Acceptable Useage Policy

Access to and use of this site (‘aircadetcentral.net’) is provided by ACC subject to the following terms:

Terms of Reference

ACC – Air Cadet Central
ACO – Air Cadet Organisation
ATC – Air Traing Corps
RAF – Royal Air Force

  1. By registering and/or using aircadetcentral.net you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your registration and/or first use of aircadetcentral.net. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use aircadetcentral.net.

  2. ACC may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by ACC. Your continued use of aircadetcentral.net after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of aircadetcentral.net

  1. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use aircadetcentral.net content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any aircadetcentral.net content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of aircadetcentral.net content requires the prior written permission of ACC and/or the original contributor.

  2. You agree to use aircadetcentral.net only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of or restrict/inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of aircadetcentral.net. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within aircadetcentral.net.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

  1. aircadetcentral.net content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to ACC, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided “AS IS” and on an “IS AVAILABLE” basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

  2. Under no circumstances will ACC be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of aircadetcentral.net regardless of the form of action.

  3. Every effort is made to ensure that content on ACC is free of Viruses, Malware and any other bugs but ACC does not warrant that functions contained in aircadetcentral.net content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that aircadetcentral.net or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual Property

  1. The names, images and logos identifying ACC or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of ACC and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of ACC or any other third party.

Contributions to aircadetcentral.net

  1. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to aircadetcentral.net (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant ACC a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in ACC’s Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to ACC the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to aircadetcentral.net.

  2. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to aircadetcentral.net, you:

10.1. warrant that your contribution:
10.1.1. is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to ACC for all the purposes specified above;
10.1.2. is not defamatory; and
10.1.3. does not infringe any law; and
10.2. indemnify ACC against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by ACC as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
10.3. waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on aircadetcentral.net and the purposes specified above.
10.4 Any photographs, images, or video submitted to ACC are to be posted with good intentions and aimed at constructive commentary, not with the aim of harassing, belittling, victimising or otherwise cyber-bullying the person(s) depicted. The moderation team will have the final say on whether a picture is acceptable or not. Any posts breaching these terms will be removed and the poster responsible may have sanctions applied against their account.
10.5 where a photograph is copied from another source, that source shall be credited in accompanying text and, in the case of web based photographs, a link to the original location is to be provided.

aircadetcentral.net Community Rules

  1. You agree to use aircadetcentral.net Communities (including ACC Forums and Wiki) in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all aircadetcentral.net community sites and services. You should, however, read the local house rules of the particular site or service you’re using, as there may be some local variations to these

Community Rules.

12.0 About your posts:

12.1 Contributions must be civil and tasteful.
12.1.1 ACC is viewable and usable by people of all ages, genders, races, religions and locations. Please be mindful of this when posting.
12.2 No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble. This is called Trolling, and will not be tolerated.
12.2.1 ACC is not a place for settling disputes. If you have an issue to resolve do it away from aircadetcentral.net.
12.3 No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable. This includes links to other websites that may hold the aforementioned material.
12.4 Swearing will not be tolerated in any way, shape or form. ACC uses swear filtering to prevent posts contained offensive language. Any attempts to circumvent these filters (ie by using numbers in place of letters or misspelling the word) shall be considered a breach of this AUP and action may be taken again the user.
12.5 If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting the community or annoying other users you may have action taken against all of your accounts.
12.6 Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant aircadetcentral.net community.
12.7 No spamming or off-topic material: we don’t allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions. Please don’t re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
12.8 No editing of moderated comments in your posts - they have been moderated for a reason.
12.9 No advertising.
12.10 Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules. This includes the use of text talk.
12.11 No impersonation.
12.12 No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
12.13 Signatures are limited to four lines of text or equivalent image height. Image dimensions in signatures should be no greater than 1024 pixels wide and 512 pixels high.
12.14 You may not refer to non-cadet specific URLs (web site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant local house rules. If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the discussion topic, please inform the host of the community area.
12.15 Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this action may be taken against your account.
12.16 Moderators decisions are final. If you wish to complain about moderation, in the first instance, contact the moderator directly, then an Admin, and finally @DJRice. Moderating decisions will not be questioned in the open forums as this is not constructive.

Safety:

13 We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself
or anyone else (for example: telephone number, home address or email address), and please do not include postal addresses of any kind. If you have a helpful address to share, inform the host of the relevant community area using the Private Message system, and they will promote it if they see fit.

About the law:

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14.01 You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in aircadetcentral.net communities. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.
14.02 Contributing material with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited. Any content breaching this rule may be handed on to the relevant authority.
14.03 You agree to only submit materials which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.
14.04 The views expressed in aircadetcentral.net community areas are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of ACC, The ACO, the wider RAF or any other organisation.
If you’re under 16:
14.05 Please get a parent’s or guardian’s permission before taking part in any aircadetcentral.net discussion.
14.06 Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).

If you breach these Terms of Use:

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15.01 If you fail to abide by these Community Rules (and/or any variations in the relevant local house rules) when taking part in a aircadetcentral.net Community service, you will be sent an e-mail (or private message in the forums) which informs you why your contribution has been failed or edited. This mail will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.

15.02 This action may include your relevant account or accounts being placed into pre-moderation or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of aircadetcentral.net Community areas.
If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to aircadetcentral.net Communities or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on aircadetcentral.net, and ACC considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, ACC may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school, unit or email provider about the infringement/s.
15.03 ACC reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.

General

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16.01 If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on aircadetcentral.net (including local house rules) then the latter shall prevail.

16.02 If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

16.03 These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

Local House Rules

  1. Local house rules override and apply slight variations to the rules above.

ACC Forums

  1. The forum descriptions contain any specific rules.

ACC Wiki

  1. Articles published at [url=https://forum.aircadetcentral.net/c/acc-wiki[/url] are done so under the GNU FreeDoc Licence

ACC Sponsors

  1. ACC does not endorse any of the products advertised on the site. Additionally advertisers are aware that they may receive negative comment in the forums. Our policy is not to give advertisers any editorial control or protection however users are requested to bear in mind that they help pay for the site and we would prefer to retain their goodwill. Any strong negative comments about an advertiser should be directed to @DJRice via Private Message. Sponsors can be recognised by their forum rank on their user profile.

DJRice

22 Mar 2022

Where can I find a list of the Admins on this site please?

All the information with regards to the forum can be found in the ‘About’ link in the menu at the top right.

Cheers,

DJ