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There have been some changes regarding our forum discussion policies. Please review the following so that you're aware of this change.

Links

All links are allowed except for agency, facilitators, strictly adoption fee based services, and inappropriate/non-family friendly sites.

Links to travel agencies that cater to adoption are okay as well as things like gift basket services to international children etc. because they fall more under the retail link usage rather than professional adoption services. This also includes adoption related product sites since this is retail as well. (Buying life books, books, jewelry related to adoption themes)

The key here is asking yourself if the business is a required or optional professional adoption SERVICE related business. If it is, do not post it. For more information on this, see our ADG that is located at the top of every forum.

Retail links – As long as you are not posting to spam your business, (more than 3 is considered Spam) we will allow it. Members joining SOLELY to Spam or post their business will not be allowed.

Newspaper and blog links are okay, provided the subject matter is appropriate.

If you read a blog or any other piece that contains comment sections, do not pull quotes or comments by themselves. Post the link only and if you need to point out something, summarize that so people can view the link as is and read the whole piece in its completion.

Example – if you find an article about Drugs and you are interested in discussing a comment left within the comments on the article, post the link to the article and say something like "I thought the comment saying drugs should be an automatic jail offense". This allows users to see and read the comment in its original form, for discussion.

Links to events or classes are allowed as long as they are not part of an agency or fee based adoption service.

Fundraising

No adoption fundraising allowed. What this means is if you are trying to raise money for an adoption related process it is not allowed. This includes links to ebay actions used to fund an adoption.

Any fundraiser where a member is being asked to donate actual money must be to a true 501c3 non-profit organization. If the money does not go directly to the approved organization, it cannot be posted.

If it's a link to get members to click on another site in order to raise funds, that’s fine since no money is being asked for.

If you would like to do a fundraiser for a church, orphanage, school etc. where you are asking for material items to be donated, that also is allowed. However, please be aware that if you participate in this, you are responsible for researching the validity on your own as well as working with the other member regarding shipping etc. via pm.

Thanks!
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