Joining the CAFOD Community

By joining CAFOD Community, you can get involved in helping our vital work on a whole new level!

You can:

• post comments to articles
• share details of events in your area with other site users through our noticeboards
• take part in online debates on issues crucial to CAFOD's work
• feedback to us on how we are doing, and what we could do better
• manage your profile with us through your biography and e-news preferences

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House Rules

These exist so that everyone can get the best out of contributing to CAFOD Community. They aim to protect anyone who reads or contributes to the discussions, and to help everyone to have a fun and safe time.

If any contribution breaks the House Rules, it may be removed and the contributor suspended or barred from the Community.

Basic rules to remember are:

• Keep your posts relevant.
• Don’t post messages that are unlawful, defamatory, abusive, threatening, obscene, profane or racist.
• Don’t pretend to be someone else.
• Don’t abuse the complaints system.
• Don’t incite people to commit any crime.
• Don’t publish personal information.
• If you are under 18 you need a permission of your parent/guardina or teacher to join Big Deal Community

In addition, the full rules are:

• No defamatory comments. A defamatory comment is one that is capable of damaging the reputation of a person or organisation.
• Avoid contempt of court. This means that you shouldn't post anything that risks prejudicing on-going or forthcoming court proceedings.
• Do not incite people to commit any crime, including incitement of racial hatred.
• Avoid breaking a court injunction (for example, naming an individual or speculating as to their current whereabouts after a court has issued an injunction against doing so).
• Do not post content which you’ve copied from someone else
• Do not post messages that are unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented or racially offensive.
• Do not make multiple postings. So that we can publish comments from as many different people as possible, participants should keep their number of contributions per debate to a reasonable level. Multiple posts from one individual, or small number of individuals, discourages many others who might otherwise wish to take part.
• No swearing. Please don’t use profanities or other words which might offend people.
• No spamming or flooding. Don’t repost the same message, or very similar messages, more than once.
• Keep your posts relevant to the issue being discussed. Posts which aren’t relevant lower the value of the debate for everyone and may be removed.
• No advertising, promotion of products or services.
• Please post in English only. Posts containing languages other than English may be removed. Occasional words and common greetings in languages other than English may be acceptable.
• Do not impersonate anyone.
• No inappropriate usernames (vulgar, offensive, etc).
• Please don’t abuse the complaints system. It exists to enable visitors to alert CAFOD moderators about content which breaks the above rules. Please do not use it to report spelling mistakes and so on.

Violation of any of the House Rules may lead to your membership account be temporarily suspended or terminated.

CAFOD also reserves the right to suspend or terminate any membership account at any time and at its sole discretion.

Creating another account while suspended will constitute a further offence and result in your account being closed permanently.

CAFOD reserves the right to delete any posting, at any time, for any reason, and is under no obligation to publish any work submitted.

For under 18s

To register for CAFOD community you need to ask your parent/guardian or teacher for permission.

When you register, we ask you for an email address. We need this for administration purposes (for example if you forget your password we can email it to you) or if you choose to subscribe to our Big deal e-newsletter.

We won’t be showing your address to anyone else (unless for legal reasons we have to). Your email address is safe and sound with us - that’s a promise!

Your email address is something personal to you that you should be careful about sharing. When you are asked for your email address by a web site, you need to be clear about what that site is going to do with your address.

For all the info you need on staying safe online, go to http://www.childnet-int.org/projects

If you have any more questions about our terms and conditions, please email us on community@cafod.org.uk

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