Hello Rotorway Owners Group Friends,

Rotorway Owners Group (also known as ROG) is a bulletin board service designed to enable its users to communicate and exchange information, opinions, experiences, and other content with an emphasis on Rotorway, RotorX and other helicopters, amateur aircraft building, and aviation and related topics in general. We created ROG as an online service that is structured and managed to encourage kind, respectful, and courteous fellowship and open, honest, and useful dialog and debate uninhibited by the influence of advertisers and the social chaos so ubiquitous in so much of modern social media today. In support of this mission we wish to remind all users of the following:

1. ROG , by definition, is an interactive computer service based in the U.S. and per Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider". In accord with this law ROG, it’s owners, and staff bear no responsibility whatsoever for content contributed by the users of ROG or otherwise made available on ROG. Users of ROG are solely responsible for their own content and it’s accuracy, usefulness, and appropriateness.

2. It is entirely the responsibility of the reader or users of ROG to apply good judgement as to the accuracy, relevance, and useful nature of any and all content found on ROG. Therefore, the use or application of any and all content found on ROG is solely at your own risk.

3. ROG is based in and is subject only to U.S. law.


Other Policies and Values…

We believe in open, honest, and friendly debate. We believe it is unethical and diminishes the value of ROG if we allow it to be bullied or coerced by advertisers and companies, or any other entity, into creating, editing, or removing content. This is the reason why ROG doesn’t accept paid advertising.

While we are eager to develop positive relationships with ethical vendors, manufacturers, and service providers who are relevant to the ROG community, our priorities and loyalty is, and remains, to our users.

ROG encourages mature, data driven discourse however we require that users behave in a courteous and respectful manner while interacting on ROG. We do not allow chaos. Therefore, on rare occasions ROG staff may be compelled to moderate posts and other content as tools to help keep ROG aligned with the ROG mission and values. We can’t review all posts or other content and therefore expect the ROG user community to police themselves and to call our attention to situations needing action where this has failed.

In extreme cases certain users who undermine the operation of ROG and/or the ROG community or threaten it’s existence through actions or content may be temporarily or, in exceptional cases, permanently banned from ROG. This is considered a tool of “last resort” and has been applied in only a very few cases in ROG’s 23+ years of operation and never without first attempting to resolve the situation through less extreme measures. We approach these actions with a very light touch and great seriousness and only the most egregious cases will be acted upon in this manner.

If you are concerned about a posting or other content here on ROG, your first step is to take it up directly with the user/member that posted it. If that doesn't get appropriate results then please send a note to one of the ROG moderators who are listed in each forum section.

Keep it clean, friendly, and informative and all will be well.

Thank you!

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Ron Curry
R.O.G. Founder/Administrator