Terms of service: The Full Stop Community space.

This Code of Conduct governs your use of The Full Stop Community space (the “Community”) made available to you by the The Full Stop Community CIC (the “Full Stop”) on the online service known as “Circle.so” and all content available through the Community, including content posted to and messages sent through the Community by Community users (“Community Content”).

You may report violations of this Code of Conduct by sending an email to: thefullstoppod@gmail.com

If you do not agree to this Code of Conduct, then you may not use the Community.

General Use Rules

Your use of the Community (including uploading and posting Community Content) must be lawful, respectful of the legal rights and interests of others and appropriate to The Full Stop.

Without limiting the above, the following rules apply to the use of the Community and Community Content:

Intended Purpose:  Your use must be relevant and appropriate. You may only use the Community and Community Content for purposes that are consistent with the spirit and intended purposes of The Full Stop.

Respectful Use: Your use of the Community must respect The Full Stop, the founders, moderators and other Community users. Please consider the Community a space for respectful discussion, support and constructive feedback and tailor the Community Content you upload and post accordingly.

Lawful Use:  Your use of the Community must be lawful and must comply with all applicable laws.

Other Persons’ Rights: Your use of the Community must not infringe the legal rights of any other person (including privacy and personality rights, copyright, moral rights, and other intellectual property rights).

No Data Collection:  Your use of the Community and Community Content must not involve any unauthorised data matching or data mining, including without limitation the unauthorized collection or use of information about other the Community users (including their email addresses and other personal information).

No Spam:  You may not use the Community to (directly or indirectly) post, upload, reproduce, distribute or otherwise transmit, or collect responses from or benefit from, any unauthorised or unsolicited email messages, unsolicited junk or bulk messages, unsolicited commercial messages, or other content promoting your products or services or other forms of spam.  The Full Stop founders and moderators reserve the right to determine in its discretion whether a message constitutes spam.

Community Content

You may only upload Community Content that is relevant and appropriate. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you may not upload Community Content that:

Violates the General Use Rules set forth above.

Contains materials that are unlawful, indecent, offensive, defamatory, derogatory, fraudulent, deceptive, harmful, abusive, threatening, vulgar, profane, pornographic, obscene, sexually explicit, sexist, racist, hateful, offensive, harassing, invasive of the privacy rights of others, or otherwise objectionable (including any materials that depict, encourage, indicate, advocate for or tend to incite any of the foregoing).

May harm, threaten, harass, abuse or intimidate any other person in any way or contains materials that depict, promote, encourage, indicate, advocate or tend to incite the commission of a crime or other unlawful activities, violence, hatred, cruelty or discrimination against any individuals or groups, for any reason, or any act of cruelty to animals.

May dilute or depreciate the name and reputation of The Full Stop and its affiliates or representatives, the The Full Stop podcast or any other program offered by The Full Stop.

Interferes with other persons’ use and enjoyment of the Community or The Full Stop generally.

May disrupt, compromise or degrade the integrity, efficiency, performance or security of the Community or Community Content or that may otherwise or result in: (a) the circumvention or breach of any user authentication, password, security or control measures regarding the Community or any other Internet resource or computer system; (b) unauthorized access to accounts of other the Community users or Community Content (including Community Content posted to the Community); or (c) interference with the use and enjoyment of the Community by any other Community user.

Conceals or misrepresents the author or origin of any messages or communication, or that impersonates any person, or that falsely state or otherwise misrepresent an affiliation with any other person, including without limitation any representative of the Foundation.

Contains or discloses images or personal information of any person (such as names, telephone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses and social insurance numbers) without that person’s informed and legally valid consent.

Contains any of the following materials, whether posted publicly or with password protection, whether directly or indirectly or intentionally or unintentionally: (a) executable programs or audio and video recordings without the The Full Stop’s prior written consent; (b) materials that contain computer viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer code that may damage, harm, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate, interrupt, limit the functionality of, or otherwise adversely affect the Community or any other computer system, hardware, software, telecommunications equipment, data, or personal information; and (c) materials that are encrypted.

Monitoring and Complaints

The Full Stop is not responsible or liable to you or any other person for Community Content. The Full Stop is not obliged to monitor, screen, police or edit the use of the Community or Community Content, including postings of Community Content to the Community, although The Full Stop reserves the right to do so in its discretion.

