Hi All, I was somewhat surprised to see that in Canada one is not allowed to publish 'personal information' on a website such as a lace or craft group. Would the situation be different if the person(s) on the Committee waived their right to privacy, and agreed to having *either* their phone number, their eMail address, or their postal address (NOT all three!) published, so that prospective members could somehow contact the group?
As a UK lace tutor, my name, address and phone number are scattered about the country like confetti, in the hopes that I can enrol more members to the class, and I am sure that lots of other tutors do the same. I would be horrified to think I was breaking the law in some way .... Carol in Suffolk UK. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pauline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arachne" <[email protected]>; "Arachne" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Guild newsletters. > Hi Everyone, > > I have been finding this discussion of guild newsletters very interesting as a former Newsletter editor. Before one decides what to do, you should also check the privacy laws in your home country. Here in Canada one is no longer allowed to share personal information outside the group to which it is intended. So we would not be able to post a guild newsletter with names, addresses and phone numbers of the executive. Many of the groups I belong to have moved this type of information inside a "members only" yes, password locked for this reason. I know that in the U.S. something changed in the past 5 years but I do not think it is as restrictive as we have here. It also effects our being able to hand out newsletters at fairs or shows. Articles or sample information is fine. > > Just a few thoughts for people to be thinking about. The web is considered public space even if it is your website. > > Dianne > (coming out of the deep freeze, above freezing today) > > > Pauline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > Dear friends, > > > > Rather than putting a lock on the site, surely better to post really > > tantalising portions, in the hopes that any newby floating by, would give > > it > > a second glance, and possibly get them hooked enough to contact the group, > > it is new friends that we are always after. > > > > > > Pauline in Sunny Somerset, but with a bitterly cold wind, b-u-t, my snow > > drops are almost ready to burst open. SW. England. > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > containing the line: > > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For help, write to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ___________________________________ > Uniserve, http://www.uniserve.com > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
