Unit Web site
Guidelines (FROM NATIONAL)
We've long recognized
that unit sites created by individuals at the unit level
of Scouting are essentially personal, and therefore
beyond the National Council’s control or liability. We
do offer advisory guidelines to those who publish
Scouting-related sites on their own responsibility, and
we urge local councils to take the same approach. These
guidelines are established to help avoid several common
mistakes.
Protection of personal information pertaining to our
youth members and volunteers should be our greatest
concern. This organization has used COPPA, the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, as its
standard in this area. You can read the details on
compliance at http://www.coppa.org/comply.htm. It would
be a good practice to share them with unit-level
publishers in your council.
A second concern about
individual unit sites is copyright infringement. Sadly,
photos, music, and video are commonly reused on the Web
without permission. Plagiarism is also common. Such
practices violate the ethics of Scouting. They are also
violations of law, and could expose the publishers
legally.
Our third concern is
commercialism. We don't allow ads on council sites. We
recognize that "free" Web services often used to create
unit-level sites may contain advertising. This practice
may reflect poorly on the Scouting brand, and should be
avoided. A more serious concern would be sites that
engage in any fund-raising activities not previously
approved by their local council. Any independent sales,
solicitation, OR collection of donations is prohibited
by our bylaws and charter agreements.
- The content of
the unit site must be appropriate to the Scouting
movement.
- The unit site cannot link to any sites that contain material that is not
appropriate to the Scouting movement.
- The unit site should not contain any advertisements or commercial
endorsements.
- The unit site cannot engage in the electronic sale of BSA Supply
Division merchandise or competing products.
- The unit site cannot replicate any BSA publication currently for sale
through the Supply Division.
- Unit sites must abide by all laws regarding copyrights, trademarks, and
other intellectual property, and by those pertaining to
the Internet.
- Unit sites must consider the safety and privacy of their members and
participants by obtaining the necessary permissions to
release information about or images of any individual.
- Unit sites cannot engage in fund-raising except as directly approved by,
and under the supervision of, the local council.
Troop
44
Email Privacy PolicyThe use
of email addresses is for official Troop 44 business only.
Troop 44 members, leaders, parents and others will hold email
and email addresses in the highest regards. Additionally
email addresses shall not be used for distribution of socio-political
or religious propaganda nor shall it be used for the distribution
of chain letters, petitions, or items that do not meet the
standards of Scouting.
Troop 44 Privacy Statement and General
Web Policy
The purpose of this site is to provide
information for Troop 44 members, the local community
and the scouting community worldwide. Information
regarding to an individual Scout, a Scouts progress
within the program, or status is not able to be provided
without the consent of the Scout parent as identified on
his scouting application.
We have taken extensive measures to fully
comply with all
Minsi Trails Council and
National
Council guidelines on website content, all National
Scouting Guidelines and The U.S. House of Representatives
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
Compliance
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
of 1998 Title 15,
Chapter 91
This legislation applies only to Web sites
of a commercial nature. However, the Boy Scouts of America
along with the Troop considers it to provide sound advice
for any Web site that is intended for use by children.
Therefore, Troop 44 does not use its Web
site to collect any personally identifiable information
from any children while COPPA specifies children as under
13 years of age. While this site has no pages that require
user input, any input from a request of personally identifiable
information on an interface that is expected to be viewed
by children under 13 years of age is accompanied by a notice
that submissions cannot be accepted from users under 13
years of age. Where "age" or "date of birth" is requested.
In this case, no information would be stored or transmitted
unless the response indicates that the user is 13 years
of age or older.
Providing personal information is
never a prerequisite for accessing any of the
content or resources on this Web site. Specifically, refusal
to provide personal information via a Web interface will
never result in a user being denied access to any on-line
content or resource he would be able to access were the
information submitted.
Parental Consent
Parental consent is required for any information
about your son to be included on this web site. Photographs
of our Scouting adventures, meetings, and activities are
included when appropriate. In these instances,
they are images of the activities that represent Scouting
at its best. No names will be added to photograph
details or captions unless written permission is given.
Consent forms are available at all
Troop 44 meetings.
Under no circumstances will Troop 44 post
youth e-mail, phone number, or address.
User Information Collection
This website does not collect any information
from visitors directly or indirectly thru any measure to
include information about the user's remote IP address,
referral data (which page "linked" to the present request),
and the browser software's user-agent string. Pop-up
ads are also not permitted on our website.
Please contact the Webmaster with any
questions or concerns.