Group guidelines
Before joining the group, please read these guidelines. They’re in place to ensure that the group works for everyone. If you’ve any questions on these guidelines, please email us.
To qualify for the the group, a blog needs to be written by someone over 14 years of age, living or working in Leeds, Bradford, West Yorkshire or the surrounding area (such as Harrogate or York, for example). We use this definition of a blog, which is extended to allow photo journals. We exclude blogs:
- with sexual content,
- with offensive (racist etc) content, or content likely to cause offence,
- that offer, describe or solicit illegal products or services,
- that are primarily commercial in nature.
These guidelines are in addition to the terms of service and privacy policy of the group operator, alt-webring. We use these guidelines to assess each application to join, but we reserves the right to grant or deny each application as we deem appropriate.
Once in the group, blog owners commit to:
- keep the information supplied to us about their blog accurate and up-to-date, including a valid working email address,
- place the group HTML code on the page they specified to us within 48 hours of joining the group,
- ensure that the group HTML code is always present on the page specified to us,
- update their blog on a reasonably frequent basis.
We contact members who don’t keep these commitments. We reluctantly remove blogs from the group where we’re unable to get owners to comply with them.
We reserve the right to, at any time:
- refuse applications to join the group,
- remove blogs from the group,
- edit the information supplied to us about a blog by the blog owner,
- contact blog owners by email, although this will typically only occur where contact is required to maintain the group,
- temporarily or permanently suspend the group,
- move the group to a different group operator,
- change these guidelines.
We promise not use any information supplied to us for any purpose other than maintaining the group.
Now you’ve read the guidelines, apply to join the group. By doing so, you’re accepting the guidelines and agree to keep the commitments as described above.
