Scan New
England Terms of Use.
Version 15 - January 19, 2023
Effective January 01, 2020
Scan New England Website (Section I)
A) All members of the forums, and those who apply to be members, hereby agree to the terms in this document.
B) This
policy applies to all sections of Scan New England, including any sub-page,
area, or wiki page.
C) This
policy may be adjusted based on site changes, personnel changes, or any other
yet to be determined issues at the discretion of the administrators. All
changes will be documented within updated policy releases.
D) Users
of Scan New England do so at their own risk. Scan New England isn’t liable for
any damages that occur from the website, nor are we responsible for any losses
incurred from the site, or for the use of the information on the site. Scan New
England holds no liabilities to any member, group or agency, and membership is
strictly voluntary at a privately owned and operated Internet website. No
rights are implied or granted by the use of this site. Use is on a strictly
voluntary basis only. Information contained in the pages of the website are for
hobbyist purposes and should not be used for professional endeavors. Scan New
England shall incur no liability for damages caused by the professional use of
potentially inaccurate information.
E) Data
and information provided on Scan New England is for private, not for profit,
use only. No data or information from here may be copied or sold, or otherwise
used, for personal or professional gain.
F) PDF
copies of this user guide shall always be available on a link at the bottom of this page.
Scan
New England Membership (Section II)
A)
Membership at Scan New England is not guaranteed, and membership may be
limited, restricted or revoked at any time, without notice, at the discretion
of the board managers. Members who attempt to reapply for membership under
false pretenses, or in an attempt to deceive the board moderators, will be
denied and blocked from the site at the IP Level.
B) When applying
for membership, requested user names may not contain the following:
1) Your full email
address.
2) Vulgarity
3) Unicode, HTML, or
other coding
4) A name that is
intended to deceive, such as swapping an “L or an “I”
5) In use by another
member
6) Your SSN, or other
information you wouldn’t want displayed on a public web page.
C) All users must have a valid email address. If your email has changed and you can’t login to the site, contact any of the three board administrators to reset your password and email. If you attempt to register a second account because your email has changed, the second account will not be approved. Emails are kept confidential, and only the three board administrators can see them at any time. Users are only allowed one account at a time.
D)
Scan New England members who have been previous convicted of a felony
will not be granted membership here. Likewise, existing members who are
also convicted of a felony shall be banned from participating on these
forums, and blocked at the IP level.
Scan
New England message board and discussion areas (all inclusive) (Section III)
A) Scan
New England is a “radio monitoring hobbyist/enthusiast” website, where
discussions can contain any scanning related topics, unless specifically prohibited
in the sub forum description, or if they fall under the following, which are not
allowed on Scan New England in any forum, sub forum, chat
session, or private message.
1)
Any hate speech. Derogatory speech considered hate speech by normal standards
is not allowed on the site in any location.
2)
Attacks, bullying or libel on other people, will not be tolerated. This
also includes harassament, intimidation, belittling, or otherwise
making another member feel unwelcome to post.
3)
Editorial or Opinion pieces about governmental, public or private agencies,
public or private businesses, persons, groups, or others not defined here.
4)
Information that could endanger the lives or safety of others, including
location details, personal information, or other items that fall into this
general category. This includes public safety officials, government officials,
and military personnel
5)
Radio information such as public safety and government repeater input
information, under-cover, secret, intentionally unlisted, or otherwise "hidden from the
public" frequencies, talk groups and control data, including "identifiable" information such as Radio IDs or Aliases.
6)
Information that contains personal private information about any individuals,
regardless if they are a member or Scan New England or not, such as phone
numbers, addresses, pictures, etc..
7) Information about ongoing
criminal activity, such a steak-outs, surveillence, riots, large
protests, and other "high risk" on-going events. This includes
information about departments, officers, radio channels, online streams
and other related terms.
8)
Discussions which are political in nature.
9)
Discussion of illegal monitoring activity, such as intercepting
telephone and
pager traffic, or decrypting radio communications, including
information used on encrypted radio channels, frequencies, talk groups,
etc..
10)
Solicitation, or advertising of any kind, other than what is allowed in the
classified forums, under the terms of the classified forums.
