Community Rules & Etiquette

Thank you for being part of our community. To ensure the best possible experience for all members, we have established some basic guidelines for participation.

By joining and using this community, you agree that you have read and will follow these rules and guidelines. You also agree to reserve discussions and shared files and content to that best suited to the medium. This is a great medium with which to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, and participate in an ongoing conversation. Questions should be directed to our member services department via the Contact Us link on this site.

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important guidelines. If you have questions, contact the member services department. In order to preserve an environment that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership in this community for anyone who violate these rules.

The Rules

• Respect others. Focus on the content of posts and not on the people making them. Please extend the benefit of the doubt to newer guests and members; there’s no such thing as a stupid question.
• Respect the purpose of the community. Use the community to share successes, challenges, constructive feedback, questions, and goals instead of products or services that you provide. If you’ve found a product or service helpful, please share your experience with the group in a respectful way.
• Use caution when discussing products. Information posted on the discussion groups and in the libraries is available for all to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.
• All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited. Do not post anything that you would not want the world to see or that you would not want anyone to know came from you.
• Respect intellectual property. Post content that you have personally created or have permission to use and have properly attributed to the content creator.
• When posting items in our collaborative environment, please indicate if the item is not available for reuse. It’s also advisable to contact the owner of any material if you would like to reuse it.
• Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate communities. This helps ensure all messages receive the best response by eliminating "noise."
• Do not forward, copy, or otherwise disseminate information (including the author, subject, or content) contained in a post to anyone outside of the NAN NeuroNetwork community without prior written permission of the author.

Discussion Group Etiquette

• State concisely and clearly the topic of your comments in the subject line. This allows members to respond more appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for members to search the archives by subject.
• Send messages such as "thanks for the information" or "me, too" to individuals, not to the entire list. Do this by using the "Reply to Sender" link in every message.
• Do not send administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” to the group. Instead, use the web interface to change your settings or to remove yourself from a list. If you are changing email addresses, you do not need to remove yourself from the list and rejoin under your new email address. Simply change your settings.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

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By participating on the site, you agree to the following:

Illegal Use: Forums must not be used for illegal purposes, including but not limited to defamation, violation of intellectual property laws, violation of antitrust or unfair competition laws or violation of criminal laws.

Network Use: Site participants must not intentionally interfere with or disrupt other site members and users, network services, or network equipment. This includes distribution of unsolicited advertisements or chain letters, propagation of computer worms or viruses, and use of the network to make unauthorized entry into any other machine accessible via the site.

Campaigns: This site may not be used to campaign or announce one's intention to run for any elective position, or to endorse any candidates for NAN boards and committees or other psychological, professional or governmental organizations.

Copyright: Referring to an article or news item with typical reference citations, providing a brief quote, or offering a link to legitimate online published content is permissible; site users should not post a full-text version of published material to the site.

Not infrequently a member wants to tell others about an article or news item related to the issues discussed on the site. However, posting the entire article to the site, without the permission of the author or publisher, results in a prima facie case of copyright violation. While there can be defenses to a claim of copyright infringement where the purpose of copying is clearly not for commercial purposes (e.g. “fair use” or academic teaching exceptions), those defenses are complicated, have been construed differently in different jurisdictions and are not necessarily applicable to distribution on a community site.

Defamation and Libel: In exchanges on the site and when referring to others, avoid personal attacks and characterizations that question a person’s motives or qualifications.

Sometimes a robust debate about ideas spills over into attacks on the proponents or opponents of the ideas. Site members need to be reminded that a false statement that harms someone's reputation can be actionable as libel. There is a substantial difference between disagreeing with how someone did their research or treated a patient and accusing the person of fraud or incompetence. Because negative statements that impugn someone's professional qualifications can cause substantial economic and emotional harm, this is an area for careful scrutiny. Keeping criticism on an objective basis that is factually verifiable and skipping personal commentary about character, competence or motive minimizes legal risk.

Antitrust Concerns: NAN, by its nature, is subject to antitrust issues. Discussions about rates charged, efforts to exert collective pressure on payors, terms of contracts with insurance companies, internship salaries, etc., all are prohibited.

The antitrust laws are broad and complex but on a very basic level they operate to prohibit and even in some cases criminalize certain anticompetitive agreements between competitors. A professional association like NAN is almost by definition a group of competitors that has come together to pursue common interests. Where those common interests involve agreements on such terms of competition as rates charged, salaries paid, standards applicable to members of the profession, and other issues of the marketplace, the antitrust laws apply. This site provides a written record of statements that can create an antitrust risk even when there is no anti-competitive intent.

Commercial Postings: The site may not be used for commercial purposes, with one exception (See item below). "Commercial" in this context means communications whose primary purpose is to advance the business or financial interests of any person or entity, or otherwise to promote a financial transaction for the benefit of the author directly or indirectly. Examples of prohibited communications include advertisements for products or services, notices regarding rental of office space, job openings, or direct solicitations of site members to purchase products or services.

*The exception to this rule is that NAN may use the site to promote its products and services when appropriate.

Political Statements: Site exchanges must avoid electioneering or endorsing a candidate for federal, state, or local political office. 

Research in the Community: Research that samples via this site is prohibited. This type of research relies on flawed and indefensible methodology. Research that must discuss and defend its sample, the population, response rates and representativeness or generalizability of the data would be hampered in these pursuits by using this site.

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Intellectual Property: NAN and our logo are trademarks of NAN. Other trademarks are owned by NAN or its affiliated entities or are used with the permission of their respective owners. You agree not to use or display trademarks without the prior written consent of NAN or the owner of such mark.

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1. the use or inability to use the site, 
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3. any link provided in connection with the site, or 
4. any matter otherwise related to your use of the site.

Your Conduct on the Site: In the event that you upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit content, data, information or other materials (collectively, "User Content") for display on the site, you will be responsible for all such User Content that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit using the site. Likewise, you are responsible for complying with all third-party rights with respect to all such User Content that appears on the site and not to download, email or otherwise transmit such User Content in violation of such third party's rights. By submitting User Content to the site, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such User Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such User Content. You are expressly prohibited from placing any message in any User Content or any product, good or service or otherwise transmitting through or posting on the site (including in any e-mail message or any chat or message board posting) any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, racial, ethnic or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including without limitation, any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law (collectively, "Prohibited Conduct"). Prohibited Conduct expressly includes any transmission to people or other entities on mailing lists that you do not have full rights to use. You agree and acknowledge that NAN is not responsible or liable to you or any other party or user of the site for any Prohibited Conduct by you or any other party or user of the site. You may not collect or store personal data of other users of the site without the prior, written permission of such user(s). You may not directly or indirectly, intentionally disrupt or interfere with the site in any manner that may adversely affect NAN or any user of the site. You may not upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other code, files or programs designed or known to disable, interrupt, or limit the functionality of any computer hardware, computer software, or telecommunications equipment or facilities.

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NAN does not actively monitor the site for inappropriate postings and does not on its own undertake editorial control of postings. However, in the event that any inappropriate posting is brought to the attention of NAN, we will take all appropriate action.

NAN reserves the right to terminate access to any user who does not abide by these guidelines.

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