Xperiancers

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Xperiancers.com – Our code of practice

Welcome to the Xperia blogger resource centre. Its aim is to help keep you update on everything that’s happening with Xperia, both from Sony Ericsson and around many other blogs and forums.

The team of authors on this site inlcude people from Sony Ericsson including developers, designers and programmers, as well as others from the PR and marketing team. It’s being run for Sony Ericsson by Wolfstar, an external communications consultancy, and the blog will also include lots of input from writers at Wolfstar.

Together we hope to provide you with help and guidance on everything we can find related to the Xperia X1. Our remit is to include anything and everything from news, graphics, images, videos and of course any interesting conversations which are taking place across 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 and we also want trackbacks (this is where we provide a link back to a post on your own blog).

And now the serious bit – like many other websites we have some standard rules which everyone must abide by. We have created these rules for two distinct reasons; first so that we do not publish any illegal or offensive material; and second to make sure this site is useful to you.

But what this site isn’t is a support forum – if you are looking for technical support, please visit our support page at http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/phones.

If you’ve got any tips or ideas for interesting new and interesting stories then please get in touch.

Your comments

We do have some ‘house rules’ that you need to abide by when commenting – basically it’s be polite and courteous. We won’t tolerate any comments or trackbacks which:

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 (e.g. peer-to-peer music sites, illegal downloads of software and games, etc.)
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. bomb-making, fraud etc)
14. Are considered likely to provoke, attack or offend others
15. That could damage the reputation of a person or organisation, that risk prejudicing on-going or forthcoming court proceedings
16. That could place Sony Ericsson in contravention of its legal and/or regulatory obligations
17. Reveal commercially sensitive information relating to Sony Ericsson

Please ensure your comments are relevant to the topic of the post you place them against. We reserve the right to remove any comments that appear to be very similar. In these cases we may close comments for a post, adding a brief note letting users know that further comments have been received but not published.

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. The email addresses are stored in a password protected database managed by Wolfstar in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 (UK).

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 so we can block any blog spam and comments which break our code of practice. 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.

Wolfstar

Wolfstar, Sony Ericsson’s social media consultancy, will write some of the posts (clearly identified and in our own names), but may also provide ideas and topics to Sony Ericsson’s staff members to help them with their own posts.

Transparency

Wolfstar employees will actively comment on relevant blogs as authors of the Xperiancers site. Wolfstar has agreed to uphold the following principles when dealing with any online communities:

• We will always disclose who we are and who we are working for (both our consultancy and our client)
• 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
• We will use our knowledge and experience to try and understand every community we get involved with

If you believe one of our team members has breached any of these principles, please send as much information as possible (including links and copies of correspondence) to Stuart Bruce, Managing Director, Wolfstar Ltd, The Half Round House, Wellington Road, Leeds, LS12 1DR, UK.

Other important information

• The views expressed on this resource centre are the opinions of individuals and not of Sony Ericsson
• 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 by Wolfstar and Sony Ericsson, but in the spirit of best practive 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 Sony Ericsson 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 Sony Ericsson 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 at xperiancers@wolfstarconsultancy.com

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