Community Rules & Etiquette and Privacy Guidelines

Thank you for being part of our community. To ensure the best possible experience for all members, we have established some basic guidelines for participation.

By joining and using this community, you agree that you have read and will follow these rules and guidelines. You also agree to reserve discussions and shared files and content to that best suited to the medium. This is a great medium with which to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, and participate in an ongoing conversation. Questions should be directed to our member services department via the Contact Us link on this site.

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important guidelines. If you have questions, contact the member services department. To preserve an environment that encourages civil and fruitful dialogue, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership in this community for anyone who violates these rules.

The Rules

• Respect others. Focus on the content of posts rather than on the people making them. Please give newer guests and members the benefit of the doubt; there’s no such thing as a stupid question.

• Respect the community's purpose. Use the community to share successes, challenges, constructive feedback, questions, and goals instead of selling products, registration, or services that you provide. If you’ve found a product or service helpful, please share your experience with the group in a respectful way. 

• Posts that do not encourage discussion, including but not limited to advertisements or MAA-related calls for abstracts, will be redirected to the weekly Announcements section of the MAA Connect homepage for general viewing. Please note, job ads of any kind are not permitted in community posts. If you wish to advertise a position, please use the MAA Career Board. Repeated misuse of the community for this purpose may result in revocation of posting privileges.

• You can see more about Advertising with the MAA.

• Please take a look at how to post using our Career Board.

• All sales of products or services or requests for donations are prohibited.

• Use caution when discussing products. Information posted on the discussion groups and in the libraries is available for all to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.

• All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited. Do not post anything that you would not want the world to see or that you would not want anyone to know came from you.

• Respect intellectual property. Post content that you have personally created or have permission to use and have properly attributed to the content creator.

• When posting items in our collaborative environment, please indicate if they are not available for reuse. If you would like to reuse a material, it’s also advisable to contact the owner.

• Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate communities. This helps ensure all messages receive the best response by eliminating "noise." To this end, posts are limited to a single community cross-post when the discussion is created within its primary community. Duplicate posts in more communities beyond this will not be approved.

Discussion Group Etiquette

• State concisely and clearly the topic of your comments in the subject line. This allows members to respond more appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for members to search the archives by subject.

• Send messages such as "thanks for the information" or "me, too" to individuals, not to the entire list. Use the "Reply to Sender" link in every message to do this.

• Do not send administrative or technical help messages, such as “remove me from the list" or "I cannot access my account" to the group. Instead, use the web interface to change your settings or to remove yourself from a list. If you are changing email addresses, you do not need to remove yourself from the list and rejoin under your new email address, simply change your settings. If you are having technical difficulties please contact MAA Customer Service Team.

The Legal Stuff

This site is provided as a service for the members of the Mathematical Association of America. The Mathematical Association of America is not responsible for the opinions and information posted on this site by others. We disclaim all warranties with regard to information posted on this site, whether posted by the Mathematical Association of America or any third party; this disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall the Mathematical Association of America be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of any information posted on this site.

Do not post defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials. Do not post any information or other material protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright owner. By posting material, the posting party warrants and represents that he or she owns the copyright with respect to such material or has received permission from the copyright owner. In addition, the posting party grants Mathematical Association of America and users of this site the nonexclusive right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material.

Messages should not be posted if they encourage or facilitate members to arrive at any agreement that either expressly or impliedly leads to price fixing, a boycott of another's business, or other conduct intended to illegally restrict free trade. Messages that encourage or facilitate an agreement about the following subjects are inappropriate: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of sale; salaries; profits, profit margins, or cost data; market shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or suppliers.

The Mathematical Association of America actively monitors the site for inappropriate postings but does not undertake editorial control of postings. However, if any inappropriate posting is brought to the attention of the Mathematical Association of America, we will take all appropriate action.

Mathematical Association of America reserves the right to terminate access to any user who does not abide by these guidelines.


Privacy Policy

Any personal information you provide to us including and similar to your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address will not be released, sold, or rented to any entities or individuals outside of our organization except as noted below.

With Whom Do We Share the Personal Information We Collect Through This Site:

Our Service Providers
We may share your personal information with companies (including our affiliates) that perform services on our behalf, for example, companies that help process credit card payments. Our service providers are required by contract to protect the confidentiality of the personal information we share with them and to use it only to provide specific services on our behalf.

Business Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to another entity (either an affiliated entity or an unrelated third party) in connection with a merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar corporate event. If such a transfer were ever to occur, the acquiring entity’s use of your personal information will still be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Government and Legal Disclosures
We may disclose the personal information we collect through this Site, when we, in good faith, believe disclosure is appropriate to comply with the law (or a court order or subpoena); to prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; to enforce our Terms and Conditions or other agreements that govern your use of this Site; or to protect the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, or others.

External Sites
We are not responsible for the content of external internet sites. You are advised to read their privacy policies before disclosing any personal information.

Cookies
A "cookie" is a small text file that is placed in your browser and allows us to recognize you each time you visit this site (personalization, etc.). Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information, and we do not use cookies to collect personal information. Cookies may also be used by third-party content providers, such as news feeds.

Remember The Risks Whenever You Use The Internet
While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition, other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through our site have separate data and privacy practices independent of us. Therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those vendors and others directly with any questions about their privacy policies. For any other information, please contact us using the Contact Us page.