GUIDELINES FOR MEMBERS

INWASCON Professionals are to exhibit the highest standards of competency, honesty, integrity, and impartiality; and are fair and equitable; and accept a personal responsibility for adherence to applicable laws, the protection of the environment, and safeguarding the public welfare in their professional actions and behavior. These principles govern professional conduct in serving the interests of the public, clients, employers, colleagues, and the profession.

INWASCON promotes an environment free from inappropriate behavior and harassment by or toward its staff and members. Members, staff, contractors, suppliers, and customers are expected to treat each other with respect. This global policy applies to all locations and situations where INWASCON conducts operations, including all INWASCON -sponsored activities and events, and covers all officers, directors, and other INWASCON members.

INWASCON Connect Guidelines

• Be positive, constructive and respectful. 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.
• Keep your messages succinct. Avoid lengthy and repetitive posts.
• Ensure your posts are relevant to the topic at hand.
• Non-INWASCON event posts are strictly prohibited.
• Only geographic and technical sections may post technical / geographic section events on their sites. For further information, speak to the officers of the sections. Do not promote directly on a discussion board.
• Avoid posting commercial messages. Contact people directly with product and service information if you believe it would help them.
• Use caution when discussing products. Information can be available for anyone in that community to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.
• Remember that other participants have the right to reproduce postings to this site unless you specify otherwise.
• Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate discussions or libraries. Do not spam several communities with the same message unless it is relevant them. All messages must add to the body of knowledge being shared within that community.
• Head-hunter notices or requests for employment are strictly prohibited.
• If the community is working on a document for INWASCON purposes, material in that document may be distributed only to the authors, editors, reviewers, and INWASCON staff working on the project.
• INWASCON reserves the right to reject any post for any reason.
• Posting a listing of contact details of the members of any community is strictly prohibited and violates INWASCON’s privacy policy.

• State concisely and clearly the topic of your post 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.
• Only send a message to the entire community when it contains information that everyone can benefit from.
• Send messages such as “thanks for the information” or “me, too” to individuals–not to the entire community.
• Do not send administrative messages, such as “Remove me from the community“. If you are changing e-mail addresses, you do not need to remove yourself from the community and rejoin under your new e-mail address.

The INWASCON name and logo and all INWASCON related trade names, design marks, tag lines and slogans are the Intellectual Property of INWASCON, and you may not use such without the prior written consent of INWASCON. All other product and service marks contained herein are the marks of their respective owners and may not be used without the prior written consent of such owners. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as granting to you or any user of this Website any license to or ownership rights in any Intellectual Property or other legal right of INWASCON or any third party.

INWASCON prohibits the posting, display, transmission, sharing, emailing, embedding, making available, or otherwise use in this nature of content that infringes the Intellectual Property rights of another person or party. In the event that a third party provides INWASCON with a notification of any alleged Intellectual Property infringement, SPEI INWASCON may immediately remove such content and may block access to and cancel such user’s registration. In addition, in the event of an alleged copyright infringement, INWASCON shall act expeditiously in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and will take steps to have the allegedly infringing material removed or access to such blocked.