Section 1.01 This organization is named
"VirtUAL".
Section 1.02 This organization is not
affiliated with United Airlines or any affiliates. All flight and
aeronautical information found through membership in the club is
for
entertainment use only. For any real-world flight operations consult
the appropriate procedures and regulations as approved by your local
regulatory body.
Section 1.03 This organization is not
formally organized and shall not be operated for any financial gain or
profit, nor will any service or item purchased for the group
be used for personal or commercial activity.
Section 1.04 The purpose of this
organization is primarily a social one: to gather likeminded aviation
enthusiasts who enjoy enriching their flight simulation hobby
through simulating the operations of a real-world airline.
Section 2.01 Membership in VirtUAL is open to any adult over the age of 18 by either invitation or by application.
(a) This age limit matches the age limit of vAMSYS, our service
provider, we do not accept parental permission as an exception to the
age limit. A link to
the vAMSYS Terms and Conditions can be found in Section 2.05 (a).
Section 2.02 Membership is fully
voluntary.
Section 2.03 Membership is at the sole
discretion of the
VirtUAL
administration team.
Section 2.04 All members are expected
to abide by these bylaws and by all rules, codes of conduct, and/or
community guidelines posted in any
VirtUAL websites,
chat
servers, forums, etc.
Section 2.05 All members are expected
to follow whatever posted rules, codes of conduct, and/or community
guidelines are found on all vAMSYS websites, chat
servers, forums, etc.
(a)
https://vamsys.io/legal/tc
(b)
https://vamsys.io/legal/privacy
(c)
https://vamsys.io/legal/cookies
Section 2.06 All members are expected
to follow whatever posted rules, codes of conduct, and/or community
guidelines are found on all VATSIM, IVAO, and PilotEdge
websites, chat servers, forums, etc.
Section 2.07 Breach of any of the above
may result in immediate termination of membership in the organization
at the sole discretion of the administration team.
Section 2.08
VirtUAL requires
each member to file one (1) PIREP via our automatic flight tracking
software, Pegasus, at least once every 90 days with a 10-day grace
period. Failing to meet this requirement will result in the users
account being deactivated, but not removed.
Section 2.09 New members are required
to file one (1) PIREP in their first ten (10) days after joining.
Failing to meet this requirement will result in the user's account
being deactivated, but not removed.
Section 2.10 If removed per Section
2.08 or 2.09, you may rejoin in the future by requesting that your
account be reactivated. Please contact the administration team
via email at
ual@fusionvaa.com
to request reactivation. Do NOT create a new account as your old
account was not deleted.
Section 3.01 The
VirtUAL
administration team is Mike Gold, Tim Long, Alex Dunbar, and Chase
Burrell.
Section 3.02 The administration team
will, wherever possible, share equally the duties of running the
organization, as well as the financial obligations.
Section 3.03 All
VirtUAL websites and
memberships are currently owned and administered by Mike Gold. Should
he leave the organization in the future he will be
responsible to migrate those accounts to another member of the
administration team.
Section 3.04 The duties of the
administration team are ad hoc and are coordinated internally and do
not consist of any specifically set roles.
Section 3.05 The administration team
has the final say on all operational matters within the organization
except where constrained by any external requirements from
the organizations in Section 2.05 and 2.06.
Section 3.06 The administration team
will take decisions wherever possible by unanimous consent. When a
disagreement over a decision cannot be resolved, each of
the three members will have one vote on the matter and the majority
opinion will be the decision.
Section 3.07 Each administration team
member can individually enforce our bylaws and community guidelines on
any
VirtUAL websites,
chat servers, forums, etc.
without consulting the other two admins, up to and including banning
from membership any offending party.
Section 3.08 As required, from time to
time, the administration team may delegate some tasks to certain
members as is appropriate. These duties will be documented
in the future when and if needed.
(a) The following individuals have been designated as members of the
VirtUAL “Staff Team”:
Tom Holden
(b) The following
individual has been designated as the
VirtUAL “Events
Coordinator”: [Name Witheld]
Section 3.09 Should a vacancy become
available on the administration team, the filling of it will be at the
sole discretion of the currently serving administration team.
Section 4.01 vAMSYS retains certain
Personal Identifiable Information (PII) from users when they sign up
for an account. This information is stored in vAMSYS
databases to which VirtUAL has limited
access.
Section 4.02 Please refer to the vAMSYS
privacy policy
(https://vamsys.io/legal/privacy)
for further information on how your information may be collected,
used, and removed.
Section 4.03 vAMSYS is the data
controller of data input to vAMSYS systems;
VirtUAL is a data
processor.
Section 4.04 If a user wants to
exercise their rights with regards to vAMSYS data, they must contact
vAMSYS via email at
hello@vamsys.co.uk.
Section 4.05 From time to time,
VirtUAL will export
users first and last names and their email addresses from vAMSYS for
the purposes of sending email newsletters.
This information is not retained by
VirtUAL.
Section 4.06 VirtUAL
occasionally sends out email newsletters. This is done via Mailchimp,
please refer to the Intuit privacy policy for further information
about how they
use stored information.
(a)
(https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/).
(b) Users can unsubscribe from these emails. By unsubscribing, they
are then manually unsubscribed from receiving future emails by
VirtUAL staff by
unsubscribing
the member from the vAMSYS emailable pilot database/list.
In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, the
administration team pledges to make participation in
VirtUAL and our
community a harassment-free
experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability,
ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level
of experience, education, socio-
economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or
sexual identity and orientation.
Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive
environment include:
Examples of unacceptable behavioir by participants include:
The administration team is responsible for clarifying the standards of
acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair
corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable
behavior.
The administration team has the right and responsibility to remove,
edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other
contributions that are not aligned
to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any
contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate,
threatening, offensive, or harmful.
This Code of Conduct applies within all project spaces, and it also
applies when an individual is representing the project or its
community in public spaces. Examples of
representation include posting in other forums or Discord channels
related to our hobby, flying on an online ATC platform such as VATSIM,
IVAO, or PilotEdge, posting via
an official social media account, or acting as an appointed
representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a
project may be further defined and clarified by
the administration team.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior
may be reported by contacting the administration team via email or
Discord direct message. All
complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a
response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the
circumstances. The administration team is
obligated to maintain confidentiality regarding the reporter of an
incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be
posted separately.
Members who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good faith
may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other
members of the project’s
leadership.
This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version
1.4, available at
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html.
For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq.
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VirtUAL is a non-commercial hobby group
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