Skin Cancer College Australasia collecting, using, storing, disclosing and disposing of your personal information in this manner.



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