We would like to briefly draw your attention to the following
issues:
Your identity
In some cases we understand that you might need to hide your
identity online. Please feel free to use a nickname of your choice
and a graphic that is not a personal photograph of you (or anybody
else!). Please email info@oscar.org.uk to let OSCAR know who you
are if you do this. Then we can make sure your new identity is
approved.
Your Personal Privacy
By default (unlike Facebook), anyone on the web will be able to
view your profile, page, events and postings. As an OSCARactive
member you have full control to change this. It is worth taking a
few minutes to look through the following options to check that you
are happy with who sees what of your information and postings.
Click on the "Settings" link in the upper right corner of the page,
then click on the "Privacy" link in the left column. Under “Who can
view your profile page and friends?” and other questions, select
the option you feel comfortable with: “anyone” meaning anyone ‘in
the world’, “members” meaning just OSCARactive ‘members’ and
“friends” refers to just those people who are your OSCARactive
‘friends’.
Privacy of Groups
OSCAR plans to make some groups we create private so that they will
either only be seen by OSCARactive members or in some cases just by
the members of that group. This will mean we will need to recreate
existing groups and re-invite the existing members but we will
inform you when this happens.
Creating your own group
We encourage you to feel free to create your own groups, either for
your particular interest related to mission or for your
organisation etc. When you create your group you will be asked to
select the level of privacy. Unfortunately this cannot be changed
once the group has been formed (although your personal privacy
settings maybe changed by yourself at any time). We recommend that
you make your group a private group unless you are happy that all
conversations in the group are seen by any casual surfers who view
OSCARactive.
We hope that this reassures and encourages you to be an active
member of the OSCARactive community. We think it has such huge
potential and we want you to feel both comfortable and confident
when you use it. You just never know who you might ‘bump’ into to
help you take that next step in doing the Lord’s work!
