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User Site Guide And Accessibility
About Privacy Policy Information And Age Safety Remember Online Security Personal Information User Responsibility Donations Adverts Monitors Monitor Rules Reporting and Red Alert Terms and conditions Disclaimer CHRISTIAN CHAT ROOMS OF FAITHWALK
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(The Wall,Forums and Blogs and profiles are self monitored, you can report abuse or misconduct through your the chatters profile page on the "Manage Connections tab")
IF The Wall, Blogs, forums, and profiles "Community Pages" are not to be used for scamming, spamming, or used in such a way to be a nuisance to other users or spoil the enjoyment of the online community,
(The Chatrooms are Monitored)
HELP DESK - Help Desk About Christian Chat Rooms of Faithwalk are Monitored by volunteers from different denominations and backgrounds, we are here to bring together Christians and non Christians alike. Christianfaithwalk is NOT a dating site, it was setup primarily as a bible site, it is for Christians to communicate in an open and free enviroment without prejudice or alienation of any persons belonging to other denominations or beliefs The Haven is for general chat , but there are no hard and fast rules concerning what you chat about in any room as long as you do not spoil the enjoyment of other chatters You must register with us to enjoy all the features including blogs, Community pages, Forums, More Info Statement Of Faith We hold various events in Faithwalk Chatrooms see below ----------------------------------- Privacy Policy For Parents: Children's Privacy Our website is not directed at, or intended for use by, children under the age of 13.
The Only information gathered by CFW is your email address which is given during registration, this information is needed to identify you if needed , even this is only available to the main admin and webmaster and is only accessible should the need arise, Everyone must be careful when sending personal information over the Internet and through chatrooms. Christianfaithwalk makes chat rooms , forums and blogs available to its users. Please always remember that any information that is disclosed on these sites becomes public information and you should always exercise caution when disclosing personal information to others. Christianfaithwalk does not collect any personal information from the chat rooms, forums or blog site that can personally identify you in any way We do not knowingly allow anyone to provide any personal identifying information on our websites. If you are aware of someone who has registered or logged into Faithwalks sites who may be under the age of 13 please report this to a monitor Information And Age Email addresses are required in order to register, but those are never shared with any third parties and are only used for registration purposes. In addition, users must be 13 years or older in order to register please remember this. Again these sites of Christianfaithwalk are a public area open free of charge to Internet users 13 years of age or older. The messages, opinions and other material an individual user posts are the sole responsibility of that user. Christian Faithwalk does not control the messages, information or files delivered to the site. Christianfaithwalk accepts no responsibility for the accuracy, integrity or availability of information accessed or linked to through the site. By posting a message to this area, the user agrees to be bound by this policy. Safety We ask that no one under 13 years of age should provide any information to this or any other site without permission of their parent/carer. At Christianfaithwalk we put your your online safety at as paramount. Anything you type in a chat room can be seen by everyone who is using that chat room so be careful when typing Never give out any personal information whilst chatting online . That means your real name, telephone or phone number, banking details, mailing address, passwords, etc. Even if someone tells you it is public domain information or gives you a story that might sound plausible, NEVER give out personal information Never accept files or downloads or urls (links) from people you don't know Remember
Anything you type in a chat room can be seen by everyone who is using that chat room, unless you use "private message" Always use a nickname, DO NOT use an email address or your own name Never give out any personal information to anyone . Do NOT accept files, downloads or urls from people you don't know Never arrange to meet someone offline that you only know through the chat room Make sure you know how to save your chat room conversations Make sure you now how to report problems to the chat room moderator, bot or through email Online Security Never arrange to meet someone offline that you only know through chat room conversations. Personal Information Christianfaithwalk does not collect personally identifiable information and registrations only collect your email address, birthday and country YOUR IP Our web site server logs will store the IP address of individual accessing this web site. Your IP address, can identify the household where the user accessed this website. This information is not available to our website or our staff, but we may report unlawful activity