College Blog Moderation Policy
The College of Law encourages you to post your comments on the blog and welcomes your feedback. For comments that do not comply with our Moderation Policy we reserve the right to remove it. The College reserves the right to reproduce, publish and use any and all parts of any blog posting in any way it sees fit.
Please ensure that you do not post any material that a reasonable person would consider:
- Includes any abusive, obscene, indecent or offensive language
- Is defamatory, abusive, harrassing or hateful and capable of damaging the reputation of a person or organisation. If successfully sued you could be held liable for considerable damages and costs.
- That you do not have the necessary rights, licences and consents to post
- Constitutes spam, unauthorised advertising or solicits
- Contains long embedded URLs
- Invades anyone’s privacy or impersonates anyone
- Is far off-topic as irrelevant posts lower the value of the debate for everyone and may be removed.
- Encourages conduct that may or would constitute a criminal offence or give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any law
- The comment appears to contain irrelevant or excessive links or appears to contain code
- Personal information as it is unacceptable to publicise your or anyone else's contact details including address, place of employment, name of educational establishment, telephone or mobile number, email address, etc. This is for your own safety and that of everyone who uses this service.
- In a different language to English. Posts containing languages other than English may be removed. Common greetings and salutations in languages other than English may be acceptable.
- As raising your voice. The use of capital letters is considered as raising your voice in internet shorthand.
- As inappropriate usernames that are vulgar or offensive, etc.
We will not edit comments to remove objectionable content, so please ensure that your posting contains none of the above to avoid it being removed.
Anyone posting a comment is deemed to accept the College's use and publication thereof. Notwithstanding any moderation, The College of Law cannot be held in any way responsible for the comments posted on this blog site. No reliance should be placed on any comments and nothing on this site should be seen as a substitute for formal legal advice. The College of Law does not endorse, approve or promote any comments appearing on this blog site nor the authors thereof.
The College will be alerted to all comments posted on the site. Anyone who violates the Moderation Policy may be blocked from making future comments.
While e-mail addresses are required for commenting, they are not published on the blog, nor are they shared. They may be used by the blog administrator or post author to privately contact the commenter.
From time to time this Moderation Policy may be updated so please make sure you check this page periodically.