Terms and Conditions

Community Rules & Etiquette and Privacy Guidelines

Thank you for being part of the DIA community. To ensure the best possible experience for all users, we have established some basic guidelines for participation.

By joining and using this community, you agree that you have read and will follow these rules and guidelines. You also agree to reserve discussions and shared files and content to that best suited to the medium. This is a great medium with which to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, and participate in an ongoing conversation. Any questions regarding the use of this online medium should be directed to our member services department via the Contact Us link on this site.

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important guidelines. If you have questions, contact the Customer Service department. In order to preserve an environment that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership in this community for anyone who violate these rules.

The Rules

    • Respect others. Focus on the content of posts and not on the people making them. Please extend the benefit of the doubt to newer guests and members; there’s no such thing as a stupid question.
    • Respect the purpose of the community. Use the community to share successes, challenges, constructive feedback, questions, and goals instead of products or services that you provide. Sales of merchandise and business advertising are strictly prohibited. If, however, you’ve found a product or service helpful, please share your experience with the group in a respectful way. 
    • Use caution when discussing products. Information posted on the discussion groups and in the libraries is available for all to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.
    • All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited. Do not post anything that you would not want the world to see or that you would not want anyone to know came from you.
    • Respect intellectual property. Only post content that you have personally created or have permission to use and have properly attributed to the content creator.  DIA reserves the right to remove content that appears to infringe the proprietary rights of others. 
    • When posting items in our collaborative environment, please indicate if the item is not available for reuse. It’s also advisable to contact the owner of any material if you would like to reuse it.
    • Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate communities. This helps ensure all messages receive the best response by eliminating "noise."
    • Do not post messages that encourage or facilitate users to arrive at any agreement that either expressly or impliedly leads to price fixing, a boycott of another's business, or other conduct intended to illegally restrict free trade. Messages that encourage or facilitate an agreement about any of the following subjects are inappropriate: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of sale; salaries; profits, profit margins, or cost data; market shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or suppliers.
    • Do not share sensitive personal information.

         Discussion Group Etiquette

          • State concisely and clearly the topic of your comments in the subject line. This allows members to respond more appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for members to search the archives by subject.
          • Send messages such as "thanks for the information" or "me, too" to individuals, not to the entire list. Do this by using the "Reply to Sender" link in every message.
          • Do not send administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” to the group. Instead, use the web interface to change your settings or to remove yourself from a list. If you are changing email addresses, you do not need to remove yourself from the list and rejoin under your new email address. Simply change your settings.

        The Legal Stuff

        This site is provided as a service for the users of DIA.  DIA is not responsible for the opinions and information posted on this site by others. We disclaim all warranties with regard to information posted on this site, whether posted by DIA or any third party; this disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall DIA be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of any information posted on this site.

        By posting material, the posting party warrants and represents that he or she owns the copyright with respect to such material or has received permission from the copyright owner. In addition, the posting party grants DIA and users of this site the nonexclusive right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material.

        DIA does not actively monitor the site for inappropriate postings and does not on its own undertake editorial control of postings. However, in the event that any inappropriate posting is brought to the attention of DIA we will take all appropriate action.

        Although political speech is not prohibited, DIA reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to limit or remove any content we believe is inappropriate for any online Community, and to limit or prohibit the participation of any Communities user that DIA deems is contrary to its Code of Conduct, Core Values, DEI Statement or Terms and Conditions of Use, or could in any way negatively reflect on DIA and its mission.


        DIA reserves the right to terminate access to any user who does not abide by these guidelines including, without limitation and notice, deleting or disabling access to offending posts or suspending or terminating a user’s account.


        Privacy Policy
        DIA will occasionally update our Privacy Policy. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted at https://www.diaglobal.org/en/about-us/privacy-policy so users will know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

        Effective Date: 2/15/2023