1.1. ensuring security, reliability and privacy of the renovating.com.au Services and the users of the renovating.com.au Services;
1.2. maintaining an image and reputation of the Company as a responsible provider of information on renovation products and services; and
1.3. encouraging the responsible use of the renovating.com.au Services and discouraging any degrading, libelous or illegal uses.

Consequently, the Company expects you, and all other users of the renovating.com.au Services, to use them with courtesy and responsibility.
Violation of these usage guidelines is strictly prohibited and may result in the immediate termination of your access to the renovating.com.au Services. You remain solely liable and responsible for your use of the renovating.com.au Services and any and all content that you display, upload, download or transmit through the use of the renovating.com.au Services.
Indirect or attempted violations of these usage guidelines, and actual or attempted violations by a third party on your behalf, are deemed to be violations of the usage guidelines by you.

The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to restrict or prohibit any and all uses of the renovating.com.au Services or content in your advertisements and to remove any materials from its servers as it considers at its sole discretion to be harmful to its servers, systems, network, reputation, good will, other the Company customers, or any third party. Examples of such material include, without limitation, any material that falls within the following categories:

Infringement

Material which is an infringement of intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights including, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights used without proper authorization. Infringement may result from, among other activities, the unauthorized copying and posting of pictures, logos, software, articles, musical works, and videos.

Offensive Materials

Material which constitutes the transmission, dissemination, sale, storage or hosting of any material that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.

Harmful Content

Material which constitutes the dissemination or hosting of harmful content including, without limitation, viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other computer programming routines that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, program, data or personal information.

Fraudulent Conduct

Material which offers or disseminates fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions (for example and without limitation, make money fast schemes, chain letters, pyramid schemes), or the furnishing of false data on any signup forms, contracts or online applications or registrations, or the fraudulent use of any information obtained through the use of the renovating.com.au Services, including, without limitation, the use of credit card numbers.
 

Hacking

Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems, server or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system, server or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system, server or network.

Interception

Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network, server, or system without express authorization of the owner of the system, server, or network.

Intentional Interference

Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, news bombing, other flooding techniques, deliberate attempts to overload a system, broadcast attacks and any activity resulting in the crash of a host. Intentional interference also includes, without limitation, the use of any kind of program/script/command, or send messages of any kind, designed to interfere with a user’s terminal session, via any means, locally or by the Internet.

Falsification of Origin

Forging of any TCP-IP packet header, e-mail header or any part of a message header. This prohibition includes the use of aliases or anonymous remailers.

Avoiding System Restrictions

Using manual or electronic means to avoid any use limitations placed on the renovating.com.au Services such as timing out.

Failure to Safeguard Accounts

Failing to prevent unauthorized access to accounts, including any account passwords.

4.1. Unsolicited promotions, advertising or solicitations (commonly referred to as “spam”), including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements, except to those who have explicitly requested such e-mails.
4.2. Commercial promotions, advertising, solicitations, or informational announcements that contain false or misleading information in any form.
4.3. Harassing e-mail, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages.
4.4. Chain letters.
4.5. Malicious e-mail, including without limitation “mailbombing” (flooding a user or Web site with very large or numerous pieces of mail) or “trolling” (posting outrageous messages to generate numerous responses).
4.6. E-mails containing forged or falsified information in the header (including sender name and routing information), or any other forged or falsified information.
In addition, you may not use the Company’s mail server or another website’s mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the account holder or the website. Posting the same or similar message to one or more newsgroups (excessive cross-posting or multiple-posting) also is explicitly prohibited.