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. 18 and over) who look after a family member, partner or friend. Adults with an interest in carers' issues are welcome too, but the community is first and foremost a place for carers themselves. If you are under 18, 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 Carers Trust
• 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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