User Agreement Policy
By continuing your connection to the AustNet IRC network, and its subsequent servers, you agree to the following conditions.
If you do not, disconnect now and do not reconnect.
We do not accept ignorance as an excuse, and we will remove clients from our network that do not adhere or agree to the conditions set out below:
Flooding is not tolerated on the AustNet network. Any violations of this rule will result in banning your site and often entire domain from the network.
Clones are not tolerated on the AustNet network. Any violations of this rule will result in banning your site and often entire domain from the network.
IRC is an unmoderated medium. No AustNet server, staff member or provider logs or scrutinizes the traffic which passes through the servers. We take no responsibility, and explicitly disclaim any legal liability for the content of any messages which pass through any AustNet server, and the consequences of running any commands you do as a result of being “on IRC”.
IRC may not be suitable for children. Please supervise your child’s IRC session.
We reserve the right to change rules without warning or prior notice.
Upon connection to our network, you give us express permission to connect to your host for verification. This is done via ident/auth lookups on port 113, and insecure wingate proxy on both ports 23 and 1080.
We reserve the right to deny access to this server to any users without the need for warning nor explanation.
Privacy Policy
Collection of personal information by AustNet staff, such as email addresses and IP addresses shall not be harvested from NickOP info, scans, e-lists and server notices.
Personal email address requests are only requested for NickOP. This information is used to provide two services: Password retrieval and sending logs from ChanOP to channel owners.
AustNet services only request NickOP information once when a user is registering their nickname. From time to time AustNet services may automatically check when a user logs in and identifies to ensure that their identification information is correct.
This information, email addresses and passwords are kept on a secure server. AustNet staff are expected to keep information including ASD notices; helpme’s; G:lines; klines; & IP addresses they see in server notices and NickOP info private and not to be shared with NON AustNet staff.
We advise users that we keep records of email addresses and IP addresses for identification purposes only and not for any other reasons.
AustNet staff who are permitted to change email addresses may do so once they are satisfied that the user is the owner of the nickname and correct/amend or change the email address as/when appropriate.
No staff member shall use information, which can be obtained through their helper status for their personal gain or to assist non AustNet staff for their personal gain.
Information obtained from AustNet users will only be used for purposes of identification to the network, other requests for personal information from Non AustNet staff must be provided in writing to operators@austnet.org
Privacy laws in all countries are there to protect the personal and commercial information of anyone who uses any service, be it an IRC service, voluntary or business organisation. This also applies to IRC users, ISP or commercially sponsored servers and server information.
