MEDDICC Community Platform User Guidelines

Last Updated: 5th August 2024

Welcome to our community! Our goal is to create a supportive and engaging environment for all users. By joining and using our community, you agree that you have read and will follow these guidelines. You must comply with these standards in spirit as well as to the letter.

We may amend these user guidelines from time to time. Please check these user guidelines regularly to ensure you understand the terms that apply at the relevant time.

1. Be Respectful and Courteous

• Treat everyone with respect. Personal attacks, harassment, or inflammatory comments are not tolerated. Do not use our community to bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person. 
• Approach discussions with an open mind and consider other viewpoints respectfully.
• Encourage and support other members of the community. 
• Extend the benefit of the doubt to newer users; there is no such thing as a stupid question.
• All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited. Do not post anything that you would not want the world to see or that you would not want anyone to know came from you.
• Provide constructive, helpful feedback when contributing to discussions.
• See the section entitled User Content Standards below for further information about the standards we expect.

2. Stay On-Topic

• Keep discussions relevant to the purpose of the community and the specific forum or thread.
• State concisely and clearly the topic of your comments in the subject line. This allows users to respond more appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for users to search the archives by subject.
• Avoid off-topic posts that do not contribute to the ongoing conversation.

3. Protect Privacy

• Do not share other users' personal information without their consent.
• Be cautious about sharing your own personal information. 
• Please see our privacy policy at https://meddicc.com/privacy-policy for more information about how MEDDICC collect, use and store your personal data.

4. No Spam or Self-Promotion

• Refrain from posting unsolicited advertisements or promotional content (spam).
• Share resources and links that contribute to the community, but self-promotion is not permitted and will be removed.  However any such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them as we have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

5. Community Rules

You may not use our community:

• In any way that breaches any local, national or international law or regulation.
• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, share, post, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards as set out in these user guidelines.
• To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

6. Respect Intellectual Property

• Post content that you have personally created or have permission to use only. Give proper credit when sharing resources created by others.
• Do not share pirated content or encourage any form of intellectual property theft.

7. User Content Standards

User content:

• Must be accurate (where it states facts).
• Only contain opinions that are genuinely held.
• Must comply with the law applicable in any country from which it is posted and to which the website is targeted.

User content must not:

• Be defamatory of any person.
• Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
• Include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of persons under the age of 18.
• Be likely to deceive any person.
• Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
• Contain illegal content or promote any illegal content or activity.
• Be in contempt of court.
• Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Give the impression that the user content emanates from MEDDICC Ltd if this is not the case.
• Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
• Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
• Be pornographic.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our community if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the acceptable use standards set out in these user guidelines.

Your warranty

You warrant that any such content contribution complies with the above standards, and you are liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Rights you give us to use your content

We will consider any content you upload to our site to be non-confidential and not protected by any trade mark, patent or copyright, that is, in the public domain. You own your content, but when you upload or post content to our community, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the community and our other products and services and across different media including to promote our community and our products and services.

8. Liability

• Our community is provided as a service for subscribers and authorised users of our services.
• We do not guarantee that our community, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our community for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
• You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our community through your internet connection are aware of these user guidelines and other applicable terms of service, and that they comply with them.
• We are not responsible for the opinions and information posted on our community by others. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values. We disclaim all warranties with regard to information posted on the community, whether posted by MEDDICC Ltd or any third party; this disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall MEDDICC Ltd be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of any information posted on the community.

9. Moderation 

• Use the built-in tools to report inappropriate posts or behaviour.
• If you notice any violations of these guidelines, report them to the moderators or contact support@meddicc.com.
• Moderators reserve the right to delete any post that does not adhere to these guidelines.
• Questions about moderation decisions should be directed privately to moderators.
• You agree that you are solely responsible for your interactions with any other user in connection with the community and the services, and Meddicc Ltd will have no liability or responsibility with respect thereto. We have no obligation, to become involved in any way with disputes between you and any other user of the community and/or the services.

10. Consequences for Failing to Adhere to Guidelines:

By participating in this community, you agree to follow these guidelines and accept the consequences of any violations.

Breaking these user guidelines can result in:

• Warnings issued by moderators.
• Temporary suspension from the community.
• Permanent banning from the community.

We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether any user had breached these community user guidelines and the consequence which shall apply.

Thank you for being a part of our community! We appreciate your adherence to these guidelines in helping us build a positive and collaborative environment for all.

MEDDICC Ltd