Safety Policy
At FosterClub, we take the safety and confidentiality of youth in foster
care seriously. We provide the following guidelines to ensure a safe experience
for our users:
Here are some basic rules to follow to be safe online:
- Never agree to meet someone you've met online in person.
- Don't tell people you meet online your full real name, even if you
are friends with them!
- Never give out your phone number or home address to your online friends.
- Don't tell anyone online which school you go to.
- Be suspicious if someone online asks you too many personal questions.
- If you get a bad e-mail from someone, tell your e-mail provider and
tell their provider too.
On the Message Board, kids follow these rules:
- No sharing of personal information, such as home address, phone number,
last name, e-mail address, instant messaging number or name, school
name or school address.
- No talking about topics that are inappropriate for kids.
- No posting of non-FosterClub links. FosterClub cannot check links
posted on the Message Board to make sure they are safe. If you have
a link that you would like to have posted at FosterClub, e-mail us.
If we agree that it should be posted, we'll place it under "cool
links"
- No swearing or inappropriate language.
- No advertising other chat sites. Many chat sites on the Internet
are unsafe, and FosterClub does not want members to be directed onto
those unsafe sites.
- No cyber kissing! Chat is a place for friendly interaction, not for
romance.
- FosterClub monitors are designated by their name with "FC" in
front. They make the rules on the Message Board and can ban kids who
do not follow the rules
- If you see anything inappropriate at our message boards, please contact support@fosterclub.com immediately.
While using FosterClub, the FosterClub staff asks you to follow our
safety rules, especially those about keeping your identity private. FosterClub
created these rules for your protection. When you use FosterClub, you
agree to follow FosterClub's code of conduct. These rules help make sure
everyone on FosterClub has a great time. Just as FosterClub has rules
for you, FosterClub also has behavior rules for itself. Here are the
rules FosterClub follows to protect your privacy.
- FosterClub DOES encourage parents to explore FosterClub with you.
- FosterClub DOES monitor all messages, postings, and other submissions
that kids send in.
- FosterClub DOES publish messages, postings, and other submissions
on the Web site.
- FosterClub DOES ask for real first name and age on certain submissions.
This is so FosterClub can publish these stories and are able to reach
in case there is a question about your submission or to send you a
prize.
- FosterClub DOES share general survey with our partners and clients.
We do NOT share kids' real names. When sharing this information, we
may share kids' screen names and ages only.
- FosterClub DOES NOT share or sell your registration information to
anyone outside of the staff. All registration information is kept private.
- FosterClub DOES NOT publish last names, addresses, phone numbers,
or any other information that identifies who you are. All this information
will be deleted from kids' messages and other postings on the site.
- FosterClub DOES NOT use its mailing list to send junk mail or "spam." We
only use the list to mail out the FosterClub newsletter and e-mail
updates about new content on FosterClub.
If you have any questions about FosterClub privacy policies, please
e-mail support@fosterclub.com.
FosterClub uses trained adults to monitor all messages on the message
board and all content on the FosterClub web site.
The FosterClub Safety Team comes from a wide variety of backgrounds,
including education, foster parenting, Web design, nonprofit, and social
work.
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