I believe waiting for a few weeks for a response to this question is plenty polite and so to go one step further I'd like to offer a few examples from two companies I believe Avast has business ties with.
First example would be Google and let us consider their handling of this issue on all their Help Community pages:
< < < Copy Starts > > >©2022 Google Privacy Policy -- Terms of Service -- Community Policy -- Community Overview< < < Copy Ends > > >Even the Google page that is not specifically focused on a Help Community, such as this one;
https://myaccount.google.com/intro/supporthas at the bottom of that page the following:
< < < Copy Starts > > >Privacy -- Terms -- Help< < < Copy Ends > > >This Avast Forum platform appears to be a Simple Machines product (presumably allowing for the assertion of a company relationship with Avast) and let us take a look at the Simple Machines landing page:
Lower right corner of their landing page is the following:
< < < Copy Starts > > >Help | Terms and Rules | Go Up ▲
< < < Copy Ends > > >While it may seem "nonsensical" to certain parties for me to be asking about this matter, I suspect that the industry standard, if not the law, is that some sort of "Terms" should be clearly stated to prospective members of this Online Community.
And the examples above are related to the idea that I am asking about a matter that seems to be an industry standard, just in case there are those that might not be aware of such standards being adhered to be prominent businesses in this business.