Community Rules & Etiquette and Privacy Guidelines

Thank you for being part of our community. To ensure the best possible experience for all members, we have established some basic guidelines for participation.

By joining and using this community, you agree that you have read and will follow these rules and guidelines. You also agree to reserve discussions and shared files and content to that best suited to the medium. This is a great medium with which to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, and participate in an ongoing conversation. Questions should be directed to our member services department via the Contact Us link on this site.

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important guidelines. If you have questions, contact the member services department. In order to preserve an environment that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership in this community for anyone who violate these rules.

The Rules

• Respect others. Focus on the content of posts and not on the people making them. Please extend the benefit of the doubt to newer guests and members; there’s no such thing as a stupid question.

• Respect the purpose of the community. Use the community to share successes, challenges, constructive feedback, questions, and goals instead of products or services that you provide. If you’ve found a product or service helpful, please share your experience with the group in a respectful way.

• Use caution when discussing products. Information posted on the discussion groups and in the libraries is available for all to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.

• 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.

• Respect intellectual property. Post content that you have personally created or have permission to use and have properly attributed to the content creator.

• When posting items in our collaborative environment, please indicate if the item is not available for reuse. It’s also advisable to contact the owner of any material if you would like to reuse it.

• Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate communities. This helps ensure all messages receive the best response by eliminating "noise."

Discussion Group Etiquette

• State concisely and clearly the topic of your comments 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.

• Send messages such as "thanks for the information" or "me, too" to individuals, not to the entire list. Do this by using the "Reply to Sender" link in every message.

• Do not send administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” to the group. Instead, use the web interface to change your settings or to remove yourself from a list. If you are changing email addresses, you do not need to remove yourself from the list and rejoin under your new email address. Simply change your settings.

The Legal Stuff

This site and the associated hosted Online Community Forums (Forums) are provided as a service for the members of PRINTING United Alliance (Alliance) as one of the many benefits of membership, so that our members may share ideas and information directly with one another.

The opinions expressed on this site and in the Forums are the opinions of the respective authors and are not the opinions or recommendations of, the Alliance. The Alliance does not actively monitor this site or the Forums for inappropriate postings, or for incorrect or misleading information or recommendations, and does not review the content on a regular basis or engage in editorial review of, or otherwise control, the site/Forum postings.

The Alliance is not responsible for the opinions, information or recommendations posted on this site or in any Forum, by others. As with all advice, information and recommendations posted in public forums, members are strongly advised to undertake independent research to confirm and verify the posted information in any Forum before taking any action.

The Alliance disclaims all representations and warranties with regard to the information posted on this site or in the Forums, whether posted by the Alliance or any third party. This disclaimer includes, without limitation, all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the Alliance 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 or advice posted on this site or in the Forums.

By choosing to participate in this site and any of the Forums, you are agreeing not to post any defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials, and not to post any information or other material protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright owner.

By posting material to the site or to any of the Forums, you are representing and warranting that you own the copyright with respect to such material or have received permission from the copyright owner to post the material. In addition, the posting party grants the Alliance and users of this site and the Forums the irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty free right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material in perpetuity.

Messages should not be posted if they encourage or facilitate members to arrive at any agreement that either expressly or impliedly leads to price fixing, a boycott of another's business, or other conduct intended to illegally restrict free trade. Messages that encourage or facilitate an agreement about the following subjects are not permitted: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of sale; salaries; profits, profit margins, or cost data; market shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or suppliers.

As noted above, the Alliance does not actively monitor this site or the Forums for inappropriate postings and does not engage in editorial review of, or otherwise control, the site/Forum postings. However, in the event that any inappropriate posting is brought to the attention of the Alliance, we will take all appropriate action.

The Alliance reserves the right to terminate access by any user who does not abide by these rules, or the regulations and guidelines noted above for the use of this site and the Forums.