AISG Guidelines

1. The Australian Infertility Support Group Group (AISG) is for people who are struggling with infertility in Australia. Members who become pregnant after joining the Australian Infertility Support Group. Group may remain as members if they wish for the purpose of supporting those who are still trying to conceive. However, the Australian Infertility Support Group. Group should not be used as a forum for support for pregnant members since the AISG was not set up for this purpose. Members who become pregnant are however very welcome to join the "Pregnancy after Infertility" Group (AISG-grads) which is a sub-group of the Australian Infertility Support Group Group. for their needs of support in pregnancy.
2. All members of the AISG must agree not to pass on any person’s email or home address, either now or in the future, without the express permission of that person. Members must also agree not to give out the ozinfert or AISG-grads mailing list email addresses to anyone who is not a member of the group. To do so would mean a breach of trust and you may be asked to leave the group.
3. All communications received and sent between the AISG members are private and confidential, and may not be copied, reproduced, or forwarded to any other person without the permission of the author(s). This is automatically protected under Copyright regulations.
4. The AISG mailing list is NOT to be used for commercial purposes. This includes advertising, spamming, journalistic research, or for the purpose of collecting data.
5. There will be no promotion or advertising of any clinic or medical specialist and or/their services, either directly or indirectly.
6. There will be no promotion or advertising of any established infertility organisations and support groups, either directly or indirectly.
7. Infertility organisations or their representatives, writers, journalists, and researchers may not join the AISG in a "professional" capacity, or for research or observation, and will be actively discouraged from doing so.
8. Medical professionals, infertility clinics, hospitals, and medical clinics, or their representatives, may not join the AISG, and will be actively discouraged from doing so.
9. Counsellors may not join the AISG in a "counselling" capacity.
10. AISG members must warn other members of sensitive topics like babies and pregnancy in the subject topic. ie. babies, child(ren) or PG mentioned.
11. The AISG will operate as a MAILING LIST, where each member can send email to all members of the group (bulk email), and each member will receive email from every other member of the group. However, there may be times when a personal response to a particular group member may be more appropriate.
12. Large files must not be sent to the members of the AISG via the mailing list. If you have a picture or program that you think may be of interest to the group, please let the group know first and send it only to those members requesting a copy. Or if you prefer, you can send the picture or program to me and I will put it on the AISG website so that whoever is interested can access it.
13. If you ever have any question or problem about any of the AISG Guidelines or about the running of the group, please contact Diana PERSONALLY at aisg@nor.com.au, NOT through the group.

Australian Infertility Support Group. Group Guidelines prepared by G. Phillips (Co-ordinator) and A. Ozscot (Deputy Co-ordinator) adapted by D Thompson. They will be updated from time to time, and sent to group members on a monthly basis.

It is an implied condition that by members AGREEING to abide the above GUIDELINES, they also AGREE to abide by the amendments and/or additions made to the GUIDELINES in FUTURE.

Guidelines maintained by D Thompson.
Monday, 17 August 1998