It is MiDFur X’s sole aim to provide attendees with a safe and fun conducive environment. In order to ensure that everyone enjoys themselves, and gets the most out of this weekend, MiDFur X (MFX) has compiled the following list of regulations. These regulations are not intended to kill the fun, but rather to encourage you to have fun, and think of everyone else around you at the same time. We seek only to ensure that the behaviour of any one small group does not disturb the convention, or associated events as a whole, nor does it detract from the relaxed and comfortable atmosphere of the convention.

Most of the convention is for general audiences (PG15 or less). We will mark clearly the few areas and events which may exceed a general audience rating. At registration, you may choose to sign an age statement, stating that you are over 18 years of age. If you choose not to sign this statement, or are not over 18 years of age, your badge will be marked and you will only be allowed admittance to those areas or events which are for a general audience. Please be prepared to show your badge any time you need access to convention space or events - it identifies you as a fully-paid attendee of the convention.

MFX strives to maintain an environment that is safe and enjoyable for all Convention goers of all ages; we cannot, however, take responsibility for the actions of individual Convention goers, neither will we assume responsibility for those who are the legal responsibility of someone else. Any persons under the age of 16, must either be accompanied at all times by a parent or legal guardian, or present a signed and notarized statement (available on MFX ’s web page or from the registration department) indicating parental permission to attend unescorted. Even with such permission, minors must not attempt to attend any events intended for mature audiences unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

MFX would like to invite, and will welcome ALL fans of anthropomorphic art, lifestyle and associated topics of interest; however, the convention's management reserves the right to deny or revoke registration of any individual at any time. This action may be undertaken in the event that an individual's presence or behaviour causes significant interference with convention operations or adversely affects the organization's relationship with its guests or with its venue. MFX also reserves the right to amend these rules at any time without prior or posted notice. If you have any questions, please contact the Convention Secretary .

Anyone who accepts a Convention pass agrees to indemnify and hold harmless MFX , from any claim for personal injuries or other damages or equity arising out of any individual's activities at MFX , even if such injury or damage is caused by negligence by or on the part of MFX .

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Use your common sense in public areas. If you have to ask or think twice about doing it in public, take it to your room. For example, kissing and holding hands, regardless of sexual orientation, are fine. Groping, tongue battles and nudity, regardless of sexual orientation, are not. While collars may be worn discreetly, blatant displays of bondage or BDSM in public may result in you being asked to return your badge. We ask you to always wear at least a shirt, shorts, and shoes in public areas of the hotel.

Shirts, pants/shorts, and footwear must be worn when in the lobby of the hotel, in the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities, and in any restaurant attached to the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities. Bathing suits, swimmers, bikinis etc in the lobby or the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities are not considered to be appropriate attire. Costumes (fur suits) are considered "appropriate attire" in all areas of the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities except for the restaurants and the pool area, provided that the costumes are not unacceptably revealing. Costumes are not permitted in the restaurants or the pool area due to concerns for the safety of the costumer.

Attendees, when in public areas, may not wear clothing which is overly revealing or inappropriate to the atmosphere of the convention. The latter includes fetish-related garb and accoutrements. Collars are acceptable and are worn by numerous attendees as a fashion statement, but leashes attached thereunto are not.

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To ensure the safety of all those attending the convention, MFX maintains a very strict weapons policy. These policies are enforced at all times.

No weapons or any item that can be easily mistaken for one may be carried either openly or concealed at any time in convention space. Padded swords, bokken and similar striking implements used to practice swordplay may not be used in any convention area. Weapon replicas may be worn as part of a costume only at the Fur Parade and during convention-sponsored costuming events at the discretion of the Events Director, and must be cased or otherwise secured when being transported to and from that event. If you have any questions as to the permissibility of a prop for your masquerade performance, please contact the Events Director prior to the convention.

If at any time these items are held or used in such a way that would be construed as threatening, however, they will be considered weapons.

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MFX will provide a message board in a public area at Convention related events, where Convention goers may post messages, place announcements for get-togethers etc. Keep it clean. Be aware that you are a reflection on MFX as a convention, and The Australian Furry Community. The MFX staffs reserves the right to remove any posted materials that are considered inappropriate.

