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 ongoing conversations. Questions should be directed to Greater Baltimore SHRM (formerly CHRA) at support@chra.com.
What Is the Greater Baltimore SHRM Exchange
The Greater Baltimore SHRM Exchange is an online community for active members to engage in discussion and seek and receive feedback and resources from other professional peers around the human resources management profession. Greater Baltimore SHRM encourages members to come prepared to share successes, challenges, provide constructive feedback, bring questions, and provide perspective in all manners related to human resources management.
The Rules
Members are required to agree to follow the below rules and etiquette to ensure the Greater Baltimore SHRM Exchange remains an open space to discuss issues and topics related to human resources management. In order to preserve an environment that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership in this community for anyone who violate these rules.
Respect the intent and purpose of the community. Use the community to share successes, challenges, constructive feedback, questions, and goals. All discussions and shared links must clearly relate to mission of Greater Baltimore SHRM to provide best in-class resources to empower the human resources community in their effort to drive business success.
Respect others. Focus on the content of posts and not on the people making them. Please extend the benefit of the doubt to newer guests and members.
Do not attack others. The discussions on the community platforms are meant to stimulate conversation not to create contention. Respectfully permit others to share their opinions, just as you may.
Any defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are strictly prohibited and will be removed.
Promotional messages, ads, sales or direct promotion of products, services, technologies or non-SHRM related events are not permitted in Greater Baltimore SHRM Exchange. CHRA offers other options for promoting your products, services and technologies. Details may be found here.
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.
Respect intellectual property. Post content that you have personally created or have permission to use and have properly attributed to the content creator. Remember that Greater Baltimore SHRM and other participants have the right to reproduce postings. When posting items in our collaborative environment, please indicate if the item is not available for reuse. It’s also advisable to contact the owner of any material if you would like to reuse it.
Job recruitment and/or resume postings are not allowed in the Greater Baltimore SHRM Exchange. Seeking a job or candidate for an open position? Please visit Greater Baltimore SHRM's comprehensive career support resources on the Greater Baltimore SHRM Career Center here.
Spam messages and postings are prohibited – this includes sending unsolicited messages to community members, posting the same discussion topic repeatedly.
Discussion Group Etiquette
- Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate communities. This helps ensure all messages receive the best response by eliminating "noise."
- 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. Do this by using the "Reply to Sender" link in every message.
- Do not send administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” 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.
The Legal Stuff
This site is provided as a service for the members of Greater Baltimore SHRM (formerly CHRA). The Greater Baltimore SHRM 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 Greater Baltimore SHRM or any third party; this disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall Greater Baltimore SHRM 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.
Greater Baltimore SHRM is not responsible for the opinions and information posted in this Community by others. Greater Baltimore SHRM disclaims all warranties with regard to information posted on these sites, whether posted by Greater Baltimore SHRM or any third party; this disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall Greater Baltimore SHRM ever 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 any 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 Greater Baltimore SHRM 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.
Greater Baltimore SHRM reserves the right to at any time 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 the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small data 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 3rd 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, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies. For any other information please contact us using the Contact Us page.
Policy: Posting and Removal of Content
Greater Baltimore SHRM reserves the right to remove any content it deems inappropriate. Learn more here.