The Full Stop will respond as it considers appropriate, in its discretion, if The Full Stop becomes aware of any inappropriate uses of the Community or Community Content, including by reporting inappropriate uses to Circle.so. Community users may report violations of this Code of Conduct by sending an email to thefullstoppod@gmail.com

Compliance, Consequences and Law Enforcement Disclosure

The Full Stop in its discretion may determine whether this Code of Conduct has been violated. If you violate this Code of Conduct, The Full Stop may, in its discretion, without any notice or any liability to you or any person, do any of the following:

require you to modify or remove the Community Content that violates this Code of Conduct;

remove and permanently delete any Community Content you upload or post to the Community;

terminate or suspend your access to the Community;

share the Community Content you upload or post to the Community and your personal information with Circle.so for the purposes of removing and permanently deleting the Community Content or terminating or suspending your access to the Community;

terminate or suspend your participation in the The Full Stop or any other programme offered by The Full Stop;

revoke any funding granted by The Full Stop to you in connection with the The Full Stop or any other program offered by The Full Stop;

require you to repay any funding previously advanced by The Full Stop to you in connection with The Full Stop or any other program offered by The Full Stop; and

impose other consequences that The Full Stop may determine in its discretion.

Community users who violate this Code of Conduct may incur criminal or civil liability.

The Full Stop in its discretion may report perceived violations of applicable law to law enforcement authorities. The Full Stop will cooperate fully with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected unlawful conduct, including by providing to law enforcement authorities your personal information and copies of Community Content uploaded or posted by you to the Community, as applicable.

The Full Stop’s failure to enforce this Code of Conduct, for whatever reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of any preceding or subsequent violation of this Code of Conduct.

The Full Stop may change this Code of Conduct at any time without notice to you or any other person.

The Full Stop is the trading name of The Full Stop Community CIC, Company number: 14769401 Our registered address is 14 High Street, Saffron Walden, England, CB10 1AY, UK.

These are more ‘guidelines’ than ‘rules’. That said: in order to keep our community a nice, positive place to hang out, breach of these rules could result in your membership of the community being cancelled, and we really would hate to do that.

1. Be kind.

Kindness wins in our eyes over anything else. Before you type, ask - would I say that to this person if they were sat next to me on my couch? If not, that’s a cue to edit.

2. Be respectful

We're all in this together. Let's treat everyone with respect and courtesy. Healthy debates are natural, but appreciate that online humour, patience and awareness of language and cultural differences are important.

3. Be bold

Join in as much as you like. We're here to support you.

4. Don't over promote or spam

Give more to this group than you take. Promoting yourself or your latest thing is great but OTT self-promotion, spam, and irrelevant links can be overwhelming and prevent others from sharing. Ask questions and be helpful. We can also share your events or news in our monthly Listeners List email, ask Berenice for more details.

5. Direct Message with consideration and kindness

It’s great that we can DM, but be considerate. They are not for all. If someone bothers you in DMs in whatever way, please let Michael Sarah or Berenice know.

The ability to DM can be revoked by admins.

6. Respect everyone's privacy and the Intellectual Property of The Full Stop Community CIC

Being part of this group requires mutual trust. What's shared in the Community should stay in the group. Please don’t use this not for profit space as a test ground for a rival project. We love honest collaborations and will give any advice freely from our extensive learning and research, please ask.

7. Love the moderators.

As we grow, we'll be asking for moderators to help us and they deserve all the love and biscuits for doing so. We trust their judgement and they're there to steer and guide.

8. Trust in lived experiences

The reasons we arrive here are complex and we all have experiences to share equally. We give space for all lived experiences and honour them.

9. Them versus us

We get that other demographics can be infuriating. We prefer to celebrate and support you and all our amazing childless selves.

10. If it gets uncomfortable

Some topics might be difficult. If you're not sure then it's wise to avoid them unless you're delivering a useful link. If you're feeling uncertain contact a moderator or Michael, Sarah or Berenice. The decision of the directors is final but we’re obviously hoping to never have to intervene.

Please note that this Community is not moderated 24 hours.

Our diversity statement

The Full Stop Community CIC is committed to creating a diverse environment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.