Carers Community Rules

We want everyone to enjoy using our discussion boards and chatroom, so we have put together some guidelines to ensure that you feel safe and comfortable as a member of our carers' community.

Please bear in mind that this community is for adult carers (i.e. 19 and over) who look after a family member, partner or friend. If you are 18 years and under, please go to our site for young carers, YCNet, which also has a discussion board and chat room, supervised by our team of online support workers; Sam, Ewan, Claudia and Susannah.

Guidelines

• Keep the messages relevant to the discussion topic
• Don't use bad language, which includes language that someone else may think is racist or sexist
• Respect everyone's right to an opinion, even if you disagree
• Guard your own confidentiality; don't post your real name, address, telephone number or your email address on a message
• Please don't post messages that can be deemed as commercial advertising, as these will be removed
• Any message which constitutes a personal attack against anyone, on any grounds, will be immediately removed and a warning will be issued to the user
• Respect the privacy of other users
• The information posted is not normally moderated, so please do not use these facilities inappropriately
• Any statements or opinions posted onto the site are those of the person posting them alone and are in no way endorsed by The Princess Royal Trust for Carers

We reserve the right to remove any message or topic, which we deem to be unsuitable for our community.

We will evaluate any messages that break these rules on a case by case basis. If your message is found to have broken these rules you will be given a warning, after three warnings you will be banned.

We also reserve the right to delete a user's registration if he/she fails to follow the guidelines as detailed above.

Please report any abuse immediately to our Online Support Team

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