By continuing to register an account, you affirm that you have read, understood and agree with the CONNECT Network's Terms of Use - see below. 

CONNECT Network - Terms of Use 

The CONNECT Network is part of the ConnectED program, a peer workforce development program run by the NSW Users and AIDS Association (NUAA). The CONNECT Network is hosted on an online platform managed by NUAA. 

The CONNECT Network is a professional network for AOD-sector living and lived experience workers and volunteers in NSW, their managers and/or employers, as well as consumer representatives. 

By signing up to the CONNECT Network as a member, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions outlined below. 

Registration 

People wishing to become a member of the CONNECT Network are required to fill in the registration form on the platform. You will need to provide your name, organisation or who you are representing, name, email, and job role, which will be visible to other members of the CONNECT Network. 

New registrations will be reviewed and approved. 

New members will be required to sign up, activate their account and set their own password to access the platform, ensuring that your password remains private at all times. 

Membership and Moderation 

The CONNECT Network allows members to communicate and engage with each other in secure private groups. 

Membership of the CONNECT Network is voluntary, as such, you can withdraw at any time. 

At any time, you can request to have your User Account deleted by contacting [email protected]

Termination of a membership may occur at the discretion of the NUAA administrator based on a breach of The CONNECT Network terms of use (Terms of Use). As a professional network members are expected to behave professionally and use respectful language. Members who have been reported to have engaged in activity which is not deemed professional or respectful will have their membership reviewed and comments may be removed. 

The platform is moderated during business hours (AEST) only. 

Change of Terms of Use 

These Terms of Use may be subject to change from time to time. Any changes will be posted to this page. Your use of the CONNECT Network platform or any content after the date of the new version of the Terms of Use applies, will constitute your agreement to the modified Terms of Use. If you disagree with such modification of the Terms of Use, you have the choice to end your membership and delete your Account, in the manner indicated above. 

Intellectual Property and User Generated Content 

The intellectual property, including copyright and trademarks, in all material available on the CONNECT Network website is owned by and remains with the author and/or owner of such content. 

As part of your use of the site, you may provide comments, feedback, text, media and ideas to Site hosts and other users of the Site ("user content"). User content means all information submitted by you via the CONNECT Network website. You are solely responsible for your user content, please consider carefully what you choose to share. Any user content you post on or through this site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You assume all risks associated with the use of your user content. This includes any reliance on its accuracy, completeness, reliability, or appropriateness by other users, or any disclosure of your user content that personally identifies you or any third party. You agree that NUAA will not be responsible or liable to any third party or any user content posted by you or any other user of the site. All user content must comply with the standards in this terms of use and may be subject to removal if NUAA deem it is in breach of these standards. Your interactions with other users are solely between you and such users. If there is a dispute between you and any other user, we are under no obligation to become involved. 

You must not use or redistribute material, including user-generated content, from the CONNECT Network website without the express consent of the author/owner. Please contact the author/owner directly for permission to use their material if specified or email [email protected] with your inquiry. 

Resource Library 

The CONNECT Network, and NUAA accept no responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of any of the information contained on or accessed through this website. The CONNECT Network and NUAA make every effort to ensure that the information on this website is accurate and comprehensive. However, the information is only indented as a basic guide to issues related to the AOD LLE workforce and does not address the complexities of particular circumstances. The material may include views or recommendations of third parties, and does not necessarily reflect the views of NUAA or indicate a commitment to a particular course of action. 

To the extent permitted by law, The CONNECT Network, disclaims all liability for any loss, damage, expense and costs incurred by any person arising out of accessing, downloading, using or relying on any material or information from the CONNECT Network website and the resource library. 

Links to other websites 

Links to other websites may be included on the CONNECT Network for convenience only and do not constitute the CONNECT Network’s endorsement of material at those websites or any associated organisation, product or service. 

Privacy 

You cannot use or distribute material from the CONNECT Network without the written and express consent of the original poster. The intellectual property of all material provided on this website remains with the author. Information posted by users and published on the CONNECT Network platform must be anonymised so that individual patients or service users cannot be identified. 

Legal Disclaimer 

The comments published on the CONNECT Network represent a wide range of views and interests of the participating individuals and organisations. Statements made during online discussions are the personal opinions of the commentators and do not necessarily reflect those of NUAA. 

NUAA at all times and at its absolute discretion, reserves the right to remove inappropriate or offensive posts and any posts which breach the privacy terms above. 

For more information, please contact [email protected] 

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