National Conversation about Work

Blog Acceptable Use Policy

The intent of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission’s Acceptable Use Policy is to create a positive environment where people are able to publicly contribute their views to the National Conversation about work blog, without fear of abuse or harassment or exposure to offensive or otherwise inappropriate content.

When contributing your views to this blog, please ensure that you:

• do post material to the blog that is relevant to the issues currently being consulted on;
• do not post multiple versions of the same view to the blog;
• do protect your personal privacy and that of others by not including personal information of about yourself or about others in your posts to the blog, (such as names, email addresses, private addresses or phone numbers);
• do represent your own views and not impersonate or falsely represent any other person;
• do not be abusive, harass or threaten others;
• do not post anything which:
  racially or religiously vilifies others, incites, induces or aids violence, discrimination, harassment, victimisation or hatred towards others, or is likely to offend, insult or humiliate others, particularly on the basis of their race, colour, descent, national origin, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or any disability;
• do not make defamatory or libellous comments;
• do not use insulting, provocative or hateful language;
• do not use obscene or offensive language;
• do not post material to the blog that infringes the intellectual property rights of others; and
• do not promote commercial interests in your posts to the blog.

Posts that do not comply (or do not appear to comply) with the above points will not be posted on the blog or may be removed.

Your personal information and privacy

By posting onto the ‘National Conversation about Work’ blog, or emailing us, you will be supplying us with ‘personal information’. Your personal information submitted for the ‘National Conversation about Work’ blog will only be used in the context of the National Conversation and for related activities/purposes.

Copyright

By posting onto the ‘National Conversation about Work ’ blog, you grant the New Zealand Human Rights Commission to include your post on its website and to permit others to reproduce your post.