These Terms govern use of the Internet forum at https://globalconnectionsnetwork.discourse.group. To use the forum, you must agree to these terms with Global Connections, the organisation that runs the forum.

Global Connections offers other products and services, under different terms. These terms apply only to use of the forum. You can review our general Privacy Notice and Terms of Use on our website.

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Terms of Use:

  • You must only present accurate information on your member profile. Any information that is inaccurate, offensive or involves advertising may be removed.
  • You must ensure your profile picture is appropriate; profiles with inappropriate images will be removed.
  • Do not share your password with anyone else in your organisation or log into and post under someone else’s account.
  • Offensive material or issues relating to another member must be reported as soon as possible through the inbuilt reporting system or to info@globalconnections.org.uk.

Site Rules:

Please abide by the following rules when posting content or interacting with other users:
  • You must only post or upload material that belongs to your organisation, that you have consent from the copyright owner for, or that you know is already in the public domain – do not copy and paste material from other websites without a source. Uploaded material must not include any personal or sensitive information that could breach GDPR.
  • Resources must not be downloaded from Discourse and then published on third party websites, in the public domain, or shared with or distributed to other organisations/individuals who are not network members.
  • No inappropriate advertising, selling or soliciting is allowed.
  • No bulk messages, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or repeat postings of the same message are permitted.
  • Treat other users and handle disagreements with courtesy and respect, and do not engage in personal vendettas.
  • Do not name people you may have a disagreement with or allow identification of those people by inference. Do not threaten, or harass anyone, directly or indirectly. Doing so will lead to a warning or being banned from the site.
  • Do not post offensive comments or material. You agree not to post anything which is false, vulgar, obscene, sexually oriented, invading someone’s privacy, or otherwise in violation of ANY law. Do not use ethnic slurs or hate speech. Do not libel or defame others. Do not use any profanity.

Rejected Content:

The following items will not be accepted by Global Connections as news items or on other places on the site:
  • Job adverts – please submit your current vacancies through Jobs and Mission
  • International opportunities – please submit your current opportunities through Jobs and Mission.
  • Events aimed at the general public – please only submit events that would be of interest to members. Any other event can be added to the Global Connections website through your organisation’s account page on the Global Connections website.
  • Prayer requests for projects or ministry – please submit any prayer requests you may have through your organisation’s account page on the Global Connections website.

GDPR Agreement:

By using Discourse, you agree that the platform can collect the following personal data about you:

  • Forename and Surname – We want to build meaningful relationships with others across the network. It is therefore important that our members can be identified by their real name.
  • Your organisation – The more information you put in your profile the more likely members will want to connect with you.
  • Posting history – By posting on our platform, your comments and a limited profile becomes publicly available to other users.
  • Your profile – Your name, bio (we recommend including your job title here if relevant), picture, membership type, organisation’s name, location and URL, will all remain visible to other members, but other personal details will stay hidden. Other users can send you direct messages through Discourse which you can respond to if you wish to connect with them.

The Global Connections and MAP Network Online is hosted on Discourse for more information about Discourse visit: https://www.discourse.org/

Contact

You may notify Global Connections under these terms, and send questions to Global Connections, at info@globalconnections.org.uk. For specific queries about this Forum contact dchallis@globalconnections.org.uk, or for queries about UK GDPR contact alaw@globalconnections.org.uk.

We will notify you under these terms by posting a message to the homepage of this forum or your account page should these terms be updated.

Changes

Global Connections last updated these terms on October 24th 2024, and may update these terms again. We will post all updates to the forum.

Once you get notice of an update to these terms, you must agree to the new terms in order to keep using the forum.