The success of Naturalpath.com, however, depends on this community - it depends on how well we work together to share our best knowledge and experiences, help one another, and, manage and nurture our community.
Naturalpath.com is a collaborative natural health and sustainable living resource. We provide you with high quality information from the leading integrative, natural and environmental health information from physicians, healthcare professionals, and other experts.
The core of Naturalpath.com is based our belief that by harnessing and filtering collective knowledge of diverse communities we can provide people access to better information about natural health, wellness and sustainability.
We strive to make our network a useful resource for researching and exchanging information about integrative and natural medicine and healthy and green living.
Naturalpath.com enables you to search and share information on health conditions, integrative, complementary and alternative therapies and remedies. By sharing your personal experiences you will provide practical guidance and help people learn from your experiences and knowledge base.
Like any effective community gathering or forum, we need to foster an environment of trust and civility. Therefore, we will ask our members to conduct themselves with the highest degree of civility and respect.
YOUR USE OF NATURALPATH.COM IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
Naturalpath.com is a place for people to share knowledge, advice, and personal health tips and recommendations. With our Tips, Guides, Blogs and other forums we make it easy for you to share your insights, research and experiences.We are launching with coverage of a limited number natural and environmental health topics covering healthy eating, environmental health, natural and green living, integrate medicine, and wellness. We are organized by category to keep to you can find information easily. If you do not find your topic you may suggest a topic to add to our system.
- Age Restriction: Naturalpath.com is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users, particularly children. For this reason, when you create an Natural Path Account, you certify that you are at least 18 years old. Children under the age of 18 may only use Naturalpath.com when supervised by their legal guardian.
- Content Filtering: Naturalpath.com does not edit the content of community generated content in Natural Path. However, we reserve the right to remove content that we determine, in our sole discretion, to be inappropriate and/or in violation of the Natural Path Community Guidelines or Natural Path Terms of Service or Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your Naturalpath.com for violations of our policies. If you are unsure whether your content is appropriate or consistent with these policies, please use restraint and do not post it in Natural Path.
- Content & Usage: Naturalpath.com is a place where people can easily share health experiences to help others. It is up to each member of Natural Path to maintain the integrity of the community's content.
When posting content, please follow these rules:
1. You may not post content (or links to content, including photos)...- that is knowingly false, inaccurate, or untruthful.
- that is not your own content.
- that is violent, hateful, racist, incendiary, or otherwise objectionable.
- that is abusive, threatening, slanderous, or belligerent against any individual or groups of individuals for any reason.
- that violates federal, state or local law.
- that contains profane, obscene, vulgar or sexually explicit language.
- that glorifies self-harm or any other practice that is clearly unhealthy or harmful. i. for purely commercial or advertising purposes, including classified ads.
- to vent your frustrations, rant, make statements, or otherwise violate the format. k. to post personal ads or others' personal information.
- that resembles chain letters or pyramid schemes. m. that violates the Natural Path Community Guidelines or the Terms of Service in any manner.
3. No commercial activity without disclosureThis is a health-focused community, so please keep postings to the structured format. Use clear and concise language to share your recommendations. Use specific topics for each health issue you wish to share wisdom on. Provide practical advice that is educational or inspiring. Our goal is to help people by providing useful information.
Natural Path is not a marketing forum, but we do hope you post specific recommendations that may promote specific doctors, treatments, organizations, medications, hospitals and so on. Blogs and tips are to be used for educational purposes only. As such, you may not post wisdom or URLs for the sole purpose of directing commercial activity without fully disclosing your relationship to the recommendation. All recommendations must be educational and relevant to the topic you are sharing about.4. No repeated postings
You may not post similar or identical postings. This also applies if you are including the same commercial URL on all of your postings for the purpose of directing commercial activity. Multiple identical postings, even if legitimate, may be considered spam.5. Use English only
Please do not use other languages or symbols. Be sure to check your spelling and grammar, as content that is unreadable due to excessive typos may also be deleted.6. Categorization
Categorize your wisdom by selecting the appropriate topic category. Naturalpath.com reserves the right to re-categorize or delete blog entries or tips it determines to be categorized incorrectly.7. Reporting abuse
You may not use the Flag As Offensive link for purposes other than reporting a violation of the Naturalpath.com Community Guidelines or the Naturalpath.com Terms of Service. You may not report abuse for posts that you personally disagree with, or by people you personally dislike. If you disagree, create a comment sharing your own recommendations.8. No hacking
You may not post links to Naturalpath.com that force the download of a virus, programs, or other content, or in any other way interfere with the operation of Natural Path.9. No fraud
You may not falsely claim credentials or expertise that you do not possess, or impersonate another user.10. Respect copyright law
You may not post content that infringes the intellectual property, privacy or other rights of third parties.11. Respect individual privacy
No harvesting or otherwise collecting information about others, including email addresses, with or without their identification or consent for posting or viewing.We may modify these guidelines at any time.
