As a Member and to contribute to Boomers Abroad Online Community, you must follow the rules established by our Code of Ethics and Best Practices, which was designed to create a positive environment for all the members and to protect Boomers Abroad.

Boomers Abroad Online Community and Social Network bring together members from many different nationalities and professional backgrounds. We are excited about our online community and social network, the opportunities for collaboration, discussion and learning.

Boomers Abroad prides itself on a commitment to the highest standards of ethics in everything we do. Boomers Abroad respects and values individual and institutional differences in opinion, philosophy, and beliefs. We therefore expect that our members will adhere to the following "Code of Ethics" when participating in any aspect of Boomers Abroad Online Communy and Social Network.

General Rules of Conduct. 

You are responsible and liable for all of your posts and activities while participating in Boomers Abroad’s Online Community. We reserve the right to decline to post any comment for any reason, to remove any comment or to ban a member. Boomers Abroad will make the final determination of whether content or behavior is inappropriate. 
 

Please do not post copyrighted material without the author’s permission.

Please treat all other Boomers Abroad Online Community members  with respect. Please avoid any personal attacks, slurs, profanity, vulgarity or abuse in your comments.

Do not send us any information that may express pornography, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, hatred, bigotry, racism or violence.

Do not submit anything that you should keep confidential under any law or under any contractual or fiduciary relationship.

You may not use Boomers Abroad’s Online Community to publish, post, distribute, or disseminate defamatory, libelous, infringing, obscene, harassing or other unlawful material or statements.

Please do not post spam, ads for products or services, job announcements, or other commercial solicitations. Posts that include links to other organizations as resources are appropriate.

Do not submit or upload any material that could harm or disrupt another user’s (including Boomers Abroad’s) computer system, including software viruses, spyware, or other similar programs, or would allow others to inappropriately access software or websites.

Limit your submissions to content relevant to the community. Please refrain from discussions that are overtly political.

While it is acceptable to debate or question someone’s ideas, it is not okay to "attack" another member personally. Please keep the conversation professional and courteous.  Do not post anything obscene, offensive, threatening, or otherwise inappropriate.

Please do not send us any personal information of any other person, such as another person’s name, address, telephone number or social security number. Also, do not contribute a submission that attempts to collect this type of information.

By submitting a comment, you agree that Boomers Abroad may use it for any purpose and may publish it in our Online Communitiy or elsewhere, without compensation to you. 

Do not submit links to any external site that may violate these rules.

Boomers Abroad reserves the right to take action to ensure that members in our Online Community adhere to this Code.  Boomers Abroad staff will monitor all posts and will remove posts that appear to violate the Code of Ethics.  Additional consequences are as follows:

The first violation of the Code will result in a written warning to the member (via e-mail) and deletion of the post in question.

The second violation of the Code could result in suspension of the membership.

Your participation in Boomers Abroad Online Community signifies your acceptance of this Code of Ethics.  If you do not agree to these rules, please do not register for or enter the Boomers Abroad  Web site.

Thank you for following this Code of Ethics and good practices. Boomers Abroad reserves the right to amend or change it at any time, and we encourage you to periodically review these guidelines to assure that you comply with them.