The fat print
We won't spam you and you agree to not post anything dodgy on bizchat. Anything you read here is submitted on an "all care, no responsibility " basis.
The fine print
Disclaimer - bizchat is an informal forum - the same way that a discussion over a bbq or a latte is considered informal in the "all care, no responsibility" mold. The information and "chat" that is hosted on this website does not constitute professional advice and we suggest you get some before you make any hard-core business decisions. As an independent resource bizchat has the benefit of not being aligned to any one agency. Thus it can contain a number of conflicting viewpoints on the same item. Rather than dangerous we see this as a real benefit to bizchat's neutrality.
Privacy policy - bizchat.co.nz has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our web site. Your IP address is not used to identify you. However, all posts in our forums and comments to articles have an associated IP address recorded. This IP address is never shown to other users and it is only collected in order to help us to prevent unsolicited posting to our forums (spam).
All users have their user name, date of inclusion and usage contribution levels listed the forum details.
Our site uses cookies to keep track of your login. Cookies are simple data files that store information. We do not install any program on your computer while visiting our site. The information stored in the cookie file is used to store the login information if the user decides to use our auto login feature.
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and e-mail address)
This site contains links to other sites. bizchat is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Forum usage guidelines
- There is no censorship in any of the bizchat forums, however we may remove postings that do not comply with our guidelines;
- Posts shall remain on topic.
- Commercial posts are not allowed anywhere and will be removed;
- If you don't agree with someone's post, attack the idea, not the poster.
Posts will be removed and the user may be banned if:
- the post promotes illicit material;
- the post links to copyrighted material not property of the author;
- the post is one of multiple copies in different forums;
- the post contains or links to profanity and/or adult material;
- the post promotes pyramid schemes or affiliate programs;
- the post contains abuse of other users;
- the post contains confidential information;
- the post can be considered libel.
All IP addresses are recorded (but not shown) and will allow us to track fake posts if necessary.
Administrators can and will delete or edit posts if these fall out of these guidelines. In some situations the poster may be contacted in private. If the behaviour persists the poster can be locked out of the forums. This ban is for an unlimited time.
Users posting in our forums agree to these terms.