Guideline Updates

[Jonesy]

Hi everyone,

Please know that the Forum Guidelines have received another wee update to include a section as follows:

Expressing Strong Emotions
It is understandable that you may feel strong emotions, or be triggered, by what you read from time to time. Be mindful that some members may still be living with their abuser or are not yet in a place where they can handle strong criticism against them. If you feel anger towards another member’s abuser, please be careful with your choice of words when responding. Trigger warnings will be changed, as necessary.

It can be found within SECTION 3: POSTING https://isurvive.org/join-our-forum/for ... s/#Posting
Your continued use of isurvive.org will be seen as an acceptance of/ agreement with these changes.

[Crow]

Gotcha

[Jonesy]

Hi Crow

Thanks, appreciate you taking time to let me know.

[Jonesy]

Hi everyone,

Please know that the Forum Guidelines have received an update to include the following 2 paragraphs within Good Participation Skills:

• As you write, please keep in mind that we have members with a wide range of experiences and political opinions from all over the world. There are times and places for expressing specific viewpoints but please recognise that this is not a forum for debate on politics or controversial topics. Our focus needs to be on abuse healing and remain an emotionally safe environment for all members.
  
  All the team members here are survivors and have a heart for helping others on their healing journeys. To maintain a safe environment for all there may come times when subject matter is not appropriate for this site and we reserve the right to edit, lock threads or remove posts without challenge, to protect our community.

This can be found within SECTION 2: Conduct on the Forum https://isurvive.org/join-our-forum/for ... s/#Conduct
Your continued use of isurvive.org will be seen as an acceptance of/ agreement with these changes.

[Jonesy]

Hi everyone,

Please know that the Forum Guidelines have received an update to include the following paragraph:

• In the spirit of protecting our members and their stories; it may become necessary to share email/ ip addresses with other forums, blogs, web sites or publishing entities if we need to investigate plagiarism or theft of content, which is in violation of our guidelines.

This can be found in the general information at the top of the page https://isurvive.org/join-our-forum/forum-guidelines/

Please also be aware that the Privacy Policy https://isurvive.org/privacy-policy/ has been updated to include the following bullet point within 'How We Use Your Information':

• We do not share this information with any external entity or individual, except if:
  required to do so by law
  we need to investigate plagiarism or theft of content with other forums, blogs, web sites or publishing entities

Your continued use of isurvive.org will be seen as an acceptance of/ agreement with these changes.

[Jonesy]

Hi everyone,

Please take time to look over

1. We have added our Mission Statement and Constitution to 'About Us' https://isurvive.org/about-us/mission-s ... stitution/

2. In our Forum Guidelines https://isurvive.org/join-our-forum/forum-guidelines/ we have:

*added a new section called 'Thread Titles'
*updated information regarding the posting of external links