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Rules of FertilityCommunity.com's Community Websites
These rules apply to any message boards, chat rooms, e-mail discussion lists, free-email, or any other community websites or services ("Community Websites") operated by Sharespace.com, LLC. ("FertilityCommunity.com & FertilityForums.com").
- Respectful Participation Required: While we encourage members to share from their experiences, we do ask that you do so in a manner that is both kind and respectful to the person you are responding to. Please remember that infertility is a very emotional topic for most all of our participants in one way or another. There is a big difference between offering a differing opinion and berating another member who shares a different opinion than your own. We ask that all members be sensitive to the differing emotions involved with all aspects of infertility and not use the forums as a platform to promote an agenda which is not supportive of our members.
- No personal attacks: Personal attacks of any kind, public of private, will not be tolerated. FertilityCommunity.com chat rooms, message boards and journals are intended to be a positive, safe place for everyone. You are welcome to disagree with a member, but calling them names or flaming their character is not allowed. If you have a personal issue to discuss with a member, please take it off the boards and discuss it via PM.
- No profanity: Vulgarities, obscenities, name-calling, character assassinations or mockery are not allowed on any of the FertilityCommunity.com's community of websites. While there are appropriate topics of a mature nature, the vocabulary used needs to remain family friendly.
- Selling/Trading/Donating Medications is Illegal!:While the administrators and moderators of FertilityCommunity.com are sympathetic to the expenses involved in infertility treatments, we do not allow the sale/trade/donation of prescription medications on our forums, this includes Private Messages and Chat Rooms. The sale/trade/donation of prescription medications via our site is taken very seriously and anyone caught doing so will be banned without warning!
- Treatment of Moderators & Administrators: Any form of moderator or administrator harassment, including insults, personal attacks and character assassination done either in public or via private message can result in a ban of your account. If you disagree with actions taken by the moderating team, the proper procedure for voicing that disagreement is via Private Message or Email. For privacy reasons we can not and will not discuss the reason someone else's account was banned, either in public or in private. Moderating decisions are made based on a number of factors, and the action that resulted in the moderating decision is often no longer available for public view. It is inappropriate for users to create threads or post on existing threads denouncing the actions of the moderating team and doing so will result in further moderator action, up to and including account banning.
- No Solicitation or Marketing!: Advertising or solicitation of a product or service is not allowed anywhere on FertilityCommunity.com's community of websites, whether you own or have a vested interest in the product/service or not. Additionally, posting website URL’s or addresses that link directly to fee based products or services is not allowed. If you would like more information on how you can advertise with FertilityCommunity.com’s community of websites, please send an email to admin@fertilityforums.com
- No Fundraising!: The cost involved in infertility can vary from member to member. While some of our members may have insurance coverage to help assist with the cost of ART, many of our members do not. It is important to remember that we are all here for the same purpose, support through our infertility journey. It is highly inappropriate for anyone to ‘fundraise’ for their infertility treatment via this forum. This isn’t the kind of support venue we hope to have here at FertilityCommunity.com and we will delete all such messages without warning.
- Moderation, Editing and Banning: Chat Monitors and Forum Moderators regularly check the forums and chat rooms for inappropriate messages and material. Messages containing such material will be deleted or edited without warning or explanation and the member could be banned. FertilityCommunity.com reserves the right to edit, delete or otherwise moderate any postings made to its community of sites without warning or explanation. Members who require excessive moderation or whose participation results in excessive moderation may be banned.
- Reporting Violations: To report violations of any of the above rules, please click on the red and white triangle in the top right corner of the post and explain what you’re seeing. This will automatically dispatch a message to the moderators. You can also send an email to admin@fertilitycommunity.com
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