DISCUSSION PAGES

This area of our site gives you the opportunity to raise, share and discuss the issues and concerns that are of most importance to you. We have three forums open to you:

- Repairs, where you can discuss anything relating to repairs and maintenance of CHP properties

- Disability, where you can discuss disability issues that affect CHP residents and tenants

- Web Site, where you can comment on this site and the sort of information and services you would like to see available from it.

One point to note ... whilst we welcome the views of the people we represent they must be expressed in such a way that they do not cause offence, breach our equal opportunities policies or UK legislation. For these reasons, we always moderate ('check') all postings before they appear live on this site to ensure that they meet with our standards. It may help you to know what the standards are, they have been adapted from those used by the BBC:

Please:

• Keep your contributions civil, tasteful and relevant.

• No defamatory comments. A defamatory comment is one that is capable of damaging the reputation of a person or organisation. If successfully sued you could be held liable for considerable damages and costs.

• Avoid contempt of court which means not posting anything that risks prejudicing on-going or forthcoming court proceedings.

• Do not incite people to commit any crime, including incitement of racial hatred.

• Avoid breaking a court injunction (for example, naming an individual or speculating as to their current whereabouts after a court has issued an injunction against doing so).

• Do not post content which you've copied from someone else and don't own the copyright.

• Do not post messages that are unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, homophobic or racially offensive.

• Do not make multiple postings. So that we can publish comments from as many different people as possible, participants should keep their number of contributions per debate to a reasonable level. Multiple posts from one individual, or small number of individuals, discourages many others who might otherwise wish to take part.

• No swearing. People of all ages read and contribute to this site. Please don't use profanities or other words which might offend them.

• No spamming or flooding. Do not repost the same message, or very similar messages, more than once.

• No personal information. It is not acceptable to publicise anyone else's contact details including address, place of employment, name of educational establishment, telephone or mobile number, email address, etc.

• Keep your posts relevant. Each Forum is about a particular issue. Posts which aren't relevant lower the value of the debate for everyone and may be removed.

• No advertising, promotion of products or services, or posting of web links (URLs). If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the discussion, please inform us via the Contact Us link.

• Post in English only. Posts containing languages other than English may be removed. Common greetings and salutations in languages other than English may be acceptable.

• No capital letters. This is internet shorthand for raising your voice. You can make your point perfectly well in lower case so please take the caps lock off.

• No impersonating. Impersonating someone is unacceptable.

• No inappropriate usernames (vulgar, offensive, etc).

Copyright and the law

You own the copyright in your postings, but you also agree to grant CRF a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt and publish it. If you do not wish to grant such rights to CRF, it is suggested that you do not submit your contribution to this site. By submitting your contribution to this site, you also warrant that such contribution is:

• your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to CRF for all the purposes specified above

• is not defamatory

• does not infringe any law

You also agree to indemnify the CRF against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the CRF as a result of your breach of the above warranty.