11)
Disclosure of any private messages or emails, not intended for public
communication.
12)
Discussion of any item which the member, and/or other members of Scan New
England is in litigation, or will be in litigation.
13) Discussion of any
material which is deemed confidential.
14) Vulgarity
15)
Posting of any copy written article or material. It is considered generally
acceptable to post the first two full sentences and provide a URL to the
article in question. Any “fully copied” article that violates this will be truncated
or deleted.
16)
Posting the exact same item in Multiple Forums (“Cross posting”)
17)
Posting a response of “bump” or of zero substance strictly for the purpose of
keeping a topic on “top” of a forum. “Bump” posts or similar will be deleted.
18) Posting to strictly get post counts up. Post counts have zero meaning other than for new members at the site.
19)
Information on how to program, modify, or otherwise alter radio
equipment designed to transmit, that could potentially be used on bands
or systems not authorized by the posting party. This includes radios
not authorized by the FCC for use in the United States. This also
includes providing data on connecting to radio repeaters or trunked
systems such as repeater inputs, or other such information.
B) Posts
shall not have the following IMAGES embedded in them
1) Nudity, or seemingly
inappropriate content
2) Living persons, or
people.
3) Information that crosses into any of the categories listed above.
4) Copywritten images without
proper attribution to the original author.
C) Posts
shall not have hypertext links or external links to inappropriate websites, nor
shall they include any coding which alters how this site is viewed. Members who
post links to websites deemed inappropriate may have their ability to post
hyper links turned off, or have their membership suspended or removed., depending on the severity of
the link posted.
D) Posts
shall not have any attachments of software or executable files of any kind.
Files which are considered normally shared, such as pdf, rsf, etc., will be
allowed to be shared. Intentional sharing of a file which knowingly contains a
virus, hack ware, malware, or any other software that is illegal to own or
possess by the FBI, will be cause for immediate termination and blocking at the
IP level. Sharing of copy written material is strictly prohibited. Copy written
documents or files that would normally have to be purchased to view, will also
not be allowed to be shared. Confidential documents should also not be shared.
E) Fundraising
posts will not be allowed at any time.
F) User
posts may be altered, edited or deleted at any time, by board administration or
board moderators without further notice, and without any clarification.
G) Users
may be warned about violating the above posting guidelines. Continual abuse of
the above guidelines by a user may result in a user being suspended, or removed
from the website.
H)
Information on this site, including in the wiki, databases, etc., may also be
deleted without any previous notification and without any clarification.
I) If a
user has a complaint regarding any posting in the message forum, and believes
it is in violation of the rules listed here, or wants the post deleted, must
use the “report post to moderator” function on the post. Reporting a post does
not guarantee the post will be deleted. Each will be reviewed.
J) User
name-changes will be done on a case by case only, and only under extreme
circumstances. Users who wish to change their name, must do so in writing to the
board administration staff. Users who get approved for name changes, will have
their previous name listed under their current name for a period of 90 days.
Exceptions where the name change will be automatically granted are: Changes in
amateur radio call signs, changes in martial status that changes your name
reference, (i.e. if you use your initials “ABC” but your last name changes to
F, we will update to “ABF”)., under court order, or if you have a previous
agreement with the board administrators prior to the release date of this
document.
K)
Several sections of the message forum are available only to registered
users. Registered users are manually approved by the administrative
team. Email addresses used for registration must be valid and will be
verified by the administration team prior to approval
L) Posts about information during large scale events, that may endanger the safety or lives of public safety officials, including riots, demonstrations, crime sprees, will not be allowed to be posted on this site. Information that details operations involved in de-escalating events to ensure the safety of the public and public safety officials, including radio information, shall not be posted at anytime. Any posts of this nature will be deleted immediately and repeat posts by a single offender will result in the offender being suspended at a to be determined interval.
Scan
New England Staff and Users (Section IV)
A) Board members fall into the following categories.
1) Board Administrators, are the
heads of the board. They perform all the normal functions of moderators, plus
handle administrative duties such as membership management, board management,
and dealing with complaints. Board administrators are identified with a
user name in purple.
