forum usage & guidelines
 Welcome & Introduction
Welcome to the Diabetes Wellness Network Forum. This is a unique forum in the UK dedicated to the issues and questions which affect life with diabetes. It is intended as a safe environment for people living with diabetes to share their experiences and ideas, supporting one another through the Diabetes Wellness Network.
Please remember that that the discussions you are have on this forum are with other people living with diabetes and not health care professionals, so it is vital that you seek professional approval before acting upon any advice you may receive from fellow forum users. Please read the disclaimer before
using this forum as it is important that you understand the nature of the forum
and take care when using it, as
all the information you choose to divulge will be in the public domain.
If you choose to post your own messages, you will have to register. Registration
requires you to agree to the forum terms and conditions of use. Register
now »
Taking Care
Our forum is available to the general public and will potentially be viewed
by many people. For personal safety reasons, it is important that you do not
include any personal information in forum postings (i.e. no names, email addresses,
phone numbers, or home addresses).
The forum includes user names of those posting a message. We encourage you
to create a user name alias for yourself, so that your true name is not visible
on any posted message. This helps to prevent any unwanted replies from random
people who are interested in responding directly to forum postings, particularly
from young people.
Forum Postings
If you discover inappropriate postings, or if you become the subject of
abusive postings from other forum users, please notify the Diabetes Research & Wellness
Foundation immediately at: [email protected] or use the contact form here. Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation reserves the right to delete
from the forum any messages deemed to be obscene, inappropriate, incorrect
in the nature of their advice or potentially dangerous to the health of others.
You must refrain from using inappropriate language.
- Repeated posts are not allowed; they clutter the message boards
and provide annoyance to its users.
- Posting URL's to websites other than drwf.org.uk pages is not allowed.
However we are always keen to feature informative and useful
websites about diabetes so please let us know about them.
We do not guarantee a url will be featured and
reserve the right not to feature a site or send feedback.
- Email addresses in posts are not allowed. If you would like someone
to email you, please refer them to your username that appears at the
bottom of your
posting if registered and if the post is not anonymous.
- Copying and pasting copyrighted material in a post is not allowed.
To share copyrighted material ask people to email you to obtain the
information.
- Posting telephone numbers other than your own is prohibited.
- Do not email people unless this has been requested.
- Do not post advertisements for products or services for sale.
- The use of the message boards for gathering information
for surveys and research studies is prohibited unless
prior permission
has been
given by the MS Society
- Discrimination or prejudice will not
be tolerated. Do not post prejudicial statements, comments or remarks
in posts on the boards.
- Harassment and profanity are not allowed.
- Pornographic material and/or references to it is not allowed
in posts.
- Any banning of a visitor from anywhere within the MS
Society website by any moderator is binding and the decision is final,
and no correspondence
will
be entered into nor will the MS Society be obliged to explain
such banning
- Any person can be banned by any moderator for
messaging comments that are not constructive to the overall purpose and
mission
of the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation
or create
a distraction to that purpose and mission.
- Your email address will not be viewable to others if you
select to post anonymously. If you email someone, when they
receive your
email, your email
address will be viewable to them.
- Our Message boards are
an open format and all posts will appear. However, if a post contravenes
these guidelines or is otherwise considered inappropriate by the Diabetes
Research and Wellness Foundation or its forum moderator(s) it will be
deleted and the user responsible may be banned.
Privacy Policy
We do not collect any personal information about you via the forum, unless
you choose to provide it.
Since this is an open forum any posts that you make will automatically
enter the public domain.
Click here to review our full privacy policy »
When you
link to other organisations via our website, you then are subject to the
rules
and privacy laws of that organisations site. If you have any questions
regarding our privacy policy please email us at [email protected]
or use the
contact
form here.
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