Community
Code of Conduct

Preamble

The AvBrite Community is designed for aviation safety professionals to share insights, strategies, and resources to help elevate safety in their organizations. By using our Community Platform ["Platform"], hosted on Circle, you agree to abide by the following Code of Conduct, AvBrite’s Privacy Policy, Terms of Conditions.

Updates to this Code of Conduct

AvBrite reserves the right to update this code of conduct at any time. When updates do occur, a message will be posted in the proper channels to notify users.

AvBrite Support Expectations

The Community Platform is not an official support channel of AvBrite. While the Platform may contain AvBrite Employees who are happy to assist where they can, please refrain from mentioning or messaging AvBrite employees with direct questions. If you have a question requires direct support from AvBrite, please visit avbrite.com. AvBrite reserves the right to enforce, interpret, and extend these guidelines for the betterment of the community. Let’s keep this community awesome!

Expected Behavior

At AvBrite, we abide by a simple overall guiding principle - Treat Everyone with Respect and Dignity. We encourage our communities to also use good judgement and to share in the following the following Community core values:

• Be Humble
• Be self-aware and always be respectful.
• Be a good leader when it’s needed
• Be a good follower when it’s needed
• Be a lifelong learner
• Be Empathetic
• Be Honest
• Don’t just be understanding of someones comments, also act with compassion and respect for all.
• Don’t be afraid to share you knowledge!
  

To learn more about our values, please see About.

Unacceptable Behavior

The following behaviors are considered to be unacceptable and will not be tolerated by any users in the Community Platform.

• Threats of Violence
• Threats of violence towards another user is not acceptable. This includes encouraging violence towards a user(s) or posting/threatening to post other peoples personally identifying information (known as “Doxxing”).
• Personal Attacks
• There will always be times when two parties will have a difference of opinion. While this can be frustrating, this should never turn into a personal attack on someone. Attacking people for their opinions, personal beliefs, ideas, or suggestions is not acceptable. Please be professional and respectful at all times.
• Derogatory/Harmful Language and Harassment
• Harmful language towards a users: Background, Family, Gender Identity or Expression, Sexual Orientation, Race/Ethnicity, Age, Native Language, Abilities, National Origin, Location, Religion, Political affiliation, Other personal attributes is not acceptable. Use Good Judgement at all times.

Unwanted Solicitation of Services

It is unacceptable to message users directly offering your services unless the user has specifically requested this information. This also includes direct messages regarding employment opportunities or freelance projects. We have provided a #jobs space inside our Community Platform where these kinds of messages can be posted.

Abuse of Voice/Video Calling

The Community Platform allows the use of voice/video calling within its software. It is unacceptable to abuse this feature by calling users directly without their permission. We understand sometimes mistakes happen and buttons are clicked on accident. If this happens, be professional and simply send an apology message to the user.

Keeping Topics Together (Threaded Messages)

One of the great features of the Community Platform is the ability for threaded comments. To help conversations together and easily searchable/scannable, we recommend using this feature. It helps keep the main channels clean and groups the topic of conversations into one place.

Channel Spamming

The Community Platform has many channels tailored toward AvBrite products and services. When posting your message, please use the appropriate channel for posting your message. It is unacceptable to simply copy/paste your message across multiple channels for added visibility. It is also unacceptable to post the same message or similar message frequently within the same channel.

Influencing of Unacceptable Behavior

It’s unacceptable to influence any user(s) in participating in any of the unacceptable behaviors listed above.

Voice/Video Calls + Screen Sharing

The Community Platform provides the ability for users to use Voice/Video Calling with the added ability to have screen sharing. When using these features be mindful and respectful of others. Use good judgement when sharing your screen and be mindful of other windows that may be open on your computer containing sensitive or personal information.

Circle “Apps” Usage

Circle has the ability to add Applications and Bots to the service to help expand on the functionality of the platform. We do not allow users to install apps on their own to the Community Platform. All app or bots installs to the Platform will be done by AvBrite.

Gifs and Emojis

When using gifs inside of the channels or threaded comments, please be mindful of the content/context inside the gif. Likewise, the Platform offers the ability for emojis to express emotions in regards to comments. Please be mindful of the emojis you are using when communicating with others.