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Hewlett-Packard Alumni Association Membership and Posting Agreement Click to join our forums Question? Email us: info@hpalumni.org Terms of service. Posts are traceable and archived. Posts are the responsibility of the authors. By joining, you agree to accept the terms of the HPAA Membership and Posting Agreement. The Hewlett-Packard Alumni Association is an independent volunteer organization operated by former U.S. employees. Not officially endorsed or supported. Advertising. Advertising may be included or enabled by Google or LinkedIn as part of the services they provide to the HPAA at no charge. The HPAA has no control over Google's or LinkedIn's activities – and receives no revenue from them. The HPAA does not endorse products or services. Virus protection. The HPAA discussion forums have the Google Groups system anti-virus and anti-phishing measures enabled. Privacy. See HPAA Terms of Use Membership and Posting The Hewlett‑Packard Alumni Association, Inc. (HPAA) is a private, non-profit organization that exists solely for the benefit of its members. HPAA membership consists of former U.S. HP and HPE employees. The HPAA policies and code of conduct are founded on the traditional HP Way philosophy. What is the HP Way? It is a set of deeply held values that govern and guide our behavior in meeting our objectives and in dealing with each other, our community, our constituents, and others. These values are that we:
Code of conduct:
By joining HPAA, members agree to the following:
1. The purpose of HPAA is to facilitate
professional networking and communication among its members.
2. Any group depends on the members having a
common experience. In the case of the Hewlett‑Packard Alumni Association,
the bond we share is the HP Way.
Those who were a direct HP, HPI, or HPE
employee continuously for at least one year -- and are either no
longer a direct employee or are in the process of leaving -- are
eligible to join the Hewlett‑Packard Alumni Association.
Examples of eligible applicants:
HP employee who is in the process of
leaving..
Joined HP as part of an acquisition; left
after the acquisition.
Otherwise qualified; now at a company that
HP divested such as Agilent.
Otherwise qualified; left HP and now under
contract to HP.
Examples of ineligible applicants:
Left Apollo, Compaq, EDS, Tandem, etc.
before HP acquired the company.
Intern, summer, or SEED employee not at HP
for more than one year.
Consultant or contractor.
Employed by an HP joint venture company.
Joined Agilent after the divestiture from
HP; never an HP employee.
3. Members will conduct themselves with
professionalism when posting messages to the HPAA mailing list and when
sending private messages to other HPAA members. If another member asks you
to cease private communication with them, you will do so at once.
4. Members recognize and assume the risks
inherent in internet communication, and will act accordingly. Such risks
include, but are not limited to, intercepted messages, lost messages,
accidental or intentional forwarding of mail, and so on.
5. Out of respect for members' privacy, members
will never divulge another member's identity, address, or email content to a
party outside the original communication without that member's express
permission to do so except where required by law.
6. Members will not post any content, including
any links, which would violate the property rights of others. Such content
includes, but is not limited to, unauthorized copyrighted text, images,
software, documents, trade secrets, infringing trademarks, or other
confidential proprietary information.
7. Members agree not to post any illegal,
obscene, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate material to HPAA sites.
8. Members will not post any message that is
libelous, defamatory, or which discloses private or personal matters
concerning any person (without that person's permission).
9. Members may use the facilities of HPAA for
their own professional networking, recruiting, and job search. Members may
conduct or participate in discussions of interest to members. You promise
not to abuse these privileges.
10. Members will provide HPAA with current and
correct contact information. Any member of the HPAA will not share contact
information outside HPAA, unless required by law.
11. Members will not interfere (by mail flood,
denial-of-service attack, or any other action) with access or use by other
users of the facilities provided by HPAA.
12. Members will not knowingly post any file
that is infected with or transmits any virus, worm, "Trojan Horse," or other
destructive content. Any member who inadvertently posts such an item, upon
its discovery, will take immediate steps to remove the posting, ensure that
connection(s) to HPAA are disinfected, notify the members of the HPAA to
whom the email was sent of the circumstances and provide a suggested remedy.
13. Members will not post solicitations for
donations, political campaigns or actions, petition drives, chain letters,
hoax messages, pyramid schemes, and the like. They will not send unsolicited
bulk email using HPAA facilities or addresses learned from membership in
HPAA, if such e-mail could reasonably be expected to provoke complaints from
its recipients.
14. Members will try to stay on-topic in
discussion threads. If there is a desire to change the topic, a new thread
will be created. You will abide by generally accepted principles of
netiquette (RFC
1855) expanded upon in the book "Netiquette"
by Virginia Shea.
15. Members will not use HPAA facilities to
conduct or solicit any illegal activity nor any activity that infringes the
rights (including property rights) of others.
16. Members will not provide their login access
to anybody else. Members will be responsible for any statement or action
knowingly performed under their login id.
HP Alumni Operating Policies
Your use of HPAA facilities as an HPAA member
affirms your agreement to the following operating policies:
1. HPAA Executive Board members volunteer their
time. They can assume no liability for the acts of any member or of the
group as a whole. Members agree to hold HPAA and its administrators harmless
from any legal action they may take against any individual member or
members.
2. Unless members are participating in an area
that requires anonymity, they will use real names in communications.
3. No member is authorized to speak on behalf of
HPAA to the press or any person outside HPAA without the express permission
of the HPAA Executive Board. Such permission will be granted only in
extraordinary circumstances and then only by a simple majority vote of the
Executive Board members. Questions to or about HPAA should be referred to
the Board. HPAA is not sponsored by nor affiliated with
Hewlett‑Packard Company nor does HPAA speak for HP. The organization has an
amicable relationship with HP.
4. HPAA website content is the copyrighted
private property of HPAA or of its members; it is specifically not in the
public domain. Fair-use rules apply, but you may not distribute such content
or derive other works from it without the permission of the copyright
holder(s). Some HPAA website content may be available only to members.
5. You may link to the HPAA site (or subsidiary
pages) as long as your link identifies the site as HPAA and does not alter
the pages' appearance.
6. HPAA may contract with outside providers for
some of the services provided to members. While due care is taken to select
such providers, HPAA is not liable for their actions. As a member, you must
assess the service, the provider, and any risk inherent in your
participation; you then decide whether to avail yourself of the service
based on your analysis.
7. Violation of any of these policies will be
terms for removal from HPAA. Appeal against removal may be made to the
Executive Board and reinstatement of membership may be made by a simple
majority vote of the Board.
(Revised November 16, 2019.
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