Chat Use, Rules and Regulations
1.
The chat loads instantly.
Registration is not required. Getting into chat is easy,
just press the Enter Chat button above and follow the steps
on this diagram. The password section should remain
blank. If you can watch YouTube videos on your computer, you
have the technology necessary to chat at Churchbulletin.com.
18+ years of age or older is required to chat at
Churchbulletin.com. Before entering, keep reading the
rest of this page. Name format is first name and your
country only (see item #3 below for more details on what
is acceptable).
2. This is a chat provided free of
charge to you. Unfortunately, this chat is not the
perfect chat you have been looking for. Please come here
with the understanding that there are several different
personalities in the world. All of the
personalities contained in God's world can be found in this
chat at one time or the other. If at anytime you
are not comfortable in the chat, please do not feel
obligated to stay in the chat. If the chat causes you
any anguish, please for your sake, consider not returning.
The webmaster will make every attempt possible to insure
that vulgar chatters or chatters with comments out of line
are not permitted to return. It is impossible to keep
all the chat perfect at all times just as it is impossible
to keep perfect order everywhere else in the world.
Please understand the spirit of the environment here.
It is not perfect, regardless of the beautiful arrangement
of the heavenly art, the helpful catholic links and some of
the most precious people present in the chat. In
addition, before you use the chat, please read the following
and only if you agree to the terms on this page, click on
the ENTER CHAT button above.
IGNORE FEATURE: If a monitor is not
present and If you see a person being vulgar in chat,
right click on his or her name and then select IGNORE.
You will no longer see that chatter's messages to the room.
3. NAME FORMAT: The use of names helps to keep chat
"handles" out that might seem disrespectful or silly.
Use your first name and country or if you must
have your own comfort level satisfied, use your baptismal
name, confirmation name or favorite Saint's
name (without the SAINT OR St. before your name since you
are not that Saint) along with the country you are from.
See the example above. States by your name are not required
only your country's name is.
4. Donations to Churchbulletin.com
are not accepted. The use of this website is free
of charge. While links to donate to worthy causes
might appear on this website from time-to-time,
Churchbulletin.com
does not and will not accept donations
to run its operation here. This work is paid for by an
average working-class Catholic to give Catholics an
opportunity to learn more about the Lord and His Church as
well as to share the beautiful things the Lord and His
Church has done in their lives. THANKS and
enjoy your time here.
5. Voice Chat Capabilities: At times, the voice
module is enabled. When it is,
you will see a prompt that asks you to accept or deny
connection to the voice chat. If you deny, the
chatters will not be able to hear you. If you accept
they will be able to hear you (if you have a microphone
plugged in). Voice capabilities are usually turned off
most of the time. You will see what looks like a
webcam icon on the names of the people when the voice is
activated. You can still text chat in the event that
you don't want to voice chat. See you inside!
6. Please refrain from making any
comments or posting any messages or posting any links to
images, even in private, of or with any se-xual content or inn-u-endo
of any type. The insertion of the dashes were
necessary to prevent programs from blocking this site.
The two words above with dashes should be read without the
dashes.
7. NOTE: Use this chat
room at your own risk. The chat plays a Catholic
television channel while you are chatting, If you
can't afford to go over the amount of gigs your internet
service provide provides you per month, please consider
limiting your chat time here at Churchbulletin.com or using
another chat site on the internet.
8. Remember just because people might
sometimes ask you personal questions in the chat doesn't
mean you are obligated to answer them. USE YOUR BEST
JUDGMENT. THIS IS A
WORLD-WIDE chat on the internet.
9.
IGNORE A CHATTER:
If a monitor is not present and a chat
disruptor is in the chat room, you can IGNORE the disruptor
by
Step 1.
clicking on the person's name
and Step 2.
selecting IGNORE from the list.
Recommend the "ignore steps" to others in the chat
room since they may feel the same way you do of the person
causing a disturbance. When you activate "Ignore" you
will no longer see the disruptor's chat messages! This
will defuse the disruptor since there is nothing more
frustrating to a person than to be ignored.
