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thINK Plaza Community Participation Guidelines
In order to encourage the thINK Plaza community to develop in a manner responsive to the needs of its members, thINK Plaza has not set any hard rules for participation, but has established the following guidelines to help make the community a supportive, and open environment. Members are reminded that the Terms of Service binds participation.
Comments, complaints and compliments may be sent to: community@thinkplaza.com
Participant Eligibility:
Community
thINK Plaza is a community for specialty printers, specialty printing suppliers, and specialty printing customers. In order to further thINK Plaza's mission, the thINK Plaza Community has been developed to be as inclusive as possible while keeping its focus specialty printing.
There are no hard and fast eligibility requirements to join the thINK Plaza Community; please note however, that thINK Plaza is currently intended for and directed to specialty printers, with an initial focus on specialty printers engaged in the mailing industry. The list below is intended to help you decide if this community is the right place for you by listing some business segments of members for which this community has been developed. You do not need to be a member of one of these industry segments to become a community member.
- Printing
- Publishing
- Lettershop / Presort Bureau
- Direct Marketing
- Mail / Catalog Addressing
- Retail Fulfillment
- Trade Bindery
- Forms
- List Management / List Broker
The thINK Plaza community also focuses on in-house specialty printing departments and staff that work in companies in other industries.
Panel Membership
Certain community members will be invited to participate in the thINK Plaza expert panel. Invitations are extended during, or after, registration for community membership. Information supplied during the thINK Plaza expert panel registration process will be used to establish qualifications to participate in individual panel surveys. The surveys are intended to provide market research and insight to help manufacturers and suppliers of specialty printing equipment with product planning and development and marketing planning. Individual survey responses will not be provided to third parties. Only aggregate thINK Plaza expert panel findings will be provided.
The primary qualification criteria for participating in the thINK Plaza expert panel are:
- Working in any capacity in one of the industries or roles listed above in the section entitled Community.
- Working in an establishment that operates specialty printing equipment.
The following types of printing equipment are considered to be specialty printing equipment for purposes of extending invitations to participate in the thINK community expert panel:
- Mail addressing printers
- CD/DVD surface printers
- Package coding printers
- Postage meters
- Barcode printers
- Labelers
In order to maintain membership in the thINK Plaza expert panel, panel members are required to complete surveys periodically. Requirements for expert panel participation are set by thINK Plaza administrators, and membership on the panel can be extended or revoked at the sole discretion of thINK Plaza administrators.
What about personally identifiable information?
We aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional, and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. See our privacy policy for more information.
thINK Plaza Forum
While participation in the thINK Plaza Forum discussion groups is generally open to all registered community members, there are some discussion groups that may have restricted membership; for example, a group restricted to thINK Plaza expert panel members. In these cases, eligibility is determined automatically by membership in the thINK Plaza expert panel.
Privacy:
Please review thINK Plaza's Privacy Statement to learn how thINK Plaza handles your information. Be aware that if you post to the discussion groups in the thINK Plaza Forum, your community name may be posted for all users to view. You do not have the option to post anonymously. Other community members may view additional profile information that you classify as public. Please be aware that anonymous public site visitors may read your postings.
Not only does thINK Plaza have a responsibility to respect your privacy, members of the community have a responsibility to respect each other's privacy. Never give out another members' private information (email address, name, username, etc.) without their permission. Please do not forward postings with personally identifying information (including the member's name and/or email address) to another thINK Plaza discussion group or outside the thINK Plaza community without the member's permission.
thINK Plaza Emailings:
At the time of registration, and at any time thereafter through your profile, you may opt-out of receiving several types of email from thINK Plaza. However, by becoming a thINK Plaza community member, you agree to receive by email invitations to participate in thINK Plaza evaluations, thINK Plaza surveys, site and service updates. You may also receive automatic email notification of posts to topics of interest and replies to your posts, should you elect such notifications as part of your profile. If you request not to receive any thINK Plaza email, or fail to provide a working email address, your community membership will be inactivated.
Inappropriate Behavior:
Users may be removed from the community for inappropriate behavior, either observed by thINK Plaza staff or reported by other users, including (but not limited to):
- flaming
- abusive language
- harassment
- posting of illegal and illegally obtained materials
- posting of copyrighted materials without proper permissions
- spamming
- impersonating a thINK Plaza staff member, community member or other person
- posting of pornography
- use for unauthorized commercial purposes
Users may be contacted prior to removal and the inappropriate postings permanently removed. Users will also be removed for violating thINK Plaza's Terms of Service.
Problems:
Problems may be reported to thINK Plaza staff at: community@thinkplaza.com.
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