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Why Join Us?

At Discovering Shropshire�s History we think Shropshire should be celebrated and enjoyed by its residents and visitors alike. We want to encourage and facilitate the appreciation of the rich heritage out in our landscapes.
We also want to encourage people to get out and explore and experience the exciting things going on within Shropshire.
In joining us you will help us understand our audiences and how people want to use the website.

Benefits of being a subscriber

Becoming a subscriber to the Discovering Shropshire�s History website will help us improve your use of the website as we will:

Be able to know what your interests are.
Be able to know your local area and thus automatically list what is happening near you when you log in.
Be able to cater your own experiences of the website by displaying content relevant to your level of interest.
If you are a specialist looking for academic information we can automatically show you academic content.
If you just want less depth then we will be able to show you content that is less detailed.

In knowing all of these we can cater the website for your interest and make your use of the website richer and more enjoyable.

Roles

When you subscribe please choose a role. The role is really important in defining your use of the website as it defines what depth of detail you will see in the content on the website. It will be possible to get to other content that is not designed for you but it will not be the first information that you will see. It is possible to change your role later but please try to choose the right role for you:-

Child
When you subscribe as a child you will see content that is specifically written for younger people. Although the content will have less depth than some of the other roles you will see content that is relevant to the kinds of things you might need for your studies or your interests. It will include information about how to visit places of interest.
Adult
As an adult you will see content that is in a little more depth than a child. It will be written with a general interest audience in mind. It will include information about how to visit places of interest.
Teacher
As a Teacher you are interested in providing material to your students and organising material for your lessons. You will be looking for content that is designed and written to help you run classes. It will include information about how schools can visit places of interest. It will also include content written for you by our education Officer.
Specialist
As a specialist you are primarily concerned with academic study, you will be interested in seeing in-depth detail and will be used to complex and detailed content that will be written by academics.

Term of Use

General terms of the website

Administrators will not approve any content that contains anything listed in the "Contributing to the site" section will remove the offending webpage without consultation.

Any user who uploads banned content will be removed from the community.

Think carefully before revealing personal information on the site. This includes your email, home address etc.

You may include your own personal email address in content, but please remember that people may use it to send emails you don't want to receive. We would recommend that you set up a new email account there are plenty of free email services over the internet.

If you are under 16, please do not reveal any personal information.

It is not acceptable to publicise anyone else's contact details other than your own, and we will remove any postal addresses or telephone numbers from content.

It is acceptable to include general contact details for organisations, but you must only include publicly available details, such as the address of a library or museum

Please use only appropriate and suitable URLs (website addresses) in your postings. Links to sexually oriented, commercial services or other inappropriate content will be deleted at our discretion. Any URLs you include will be checked by a moderator.

You may not post any defamatory or illegal material of any nature. This includes text, graphics, video, and/or audio. Posting a message with the intention of committing or condoning an illegal act is strictly prohibited.

Giving feedback

Please don't abuse the feedback system. It exists to us to gain feedback from users of the website.

Anyone who abuses the complaints system repeatedly may have their account suspended. We try to ensure our content is up to date and relevant but if you notice something please do tell us.

Contact us through the feedback forms if you think:-
� Something is wrong
� You have further information
� You have found spelling mistakes

About your privacy

Our registration process requires you to supply us with your email details, but we will only use this information to validate your access to the discussions and for other service administration purposes.

However, we may also wish to contact a small number of contributors to ask them to participate in any publicity or other activity associated with the website.

Only administrators can see user profiles but cannot see your password or other personal information and we will never pass on your personal details to any other third party.

We will also ask you for your postcode which will be held as encrypted and will not be visible to anyone.

Shropshire County Council complies with the 1998 Data Protection Act.

If you're under age 16

Please get permission from your parent or guardian before subscribing.

Never openly reveal any personal information about yourself (for example: your telephone number, mobile phone number, school name, home address or email address).

Disciplinary procedure

If you fail to abide by the House Rules, then the following procedure will be followed in most cases.

Please note that DSH reserves the right to remove users immediately at its discretion (in the event of such things as criminal behaviour or personal abuse of staff, for example).

For the first offence you will receive an official warning.

A second offence will mean that your account is suspended for seven days.

A third offence will mean a suspension period of one month.

A fourth offence will result in your account being closed permanently.

In each case the warning or suspension notice will be sent to the email address in your preferences, explaining the nature of the transgression.

If your warning email address bounces, then the account will be removed and you will need to subscribe again.

While suspended, returning to the site by creating another account will constitute a further offence and will extend the suspension to the next period, or will result in your account being closed permanently.

The DSH Administrators reserves the right to delete any posting, at any time, for any reason, and is under no obligation to publish any work submitted.

Using Email forums

When you are using an email forum please ensure that you do not:

Spam
Spamming is the posting of the same (or very similar) messages to lots of forums.

Flooding.
Flooding is when the same (or a very similar) message is posted over and over again to the same conversation.

Post off topic
It's anti-social if you post anything that's off-topic for those forums.

If you do any of the above, the forum manager may remove your postings, and possibly your account.

Impersonating someone else is unacceptable, as is adopting an inappropriate screen name (one that is vulgar, offensive, etc.)

Be patient. Users of all ages and abilities will be taking part in the community.

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