Any posts to the EMF forum are posted by individuals acting in their own right and do not necessarily reflect the views of the EMF or the views of the charity for whom the individual works.

By using the forum, members agree not to post any defamatory or libelous posts and to accept full responsibility for the items they post.

Members shall remain solely responsible for the content of their messages. Information obtained in a forum may not be accurate or reliable.

The EMF committee shall not be liable for any statement, misstatement, inaccuracy or omission of any type for any content submitted by a member of the forum

The EMF committee will remove or edit any content posted to any forum at any time and for any reason if agreed necessary by the committee.

Posts are confidential to the group, allowing frank and open discussion. Messages should not be passed outside the group, i.e. forwarded on to suppliers. Members found to be doing this will immediately and permanently be removed from the group.

All posted material becomes the property of the EMF website.

Please adhere to the following basic and sensible good practice guidelines relating to email usage:

• Please always be courteous in communications.
• Please respect the opinions of other members, even if you do not agree with them!
• Please check what information is already available on the forum before posting a thread i.e. requests for supplier's details, remember that these can be and are uploaded onto the website. Please ask yourself, has this question been asked before?
• When responding to posts, please think whether it is more appropriate to apply directly to the individual (by clicking the envelope symbol) or to post a reply to all EMF members (by clicking the speech bubble logo).