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Please use the links provided above to review important information about our group, web site and use of your personal information.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS A SITE USER

By providing information when you register for a meeting or on the site, as the user you are agreeing to professional conduct in any form of information exchange with My Career Transitions (MCT) members. This includes but is not limited to blogs, e-mails, meetings, phone calls, conversations, etc. Noncompliance will result in the removal of your membership and ability to attend meetings. Please remember this is a forum to assist one another in our search for whatever lies ahead. You are fully responsible for your conduct and members can be removed from the group and from event attendance if they violate any MCT policies.

THIRD-PARTY CONTENT DISCLAIMER

As a nonprofit volunteer group, our intent is to be a simple conduit of information to help members/attendees. We do not have the resources to investigate or endorse the information or services provided by any speakers, volunteers, members, attendees, web links or any other information. There may be occurrences when the third-party content will become outdated. Users are fully responsible for determining validity of any and all information. MCT and its volunteers make no claims or guarantees of any kind for any information you may obtain directly or indirectly.

NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY

The spirit of this group is to be friendly forum where professionals can come in times of job transition or career management, to learn and network. The group is open to all professionals regardless race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, or covered veteran status. We have no specific affiliations but our venues, sponsors, volunteers or other networking partners of the group may have their own policies and affiliations. We encourage you to ask those groups about their policies or procedures before becoming involved in any other group that you may learn of directly or indirectly.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

By providing your e-mail address, you are giving us permission to contact you regarding meeting information, group updates, policies and procedures and/or about changes to our schedule. It will not be sold, traded or otherwise shared by MCT with third parties, without your prior consent.

List Use:

• Our list is used to communicate about MCT events to MCT members/people that have registered online or in person with their email. It is our intent to not exceed 2-3 e-mailings per month and send outgoing emails about MCT meetings as "BCC's so as not to expose email addresses.
• The list will not be used to promote other events. Please understand that we receive many requests to promote other organizations' events. Even if they may benefit our attendees, we will not use or share our email list to do so, as there are simply too many events and our members have not authorized us to contact them about events beyond those presented by MCT. We have a Resources page on our web site and a LinkedIn Group where we can offer links to resources and other events.

LinkedIn group:

You must have attended at least one MCT Meeting to join our group. Personal promotion, where an individual benefits financially from a communication or transaction, is specifically prohibited. MCT and its volunteers make no claims or guarantees of any kind for any information you may obtain directly or indirectly.

Opt-in/Opt-out

Should you wish to be removed from our group mailings, we offer an opt-in and opt-out method. Please reply to or send an email to mycareertransitions@gmail.com, with "Opt-in" or "Opt-out" in subject line. The MCT Communication Manager will make updates to our list monthly. Please understand that all MCT positions, including responsibility for this task, are done by volunteers. We currently update our records manually, so we appreciate your patience as we update our records.

CRITERIA FOR SPEAKERS

MCT leaders (at minimum the Leader and one VP) must approve all speakers/subjects to be presented and will do our best to provide a well-rounded slate of programs for our members, without cost.

• Speakers' credentials must show an expertise on the subject.
• Speaker cannot use the event to directly solicit business from members;
  • any exception to this must be discussed and approved by at minimum 2 leaders.
  • that exception must be based on the value of that prospective speaker’s content exceeding the solicitation. The solicitation itself must be minimal and passive (example: there are books speaker has written at back of room, if you are interested).

We realize that many of the speakers available to speak on subjects of interest to our members will likely have business interests where they may also gain from the exposure of speaking at our meetings. This is acceptable if it is not abused.

• Speakers will not be given member or attendee lists, but they may pass around an opt-in sheet of their own for members to receive further information or to join their mailing list.
• Any reference to the speaker's paid services should be kept to a minimum and be mentioned only in passing or via handouts, their opt-in list or their name and contact information posted at the beginning and end of their presentation.
• Speakers (or anyone else) cannot use the MCT name to market subsequent offerings.

We make no endorsement of the information presented by the speaker at the event or in any subsequent communication. MCT and its volunteers make no claims or guarantees of any kind for any information you may obtain directly or indirectly.

To submit a request to speak, please send an email to mycareertransitions@gmail.com with “speaker” in subject line.

CRITERIA TO BE LISTED AS A RESOURCE ON THE WEB SITE

MCT leaders (at a minimum the Leader and one VP) must approve requests for inclusion in our resources section of the web site. To submit a request, send an email with the URL (link) and brief explanation of why it is relevant to our members, to mycareertransitions@gmail.com.

Similar to our speaker guidelines, the web site to be linked must show an expertise on the subject. The link must provide significant relative information for our members at no or at a nominal cost. However, we realize that many of the web resources available will likely have business interests where they may also gain from the exposure. This is acceptable as long as there is enough free content that we deem useful for members.

