HSBA

Terms & Conditions of Membership

• Membership fees are payable annually at the commencement of membership. Payment can be made by cash, cheque or by BACS.
• The Membership contract is entered into between the Homeworking & Small Business alliance Ltd and the person/organisation paying the Membership fee.
• Membership is applicable to one individual whether a business owner or employee. If further representatives from any one business also wish to become members, membership fees will become due for each of them at the full rate.
• If second and subsequent members from any organisation terminate their employment, the company must inform the HSBA Head Office but will be given the opportunity to transfer membership to the employee’s replacement. If no replacement occurs, the remaining year’s membership fees are not refundable.
• In the event that a member ceases trading, or wishes to terminate their membership, membership fees are not refundable. If, however, they cease trading as one business but commence trading as another, membership will continue unaffected, but may incur a £19.50 administration fee.
• In the unlikely event of conflict or complaint, please contact the HSBA Head Office directly, whereupon every effort will be made to resolve the problem. The HSBA reserves the right to judge each case separately and any decision will not be considered a precedent.
• Members are free to attend any and all HSBA groups irrespective of geography. Meeting fees for each group apply.
• Whilst a member of the HSBA, and for a subsequent period of two years, members will not form any other business networking organisation which would work in competition to the HSBA
• The HSBA cannot be held responsible for any issues (business or personal) or contracts entered into which occur as a result of a HSBA meeting.
• The HSBA, and its representatives, reserves the right to refuse membership to any individual or company. The HSBA will not be obliged to discuss its decision.
• Your Membership continues indefinitely, and your Membership Fee shall be automatically renewed and payable unless:
• You provide us with written notice of termination of your membership prior to the renewal date; or
• We terminate your membership in accordance with these terms

WEBSITE

GENERAL RULES

• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, profanity (or attempts to bypass profanity filters), insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
• Spamming is not allowed. This includes using the forum, groups, blogs and private messages to spam other members.
• We do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate the HSBA community standards. The HSBA management team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
• Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
• While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor’s products, we would appreciate it if you refrain from blatant bashing of other members products or services.
• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
• Posts arguing about company policies are not allowed. You can contact the HSBA management if you have an issue.
• Posts discussing moderator actions are not allowed.
• While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure the HSBA website and associated blogs are not disrupted or abused in any way.
• All post must be made in English
• We reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the website rules, as access is a privilege and not a right. A banned customer is still entitled to attend physical HSBA meetings.
• You are responsible for all information which you post or upload or display to the Website;
• It is the responsibility of the Member to ensure that any content uploaded by him or her is copyright free, or that they hold the copyright. This includes images and text. Any copyright infringement will be the responsibility of the person posting the material.
• You grant us a non exclusive royalty free sub-licensable perpetual worldwide licence to use modify, publish, public on display and distribute such content on and through the Website and in any other form or medium.
• All images and content on the HSBA website, excluding that which is posted by Members, is copyright the HSBA. The use of any such content outside of hsba.biz is strictly prohibited without the express permission of the HSBA or unless specified in these terms and conditions
• You agree that we may delete, edit, lock move or remove any content without notice
• We have provided logos available for use by Members and non-members for the purpose of linking to the HSBA and demonstrating membership of the HSBA.. These can be found at hsba.biz/member-logos/. The use of these logos is permitted on the following basis
• The logos may be used on websites, email signatures and promotional material only.
• The logos should be used as-is and not modiified in any way.
• Logos which include the word ‘Member’ can only be used by Members of the HSBA with a current and paid-for annual subscription. Members who do not renew their subscription should refrain from using the logos which include the word ‘Member’ immediately that their subscription expires.
• Logos which do not include the word Member may be used by anyone wishing to link to the HSBA via external websites, but for no other purpose
• Permission to use the logos may be withdrawn at any time at the discretion of the HSBA. In the eventuality of permission being withdrawn all use of the logos should cease immediately once notification has been given.
• The logos shall remain the property of the HSBA at all times.
• The use of any images or logos not included on hsba.biz/member-logos is strictly prohibited

ADVERTISING & SPAM

The HSBA is a networking group with the intention of generating leads and sales for members. It is therefore perfectly acceptable to contact indivdual members to offer a service, we suggest that initially this is in the form of an introduction – if the member expresses interest then by all means continue the conversation. If the member says they are not interested, please refrain from continued contact offering the same service.

If you have a new product or service which you consider newsworthy and would like to bring to the attention of group members it is acceptable to post information in a relevant blog or group – once. It is not acceptable to continue to post the same material without any additional information on an ongoing basis just to keep your information at the top – we consider this Spam and it will be removed.

If you have a product or service which you would like to have highlighted on a permanent basis consider taking out an advert.

MODERATION

Although the administrators and moderators of the HSBA website will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off groups, forums and blogs, it is impossible for us to review all content. All content express the views of the author, and the neither the owners nor management of the HSBA will be held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

The owners of the HSBA reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread or post for any reason.

ADDENDUM

We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the website dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this community.