MyShoppingBank House Rules

In brief, MyShoppingBank respectfully requests that you keep your contributions (comments, posts, blogs, group topics & usernames) civil, tasteful and relevant.

No defamatory comments. A defamatory comment is one that is capable of damaging the reputation of a person or organisation.

Avoid contempt of court. Do not post anything that risks prejudicing on-going or forthcoming court proceedings.

Do not incite people to commit any crime, including incitement of racial hatred.

Avoid breaking a court injunction. For example, naming an individual or speculating as to their current whereabouts after a court has issued an injunction against doing so).

Do not make contributions that are unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, homophobic or racially offensive.

No swearing. Please don't use profanities or other words which might offend your fellow shoppers.

No spamming or flooding. Don't repost the same message, or very similar messages, more than once.

Personal information. We define this as your, or anyone else's contact details, including address, place of employment, name of educational establishment, telephone or mobile number, email address. Posting any of this personal information, is at your own discretion.

Keep your posts relevant. Posts which aren't relevant lower the value of the debate for everyone and may be removed.

Post in English only. Posts containing languages other than English may be removed. Common greetings and salutations in languages other than English may be acceptable.

No capital letters. This is internet shorthand for raising your voice. You can make your point perfectly well in lower case so please take the caps lock off.

No impersonating. Impersonating someone (including other members) is unacceptable.

Markets Abuse Directive. Comments must not tip shares or make recommendations on investments.

No multiple memberships. Please do not create more than one membership. It is unfair to the other users who only have one membership and abide by the posting and recommendation limit.

Abusing the complaints system. Please don't abuse the complaints system. It exists to enable visitors to alert the MyShoppingBank moderators about content which breaks the above rules. Anyone who repeatedly abuses the complaints system risk having their account suspended.