Discussion board guidelines

We do hope that you find joining the Online Community a rewarding and supportive experience. The aim of the Community is to allow those affected by childhood cancer  to share their stories and experiences and gain support from reading the experiences of others.

Users of the Online Community can also post messages on our message boards.
Please note all contributions to the CLIC Sargent website are pre-moderated and will not appear until checked by CLIC Sargent. This is to protect all members of the community against any offensive, damaging or misleading messages, and to allow for added protection for those under 18.

The message boards are currently only open between 930am and 500pm Monday to Friday.

Please follow the main rules for the Community which are:

• Respect everyone on the Community, even if their views are different to yours.
• Please do not include personal information in your posts. These posts will be removed from the site. For example if you are talking about your child, please keep their personal details to a minimum. This is for their protection, to ensure that they cannot be identified outside of the message board.
• If you have a useful link that you would like to share with the Community, please remember that all links should be useful to the Community, link to a reputable website and not cause offence. Please be aware that links may be removed from a post if they are not suitable. This is to protect  all community members, especially those under 18.
• Please do not post information about alternative therapies, wonder cures for cancer or any type of any medical advice. Posts of this nature may be edited for the safety of the rest of the Community. The exception to this is when you want to discuss a therapy or treatment that is in the news/subject of debate.
• If you are under 18, please do not reveal any personal information about yourself, for example your name or contact details. Create a username that does not reveal  your real name. When you contribute to the site, your username only will be displayed.

Please also note that contributions to this website will also be removed if CLIC Sargent perceives them to be:

• Offensive, objectionable or defamatory about anyone else.
• Using swear words of any kind
• Using racist, sexist, homophobic language, or are in any other way discriminatory or offensive.
• Containing commercial adverts of any kind which do not benefit CLIC Sargent or reflect one of their cause related marketing schemes
• Written in a language other than English
• Containing any kind of contact information
• Destructive – being rude or unkind to another member of the Community, trying to impersonate another member of the Community or talking about things that are considerably off-topic for the Community.

CLIC Sargent reserves the right to delete any contribution at any time and for any reason.
We do however encourage everyone to maintain a helpful, supportive, safe and understanding environment for all of the Community members.

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