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Community Guidelines
Welcome to the DesignBayArea and San Francisco Design Week community! These guidelines cover our websites, mobile app, web app and social media platforms and in-person and virtual events.
This is a safe space to discuss design as a profession, celebrate and promote product launches, brands and the creative community.
We want everyone to be part of our community and have their voice heard.
To help everyone enjoy our community, we ask that when you post on any of our DesignBayArea or San Francisco Design Week Platforms or Mobile App, you keep in mind the following:
- You are joining a community, not a social media platform
- We reserve the right to remove any content or events for any reason, but especially if it is in conflict with our Community Guidelines or content not related to the Bay Area Design Community:
- Only content and events related to the California Design Community or Adjacent Industries is allowed to be posted or published on our platforms.
- In order to focus on elevating the San Francisco Bay Area design community, events and conferences taking place outside of our region will be promptly removed and the user blocked from our platforms.
- We do not allow defamatory, indecent, offensive, profane, discriminatory, misleading, unlawful or threatening comments
- Share only photos and videos that you’ve taken or have the right to share
- Personal attacks, name-calling, trolling and abuse will not be tolerated
- No Spamming, or direct selling of products. We are not a marketplace
- We reserve the right to delete comments at our discretion and block any repeat offenders. We will remove content that is fraudulent, deceptive or misleading
- Coordinated group attacks will not be tolerated
- Respect that other members the community have had different life experiences and may have a different perspective to yours. We welcome different viewpoints
- Our community is a public place. Don’t post personal information that you would not be comfortable sharing with a stranger. We recommend that you don’t post any information that may identify you or anyone else, such as your address, email address or phone number other than in your registration
- Follow local, state and federal law
- In-person events: Respect the venue and space as well as other attendees and speakers. Weapons of any kind are not permitted and will not be tolerated on site at our events
- If you a question about our service, or would like to chat with a member of our team, please get in touch via our website by selecting “Contact Us” Please note we are a small nonprofit team but will do our best to respond quickly!
Policies
Community Guidelines (above)