USE YOUR SPACE!

The Your Space section has been specially set up for you, the readers, to have your say and share your thoughts. In this section you can submit your letters to the editor or share any photographs of our beautiful county with fellow readers. If you have a burning question to ask or are looking to share your opinions with like-minded readers then why not try our forum.

COME ON AND EXPRESS YOURSELF!

The forum welcomes the views and comments of Hertfordshire Life forum members on a wide range of topics.  Do you live in a haunted house or have a fascinating family history?  Do you have something to say about rural issues in Hertfordshire or have views on protecting our natural environment?  Would you like to share your recipes using local Hertfordshire produce or post a question about local gardens or wildlife for other members to answer or discuss?  Perhaps you would like to try your hand at a book review or tell members about your interior design successes or disasters.  Have you enjoyed a Hertfordshire Life walk or did you get lost?  Maybe you have your own special walk you would like to share?

IT REALLY IS EASY TO JOIN THE HERTFORDSHIRE LIFE DEBATE

First time user, you are welcome and will find friends here.  So cast caution to the winds and have a go today!  Just click on Enter the Hertfordshire Life community at the top left of this page and then click the Join button.

Code of Conduct

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In order to be a responsible member of the online community you must adhere to the following terms and conditions. Anyone who doesn’t feel they can abide by these guidelines should not sign up to them. If users are found to be breaching these guidelines once they have joined, they will be issued with one warning or banned immediately depending on the severity of their breach. Previously banned members who post again under a different alias will be deleted without further warnings.

If their behaviour persists their account will be blocked and they will be banned from the site.

• Please do not advertise your products or services on the message boards. Any advertising without permission will be removed.
• Please choose your words carefully when posting a message. It is difficult to obtain the tone of written messages unlike when speaking to someone.
• Please keep to the topic of the original thread. This will help users to locate the information that they are looking for and will save space on the servers.
• There is to be no 'naming and shaming' on the site. If you have any complaints about particular individuals/companies then contact the relevant parties or authorities.

Users must not post messages which:

• Are insulting, abusive, racist, sexist, or derogatory in any way to others, whether they are individuals or companies, users of the forum or not. This includes material sent via personal e-mails through this forum.
• Threaten, intimidate, victimise or harass others.
• Make libellous comments about individuals or companies, including Hertfordshire Life magazine.
• Contain explicit language or vulgarities (whether written in English or any other language)
• Impersonates or represents any person or entity in an attempt to deceive, harass or otherwise mislead another member.
• Incites illegal activity
• Infringes intellectual property rights
• Transmit any material that you don't have the right to transmit under law (such as copyright or trade secrets)
• Links to and/or references content not allowed under these guidelines.
• Use the service in a manner deemed inappropriate by Archant
• Impedes or disrupts the flow of the discussions in the forum