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AphasiaAccess: Online Community Guidelines 

Online Community Rules and Etiquette:

Thank you for being part of AphasiaAccess’ Peer to Peer Networking Community. To ensure the best possible experience for all community members, we have established some basic guidelines for participation. 

We understand that the world and our members are becoming more social and connecting online. As such we encourage all to participate in our online community. AphasiaAccess hosts several pages on public tools such as Facebook, along with our Peer-to-Peer networking community, our private members’ only social network. These platforms are great tools to get the advice of your peers, learn from their experience, and participate in an ongoing conversation. By participating on social platforms that are AphasiaAccess branded, you agree that you have read and will follow these rules and guidelines. 

If you have questions about these guidelines or the tools themselves, contact AphasiaAccess staff at [email protected]. In order to preserve a climate that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, AphasiaAccess reserves the right to delete posts or block the accounts of users who violate these rules. 

The Rules 

  • Don’t attack others. The discussions on the community platforms are meant to stimulate conversation not to create contention. Let others have their say, just as you may. 

  • Don't post commercial messages. Contact people directly with product and service information if you believe it would help them. 

  • Community messages should not contain promotional material, special offers, job offers, product announcements, or solicitation for services. AphasiaAccess reserves the right to remove such messages and potentially ban sources of those solicitations.    

  • Use caution when discussing products. Information posted on any platform is available for all to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws. 

  • All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited and may be removed. 

  • Do not post anything that you would not want the world to see or that you would not want anyone to know came from you. 

  • Please note carefully all items listed in the disclaimer and legal rules below, particularly regarding the copyright ownership of information posted to the Community. 

  • Remember that AphasiaAccess and other participants have the right to reproduce postings. 

 

Community Etiquette 

  • Transparency is very important in gaining trust in online relationships, therefore be clear who you are and who you work for when posting on any platform. This means including your real name on your accounts along with disclosing your employer and using a profile picture of your likeness and not your company’s logo.   

  • Decide which platform is best for your message. Just sharing a link, or an article with your comments, then Facebook might be better. Want to start conversations around a topic? That is best served in the Peer-to-Peer Networking Community. 

  • To learn more about how to use these tools please contact AphasiaAccess staff. 

 

The Legal Stuff 

These social media pages, accounts and sites are provided as a service of AphasiaAccess. AphasiaAccess is not responsible for the opinions and information posted on these sites by others. AphasiaAccess disclaims all warranties with regard to information posted on these sites, whether posted by AphasiaAccess or any third party; this disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall AphasiaAccess be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of any information posted on this site. 

Do not post any defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials. Do not post any information or other material protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright owner. In addition, by posting material, you grant to AphasiaAccess and the members of this community the nonexclusive, world-wide, transferable right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material in any way and in any medium, including but not limited to print or electronic form. 

Content should not be posted if it encourages or facilitates members to arrive at any agreement that either expressly or impliedly leads to price fixing, a boycott of another's business, or other conduct intended to illegally restrict free trade. Content that encourages or facilitates an agreement about the following subjects are inappropriate: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of sale; salaries; profits, profit margins, or cost data; market shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or suppliers. AphasiaAccess does not actively monitor these sites for inappropriate postings and does not on its own undertake editorial control of postings. However, in the event that any inappropriate posting is brought to AphasiaAccess’ attention, AphasiaAccess will take all appropriate action. 

AphasiaAccess reserves the right to block any users who do not abide by these guidelines.