Applicability and Scope

This code of conduct applies to all of this community's spaces, including public channels, private channels, threads, direct messages, voice rooms, comment sections, and live events, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be removed from these spaces at the discretion of Social Impact World.

Creating a Welcoming and Safe Environment

We hope to create an environment in which diverse individuals can collaborate and interact in a positive and affirming way. Examples of behavior that contributes to creating this sort of environment include:

• Using welcoming and inclusive language
• Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
• Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
• Focusing on what is best for the overall community
• Showing empathy toward other community members

Anti-Harassment Statement

This community will not tolerate harassment of any kind. Examples of harassment include:

• Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, pregnancy status, veteran status, political affiliation, marital status, body size, age, race, national origin, ethnic origin, nationality, immigration status, language, religion or lack thereof, or other identity markers.
• Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, relationships, drugs, and employment.
• Deliberate misgendering, using inappropriate pronouns, or use of rejected names.
• Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they're not appropriate.
• Physical contact and simulated physical contact without consent or after a request to stop.
• Threats of violence.
• Incitement of violence toward any individual or group, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or engage in self-harm.
• Deliberate intimidation.
• Stalking or following, online or in the physical world.
• Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
• Sustained disruption of discussion.
• Patterns of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting or assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others.
• Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
• Deliberate outing of any aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
• Publication of non-harassing private communication.
• Jokes that resemble the above still count as harassment even if meant satirically or ironically.

If you have questions or concerns about these issues, please feel free to message an admin or ask for an opportunity to explore the issue with a moderator or volunteer.

Reporting

If you are being harassed by a member of our community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact Social Impact World.

The admin team will respond to any complaint as promptly as we can. If you do not get a timely response, or if no admins are currently online, please put your personal safety and well-being first, and consider logging out and/or contacting Social Impact World.

This code of conduct applies to all community spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of our community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by our members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. Social Impact World reserves the right to exclude people from the community based on their past behavior, including behavior outside of our spaces and behavior towards people who are not in this community.

Social Impact World reserves the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. This includes reports intended to silence legitimate criticism.

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behavior, community admins may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including removal from the community. At the discretion of the admins, or by request, one or more of the parties involved may request to discuss the violation and how to avoid similar situations in the future.