babyworld Terms of Use
community rules covering member content, forums and chat
babyworld has a well-established and friendly community which is intended to offer parents and parents to be the opportunity to find and offer real support and friendship, and to exchange personal experiences. It is therefore our duty to keep this community a safe and welcoming place for all our members. We have had several years experience of managing this community (our first launch was in 1996) and these rules have evolved with our experience to ensure babyworld remains a friendly, fun and supportive environment for everyone. The rules govern your use of the babyworld forums and chatroom specifically, but are also relevant to member content areas (diaries, stories, gallery) - they're mostly about common sense and courtesy, but your adherence to them will help to ensure that everyone has a positive experience.
Conditions of use
| RULE A: babyworld's decision
is final. babyworld can edit or delete messages as we see fit, it is
our sole discretion. This is for your benefit and is to ensure the forums
stay friendly, fun and supportive. If you feel unable to accept this rule,
then we politely request that you find what you seek on forums elsewhere.
Posting to our discussion forums and entering into our chat room will be taken as acceptance of these rules. You should ensure that you are aware of your legal responsibilities when using our forums. Please note that contravention of these rules will lead to the removal of your message. Should you come across any messages breaking these rules, please let us know. |
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1. | Do not flame or personally insult another user. Please do not use babyworld discussion forums or chat rooms to harass, threaten or attack anyone, or behave in any way that would cause annoyance or distress to other users. Please be tactful when posting in a forum or chat room where extra sensitivity is required. |
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2. | Commercial messages and messages from businesses
or organisations are not permitted. These forums and chat rooms are
for use by parents and parents-to-be - they are not to be used as a medium
for marketing or selling to our users. Journalists, media researchers and general researchers must not post requests for participants on babyworld's forums and chat rooms. For permission to post your request, please email our Community Manager. |
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3. | You may not insult or defame babyworld,
including any of its employees, moderators or freelancers. You may not post
the contents (in part or whole) of any email that you may receive from any
babyworld employee or moderator without our
prior permission. |
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4. | Do not labour a point after a thread concerning the same point has been removed or has run it's course |
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5. | Do not post messages more than once. This is also known as 'flooding'. Duplicate messages are very frustrating. |
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6. | Do not behave in any way that disrupts the flow of an ongoing discussion or that spoils the atmosphere within the forum or chat room. |
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7. | Do not impersonate another person. |
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8. | Do not post chain letters, promote pyramid schemes or recruit members for any 'network marketing' businesses. |
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9. | Do not collect or distribute personal data concerning other babyworld members without first obtaining the consent of babyworld and the members concerned. |
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10. | Do not use the forums or chat rooms to make complaints about babyworld. If you are unsatisified about something, please consider other forum/ chat users, and email us directly . |
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11. | Do not use the forums for personal chit chat. Please take this offline or make use of our chat room. |
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12. | Do not use the forums or chat rooms to buy or sell your baby goods. |
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13. | Do not recruit our members to join another website forum or chat group, whether personal or otherwise. Adding a link to a specific personal website that is utterly relevant to both your posting and the forum topic is permitted on infrequent occasions. (see examples of permissible/non permissible links) If you have a suggestion for a new forum, please contact our Community Manager. If you are approached to join another group/site as a result of your babyworld membership/posts on our forums, please advise us. |
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14. | We encourage the exchange of information
on the forums and adding an appropriate link to your posting links is invited.
However, obvious promotion of, or inappropriate links to, other known commercial
parenting websites, or any forum or chat groups are not permitted and will
be removed .(see examples of
permissible/non permissible links) If you are unsure whether a link
or posting is allowed, please
ask us.
