Grievance Procedure

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We value your feedback and welcome your informed, relevant, and respectful comments on
our website and social media accounts. To encourage open, safe, and relevant discussions,
we have created some basic rules about making comments on our posts.
Rules for comments
● Keep comments short and to the point.
● Respect the opinions of others and refrain from responding in a hostile manner.
● Do not post any material in the comments that is unoriginal, in which you don’t own
the copyright, or which in any way violates or infringes the copyright, registered
trademark or intellectual property rights of another person.
● Do not post material that is obscene, offensive, pornographic, vulgar, profane,
indecent, or unlawful.
● Do not post material that you know or suspect to be false, misleading, or deceptive.
● Comments are solely the opinions of the individuals leaving them. In no way does
Gold Coast Writers Association endorse or condone them.
● The individual making a comment takes full responsibility for any personal details
they choose to share.
● Gold Coast Writers Association will not publish comments that are:
o slanderous or defamatory
o abusive
o racist, sexist, ableist or in any way discriminatory
o irrelevant
o intolerant
o off-topic
● Comments promoting products, publications, or fee-paying activities, or with irrelevant
links to websites, will not be published.
Gold Coast Writers’ Association reserves the right not to publish, or to edit, comments that
do not follow the above rules.
If these rules are not followed, we may simply delete your comment without
notice. Moderation is subjective and at the discretion of the moderators. You may be banned
from the site permanently.
If you read any comments that do not follow these rules, please contact us immediately.
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Gold Coast Writers’ Association members – please also take note of the GCWA Behaviour
Policy (available upon request).