To activate ignore simply click ONCE
on the disruptor's name and select IGNORE. Click IGNORE
again to undo the initial ignore. If this practice
seems inconvenient, impractical, burdensome or even
stressful to you, please consider not using this chat.
10.
You must be 18 years of age or older to use the chat. Please
click on this link for more information.
COPPA LAW
11. The paragraphs on this page are
numbered for quick reference.
12. Please don't press the "Enter
Chat" button if you do not agree to the policy of this
website. It is your responsibility to read the rules and
disclaimers of the chat and website before you enter and use
it. If there have ever been any disgruntled people after
visiting any website on the internet, it has been because
they have not read and understood the rules and regulations
that govern it. Placement of rules such as the ones below
are necessary for interactive websites such as
Churchbulletin.com. Thank you for reading.
13. Churchbulletin.com's Chat is a
Catholic text and possibly in the future at any unannounced
time be also a voice chat with a Catholic agenda. The format
is designed for developing friendships and support for
Catholics, members of RCIA programs, and non-catholics who
wish to gather with the Catholic community in a spirit of
charity and truth. This chat is not for the propagation or
exhibition of behaviors of groups, religions, or individuals
not in communion with the Catholic Church and its rules on
life and morality. This chat is not an open debate forum for
non-Catholic agendas, or a place for
alleged mystics looking for attention since it is
impossible for the people in the chat and the webmaster to
make judgments on mystics.
14. This is not to say though
that you may not talk about
mysterious/mystical/unexplainable phenomenon that has
occurred in your life as it is natural in a Catholic's life
to receive very tangible moments of "actual grace".
15. You may
always share about approved mystical phenomena such as
Fatima, The Divine Mercy, St. Joseph of Cupertino's
levitations, the incorrupt bodies of the Saints and other
such things which have been recognized or approved. Alleged
apparitions and such may be discussed; however, only if they
are vital to the conversation in the Catholic Chat room.
16. You may not solicit
any members in chat to provide donations to your
organizations and projects-Catholic, Non-Catholic, or
Secular. This gets difficult and puts even the well
intentioned organization, who is soliciting donations, in a
spot of chatting at Churchbulletin.com only to ask for money
or to sell his/her/their product. There are other
catholic websites to advertise at. Churchbulletin.com
doesn't really advertise either as it is very difficult to
manage those types of things.
17. Monitors will ask you to
type in the appropriate login name information in chat in
the event you forget to do so. Monitors will kick your name
out until you respond.
18. Churchbulletin.com is not
responsible for comments you make nor comments made to you
in chat. Please don't use the chat if you do not agree to
this. Saintly respectful behavior you would display to the
Lord God or the Pope is expected in Churchbulletin.com Chat
rooms. If this chat stresses you out or is not in accord
with your views, religion, or lifestyle you are not
obligated to come back or to continue to visit this website
and its chat.
19. The owner of
Churchbulletin.com reserves the right to terminate any
registered account(s), chat access or access to the website
at anytime without notification for any reason of any past, present, or future
users.
20. Should Churchbulletin.com
ever ask you for your email address (not in place at the
moment and might not ever be), it reserves the right to send
you newsletters, postal mail, chat updates, and links to web
pages or selected advertisements included in a
Churchbulletin.com newsletter, electronic mail, or postal
mail sent to you.
21. Churchbulletin.com, under
its new owner does not accept responsibility for any
actions, debts, or promises made by its past owner/webmaster
to past, present, or future users of Churchbulletin.com and
does not accept responsibility for the services,
commitments, or promises offered by its past
owner/webmaster.
22. Churchbulletin.com reserves
the right to modify any of its policy at anytime without
notice to the registered and non registered user to apply to
users of the past, present or future. You agree to
periodically review this page as this web page may at
anytime be updated. You may decide to never visit this
website again if it doesn't meet your needs.
23. The owner of Churchbulletin.com
reserves the right to deny any person a presence in the chat
at anytime and for any reason without notification.
