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1. You agree that your use of this Forum is governed by these Rules. Failure to respect their content may result in a ban.

2. Registration

• Your email address: we require you have a valid and correctly working email address
• Your username: you are not permitted to register a username that is offensive or that consists entirely or largely of symbols/punctuation and numbers. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. If you register a name that matches or resembles a commercial software or service or promotes a type of product, service, website or blog, it will be rejected by the moderators and any associated posts removed.
• Multiple identities are not permitted.

Our assurance to you:

Privacy: Any personal details you supply will remain private and confidential. We will never sell, rent, barter or share your personal details in any way with any other company. We will not share your email or mailing address with any third party. All data is collected for our internal use only.

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3. Signature; you are permitted a signature of up to 30 words. A signature must not be deliberately made to stand out visually. It may be smaller than the standard font size and/or a less noticeable colour - but it may not be larger or brighter.Content in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with regard to decency,accuracy etc

A signature is a privilege- not a right - and can be withdrawn at any time for any reason and without notice

4. Conduct

You agree through the use of the NAPS Forum that you will not post any message which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of ANY law.

You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or you have the consent from the owner of the copyrighted material.

You are requested and required to keep your posts civil and in keeping with normal good manners. Debate and differing opinions can be healthy but discussion should always be conducted with respect and tolerance for others. If a member proves to be intimidating, offensive or ill mannered they may be required to be removed permanently from this forum.

Members may not post information of a medical nature without prior approval of NAPS as users of the forum must be assured that such information is properly assessed by qualified clinicians

In addition to the above, the following types of activity are expressly forbidden:

• Flaming - posts of an inflammatory or insulting nature
• Trolling - this includes but is not restricted to: flooding the board with comments coming from a single point of view in multiple posts; posting something which is against our forum rules; posts of a nature that might start a 'flame' war or simply to cause difficulties for the moderators; posting defamatory comments about another member; posting continuous criticism of moderators and their activities ( you may criticise a moderator or how the site is run but such comments should be made privately and not publicly); engaging in behaviour which is disruptive to the general operation of the Forum (this includes bumping threads - please be patient, we will respond to your post as soon as we can. Attempts to speed up this process will result in a warning followed by a ban if repeated).

A breach of any of the above rules may result in removal of your privilege to participate in the Forum

Stick to the topic. Do not deviate from the subject being discussed in a thread. Open a new thread if a new issue arises from the discussion so others can always see by the title what the thread is about.

Freedom of speech: your contribution to this forum is not a right but a privilege. As this site is owned, financed ad operated by NAPS, we have the right to allow or deny any content we decide. The rules we have set up are to protect the site and provide a place to share experiences with others in a safe, supported environment.

You remain solely responsible for your messages and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this forum and any related websites to this forum. We also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any information we have about you) in the event of a complaint or any legal action arising from anything posted by you.

Please note that with each post your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from the NAPS Forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of the Rules.

Please note that it is impossible for us to review every message and we are not responsible for their content.Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify the administrator of this forum immediately.We have the right to remove objectionable content if we think that necessary. However, this is a manual process and may not take place immediately.

You are requested to respect the fact that the NAPS Forum cannot be monitored 24/7 - all moderators are volunteers and they will do their best to deal with any problems as soon as they are able.

Advice given on this forum is not to be taken as fact. NAPS is not responsible for the accuracy of any advice or information.

Spam, advertisements,chain letters, pyramid schemes and solicitations are not to be posted on the NAPS Forum. Any evidence of such will be deleted.

Permission to link externally must be obtained from NAPS.

No member may recommend an individual medical practitioner as this could be seen as a contravention of charity law by NAPS.