House Rules: posting on dotNGO.net

Posting your messages on the forum is subject to the following House Rules.

Please remember not to post anything that may break our House Rules or we may be obliged to remove your post. Not all postings can be quickly moderated, so please take care with what you post.

We do not agree with limiting free speech and we are not wishing to censoring your views. However, consider the following rules of thumb for a happy posting experience with your new community:

House Rules

• Individuals and organisations are entitled to fairness and can make legitimate complaints if you post any untrue, defamatory or misleading comments about them.

• Remember any inflammatory, or prejudiced comments could result in your account being closed and the possibility of law enforcement becoming involved.

• Please refrain from engaging in disputes, arguments and hostilities.

• Please don’t post any advertising or make comments of a commercial nature. This is a not-for-profit forum discussion.

• Respect copyright. It has legal protection in the UK. Do not post any material that may breach copyrights or intellectual property of the author. Only quote from books, magazines or websites with full attribution for the author and the publisher otherwise this is plagiarism.

• Any messages that contain, condone or encourage illegal activities will not be accepted by the moderators and we may be under obligation to contact the relevant law enforcement authority.

• You are not totally anonymous online and can be traced even if you do not give your name when you post. Every computer connected to the Internet is given a unique address by your service provider. Law enforcement can access your unique address, since it is linked to every communication that you send when online. If you become aware of any difficulties that other people are experiencing, for example, threatening, bullying or nasty behaviour, do not interact in ways which might worsen the situation – please report it to us on info@dotNGO.net or your service provider and seek their help and advice. Copyright refers to the protection given to authors, which protects them against unauthorised copying of their work. Copyright can be attached to text, music, pictures and video clips. Check carefully for the copyright status of content prior to download or sharing. You can use a Creative Commons license to mark your creative work with the freedoms you want it to carry. You can use Creative Commons to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved” for example. Violation of copyright can lead to very serious consequences. If you feel there has been a breach of copyrighted material please alert us so we can make sure attribution is correct. If you feel postings are inappropriate again – feel free to contact us.

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