Welcome, and thank you for joining in this ePALS discussion!

We hope that you will find this discussion board both educational and entertaining. With the privacy, safety and well-being of our users in mind, we offer the following appropriate use guidelines:

ePALS will not post any message containing content inappropriate for a family audience. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • profanity
  • abusive language
  • messages promoting hate or violence toward an individual or group
  • sexually explicit messages
  • slander, libel or defamation
  • any message violating local, national or international law or encouraging illegal activity

Also, to ensure the protection of younger users, ePALS will not post any message containing personal information about users under the age of thirteen, including:

  • full name
  • home address
  • email addresses (other than ePALS webmail)
  • phone numbers
  • school name
  • individual home page address
  • ICQ or other "instant messenger" numbers

For teachers and parents interested in providing contact information to each other, ePALS will post your @epals.com email address on Teacher Talk and Parent Talk postings. In our continued efforts to protect our members from spam and internet marketing, ePALS does not post urls, other than ePALS urls, within our forums.

Our discussion boards are designed to be educational. Posts with a commercial nature are also subject to rejection. This includes posts advertising any business, service or competing website.

Please note: Our moderators screen all messages before they are available publicly. While breaking any of these rules will certainly result in your message not being posted, this list is not conclusive and other messages may be deemed inappropriate at our moderators' discretion. If you ever have a message rejected, we will let you know via email.

If you have further concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Happy posting!

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