Do not affix anything to the walls of the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities, including in the elevators.

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The offering for sale of any merchandise at the convention may be undertaken only in the Dealers' room, in the Art Show and during the Art-JAM; in all cases the sale will be governed by the rules applicable to those areas. This information can be retrieved from the Dealers Den Administrator at the end of March 08

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There is no smoking in any portion of Accommodating Hotels, even in YOUR rooms. There is likewise no smoking in any portion of the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities. It is respectfully requested that those people who step outside to smoke kindly refrain from standing directly in front of any of the entrances, as the smoke is simply carried inside.

Please remember that you are a guest of the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities, and that there may be other guests staying or dining at the hotel who are not Convention goers. It is only common courtesy to maintain a level of noise appropriate to the time and place. We expect everyone to cooperate fully with MFX and with local security personnel.
"Disorderly conduct" may result in revocation of your Convention access pass, and includes any and all fighting, any inappropriate horseplay, or any actions that directly or recklessly cause undue disturbance or disruption of any convention or hotel function. This restriction also holds for the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities.

No items of any kind, including paper airplanes, may be thrown or dropped from the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities balconies or patios.
No water pistols, silly string, or any other projectile-type toy may be used in any public area of the Convention Centre and Accommodation facilities.

No sleeping in the lobby, the hallways, or anywhere else not designated as such. Seriously...Get a room, please!

Should a decision be made to revoke Convention Pass from anyone causing a disruption to the event, we ask that our Convention goers respect such a decision, which is always made after careful consideration by the entire MFX Committee.

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MFX is dedicated to providing a safe and comfortable convention experience for everyone. Harassment of any kind, including physical assault, deliberate intimidation, stalking, or unwelcome physical attentions, will NOT be tolerated. If people tell you "no" or to leave them alone, your business with them is done. No means NO! Defences like “I thought they were only joking” will not be tolerated!

Leave them alone. Do not follow them or attempt to disrupt their convention experience in any way. If you continue to attempt to have contact with those people, you may be removed from the premises.

MiDFur is not responsible for solving any interpersonal problems that may arise between individual Convention goers. In general, we can take no action to prevent a person from attending the convention unless that person has made a specific and credible threat toward the convention itself. If you feel that a threat exists against your person, we advise you to seek a restraining order against the individual in question and to present it to the Chairman in advance of the convention; otherwise, we recommend simply avoiding that individual. If that individual stalks, harasses, or attempts to assault you at the convention itself, you may report that individual to a member of the security staff and the appropriate action will be taken. Conversely, any attempt to have an innocent person removed from the convention by falsely accusing him or her of threats will be itself treated as an act of harassment and will be dealt with appropriately.

The responsibility for settling interpersonal disputes lies solely with the individuals involved, and MFX will not tolerate being used as a leveraging point in such disputes.

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The sale or other distribution of any illegal or controlled substances is not welcome at MFX!

Any individual found to be distributing such substances will be removed and reported directly to the local authorities. Bottled alcoholic beverages may legally be given as gifts. MFX asks that such beverages be consumed in the privacy of a hotel room and not taken into any convention function or function space. Please note an important caveat involving minors: Anyone knowingly or unknowingly providing alcohol to anyone under the age of 18 will be guilty of a felony and will be turned over to the authorities. It is the sole responsibility of persons serving alcohol in room parties to ensure that every person in attendance is over the age of 18, even if that person is not drinking alcohol. Victorian Government is extremely serious about this law and we ask our Convention goers to respect it.

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MFX Convention goers are welcome to record their memories of the convention for their own personal use. Additionally there is a chance that MFX Convention goers may end up with their likeness in the Convention highlights video or similar media productions produced by MFX. To account for this and to protect Convention goers from exploitation by unscrupulous parties, the following rules have been implemented.

For the purposes of this section the term "recording" is representative of any media capturing medium or devices, audio, visual or otherwise.

