CHOC Board Forums and Directory Rules
A few rules, and some legal stuff will, of course, apply to our forums and our board. Please receive them in the spirit of helping us keep the CHOC Talk forums and the CHOC Board a safe, accurate, and enjoyable place for Christian homeschoolers to communicate, resource and network.
Legal Disclaimer:
While the CHOC Board strives to provide accurate and appropriate information on its CHOC Talk forums posts, archived help pages, and directory entries...
The CHOC Board makes no warranties or guarantees of any kind and is not liable for any damages which may be incurred by relying upon any of the information provided by the CHOC Board or its forums.
The CHOC Board acts as a community news and free classified ad service and may rely upon third-party information and third-party posters (that's how a network functions).
Therefore a directory entry or post should not be construed as a personal guarantee or recommendation by the CHOC Board or its owners, Tammy and Glen Arp, nor are we attempting to act as character reference for any instructor, program, or oganization.
Also, while our focus is to support Christian homeschooling families, not all forum or directory entries describe opportunities or resources that are explicitly Christian.
Please personally verify any class, program or instructor is appropriate for your own family's safety and concern.
As we do make sincere attempt to keep our directories, help pages, and forums accurate, useful, and appropriate to Christian Homeschoolers, if you see an entry or post that is inaccurate, fradulent or inappropriate, or discover a program or activity is inappropriate for Christian homeschool families, please inform the CHOC Board administrator at westside@chocboard.net
Forum Rules for Third Party Posters and Treatment of Posts:
Please keep all posts friendly, respectful, courteous, accurate, wholesome, useful to Christian homeshoolers, and mindful of Christian principles.
No flaming or spamming or fraudulent posting is allowed!
Please use wise internet practices regarding disclosing your personal contact information on the CHOC Talk forums as they are public information. We strongly encourage our users to sign up for an internet based email service such as Yahoo or Gmail or Hotmail, keeping your personal profile very limited and vague, and using that specific email address rather than your private home email address or phone number for all internet registrations or posts. The CHOC Board will never sell or give away any email address or personal information of anyone registered on its CHOC Talk forums to any third party. (The Runboard holds the same privacy policy).
Children should post only upon the permission and with supervision of their parents. (Runboard requires a minimum age of 13 for a Runboard registration). It is not the CHOC Board's intent to provide a message board for homeschooled children but rather for homeschool families and homeschool alumni, so its purpose is mainly adult support.
Membership in the CHOC Talk forums is offered on an "as is" basis without warranties or guarantees of any kind including any sales transactions conducted on our forums. You join and participate in the CHOC Talk forums at your own risk. The forums administrator, CHOC Talk, and the CHOC Board, shall not be liable for any damages or losses which result to you from your use of or participation in the CHOC Talk forums.
Please report any objectionable posts to the CHOC Talk forums administrator. Posting is a privilege on our forums not a right. Abusive posts or excessive business ads will be removed; repeatedly abusive posters or excessive business posters will be blocked. It will be in the sole discretion of the CHOC Board as to what constitutes reasonable vs. abusive or excessive posting. Our word is final. (See provisions for homeschool businesses and businesses providing homeschool services below).
Abuse of the guest posting function on our board may result in the CHOC Talk discontinuing it.
Due to the nature of the internet, The CHOC Board makes no guarantees of any kind regarding any of the links on its pages or in its forums or the appropriateness of their content. If a Link is dead or, gasp, not what we'd or you'd expect, please Contact Us through the side bar to request the link removed.
Please do not cut and paste (or otherwise transfer) any copyrighted material onto our forums (simply refer to the book or source in your post or add a link to your post if the source site permits such links).
The CHOC Board reserves the right to copy, remove, delete, edit, revise and monitor all information and material that is posted in its forums without stated permission of the poster (your post implies permission).
If passing information along from another board, please make sure the other board allows such transmission, the facts are kept accurate, private information intended to be private is kept private, and that the information or material is not copyrighted.
Directory Pages and Help Pages Material Treatment and Copyright:
The CHOC Board contains several different archive page types: directory pages and help pages.
The help pages are "Homeschool 101," Homeschooling High School, " and "Learning Group Ideas." These help pages, and their connecting subpages, are written solely by the CHOC Board. All downloadable articles authored by the CHOC Board which are imbedded within a help page, and the expository narration written by the CHOC Board on our help pages, are the property of the CHOC Board with All Rights Reserved. You are given permission to print these help pages and articles off for your personal or homeschool support group use if you give proper credit to the author and the CHOC Board, print them in their entirety or keep the Q&A section within its intended context, and include the CHOC Board's web address.
If an internet link on a CHOC Board help page takes you to another organization's or person's website, please adhere to their copyright wishes for their article or webpage.
The CHOC Board directory pages are those which contain fact lists about the resources available to our homeschool community. These pages are "Activities and Programs," "Stores and Resources," and "Handy Links!" The information on these pages may be linked to, copied, or passed along to others in our community. If you "lift" the complete page, please give credit to the CHOC Board for the entire list or simply include a live link back to our site.
Great ideas, helpful weblinks, and current information about homeschool resources in our community may be transferred from posts on the CHOC Talk forums to the CHOC Board's directory pages for use by all in our Christian homeschool community, Such transfer from the CHOC Talk forums will be at the sole discretion of the CHOC Board. (The CHOC Board retains the right of refusal to archive information or material for any reason it sees fit. It may not have been relevant, not fit the purpose of our board, was not verifiable or accurate, or any number of reasons not stated here).
Generally, posters on the CHOC Talk forums whose information is transferred to the CHOC Board directory pages will not be given personal credit in order to allow anonymity for CHOC Talk posters and allow the CHOC Board to act as a unified online resource directory. If you desire to receive personal credit, other than your CHOC Talk user name, for your material (like a written article), please contact us through the side bar and place a request. The CHOC Board cannot guarantee it will be able to archive your written material (as we were not expecting to become an online publisher for other's articles or material at this time), but will be open to considering it for archive. (Let's talk!)
Provisions for Businesses and Organizations:
Homeschool businesses and organizations, or those businesses or organizations offering homeschool products, programs or activities are welcome to post seasonal or pertinent information reasonably periodically in our appropriate forums (either Curriculum & Services Talk, or Calendar Talk) to keep the homeschool community well informed of your current schedules, seasonal specials, or services.
However please do not use this as an excuse to deluge the board with free advertisements for your business or to troll for email addresses! Excessive business ads will be removed, excessive business posters blocked!
If this free privilege of business posting becomes a problem for our private posters, the CHOC Board reserves the right to revert to a private posters only policy on its forums or to create a separate forum for business ads possibly at charge to the business poster.
Instead, if you have an ongoing homeschool program or activity, or a regular business or oganization that supports Christian homeschoolers in our area, please contact the CHOC Board to be considered for placement on our archive list on the CHOC Board site (of Local Stores and Resources, or Local Activities and Programs).
Availability of Forums and Board:
The CHOC Board and the CHOC Talk forums administrator make no warranty, express or implied, that access to the archive board or the CHOC Talk forums will be available at any particular time; that operation of the archive board or forum will be uninterrupted or error-free; or that any particular result or information will be obtained.
Future Actions:
Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure the CHOC Talk forums and the CHOC Board are not disrupted or abused in any way.
The operating rules and procedures of the CHOC Talk forums and the CHOC Board directory may change from time to time. Such changes will be posted here. Only the CHOC Board owners and its forums administrator may change a rule or policy of the CHOC Board or its CHOC Talk forums.