24. Churchbulletin.com may at
anytime be off-line for any reason and for an indefinite or
permanent amount of time whether it be because of a server
failure, a web master error, or owner's choice to
temporarily or permanently shut down Churchbulletin.com.
25. Churchbulletin.com is not
responsible for the content or products of any part of the
links and advertisers on Churchbulletin.com's web pages.
Those links, if any, are provided for you to visit at
your own risk. You are not obligated to visit them. You
are not obligated to purchase any products from them either.
26. Churchbulletin.com chat is
monitored. The style of the chat is casual. It is a
fellowship place on the internet to talk about present
Catholic issues, to pray for one another, to speak freely
about the Eucharist, the Saints, the Holy Father, and other
beloved topics of the Catholic Church.
27. Churchbulletin.com expects
chats to be positive. The webmaster and or monitors
will also not use the voice chat (if available) conversation
time to discuss complaints or disagreements. These may be
done in the chat in private. Cases of people banned or
kicked out are usually not discussed with anyone.
Appeals are usually not granted. If a chatter is
granted access after he or she has been banned, the chatter
should assume he or she was given a second chance. The
webmaster has absolutely no time to keep track of this
information so use this chat carefully the first time
around.
28. If personal moral issues of
concern should be presented in the chat, it is expected that
a prayer for resolution should follow or a proposed solution
to the problem. No member nor the owner of
Churchbulletin.com are responsible for the suggestions or
the advice given to the chatter at anytime in the chat. If
advice is not sought, don't present a problem. You may
also not like what you hear. USE YOUR JUDGMENT.
THERE ARE EXTREMELY DISTURBED people in this world giving
out false and misguided advice and information. Be
fairly warned... if someone asks you to do something that
may hurt you or another person, do not do it!
29. Be prudent when you share
your information with people you don't know. It is easy to
become familiar with a person in the chat to the extent of
giving them your personal email, address or phone number.
Be careful if you do this. The person at the other
end of the chat may be someone completely different than the
person you believe him or her to truly be. The
webmaster/owner of Churchbulletin.com reserves the right to
turn over to authorities any criminal information he is made
aware of to the proper authorities. In addition, he will
release any member information to the proper authorities
should there be a reason for authorities to request this
information from the webmaster/owner of Churchbulletin.com.
Persons asking your for personal information may also be one
of those con artists you receive crazy emails from that
claim that you have inherited a huge sum of money. BE
CAREFUL!
30. Never assume the chats
are completely private. Chat systems
have the capability of logging chat. If you don't want
your personal feelings to be read by an administrator, be
tempered about what you type in private. The
administrator of this chat and the chat hosting service are
the only persons with access to this information. This
information is kept confidential in as far as the chat does
not contain information that must be reported to law
authorities. What you say in private is your
business but just keep it legal and moral.
31. Rooms are monitored publically to
keep the chat experience pleasant and Catholic. Monitors may
use privileges and duties loaned to them by the owner of
Churchbulletin.com to warn and or disconnect members who do
not seem to follow the rules and regulations of this page
and the wishes of the owner of this website. The owner of
this website has the final word in every and or any
decisions considered by the monitors. A person who uses this
chat may be banned permanently for any reason stated and or
not stated on this page without notification.
32. All of the information
submitted to Churchbulletin.com such as email, is
confidential and can only be viewed by the owner of this
site and its technicians (chat history included).
Monitors do not have access to this information.
33. Use of Churchbulletin.com is
FREE of charge.
34. By clicking on the ENTER CHAT Icon
or sending your personal information through the chat to
Churchbulletin.com, you accept and agree to follow the
terms, conditions, and agreements stated above and below
this text for use of Churchbulletin.com's services. In the
event you do not agree, you may choose to refrain for
visiting this website and its chat.
35. NOW, SCROLL UP AND PRESS THE
ENTER CHAT BUTTON TO GAIN INSTANT ACCESS TO THE CATHOLIC
CHAT. SEE YOU THERE!
