(Updated December 2019)
We (Zealand Print Limited) welcome our perusers (you) to post remarks and profile data in various territories of the site.
These incorporate yet are not restricted to the remarks segments of stories distributed on the website. In the event that you present any material to the site, these terms and conditions apply.
The perspectives communicated in the remarks regions are not our perspectives or suppositions, nor the perspectives or assessments of any of our staff or our related elements. We acknowledge no obligation in regard to any material posted in the remarks zones, nor are we answerable for the substance and exactness of that material.
In the event that you place dependence on material posted on this site, you do as such at your own hazard, and you repay us (and our related elements) from any liabilities, claims, costs, misfortune (counting weighty misfortune) or harm endured or brought about by reason of your dependence on any material posted in the remarks regions.
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Comment policy
Nzfijitimes invites remarks from perusers on our site.
We welcome you to talk about issues and offer your perspectives. We energize vigorous discussion and analysis gave it is considerate. Be that as it may, our remark area is a directed online dialog, not an open gathering.
We reserve the right to reject comments, images or links that:
are hostile or vulgar;
contain shocking or profane language – including utilization of images (we keep up a rundown of restricted obscenities and remarks highlighting those words will be naturally dismissed);
incorporate individual assaults of any sort (counting ridiculing; affronts; taunting the subjects of stories or different perusers; or manhandling Stuff columnists or patrons);
are unfair or express bias based on race, ethnicity, a nation of the starting point, sex, sexuality, religion, or incapacity;
establish badgering, including yet not restricted to lewd behavior;
are body-disgracing;
contain spam or incorporate connects to different destinations;
are plainly off point;
are purposeful lies or endeavors to deceive. While we can’t audit all remarks for exactness, we claim all authority to dismiss remarks we consider, on the equalization of probabilities, to be intentional deceptions;
mimic an individual or association, are deceitful, disparaging of any individual, undermining or obtrusive of another’s security or generally illicit;
are trolling or undermining;
advocate or support savagery, vigilantism or law breaking;
encroach on copyrights or trademarks;
are self-advancing;
damage the law or rupture court-requested concealments or can possibly break future concealments; or
establish a disdain of court or that contain subtleties of cases and people under the steady gaze of the courts;
damage our terms and conditions for client produced content;
advance, promote or request the closeout of any products or administrations;
criticize other analysts’ spelling or sentence structure;
deny anthropogenic environmental change;
deny the Holocaust;
add nothing to the discussion;
just, for the most part, aren’t pleasant.
Usernames are likewise bound by these Terms and Conditions and hostile usernames will be blocked. Utilizing your genuine name is favored the best practice.
We maintain whatever authority is needed to cut, crop, alter or decline to distribute your substance. We may expel your substance from use whenever.
With uncommon special cases, we won’t typically empower remarks on stories concerning:
1080
claims of culpability or wrongdoing
creature savagery
recipients
Christchurch mosque shootings of March 2019
legal disputes
aggressive behavior at home
fluoride
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Israel and Palestine
Kashmir
missing individuals
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race
sexual direction
suicide
Bargain of Waitangi
transgender issues
immunization
powerless youngsters
Remarks are constrained to 1300 characters long.
Our rights
We hold the privilege and tact (yet not the commitment) to alter, erase, reject or expel any remark which you post or try to post in the remarks.
You award us a non-elite, eminence free, interminable, overall permit to republish any material you submit to us, without impediment, in any organization.
It is our approach not to expel stories from the site distributed over a year prior won’t be altered. In the event that there are specific issues with an accommodation you might want to talk about, email [email protected]
We hold the privilege and carefulness to end your record in the event that we trust you are manhandling the administrations in any capacity, or have broken these terms and conditions. Analysts who over and over or heinously break our terms and conditions or post hostile remarks may discover their username has been for all time blocked. Clients who post unlawful material or loathe discourse may have their subtleties – including IP addresses – answered to specialists.
You agree to our gathering and putting away your email and IP address for security purposes.
Your obligations
Notwithstanding sticking to the remark arrangement point by point above, you won’t post any material:
Which isn’t unique work in which you possess the copyright, or which in any capacity abuses or encroaches (or could sensibly be required to disregard or encroach) the copyright, character, enrolled trademark or protected innovation privileges of someone else;
Which is (or could sensibly be relied upon to be) foul, hostile, explicit, obscene, profane, disgusting or generally unlawful;
Which is (or could sensibly be relied upon to be) slanderous of any individual;
Which racially or strictly attacks, prompts brutality or scorn, or is probably going to outrage, affront or embarrass others dependent on race, religion, ethnicity, sex, age, sexual direction or any physical or mental handicap; or
Which you know or suspect (or should sensibly to have known or suspected) to be bogus, deluding or misleading.
You won’t utilize the remark or profile territories with the end goal of:
publicizing, advancing or requesting any products or administrations, or generally captivating in exchange or trade; or
giving any budgetary exhortation, or guidance of any sort in connection to any money related item.