MCT reserves the right to implement, at a later date, a separate section for Fee- Based Resources (to offset MCT expenses). Listings would also be subject to approval by at leader and one VP. By providing these links as a convenience, MCT is simply providing a dashboard of links to resources that are available to anyone but may be overwhelming for the person in transition to find. MCT and its volunteers make no claims or guarantees of any kind for any information you may obtain directly or indirectly.

PROMOTION OF OTHER EVENTS (at MCT EVENTS)

Announcements (verbal, written on white board, or distribution of materials)

At each meeting, we may make announcements about future MCT events, and our venue sponsor may announce their events. Time permitting, we may open discussion to the floor for members to share resources, organizations or events they may find useful. These announcements (or any other marketing efforts) should not be self promoting to the benefit of the individual person.

MyCareerTransitions does not endorse, screen or make any other assessment of outside events in any way, shape or form. It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine if the event meets their needs.

We will ask attendees to only announce events related to the needs of those in job search and that all costs (charges), affiliations (religious or other) or relevant details be disclosed upfront.

Printed materials for events (other than MCT, venue, or speaker) cannot be distributed or left at a table. You may have them available when making an announcement to those who specifically express interest. MCT volunteers are not permitted to make announcements or distribute materials on an organization or individual’s behalf, unless the MCT volunteer is affiliated with that organization and discloses this affiliation.

MCT volunteers contribute their time to make this group a resource for people in transition. Our members are a very attractive and sizeable audience for people that make their living selling services to people in transition, and we appreciate those who share their time and knowledge with us as speakers. We know that most speakers and some members may benefit from their association with our group. The spirit of our policy is to welcome those that share knowledge that can benefit our members without strings and make a best-effort to limit the targeting of our members by others.

For example, an attendee, volunteer or member,

Cannot:

• make a self promoting announcement for one’s own personal financial benefit, i.e. for one’s own services, etc.
• distribute or place pamphlets, fliers or other materials at the meeting
• announce an event without disclosing affiliation with that noteworthy entity (religious or other), costs and other significant details.

Can:

• share information on other groups or upcoming events, that members may find to be a beneficial resource, as long as he/she discloses his/her own affiliation (if any,) the affiliation of the meeting (i.e. it is sponsored by ABC Company or ABC Church or Synagogue) and any known costs.
• have printed fliers available to those interested after announcement

Approved speakers, at the meeting they are presenting,

Can:

• include contact information on PowerPoint and printed materials as long as it is a subtle part of the presentation collect business cards/contact information those wishing to “opt-in” for the speaker’s information/newsletter/solicitations, etc.
• display a modest amount of printed materials on their services at front of room near speaker
• make books or other materials available for purchase as long as it is low key, optional, no pressure approach after the event.

Cannot:

• Have access to or otherwise contact our database of members
• Directly solicit members during the meeting
• In any way imply that subsequent functions the speaker may offer are in any way tied to, endorsed or otherwise part of MCT.

CRITERIA FOR VOLUNTEERS

We thank our volunteers for being willing to share their time and talents with the members of MCT. There are many people out there that need to know they're "not alone" when going through job transition and although we are just volunteers, we try to make an impact and help others.

Volunteer Expectations:

Passionate about helping others navigate career transition

• Able to volunteer 5 hours or more per month, plus attend at least 6 of the monthly meetings per year with a minimum 1 year commitment. (hours and amount of meetings vary by position)
• Able to access and use email and the internet
• Able to meet with MCT leadership team outside of Saturday event via teleconference or in person as needed
• Act in a way that is in keeping with the spirit of the group. Therefore, it is expected that your motivation for involvement is predominantly selfless (beyond normal personal exposure/networking benefits) in helping organize meetings that provide educational and networking opportunities for attendees.

Volunteer Obligations:

Contacts, activities and lists handled, viewed or acquired as a volunteer should not be used for personal or business secondary gains. Volunteers who have access to sign in sheets or electronic survey lists should not utilize these lists for personal or business e-mails or for any other purpose. No group distribution e-mails or solicitation of any type are allowed. Violations of this policy may result in warning or an immediate suspension from the group.

• Volunteers may not solicit members of MCT during a MCT meeting for their own personal business interests.
• Volunteers may not infer indirectly or directly that any future contact is in any way related to MCT or condoned by MCT.
• Volunteers may advance third party networking events that have no material connection to the member’s main business and where there is no direct or indirect financial gain.
• Volunteers must maintain privacy of member’s names and contact information at all times. See “Use of Personal information” section for more details.

Thank you again for your interest in helping others and abiding by the spirit of the group including but not limited to the above statements.

Please contact us at  mycareertransitions@gmail.com regarding questions relating to these guidelines and expectations.