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The Ask A Celebrant website offers two types of forums for:
- the general public to make share and make suggestions & comments to each other, and to ask questions of independent celebrants and other suppliers.
- independent civil celebrants to work together to advance their celebrancy practices
Under no circumstances are these forums to be used to defame or in any way, be critical of a specific celebrant, product or service provider.
- Nor are these ASK A CELEBRANT FORUMS to be used to advertise, promote or market one's ceremony or celebration related services, products or businesses.
- ONLY ACCN celebrants or paid directory listees on an ACCN website may identify themselves here as celebrants or as a business. For a paid ACCN listing see: http://www.accn.com.au/accn-shop/category/2/accn-directory-listings.
General tips and suggestions, however, about what to look for and what to avoid are welcome.
- There is no expectation here that celebrants or other forum users give away information of a commercial in conidence nature.
- For independent celebrants though, sharing improves all our celebrancy practice and encourages others .. the ACCN aims for a win:win.
- If you are a celebrant who is part of the ACCN-CAL Group Copyright Licence, you must observe the Copyright Licence Rules and restrict discussions to the sharing of copyrighted materials ONLY.
- A separate Funeral Celebrant Forum for discussions of a general nature is available for ACCN members which will come to your email box in the same Digest.
HOW TO USE ACCN FORUMS:
The ACCN Forums use software that will allow you to:
- visit forums online, and / or receive your choice of Daily, Weekly or Monthly Forum Digests sent to your nominated personal email box, and/or receive RSS feeds
- set up your own User Control panel to ensure the Funeral Optons Forums are set to suit your needs, including being able to set your signature if required for your participation in a Forum.
To do any of the above, you must LOGIN.
- Ensure you have your USERNAME and PASSWORD are saved by the website and your browser.
- And recorded somewhere easily accessible so you can remember where to find it if you forget !!
Also it is important to read through How to Use the Funeral Options Forums, if you are not completely familiar with ACCN Forum software.
FORUM RULES
In using any ACCN Celebrant Forums, you
A. Acknowledge that you have already agreed to Terms and Conditions in registering for this ACCN website
B. Acknowledge that the information shared here may not be legally, ethically or in any other way correct or useful. Each person is responsible to exercise their own judgment and seek appropriate professional legal and other advice as required.
C. are agreeing to observe the following Rules.
ACCN FORUM RULES ARE:
 Posts by independent celebrant members must include the name and location (suburb, state) of sender - set up signature in User Control Panel See: http://www.accn.com.au/accn-forums/set-forum-signature
Courteous, respectful and friendly communication at all times
Emails must not be forwarded to anyone, without ACCN's explicit permission AND the author of the email. E:
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All posts must be relevant to celebrancy and small business issues. No chain letters, begging material, jokes or cute sayings not relevant to forums's purpose
Posts containing content of other authors work, must not be posted in ACCN Forums. The ACCN-CAL Group Copyright Licence Forum is the appropriate place for that type of material.
Discussion of political and religious matters need to be confined to issues of relevance to celebrancy
The communication on this email line is the legal and ethical responsibility of the sender, and the forums are provided as a service to ACCN members and the general public
ACCN accepts no responsibility for the individual communications between or by members and individuals.
It is your responsibility to assess the validly, legality and appropriateness of any communication posted here and accept the consequences of your use of any material here
Legal requirements relating to Copyright, Trade Practices, Slander and Defamation and any other legal responsibilites of citizens must be observed
Defamation is a serious issue and must be avoided
Constructive criticism of propositions only. Provide reasons for alternative view points. No negative comments about people (or companion animals)
No corrections of typos or spelling mistakes, unless accuracy is relevant
All individuals are responsible to contribute in some way and to direct responses within the group, not in private emails where ever possible
Members who receive any unwanted, distasteful, offensive or harassing personal emails should NOT respond to that person, but send a copy of such forward the email to us immediately. E:
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The Email Discussion Forum may be on occasions used to be used to tell other members about one’s own or friends’ products and services, provided this relationship is acknowledged publicly and there is a STANDARD listing of the product and service in the ACCN directory
The ACCN is especially interested in knowing of any products and services that could be encouraged to list with us and thus make our network more viable
Note:
The primary purpose of this group is to assist the general public in having greater access to ceremonies and celebrations and to help ACCN members celebrancy practices grow.
For this reason we ask that all communication be posted on the Celebrancy Practice Forum, unless for one's own or another's business protection.
Never sharing information and resources with other members, undermines us all. We can say this, because we have purposely set fees at an inclusive level so almost all celebrants should be able to join this network.
We also believe in the old "barter system".
ie We are prepared to consider an application to join this network by someone on compassionate grounds in exchange for their services in promoting our network
Rona Goold
ACCN Director
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