Reimbursements
You consent to completely reimburse and hold us (and our related elements) innocuous against any liabilities, claims, costs, misfortune (counting significant misfortune) or harm caused because of any material you post in the remarks regions, or because of any break by you of these terms and conditions.
Despite any reimbursement gave by you under these terms and conditions, we as well as our related elements hold the privilege to expect the direct of any protection to a case brought against us, and of any procedure or offer gave by us, and you consent to give all sensible collaboration (counting by making accessible important records) that we may require from you in connection to any such guarantee, continuing or bid.
Additional Terms and Conditions
All content that you submit or display on our website is subject at all times to the Website Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
Governing law
These terms and conditions will be interpreted and applied as per the laws of New Zealand, and you agree to the elite ward of the New Zealand Courts to decide any issue or debate which emerges under these terms and conditions as per the laws of New Zealand.
Comments on Nzfijitimes Facebook posts
Nzfijitimes doesn’t pre-moderate remarks on any of our Facebook pages, yet claims all authority to evacuate hostile remarks or those which rupture our guidelines or Facebook’s Community Standards at the point when they are drawn out into the open. As the distributor of your remark, you are answerable for guaranteeing it consents to the law (counting slander laws).
We invite our Facebook fans to examine issues and offer their perspectives and we energize powerful discussion and analysis – we simply need it to be polite. Stuff claims all authority to square clients who take part in disagreeable or hostile substances.
On the off chance that you have explicit instances of a client breaking the principles or Community Standards, you are free to report them by means of the ‘report’ work underneath any hostile remark, or by sharing screen captures with us by means of [email protected]
Frequently Asked Questions for comments on Nzfijitimes:
Do I have to use my real name?
Remarking under your genuine name isn’t required, yet is energized. We trust perusers who remark under their genuine names, as opposed to a nom de plume, bound to participate in shrewd, conscious discourses and discussion.
Do you alter remarks?
No. Remarks are investigated against our Terms and Conditions and either affirmed or dismissed.
For what reason do you let others’ mean remarks through however not mine?
It’s alright to differ with the topic of a story, as long as your remark is all around considered and increases the value of the discussion. Remember, your remark must meet our terms and conditions for distribution.
Why has it taken such a long time for my remark to show up?
We get a large number of remarks each day. They are physically directed by our (human) editors, notwithstanding different obligations. While we attempt to get past them as fast as could be expected under the circumstances, at top occasions there can be a deferral between when your remark is posted and when it is distributed to the site.
Why are remarks not open on specific stories?
We maintain whatever authority is needed to choose which stories we open remarks on. A scope of elements may advise that choice – including staff resourcing and the subject of the story.
While thinking about the theme, we’ll especially care whether the story is probably going to evoke a high volume of remarks that would rupture our terms and conditions. For example, we infrequently open remarks on tales about court procedures or other lawfully combative themes.
For what reason wouldn’t I be able to add a remark to a current string?
So as to keep remarks at a sensible level for our editors, when perusers have had reasonable and sensible chance to talk about or banter a specific news story, the capacity to remark will be turned off – so, all things considered, we will move to more up to date exchanges.
We welcome this implies a few strings may not be dynamic as long as you might want them to, yet is the main way we can sensibly keep up a common remarks network.
For what reason are my remarks never affirmed?
Given your remark meets our terms and conditions, it will be affirmed for distributing to the Nzfijitimes site. Perusers who more than once or grievously rupture our terms and conditions or post hostile remarks may discover their username has been for all time blocked.
Would I be able to censure Nzfijitimes?
We invite solid sentiments and evaluate our work and basic remarks of the article being referred to will be affirmed. In any case, we won’t affirm any remarks which assault our staff or benefactors, or which are oppressive to the subjects of stories.
Remarks which talk about or investigate our control approach will be considered off-point and dismissed.
For what reason did you dismiss my remark getting you out for counterfeit news?
We think about that term trolling.
Another client’s hostile remark has been endorsed, what would I be able to do?
On the off chance that there is a remark posted by another client which you feel is in rupture of our T&Cs and ought not to have been endorsed, you can ‘report’ it underneath.
Where you accept a remark posted by another client which ruptures at least one of the Digital Communications Principles set out in the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015, you may stop a grievance by messaging [email protected]. Where you have presented a legitimate objection, Nzfijitimes will react inside 48 hours. You can discover more data on the Harmful Digital Communications Act here.
I need to connect to an outer site, is there any valid reason why you won’t endorse it?
We don’t enable connects to sites, except for Nzfijitimes articles or Govt-possessed spaces, or for the span of the political decision time frame sites of ideological groups. This is as much as to shield our perusers from noxious/explicit sites for what it’s worth to ensure Nzfijitimes’ notoriety.
I need to discuss Donald Trump. For what reason didn’t my remark pass balance?
Remarks must be identified with the article and the discussion. Anything that goes off the theme will be dismissed.
Did you dismiss my remark since you’re in thrall to Jacinda Ardern?
No.
