England Supporters Club

COMMUNITY RULES

This community is a place for all England Supporters Club members. To keep this community an inclusive and safe place for daily discussion, we ask that all of our users follow these simple guidelines

Every time you use this community, you're agreeing to our Community Rules, Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, so you should make sure that you understand these documents fully.

How we moderate
Anything you publish to the community (for instance a forum post), appears almost straight away because we don’t screen it before it goes live. This is called reactive moderation, and it means that we rely on our members to alert us to any inappropriate content or behaviour.

If you find anything in this community offensive or inappropriate, please contact us immediately by clicking on the 'Report Post' icon next to the forum post, or using the Contact Us section and we will take appropriate action as soon as we reasonably can.

Moderating content in this way means that we are able to keep our community running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so that support is available whenever our members need it. We reserve the right to take steps or implement measures that we think will benefit the whole community and its users.

If you have any questions about anything included in these guidelines, or would like us to explain anything in further detail, please contact us and we’ll do our best to answer you.

Your Membership
To use the England Supporters Club online community you need to be an England Supporters Club member.

Your nickname
Your nickname is how other members of the community will identify you when they look at your profile. For your protection, we ask that you don’t include your email or website address, telephone or fax number in your username. And please don’t use any language that others may find offensive.

Respect others
We ask you to be tolerant and respectful of other members’ beliefs and opinions at all times. We understand that people often have strong feelings about the topics addressed in this community, but personal attacks are never justified. We may remove any comments others find offensive or threatening. It’s your right to disagree with an opinion, but don’t attack the person or people who hold it and please make your point respectfully.

Swearing and abusive language
Offensive or abusive language is unacceptable in this community. You should avoid using swear words or words that others may find offensive. We don't tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism or other forms of hate-speech or content that could be interpreted as such. Harassment and threats of physical violence will be treated very severely.

No adverts, promotions or spam
The England Supporters Club online community should not be used to sell or promote services to our members. We consider any commercial solicitation to be spam, including promoting web addresses, products or service. Action will be taken against any company found to be passing themselves off as an individual.

Report it, then ignore it
If someone posts something you feel violates our Community Rules or Terms & Conditions, please let us know immediately, and then ignore it.

As in real life, not everyone on the internet is as nice as you may want them to be. Some nasty individuals enjoy riling people up online by posting inflammatory comments designed to provoke a response (often known as trolling or flaming). The best way to deal with this sort of behaviour is to report it, then ignore it. Although it is often difficult, ignoring users who do this is the only way to get rid of them; if they can’t provoke a response, they will leave you alone.

Personal information
Please remember that all the information that you post here is in the public domain. We do not recommend that you post your own or other people's personal information such as home addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses. There are many protected ways to communicate through the site.

We have a Privacy Policy explaining how we handle personal information.

Keep it relevant
Most of the conversations in this community relate to Football. We know some conversations can be wide-ranging, but if you post something that is completely unrelated to the original topic then it may be removed or moved to a more appropriate area.

Keep it legal
Posting content that may put you or us at risk of prosecution, such as defamatory posts or content that breach someone else’s intellectual property rights is against our membership rules.

Impersonation and imitation
Imitating other users is a form of harassment and we take this very seriously. We may remove any content, delete accounts and ban users who do this.

Protecting our community
This is a caring and supportive community, and we have these house rules to keep it that way. We understand that we are all human and make mistakes. We seldom ban first offences unless they are particularly severe. However, if it becomes clear someone is unwilling to follow our house rules, they will be banned permanently. We issue permanent bans only as a last resort to protect our community.

Please remember
Views expressed in this community are purely the views of the member. We have the right to update and change our Community guidelines and Terms and Conditions at any time. If you have any questions about these rules, or anything on the site at all, contact us and we’ll do all we can to help.

Child protection
For the protection and safety of children, this community section does not support members under 16 years of age.