Online Community Guidelines ‘Dos and Don’ts’ Rules

User Content must not:

• Be defamatory of any person.
• Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
• Be likely to deceive any person.
• Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, e.g by contract or a duty of confidence.
• Contain illegal content or promote any illegal content or activity.
• Be in contempt of court.
• Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Give the impression that the User Content emanates from Marie Curie, if not the case.
• Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
• Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
• Be pornographic.

Illegal Content

In addition, you must not use our site in any way that involves the following:

• Terrorism.
• Child sexual exploitation or abuse including grooming and child sexual abuse material.
• Hate offences.
• Harassment, stalking, making threats or abuse.
• Controlling or coercive behaviour.
• Intimate image abuse.
• Extreme pornography.
• Sexual exploitation of adults.
• Human trafficking.
• Unlawful immigration.
• Fraud and financial offences.
• Proceeds of crime offences.
• Drugs or psychoactive substance offences.
• Firearms, knives and other weapons offences.
• Encouraging or assisting suicide.
• Foreign interference offences.
• Animal cruelty.
• Other Prohibited Content and Content Very Harmful to Children

The following must not be uploaded, shared or generated on this site:

• Pornographic content.
• Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for suicide.
• Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of deliberate self-injury.
• Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder

You must not upload, post, create on our site or share any Content which:

• is abusive and, or which targets any of the following characteristics: race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender reassignment.
• incites hatred against people:
  • of a particular race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origins, religion (including lack of religion), sex or sexual orientation;
  • who have a physical or mental disability; or
  • who have the characteristic of gender reassignment (meaning the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person’s sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex).
• encourages a person to ingest, inject, inhale or in any other way self-administer:
  • a physically harmful substance;
  • a substance in such a quantity as to be physically harmful.
• encourages, promotes or provides instructions for violence against a person.
• is bullying.
• depicts real or realistic serious violence against or serious injury of:
  • a person (real or not);
  • an animal (real or not) or fictional creature.
• encourages, promotes or provides instructions for a challenge or stunt highly likely to result in serious injury to the person who does it or to someone else.

Offences

You must not upload, post, create on our site, share or cause any uploading, posting, creation or sharing, of any of the following:

• A grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message intending to cause offence, menace, distress or anxiety.
• A false message knowing it to be false, intending to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and with no reasonable excuse.
• A message threatening death or serious harm while intending or being reckless as to whether the object of the threat would fear that the threat would be carried out.
• Flashing images when it is reasonably foreseeable that an individual with epilepsy will see it and the sender intended that the individual would suffer harm and the sender has no reasonable excuse for sending the images.
• A communication that intends to encourage serious self-harm.
• An unsolicited sexual image, including a manufactured intimate image or “deepfake” intending the recipient to be caused alarm, distress or humiliation, or for the purpose of sexual gratification and being reckless as to whether the recipient will be caused alarm, distress or humiliation.
• A sexually explicit deepfake.