ST PETER & ST PAUL’S WEBSITE: ACCEPTABLE USE PROTOCOL
Before
you can be granted permission to create and upload documents and images
to any part of the St Peter & St Paul’s website, the PCC asks that you read
through this protocol and return a signed copy to the church office. A
breach of this protocol could lead to your permissions being withdrawn
or, more seriously, to damage to the worshipping community or to the
church’s reputation.
The
Council is keen to enable many people to contribute to a lively website
which reflects the huge diversity of our church’s life. The home page,
especially, which is viewable by anyone surfing the internet anywhere in
the world and to which you can link your folders if you choose, needs
to be useful to people looking for information and attractive to those
who might be thinking of worshipping with us. You will appreciate that
the Council needs to guard against anything inappropriate or
inconsistent with St Peter & St Paul’s values and standards appearing on its
website.
No
material of any kind, whether uploaded or posted directly to the
website at any level, may contain anything offensive, derogatory, or
critical of any member of St Peter & St Paul’s or of any of its ministries.
No
material linked to the front page may contain any personal information
or images without the express, written consent (email will suffice) of
the person(s) concerned. The Data Protection Act contains clear
guidelines on what personal information may be kept or displayed. If you
are in any doubt, contact the office for guidance.
Please
think carefully when uploading your material whether it should be
restricted to certain members of St Peter & St Paul’s; to the membership as a
whole; or, via the link to the front page, to the general public. If you
decide to link your material to the front page, please email a copy to
the church office for information.
The
website has the facility to carry readers’ polls and forums at every
level. Please consider any proposed poll carefully to ensure that, in
expressing their opinions, people are not likely to breach any of the
foregoing guidelines.