LIVE YOUR STORY COMMUNITY & CLIENT POLICIES
Effective date: August 15, 2020
Community and Client Guidelines
These are the community and client guidelines for everyone engaging with Live Your Story and any associated sites, pages, places, feeds, and forums, including coaching, creative workshops, events, e-courses, community conversations, or social media (hereafter Our Sites).
These guidelines and boundaries are meant to ensure a feeling of safety for those in the community. If any user decides not to follow the guidelines on Our Sites, that user’s comments will be removed, and participation with Live Your Story will be disallowed. Access to any other element of Our Sites will also be limited or revoked.
GUIDELINES
The following guidelines include any information directly written on Our Sites as well as the posting of any links, videos, or other media on Our Sites. “Off-limits,” “disallowed,” “prohibited,” “not allowed,” and “not permitted” all indicate that the behavior is one which will trigger removal from Our Sites.
- Personal attacks, threats, and harassment are off-limits on Our Sites. This includes, but is not limited to, name calling, using cuss or swear words or foul language as an attack, and any kind of threat to privacy or safety.
- The following actions constitute personal attacks: racial, sexual, sexist, homophobic, ageist, ableist, religious, political, ethnic or other epithets or slurs directed against another individual or group. Also included are accusations about the private behavior of another member.
- The following actions constitute harassment: Repeatedly using comments, posts, private messages, and other participation on Our Sites to harass, threaten, or insult others. Repeatedly pointing to off-site resources with the intent to insult, ridicule, or harm an individual or business.
- Hate speech and hateful imagery are not permitted on Our Sites. This includes the legal definition of hate speech, as well as any hateful or disparaging comments towards any cultural, gender, sexual orientation, religious, political, socio-economic group, or physically, mental-health, or neurologically identified group. These words, phrases, or images express, either deliberately or unknowingly, hatred or contempt towards a group of people.
- Violations of privacy (including sharing the contents of private correspondence or private information about other community members without their permission on-line or in any other form) on Our Sites is prohibited.
- Harmful advice, hoaxes, and disinformation are disallowed on Our Sites.
- Sexually disparaging words, images, and photos are disallowed on Our Sites.
- Graphically violent words, images, and photos are disallowed on Our Sites. This includes images containing nudity or graphic violence on avatars or in community profile pictures.
- Unsolicited and unapproved promotional posts, comments, and private messages are considered spam and are not permitted on Our Sites. Violators will be not only be blocked but also reported.
- Solicitation of personal donations from others is disallowed on or through Our Sites.
OUR SITES
Our Sites are for informational, entertainment, and educational purposes only. They do not provide medical advice, opinion, diagnosis, or treatment. The information provided through Our Sites should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease; the information provided herewith is not a substitute for professional care. If you have a concern or question about your health, you should immediately consult your Primary Care Physician, Mental Health Professional, or another appropriate professional health care provider.
AFFILIATE LINKS
Our Sites include links to connect you with products and resources. In some cases, those affiliate links will provide a commission to Live Your Story for purchases made through that link. There is no additional cost to you. Links are to products personally used and vetted, as well as to resources personally tried and approved, unless otherwise delineated in the text, posting, or article around the link.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about the Live Your Story Policies, please contact us:
