Wellspouse Online Community User Agreement

[LarryB]

WELCOME!

This forum is brought to you by The Well Spouse Association (WSA), an international organization with 501(c)3 non-profit status in the United States.

Registration and participation in the WSA forum is free for the first twelve months. After that time, in order to retain access to the forum you must convert to a supporting member of WSA. (Contact our office info@wellspouse.org if a hardship application is necessary) If you are not already a member of the WSA, we ask that you visit our website at http://www.wellspouse.org to learn more about the WSA and consider joining our organization. Annual membership includes a subscription to Mainstay, all WSA mailings and e-newsletters, access to our telephone support groups and mentors. participation in regional and local support groups (where available), as well as workshops, respite weekends, and the national conference. Everyone is welcome to join and dues go directly to support operations. We truly need your support as much as you need ours!

The following are terms of use that you agree to uphold as a member of the Well Spouse Online Community:

The Well Spouse discussion boards serve an online community of caregivers of chronically ill or disabled spouses or partners. Our discussions on the boards are, first and foremost, for support and information. By registering, you agree to respect and uphold the integrity of this community. Through your direct or indirect participation here you agree to make a personal effort to maintain a comfortable and respectful atmosphere for our guests and members. We have formed specific discussion guidelines and rules for maintaining a reciprocal and welcoming atmosphere for all discussion board participants. You are expected to avoid the following when you post:

1- Posting in a disrespectful, defamatory, adversarial, baiting, harassing, offensive, insultingly sarcastic or otherwise improper manner, toward a member or other individual, including casting of suspicion upon a person, invasion of privacy, humiliation, demeaning criticism, namecalling, personal attack, or in any way which violates the law.
2- Posting of profane or sexually explicit text.
3- Posting of copyrighted material without permission. Details of copyright guidelines are available here, in the Forum Guidelines and Rules board.
4- Posting to advertise your product or business.
5- Posting to discuss the behavior of a member or members on the board, or to criticize another discussion on the boards. Such issues should be directed to the moderator or administrator privately and not made a subject of discussion in a thread.

Any violation will result in your post being removed. You also may receive an administrative warning, temporary suspension, or complete ban from this community at the sole discretion of the Administrator/ Moderator.

While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

The Well Spouse Online Community and the Wellspouse.org website are property of the Well Spouse Association, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The Well Spouse Association reserves all rights, privileges and sole administrative authority. Well Spouse is a trademarked name.

This is a safe community. Please do not allow access to any posts by non-members. Our thoughts and desires are unique to well spouse.

[Erin]

A recent pm that I sent to a user. I thought it might be of some use to those of you considering imposing your religious beliefs on others:

1. You have no right to criticize anyone else's actions.
2. You have no right to tell someone what they need or don't need in a harassing way.
3. You have no right to imply that your religion is the only way -- if you do you are arrogant and self-important and we do not want such closed minded people here. You may think what you like privately to yourself.

Please be mindful of what you write and respectful of others.