• The board administrators
are:
Scott
Halligan (Scott)
Bill
Dunn (ecps92)
2) Webmaster. Is the site owner.
Along with the above functions, is also responsible for all financial,
technical and contractual ends of the websites, and has the final say in all
board decisions. The webmaster is identified with a user name in purple.
• The board owner is:
Mike
Fitzpatrick (W1KNE)
3) Board Moderators, “moderators”,
are the controllers of the forum. Their job is to enforce compliance with the
rules here, to enhance user interactions by their own interactions, to continue
keeping the forum running smoothly by moving, editing and adjusting posts to
fit the forums. Moderators may also perform duties such as editing or deleting posts
that don’t comply with the rules above. Moderators are not required to perform
all functions, but rather encouraged. Board moderators are expected to be
regular, contributing members to the forums and/or wiki. Moderators who do not
log into the site in a six month period may have their moderator rank removed. Moderators
report to the board administrators and webmaster. Moderators may make changes to posts
without notifications to the regular users. Board moderators are considered
representatives of Scan New England, and their actions on the forum, including
how they interact with other members, are considered the same, therefor, they
are held a higher level. No moderator may extort, bully, threaten, or in any
way, use their power to persuade a poster from posting, nor may they demean a
member to also persuade them to or from post(ing). Board moderators are
identified with a user name in Green.
4) Regular users. Any registered
user who is an active participant at Scan New England. All regular users are
normal users who have hit a posting count threshold, and are considered
“active”. A registered user may use and or post in all parts of the forum,
except forums designated as moderator/admin access only. Inactive users who
have not logged onto Scan New England in one calendar year will have their
membership deleted. If you are service member or of some other entity that will
restrict you from being able to access the site, please contact the board
administration to keep your user name active.
5) Newly registered users. Users who
have either recently registered or have a post count below a set threshold.
Newly registered users may not have access to the classified forums. Newly
registered users are also moderated, and have to have an administrator or
moderator approve their first few forum postings.
6) Moderated users are users who are
put into a moderation queue by the Board Administration for various reasons,
not only including violation of the rules above, or for conduct not conducive
to this forum.
7)
If a user has a complaint about another user, they are to contact one of the
moderators immediately. If the user has a complaint about a moderator or a
board manager, they are to contact Mike Fitzpatrick/W1KNE.
8)
Immediate threats of harm to other users, will be immediately reported to law
enforcement authorities. We will fully comply with all legal investigations.
Scan
New England WIKI (Section V)
A) Scan
New England maintains large media wiki site, which contains radio,
frequency and other data that pertains to scanning for New England, and Eastern
New York state.
B) The
WIKI database is maintained by users designated as board moderators above, and
overseen by board administration, also above.
C) Data
for the wiki comes 100% from user input, and user input from Scan New England
users is both encouraged and welcome. All data is assumed accurate unless
clarified otherwise.
D) Board
moderators who are wiki editors are assumed to have knowledge in wiki editing,
and proficiency in maintaining a well organized and thought out database. It is
also assumed they have basic understanding of modern scanning technology, so as
to understand what is put into the wiki.
E) The wiki
prides itself on both accuracy and good workmanship. The duty of the board
moderators is to maintain that level of proficiency, and the board
administrators to oversee it.
F) User
submissions are to be processed in a timely manner. By processed, this means
either the data is entered into the wiki, rejected from entry into the wiki, or
the submission is moved.
G) Board
moderators are heavily encouraged to “process” user submissions, and “share the
work”.
While board moderators are not required to be wiki editors, those who are
normal wiki editors
should continue to process all submissions.
H) Data
within the wiki is copy written for use at Scan New England only. Unauthorized
copying of data from the wiki for use on other sites, blogs, news postings,
etc., is strictly prohibited under US copyright law. Scan New England falls
under the domain control of NECRAT, which is an active copyright holder.
I) Board
moderators/wiki editors shall have the same user name across both pages.
Approved by: Mike Fitzpatrick
Scott Halligan
Bill Dunn.
Any questions about policy can be directed to w1kne@scan-ne.com