to your ISP in order to identify you for possible legal action. This IP address will not be shared unless the following circumstances occur: 1) If our attorney requests this information relevant to a pending or current legal matter in which you are a potential or actual party or otherwise contributed in some way to the causation of the legal matter at hand. 2) If a government agency, or an attorney, subpoenas your private information, or makes a formal and official request for discovery pursuant to any legal action, or pending legal action against you. User Responsibility Our registered users are able to edit personal information in their profiles, which are made available to others in the chat room. It is the responsibility of the user to decide on individual content for a profile. We strongly advise users not to place personal email addresses, or contact numbers in their profiles. We reserve the right to edit and remove profiles where innapropriate personal information is displayed. CHAT ROOM TRANSCRIPTS We do keep a record of all chat room conversations . These transcripts will not normally be passed on to a third party outside this organisation, however we reserve the right to do so if appropriate. Transcripts of chatroom conversations may be used by Christianfaithwalk admin/monitors when investigating problems and complaints may they arise THIRD PARTIES We do not sell or provide personal information to anyone else for any commercial or marketing purposes Donations Christianfaithwalk uses Paypal to handle all credit/debit card payments, via secure server. We do not have sight of customer credit/debit card details. All credit/debit card information is held by Paypal. All enquiries relating to this should be addressed directly to Paypal using the unique reference number provided by Paypal upon transaction. How do I make a secure donation ? Donations Here Christianfaithwalk does not ask for donations through email or through newsletter, you may however support us , as these sites do cost money to keep running As mentioned above we do not advertise on our sites through ads to other parties The only source of support is through the one page "be a faithwalk partner" Adverts You will notice we do not advertise on our sites and you should not find any adverts that may offend or cause alarm, Faithwalk does not place emphasis on advertising and was never setup with this in mind. If you notice any offensive advertising posted on the forums or blog site please report this and it will be removed Monitors
REMEMBER Monitors are not trained counsellors, we are here to ensure your online safety ONLY MONITORS ( in the chat rooms) Monitors will not tolerate bullying or any offensive language, any flaming or posting on our sites or chatrooms merely intended to alarm or cause offence will be dealt with accordingly Monitor Rules Monitors are here to help and guide, all members must respect and comply with monitors instructions, you realise by entering faithwalk that monitors are here to help and to guide the chat in an appropriate way and fashion, if you are disrespectful to a monitor you may find yourself leaving the community You enter Faithwalk Chatrooms at your own Risk, Monitors are here to guide and to help You realise by registering with chat or being a guest of Faithwalk that Monitors have a tough time helping chat to run smoothly and by observing the rules of chat and complying with the guidelines you are assisting chat and setting an example to others If you are banned or booted by a monitor for whatever reason you agree not to use our chatrooms to repeatedly come back in, to defend, cause alarm or to chat in the main room about the reasons and causes of your boot or ban, this can be done in pm to a monitor Reporting and Red Alert Remember you can always copy and paste the chat screen HOW ? Either copy and paste , by left clicking your mouse and scrolling your mouse over the words, you will notice the words will now have a black outline, now right click your mouse and on the drop down menu select "Copy" Now paste the material you want to report to a note pad or email or wordpad Our red alert email address is
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OR you may copy the screen whilst in the chat rooms by clciking on the "print screen" key on your keyboard, now go to "start" bottom left of your desktop and find "paint" If your using xp then this will be in the accessories folder Simply go to "paint" and click on your ctrl key And V to copy the screen to "paint" Now save as or send via email CHATLOGS Chat logs are available and make all accountable, you will find the chat logs at the top right hand of the screen, all logs are recorded, but you can use these to copy chat that might offend or cause alarm. Private messages are not available to chatters nor monitors but however can be summoned and recovered by faithwalk should they be needed for legal purposes Do NOT copy and post private messages onto the chat screen for all to see If a private message offends you then report it in the above mentioned fashion via email, a bot, or a monitor. ------------------------------------ Terms and conditions Conditions for using The CFW Site are:
The basic terms of Faithwalk are: we will not accept racist remarks or comments, we will not accept swearing or flirtatious behaviour.
