Rules of the Game

The purpose of this community site is to promote communication, coordination, collaboration, information sharing, and knowledge creation among members and friends of SoL. In the spirit of building a valuable learning environment together, users agree to abide by the following Rules of Engagement in using the site.

They will:

1. Conduct themselves with good manners and be respectful of other participants.
2. Behave in a way consistent with the purpose and principles of SoL, and make sure that contributions to the site are related to the field of Organizational Learning.
3. Provide each other with current information about themselves in the member directory and be visible and available to each other in the online environment. [members only]
4. Use SoL email listserves only for messages pertaining to organizational learning and the work of SoL, and directly relevant to the groups for whom the listserves were created.
5. Confine efforts to promote their services to other members of the community to those areas designated for that purpose only. Any other area of the site will be considered a commercial-free zone. Contact information available through the Member Directory is not to be used for commercial solicitation of any kind.
6. Publish insights and/or outcomes from closed working groups to the broader community.
7. Respect the confidential nature of any material designated as such in any restricted area of the site.

Failure to comply with any of these rules, or violation of the site policies listed below, may constitute grounds for removal from the site.

Privacy Policy

Members and subscribers determine how visible they are to other members of the community when they choose the visibility settings for their profiles. SoL staff members may make administrative updates to profile information about users, from time to time, but will not increase visibility beyond the option selected. SoL will use personal information for administrative purposes (for example, to organize events and to communicate with the community). We will not sell or otherwise release your information to outside parties. Users are members of SoL, subscribers to SoL services (e.g. "Connections"), and members of the public who have registered and confirmed a valid email address. Users may not sell or otherwise release information about other users. Where e-mail addresses are visible, these are for private use only and may not be sold or used in any way for bulk mailings, untargeted promotional campaigns, SPAM, and the like.

Warranties

This is a community site and the information here is provided with no warranty. Although SoL administrative staff may review user contributions periodically, our primary concern is whether the user contribution is relevant to our field. The staff makes no effort to judge whether any user contribution is correct, valid, or useful in any context; caveat reader.

Copyright

Under US law, copyright on all material created on this site is retained by its creator unless specifically renounced. In posting material to this site, users authorize other members who have access to it to make personal and customary use of the material, including creating links to it or reposting it to other areas of the site, but not otherwise to reproduce or disseminate it unless specifically given persmission for such dissemination. Users may not submit copyrighted material to public areas if they do not personally hold the copyright to the material, unless the submission constitutes a "Fair Use," or is in the public domain.

Security

To minimize the threat of virus infection resulting from uploaded documents or files, we request that users install virus-scanning software on the machines they are uploading from. We also reserve the right to remove or delete any files that we find may pose a threat to the technical security of the site or other users. This site may not be used for illegal activity, or to violate the privacy or security of other members