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15. | We encourage a healthy exchange of opinions and disagreements are allowed! By all means challenge an opinion – but please do it respectfully. Name calling, insults and foul and abusive language will not be tolerated. This includes the use of offensive nicknames and usernames. |
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16. | Be sure you want to give information which is personal before you post a message. Remember that anybody can read it. That said, we respectfully ask that you use a proper name when posting to the forums, and keep with that name when posting. If there is someone already posting with the same name, please alter your name to avoid confusion. |
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17. | This is a UK site. Please make your postings in English so they are understood by other members and our moderators. We apologise but we can't allow members to post in a language other than English.. |
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18. | babyworld aims to bring the best of our community
to a larger audience. We may do this by quoting your discussion board messages
in newsletters, throughout babyworld, in books, newspaper columns, radio
and tv programmes. When using your comments, we will identify you only by
your babyworld member name. We promise to be sensitive in this effort. We
will not republish anything that we think could be deemed personally endangering,
inflammatory or embarrassing to you without your consent. |
Thank you
Safety guidelines
All members are responsible for the safety of their personal information. We recommend that members do not disclose their name, address, email address, telephone number or other personal information online. No babyworld employees or babyworld discussion forum moderators will ever request such details online.
If you plan to meet a babyworld member in person please observe some precautions:
- Get a friend to accompany you.
- Always inform a person you trust of your movements, when, where and whom are you meeting.
- Always meet people you don't know in a public place of your choosing.
Images
All members need to be aware that when they submit an image to babyworld and it is accepted for publishing then it is visible to the entire internet community. Babyworld can be viewed by pretty well anyone on the planet with a PC and a modem.
Any image that can be displayed on a computer screen can potentially be saved by the person viewing it.
It is not technically possible for babyworld or any website to prevent this from happening so if you are worried about someone else viewing or saving your images then you should not submit them. If you suspect that an image you have submitted to babyworld has been used fraudulently then you should contact us immediately. community@babyworld.co.uk
Watermarks
All images uploaded to babyworld will by default have a watermark embedded in them containg your username and babyworld.co.uk.
This does not prevent anyone viewing or saving the image but does help you and us keep track of which images are being used and where. This feature can be turned off at the point of uploading the image but for your own peace of mind and security we would advise you to allow watermarking of all images that you upload to babyworld.
Legalities
All members are reminded that they may be held legally accountable for what they say or do online. In particular, members may be held liable for any defamatory comments, threats and untrue statements or other illegal and fraudulent claims made by them.
Unfortunately, babyworld cannot guarantee the prompt editing or removal of any content. Neither babyworld nor its third party contractors are liable for the content of any material accessed via the internet, any adverse treatment of any information placed by a member anywhere on the internet, or any loss or damage that a member may suffer as a result.
We do not endorse opinions expressed by members of babyworld on its discussion forums, in its chat rooms or anywhere on the site where members can add their own content.
babyworld reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to remove material from babyworld discussion forums and member content areas at any time
babyworld discussion forums, member content areas, and chat rooms consist of information posted by third parties. As a result, babyworld accepts no liability in respect to the accuracy or truthfulness of any advice, information or data posted online or any responsibility for the consequences of a member acting in reliance on such information.
Please also be aware of our privacy policy and disclaimer.
To protect other babyworld members
If members fail to observe the above Conditions of use at any time, babyworld reserves the right to exclude the member (either temporarily or permanently) from the babyworld community (including forums, chat rooms and member area) depending on the nature and severity of the breach.
We reserve the right to deny access to babyworld's community, including discussion forums and chat rooms, to members who repeatedly breach these Conditions of use.babyworld reserves the right to change these Conditions of use at any time and will post details of the changes online.
Members accepting the Conditions of use agree that babyworld may release their information (both present and past) where babyworld believes that a member has breached the Conditions of use or used babyworld's discussion forums or chat rooms to commit unlawful acts. Babyworld also reserves the right to disclose a member's personal information where required to do so by law and where babyworld deems it appropriate in response to complaints of a substantial nature.
Use of our community services, including discussion forums, chat rooms and member areas will be taken as acceptance of these rules. Please note that any contravention of these rules will lead to the removal of your message/content.
Should you come across any messages breaking these rules, please let us know.
Where to next?
- Go shopping in the babyworld online shop
- Chat now in one of our great discussion forums
- Join one of our online antetnatal clubs
- Experienced abuse on one of our boards? Report it here
- Read and then try out our fun list of abbreviations and acronyms
- Find out more about our moderators
- Get chat savvy with our netiquette guide
- See also our privacy policy, copyright and disclaimer information.