MiDFur, Inc. (hereafter MFX) retains the rights to all recordings of the convention. Individual Convention goers are allowed private use of any recording they have personally recorded at the convention. Public broadcast of a recording of any part of the convention is prohibited without written permission from MFX. The sole exception to this rule involves still photos. MFX permits (and encourages) Convention goers to share photographs of their convention experience on personal web pages. Video and audio recordings, however, may not be made available on the internet without written permission from MFX.

• Convention goers may not seek out or interview other Convention goers for the creation of a publicly-available recording without written permission of MFX, and must be escorted by a member of MiDFur’s Board of Directors at all times while on the premises.
• Convention goers may not portray themselves as representative of or use the name of MFX in any recording (both at the convention or elsewhere) without written permission from MFX.
• Convention goers may not offer for broadcast or distribution any recording that includes the imagery of MFX without written permission from MFX.
• Convention goers must agree that for any recording which includes the imagery of MFX they assign ALL related rights form the usage of said recording to MFX.
• Individual Convention goers agree to assign without compensation the use of their likeness(es) at MFX for the use of promotional material such as the highlights videos.
• Any recording that is made by MFX in a setting that offers a reasonable expectation of privacy (such as in a hotel-room or non-public party or area) will not be used without the member's written permission.
• Parties interested in making recordings for public interest should contact the Chairman for further information.
• Convention goers are not permitted to film items displayed in the art show except with the explicit permission of, and under the direct supervision of, the Art Show Director. All cameras and other recording devices must be checked at the art show entrance. MFX assumes no responsibility for checked items. Cell phones may not be used in the Art Show at any time. If you wish to make or receive a call, you must exit the room.
• MFX may allow certain members of the media to film and/or conduct interviews at the convention. These people will always be accompanied by an MFX senior staff member. Convention goers should not grant interviews with unescorted media, and are strongly discouraged from inviting such media to their hotel rooms.

Any inquiries relating to MiDFur can be directed to the Chairman.

Any information released to the general community that has not come from The Chairman's email should be disregarded and considered as irrelevant!

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Please note: all memberships are fully transferable, however non-refundable.

MFX is pleased to accept personal checks. (Please email the Finance Dept. for more information) Checks that are presented against insufficient funds, however, must be charged a fee of $30 per check. MFX is working on making Credit Card payments possible. Please bear with us on this one.

MFX cannot involve itself in financial disputes between individual Convention goers, and cannot divulge information about an individual member to any party other than to banking officials or legal authorities.

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The standards of conduct for MFX will be strictly enforced by MFX security volunteers who will be clearly identified as such on site. Please remember that your con badges are property of MFX for the duration of the convention, and must be presented and/or surrendered to any Staff member requesting it. If you have any problem with any action taken by a Staff member you may take the matter up with the Chief of Security or MFX’s Chairman. We shall make every attempt to be fair and lenient in the case of infractions, but we cannot tolerate behaviour which threatens the peace and well-being of our Convention goers.

MFX accepts no liability for events or actions by individuals in the confines of private hotel rooms. Anyone intending to host a party is strongly suggested to check for MFX badges on party goers, and to deny entrance to any person who is not a member of the convention. Responsibility for incidents occurring in hotel guest rooms rests solely upon the individual in whose name the room is rented. This includes payment for any and all damage, whether caused intentionally or unintentionally (such as from hanging something on a sprinkler head. Don't do that.) Please note that if MFX is provided with sufficient evidence to suggest that illegal activities, particularly those that may cause harm to another person or to the well-being of the convention as a whole, will be taking place in a hotel room, we have both a civic and a moral responsibility to report such information to the appropriate authorities.

Please be reminded that these rules involve, of course, "worst-case" scenarios and are put into place to ensure the safety and comfort of our Convention goers. We anticipate no difficulties, as our Convention goers as a whole are rational and responsible adults. MFX is prepared to deal with any or all of the above scenarios in as rapid and efficient a manner as possible should they occur.

We thank our Convention goers for their cooperation and for their continued assistance in making this a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone. Have fun - just please remember to be courteous of those around you while doing so!

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Have Fun.

Arctic|Pete
Chairman- MFX