We welcome all denominations However any preaching that does not accept anything else but ones own beliefs will not be tolerated, you are to act as treat others as you yourself would like to be treated
You CAN use your community page ( Your Profile Page ) for Links to your site or blog, NOTE -You may use your group for your personal site or blog, Church,or non profit making site,
However regarding the forums, blogs and the chatrooms, they are not to be used with the sole purpose of advertising, selling/trading/spamming or scamming or otherwise causing a nuisance to other chatters or for the sole purpose of poaching (using the chat rooms to draw people to another)
Remain nuetral when it comes to religion and others beliefs, do not participate in the segregating of certain groups or hatred against other beliefs or religions
These varying rules are placed due to and regarding the use of more than one service eg forums/chat/blogs/ - - differing from the use of groups/wall/articles/ and profiles
Remember your comunity page (profile) is for registered persons only to view, visitors do not have access, even so NEVER to put personal information regarding address, telephone, street name,
We assume by using this site that you are over the age of 13,
Regarding profiles and links going therefrom: We DO NOT necessarily endorse profiles or links - sites or endorse content of sites and disclaim responsibility for content , each provider of a community page is responsible for the content on that page, your profile page could any any time be blocked or removed should you violate the terms of this Christian site
THESE ARE THE SIMPLE BASIC RULES OF OUR SITES
Remember CFW is self monitored apart from the chat rooms and forums
Further detailed terms below
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1. Make sure you visit this page often for updates or ammendments as by entering and being a member of Faithwalk you agree to these Terms & Conditions ,
You are responsible to check the rules periodically and take note of any changes. 2. You will not create a new account in order to circumnavigate the consequences of violating the Terms & Conditions Of Faithwalk If you have been kicked or banned from the community then you may be allowed back in after a certain course of time, if so you will receive information telling you of the time period involved Christian Faithwalk reserves the right to cancel any new accounts which have been established after a banning has occurred and too remove any content posted by the banned chatter should the need arise 3. We ask that you do not restrict or inhibit the enjoyment of any other user from using and enjoying the Faithwalk community. 4. That you do not post or transmit any information or material which may violate or infringe the rights of another person or persons, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights You will not post Material which is copyrighted or trademarked without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder; 5. That you will not post any material that is invasive of publicity or privacy rights, harassing, threatening, abusive, defamatory, vulgar, harmful, libelous, obscene, profane, hateful, offensive, disruptive, illegal or otherwise objectionable or that would constitute or encourage a criminal offense or otherwise give rise to liability, or that discriminates on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity. 6. That you not impersonate any person or entity, including a Monitor, employee or volunteer, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person. 7. That you will not ask members for their phone number, physical address or email or other identifying information of a third party that is not present. Both the one asking for the information and the one supplying it will be viewed as violating this rule. 8. That you will not intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including but not limited to the regulations promulgated by British law. 9. That you will not in any way shape or form encourage any sexual or flirtatious behavior. 10. That you will not post or transmit any information, software or other material which contains a virus or other harmful component. 11. That you will not post, upload, distribute or otherwise publish materials soliciting funds, promoting, advertising or offering for sale any goods or services or links, including soliciting other users for other commercial and non commercial online services without the express written approval of ChristianFaithwalk . PLEASE DO NOT USE CHRISTIANFAITHWALK FOR ADVERTISING: When you register with Faithwalk you agree NOT to use our sites to advertise or to promote or too poach people in order to lead them to other chat rooms, BY REGISTERING WITH CHRISTIANFAITHWALK YOU HAVE TICKED THE AGREEMENT FORM , this agreement is visible on your profile and will be deemed as broken should you use our sites for advertising or poaching 12. That you do not ask for money, solicit for funds, ask international transfers of money as part of a Scam. ALSO You will not post or encourage the posting of links or to encourage the participation of adult entertainment, sexual immorality or pagan and false religions. No flooding the screen or using the Chatroom or sites of faithwalk for urls to direct chatters elsewhere By entering our sites you realise that you are joining a Christian Family community and that you would treat others as you yourself would like to be treated and to respect others beliefs Faithwalk is not to be used in a way to attack, offend, flame, aggravate, shock or deliberately cause disarray and any chatter , user, who uses faithwalk sites in this way will have their accounts terminated We reserve the right to: move any discussion, topic or post ,in the community areas be it in chat, forum or blog to a different place for any reason at our sole discretion; edit any discussion, post at our sole discretion whatever or wherever the topic or post may be We reserve the right to: block or restrict, ban or boot any user or offenders for any reason as well as remove any content at our sole discretion. To make sure people adhere to this policy we reserve the right too:Monitor and disclose any content, records or electronic communication, of any kind, including user e-mail We reserve the right to disclose to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized governmental request, ChristianFaithwalk reserves the right to bar any user who fails to observe the terms of this policy, You agree to indemnify and hold Christianfaithwalk harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable solicitors legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your violation of these terms and conditions or your violation of any rights of another. Any litigation related to the Chat shall be subject to the jurisdiction British Law with venue lying in Staffordshire, England. More Info - Terms and Conditions More Info Disclaimer You agree that you use Christianfaithwalk entirely at your own risk and we are not responsible for any content you may find on our sites. Christianfaithwalk disclaims any and all Warranties below Any And All Damages or claims being made , be it injury, loss, harm, health, affect, pc damage, computuer virus, medical, misinformation, Line fault, theft, loss of information, unauthorised access, alteration , defects, defects on pc, ( tiredness, bad eye sight, loss of vision, sleeplessness, broken relationships, Physiological, Psychological Effects) we disclaim any liability due to any of the above and you acknowledge that you enter our sites at your own risk We are not liable for any damages or damage caused by the use of our service We are not responsible or liable for any offensive or illegal conduct of other chatters or users We are not liable or responsible for any damages due to the use of our services You realise by using our sites that you do so at your own risk
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