About the Vineland Blog

Blog Rules

Welcome to the Vineland Blog resource centre. Its aim is to engage and inform you through our authors from topics such as what's new in horticulture science, the science of gardening or the mere pleasure of it, to what’s new at the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre.  It is our hope that the Vineland Blog becomes a meaningful resource centre for you.

We thank the team of authors on this site who are volunteering their time to help keep us informed in an engaging and entertaining manner.  Our list of authors will grow over time, but currently comprise a number of Master Gardeners as well as others from the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre and our stakeholder groups from time to time.

Together we hope to provide you with help, guidance and something a little more than simply gardening tips.  Our hope is to include anything and everything from news, images, videos and of course any interesting conversations which are taking place around the globe.  We’ll also be introducing some guest bloggers.

But it’s not just our content that’s going to make this site really interesting – it’s going to be your experiences, ideas, feedback and useful tips.  So please get involved and leave your comments.  We also want trackbacks (this is where we provide a link back to a post on your own blog).

And now a moment to cover the more serious side of a blog - like many other websites we have some standard rules by which everyone must abide.  We have created these rules for two distinct reasons: first, so that we do not publish any illegal or offensive material, and second to ensure this site is useful to you.

If you have any tips or ideas for interesting news or stories please get in touch.

Your comments

1. Contain or link to gratuitous violence
2. Impersonate somebody else
3. We consider to be spam, advertising or which are completely unrelated to the article against which they are posted
4. Are racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable
5. Contain swear words or other language likely to offend
6. Break the law, condone or encourage unlawful activity or which could endanger the safety or well-being of others
7. Contain text and images likely to offend people
8. Link to hate sites (on grounds of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation)
9. Contain or link to pornography and sexually explicit content
10. Link to breaches of copyright law or encourage others to do so
11. Defamation and contempt of court
12. Hacking or other technical disruption to online services
13. Describe how to conduct an unlawful act (e.g. fraud etc)
14. Are considered likely to provoke, attack or offend others
15. That could damage the reputation of a person or organization, that risk prejudicing on-going or forthcoming court proceedings
16. That could place Vineland Research and Innovation Centre in contravention of its legal and/or regulatory obligations
17. Reveal commercially sensitive information relating to Vineland Research and Innovation Centre

Privacy

When you post a comment we request your email address. This will not be published but may be used to contact you in relation to your comment. To manage the website we also monitor information such as as IP address, browser type, operating system, and web pages. This is so that we can monitor the success of the site and continually strive to improve it and is not used to identify individuals.

Moderation

We will be moderating comments in order to block any blog spam and comments which break our code of blog conduct. This means there may well be a small time delay before your comment gets published. The team operates an ‘identify and remove’ policy which means that if we see, or are made aware of, a post that breaks the rules, the team reserve the right, without assigning a reason, to remove or amend your comment or prevent it from appearing.

Transparency

Vineland Research and Innovation Centre employees may actively comment on relevant blogs as authors of the site.  Vineland agrees to uphold the following principles when dealing with any online communities:

• We will always disclose who we are
• We will tell the truth and will acknowledge and promptly correct any errors or omissions
• We will be completely transparent in everything we do
• We will respect the privacy and contact preferences of every individual
• We will never pretend to be someone or something we are not

If you believe one of our team members have breached any of these principles, please send as much information as possible (including links and copies of correspondence) to communications@vinelandresearch.com.

Other important information

• The views expressed on this resource centre are the opinions of individuals and not necessarily those of the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
• The contents of this blog are subject to a Creative Commons Licence
• You can read the full legal terms and conditions here

Our inspiration

The house rules we have created for this site have been created in the spirit of best practices.  We want you to know that they have been partly inspired by the house rules of some of the best business blogs which we have read and admired these include GM Fastlane and Direct2Dell.

Legal

By submitting any comments to this site, you warrant that such comments are not defamatory nor in breach of the house rules stated above or any applicable law. You agree to indemnify Vineland Research and Innovation Centre against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by us as a result of your breach of the above warranty.The fact that a link appears on this blog does not mean that Vineland Research and Innovation Centre in any way endorses the content of that website and is not responsible for its content or actions.

Looking for help?

If you have a question for the blog team, please contact one of us through communications@vinelandresearch.com.

We may update our code of practice from time to time, so please revisit this page to ensure your comments still comply.