IVMP blog content guidelines

The aim of the IVMP blog is to provide and discuss the most current information about integrated vegetation management issues, solutions and research.

Comments
All comments offered in the spirit of civil conversation are welcome!

Promotional content
Promoting a business, product, or service is permitted, but only if the promotional content is valuable to the about integrated vegetation management. Whether promotional content is valuable is entirely our discretion. As a content contributor you are asked to visibly disclose any commercial relationship you have with the promoted business, product or service. This includes, but is not limited to payment, reciprocal advertising agreements, conflicts of interest, or other non-consumer relationships.

Unacceptable content
Commercial spam, obscenity and other rude behavior are not tolerated and will be removed.

You may not use our blog for personal attacks, defamation, harassment, spam, offensive content, inappropriately aggressive behaviour, spam, or any illegal activities. Any material you post or works you create on the site (hereafter “Content”) may not be illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable. We reserve the right to delete any in appropriate content.

Content ownership
By posting or contributing Content you are granting IVMP a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your content and hidden electronic data, including, without limitation, the rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.

Account responsibility
You are responsible for all content posted and activity that occurs under your account (even when content is posted by others who have access to your account). Please guard your account password diligently!

Misrepresentation
You shall not misrepresent yourself or take on the identity of someone else while using this service. If you feel that someone has misrepresented your identity on the site, please email us (admin@ivmp.com.au) and we'll look into it straightaway!

Privacy
We respect your privacy; we will not sell or rent your email address to anyone.

Removal
We thrive in a spirit of open dialogue and oppose censorship; we reserve the right to request removal of a post if we see or get a report of something which seems to cross the line. If it is not removed, we reserve the right to remove it ourselves.

Off-topic comments
We value and encourage the sense of community and friendship frequently demonstrated in the off-topic comments. As we aim to provide highly focused and relevant discussion, we may remove off-topic comments or comment sub-threads after three replies.

24-hour review period
A post may be removed from the website upon the request of the author within the first twenty-four hours of posting. After twenty-four hours, posts will only be removed or edited at our sole discretion.

Content disclaimer
This disclaimer applies to all content in the blog. The information, advice and content provided is based on our personal and professional experience. This content is, by-and-large, opinion - although we do our best to limit false or misleading information.

We try to err on the side of posting "too much" rather than "too little" material, and thus, you may find content that is heavily opinionated or even dead wrong at times. It's our opinion that it's more valuable to be exposed to content and perspectives of all kinds and thus, we're generally liberal with the blog content we post.

If you have concerns, comments or problems with any of the material you find on the blog, please email admin@ivmp.com.au.