Y.S.A. Sydney Inc. Content Providers Code of Conduct

On-line services available to members of YSA Chapters, such as the World Wide Web, Usenet news, email and ftp allow users to make information available on the Internet. The content of the material made available is subject to this code of conduct.

• You must assume full responsibility for the content of all your material that can be accessed by other Internet users or be otherwise distributed after being accessed through the Internet.

• You must know and observe relevant copyright laws. In particular, if you did not create the material you do not have the right to make that material available unless you have specifically been given permission to do so by the owner of the copyright.

• You must acknowledge and respond to complaints about the content of your material and notify the YSA Computer Systems Manager of any such complaints. This should be done in a prompt and courteous manner. If you cannot resolve a matter to the satisfaction of the complainant, the matter must be referred to the YSA Computer Systems Manager or duly appointed delegate(s), who in consultation with the Computer Systems Managers of the Schools of Chemistry and Physics in the University of Sydney, will be the final arbiter of the matter. These persons reserve the right to order you to remove material or modify it accordingly.

• You must not make available material which:
  1. would be refused classification under the existing classification regime applying in NSW, Australia, including child pornography, excessively violent material, material containing extreme sexual violence and material that promotes, incites or instructs in matters of crime or violence;
  2. vilifies people, particularly on the basis of race, gender, sexual preference or disability;
  3. is an improper intrusion into people's privacy, or is an improper disclosure of personal information;
  4. is defamatory;
  5. is not in keeping with the Objectives or Rules of YSA Sydney Inc., (as lodged with the NSW Dept of Fair Trading) or any other policies of YSA Sydney Inc.

• If your material is likely to offend sections of the community it should not be published in such a manner that it could be accessed unwittingly without a warning being provided as to the nature of the material. Nor should you have links from any material that would lead to other material that could offend, without first providing a warning that describes the nature of the material that the link leads to. You should use the National Classification Code for Publications as developed by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) for guidance when assessing the need for your material to carry warnings.

A copy of the National Classification Code for Publications as developed by the Office of Film and Literature Classification is provided for your reference.

As part of the Acceptable Use Policy you are also required to agree to the Content Providers Code of Conduct.