GATE
: Bylaws of GATE
Membership
TRUST: Every GATE
Member must agree to adhere to the following policies on trust:Trust Policy, including :
Conflict of Interest Policy
Ranking Policy
Rating Policy
Acceptable Use Policy
Member Privacy & Confidentiality Policy
GATE
Members should expect honesty from other GATE
Members. GATE
promotes healthy competition and the entrepreneurial spirit and to that end GATE
Management do not offer any oversight role in specific business transactions between GATE
Members. GATE
Members are free to make any legal business arrangement with other GATE
Members at any time with or without the knowledge and monitoring of GATE
Management, however all transactions GATE
Members are subject to these policies at all times.TRUST Investigations: GATE
Members agree to cooperate fully with GATE
Management whenever a TRUST Investigation is conducted, furthermore GATE
Members agree that GATE
Management are the sole and final authority as to the type of investigation and the outcome of any Trust Investigation.GATE
Members agree to abide to any outcomes of any Trust InvestigationGATE
Members understand that Trust Investigation Requests are not intended as a measure of satisfaction with another Member's work, rather they are a specific accusation that a member has breached one or more points within the Trust Policy.It is itself a Breach of Trust to falsely accuse another member of Breach of Trust.
SANCTIONS: GATE
Members agree that GATE
Management have sole discretion as to any sanctions that might be laid as a result of a Trust Investigation. GATE
Management will follow the published GATE
Trust Investigation Policy which offers all GATE
Members the opportunity to participate. Possible sanctions include:Redaction and / or removal of specific Ratings
Retraction and / or public apology from one GATE
Member to anotherRemoval of certain access rights within the GATE
Village online communityTermination of GATE
Membership as per the Termination clause in the GATE
Membership Agreement.
GATE
Members agree that there are no other legal remedies available to them outside of GATE
Management and the GATE
Trust Investigation Policy. They forgo any rights they might have, including any issues of slander or liability, for any and all activity conducted within GATE
VillageGATE
Management agree to stay impartial and fair-minded in all proceedings and primarily will rely upon auditing and monitoring logs from online activities of all interested parties.GATE
Management and GATE
Members agree that any results of any Trust Investigation are published for the eyes and use of GATE
Members in Good Standing only. Trust Investigation reports and findings are specifically covered and count as
confidential material and may not be divulged to any non-GATE
Member or GATE
Employee. What happens in GATE
Village stays in GATE
Village, GATE
Management will aggressively prosecute any breach of the Member Privacy and Confidentiality Policy.
GATE
Members agree to conduct business within the GATE
Village and with other GATE
Members and GATE
Clients with honesty and integrity at all times. GATE
Members are forbidden from attempting to 'game the system' in any way in an attempt to gain an unfair advantage or to cause any direct harm to any GATE
Members or GATE
Clients.GATE
Members agree that they must pay their dues in advance to remain in Good Standing and that a member not in Good Standing will see most of their access to GATE
Village and to GATE
Supplies and GATE
Services curtailed. GATE
Members who are in arrears for greater than 30 days will see their GATE
Membership suspended until payment in full is received and if payment has not been received within 90 days the GATE
Membership will be revoked and the GATE
Village account will be removed.GATE
SHARES: GATE
Members understand that only GATE
Members in Good Standing may redeem their Class B shares received when becoming a GATE
Member.
Member Owned, Member Focused Online Community of Trusted Experts doing Trusted Commerce
320 Frederick Street, Kitchener Ontario N2H 2N7
Tel: 519-954-5419 · info@gatevillage.com · www.gatevillage.net © 2009
