This is a "sample" policy page, intended as a default. Amsterdam sites are encouraged to provide their
own version of the policy page. To do this, set the externalResourcePath in the resources
section of the configuration file to a host directory, then place a file named policy.html
in that directory.
Your messages are your words, and you are responsible for them, as well as your overall behavior as a member of the community. As a member of the community, you agree not to post messages that harass, solicit, threaten, offend, embarrass or impersonate any other person or that disrupt the dialogue in the community, or use this site to do any of the above. In addition, you agree not to post messages that violate other persons' intellectual property, privacy or other rights.
When you post a message to this site, or to any community hosted on this Amsterdam server, you grant the site the right to display your message on the page on which it was posted by you. It may also be displayed on other pages on the site, or be reachable through searches or other means, but it will always and only be here, on this server, and we have no intention of ever reusing, reprinting, or recreating your message anywhere else. You lose no copyright to your words, and you are not beholden to us in any way, shape, or form.
By posting here, you also grant us (the moderator(s) of the conference to which you post, the host and cohost(s) of the community in which that conference is located, or the administrators of the site) the right to remove your message if we choose not to want it here. We do not edit messages, except in extreme cases of messages which include HTML or other characters that damage the usability of the site. We do remove messages that are inappropriate or offensive to the admins. However, in the case of messages or message attachments that contain copyrighted information or data that has been distributed in violation of copyright, we are required by law to delete these messages if and when the legitimate copyright holder contacts us, gives us the name and/or type of information that was posted and the location it was posted to on this site, and requests that it be removed. This policy is the direct result of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and neither this site nor the Amsterdam team is responsible for this law or its effects.
The administrators of this site are not responsible for the accuracy or integrity of the information contained in any messages posted to the site, and will not be held liable for any damages of any kind incurred as the result of any message posted on this site. Some messages and site content may contain links to sites on the Internet and World Wide Web other than this site itself. The administrators are not responsible for the content of these other sites, and will not be held liable for any of their content.
When you create an account on this site, you supply us with certain pieces of personal information, only some of which are required.
One of the most important of those is your E-mail address, which must be a functional Internet E-mail address. This E-mail address is used by us to send a "confirmation number" that confirms that that E-mail box is owned by you before granting you full privileges on the site. We also use it to send you "password reminder" messages at your request. It may also be used by other registered site users to send you "quick E-mail" messages, as a convenience. E-mail may also be sent to all members of a community, or all participants in a conference or topic, by an administrator of the community, conference, or topic; each of these E-mail messages contains these instructions as to how to stop receiving these mass E-mailed notices:
To stop receiving mass E-mailed notices from all Amsterdam community and conference hosts, visit Amsterdam, click on the "Profile" link, check the box labeled "Don't send me mass E-mail from community/conference hosts," and click Update to save this preference.
In no event will we sell, rent, or transfer your E-mail address to any third party, or link your E-mail address to your other personal information, except through our own site (such as on your "user profile" page, if you elect to display it).
Other personal information is only used to form your "user profile" page on the site. We have no way of verifying the accuracy of this information, so you may enter anything you like. Beyond the minimum required information, which is clearly identified on the account creation form, you may fill in the fields or not, at your discretion.
To prevent unauthorized access, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
This site will, in particular, not collect or maintain any personal information from individuals that are known to us to be under the age of 13 years, and we do not design or structure this site to attract anyone under the age of 13 years. Any account that is created by a person that we later determine to be under the age of 13 will be deleted. This policy is a direct consequence of the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and neither this site nor the Amsterdam team is responsible for this law or its effects.
You can access all your account information by logging into the site and clicking on the "Profile" link in the upper bar of the site. You can use the same page to modify, correct, or remove any information in your profile, except that you may not remove any information marked as "required." (You must be logged in to access your profile information.)
The site also logs "audit" information about certain actions that are performed on the site; these audit records contain a timestamp, the user ID of the user performing the operation, the community in which the operation was performed (where applicable), the Internet Protocol (IP) address from which the request originated, and information identifying the specific nature of the audited action. These audit records are accessible only to system administrators, and to community hosts (for actions performed within their community only). They are intended to monitor the site operation and to provide administrators and community hosts with a means of tracking actions that cause permanent modifications to the site or its contents, including modifications that result in loss of data. They may also be used to trace disruptive or malicious users to specific IP addresses.This site uses browser "cookies" for precisely two purposes:
This site does not share these cookies with any other site, and they contain no information which would be meaningful to any other site.