Community Guidelines

Goal 

Our goal is to provide a safe, helpful, engaged, and friendly community for everyone, regardless of experience. We want to promote the sharing of knowledge in an open and appropriate forum for the enrichment and awareness of AI. We welcome all and by participating in the community you are agreeing to adhere to these Community Guidelines.

 

Contacting the PI.EXCHANGE Community Administrators

Admins can be contacted here.

 

Admission to the Community

This is a private, invitation-only Community. PI.EXCHANGE retains the sole unfettered discretion to determine whether to admit a new member to the Community and may remove a member at any time, for any reason.

 

Intellectual Property

We value and respect the contributions of our members and the associated intellectual property rights that subsist in those contributions. Our members must also respect and value the intellectual property rights that subsist in member contributions to our community.

- Generally speaking, the intellectual property rights that subsist in ideas and suggestions contributed by members to the community are the property of the contributing member (but excluding improvement Suggestions described below).

- Be clear about when the contributions you make contain your valuable intellectual property that you do not wish others to copy.

- Do not reverse engineer, decompile or copy other member ideas and suggestions without the express permission of the owner of that contribution.

You retain ownership of and responsibility for your contributions. If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any contributions you post; that you will only contribute content that you have the right to post; and that you will fully comply with any third party licenses relating to contributions you post.

Please be mindful, your contributions you post publicly, including issues, comments, and contributions to other members' contributions, may be viewed by others. In addition, your contributions such as posts, comments or uploaded files will be stored on the PI.EXCHANGE Slack account and you will grant PI.EXCHANGE the permissions to use those data for the purposes of improving our products and services. We will own the intellectual property rights which subsist in the improvement suggestions, and any modifications we make to our software products to incorporate the improvement suggestions.

 

Confidential Information

Confidential Information means any information disclosed by us that is marked as confidential or proprietary or that you should reasonably understand to be confidential or proprietary together with any contributions by members to the Community. Confidential Information does not include any information that: (a) is or becomes generally known to the public; (b) was known to you before its disclosure within our Community; or (c) is received from a third party.

We ask that you keep Confidential Information in confidence and not divulge it to any third party without PI.EXCHANGE’s pre-approval. If you are compelled by law to disclose Confidential Information, you must provide us with prior notice of such compelled disclosure.

 

Logs & Storage of Messages & Files

Files uploaded here can be downloaded by anyone with a login. Please exercise caution and refrain from sharing sensitive information that could harm you or others if it became public. We cannot prevent people from screen capping or otherwise logging this slack. We also can't guarantee that every member's login credentials and logged-in devices are secure. The PI.EXCHNAGE admins retain the right to delete any messages and files that do not comply with the guidelines.

Slack–the company–retains complete logs of all channels and direct messages back to the creation of the PI.EXCHANGE Community. Slack is a U.S. company and therefore subject to subpoenas from U.S. courts. Our logs may be subject to subpoena and could become public as part of legal proceedings.

 

Bullying and Harassment

PI.EXCHANGE is dedicated to providing a harassment-free community experience for everyone. We are equally committed to helpful and respectful communication. PI.EXCHANGE has established these guidelines to make it clear that we do not tolerate harassment in any form. 

For PI.EXCHANGE harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to sex, gender, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race, religion; sexual or discriminatory images in public spaces; deliberate intimidation; stalking; harassing photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events; inappropriate physical contact; and unwelcome sexual attention.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed please contact the admin. If the situation can not be mediated or resolved, PI.EXCHANGE may elect to intervene and decide on a course of action as per the Consequences of Violating our Guidelines section or any other actions appropriate to our understanding of the circumstances.

We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of harassment. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them.

 

Contribution Obligations

It is important that your contributions, including comments, posts, links and files do not breach any laws. To safeguard both PI.EXCHANGE and all our members no contribution that contain any content that;

• Infringes, or may infringe, the intellectual property rights or other rights of any person;
• Impersonates any person or entity or otherwise misrepresents your relationship with us or any other person;
• Is false, unlawful, misleading, libelous, defamatory, slanderous, obscene, pornographic, racist indecent, abusive, harassing threatening, invasive of privacy,  inflammatory, fraudulent;
• Encourages or promotes, or provides instructions for the conduct of an illegal act or omission, any criminal activity
• Is promotional or SPAM. This includes link-bombing, promoting a contribution where it shouldn’t be promoted, sending unsolicited direct messages, hyping third-party services, and using email lists from outside sources, to name a few;
• Contains the private information of any person;
• Content that is unrelated to the PI.EXCHANGE Community generally; and/or
• Content that contains viruses, malware, or any other malicious software or data.

You are solely responsible for the content of, and for any harm resulting from, any content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Community.

 

Consequences of Violating our Guidelines

If we become aware of behaviour that breaches this policy or does not fall within generally acceptable behaviors, we reserve the right to, at any time:

• Modify, redact or change contributions from that member;
• Expel that member from our community;
• Delete that member’s contributions;
• Suspend that member from contributing to the Community;
• Flag that member to the Community; and
• In appropriate cases will defer to relevant authorities.
• Our decision is final and not subject to review.
  
  

Release of PI.EXCHANGE

Because of the nature of the contributions to the PI.EXCHANGE Community is member-driven, all members acknowledge and agree that PI.EXCHANGE is not responsible for any loss or damage that a member may suffer or incur as a result of being a member of, using, viewing or contributing to, our Community or for any sanction PI.EXCHANGE institute against a member for a violation of these guidelines.

 

Governing Law

These guidelines are governed by the law of Victoria, Australia.

For more information, PI.EXCHANGE can be contacted via our contact us form.