Forum Code of Conduct
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In order to be a responsible member of the online community you must adhere to the following terms and conditions. Anyone who doesn’t feel they can abide by these guidelines should not sign up to them. If users are found to be breaching these guidelines once they have joined, they will be issued with one warning or banned immediately depending on the severity of their breach. Previously banned members who post again under a different alias will be deleted without further warnings. Comments or questions regarding the general administration of the forum should be made by "private message" or using the "report" button to the moderators or direct to Forum Admin. Such comments or questions should not be posted in the open forum.
-Please DO NOT advertise or post your personal details, your products or services on the message boards. Any advertising without permission will be removed.
-Please choose your words carefully when posting a message. It is diffucult to obtain the tone of written messages unlike when speaking to someone.
-Please keep to the topic of the original thread. This will help users to locate the information that they are looking for and will save space on the servers.
-There is to be no 'naming and shaming' on the site. If you have any complaints about particular individuals/companies then contact the relevant parties or authorities.
-Please DO NOT post messages that are insulting, abusive, racist, sexist, or derogatory in any way to others, whether they are individuals or companies, users of the Forum or not. This includes material sent via personal e-mails through this forum.
-Please DO NOT post messages that threaten, intimidate, victimise or harass others.
-Please DO NOT make libelous comments about individuals or companies, including Archant magazines.
-Please DO NOT post messages that contain explicit language or vulgarities (whether written in French, English or any other language)
-Please DO NOT post messages that impersonate or represent any person or entity in an attempt to deceive, harass or otherwise mislead another member.
-Please DO NOT incite illegal activity.
-Please DO NOT post messages that infringe intellectual property rights.
-Please DO NOT transmit any material that you don't have the right to transmit under law (such as copyright or trade secrets)
-Please DO NOT link to and/or references content not allowed under these guidelines.
-You MUST NOT use the service in a manner deemed inappropriate by Archant.
-Please DO NOT impede or disrupt the flow of the discussions in the Forum.
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