This policy is a living document, and subject to refinement and expansion. Last updated August 14, 2018.

Everyone participating in the National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics is required to agree to the following Code of Conduct.

The National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics seeks to establish and cultivate a space of critical and creative thinking. In order to accomplish this, the event is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

Anyone who violates this Code of Conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from the event spaces at the discretion of the project team.

Definitions

Harassment includes:

  • Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, or religion
  • Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment
  • Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names
  • Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they’re not appropriate
  • Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”) without consent or after a request to stop
  • Threats of violence
  • Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
  • Deliberate intimidation
  • Stalking or following
  • Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes
  • Sustained disruption of discussion
  • Unwelcome sexual attention
  • Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
  • Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
  • Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect other community members or other vulnerable people from intentional abuse
  • Publication of non-harassing private communication without consent by the involved parties

 

The National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The project team reserves the right not to act on complaints regarding:

  • ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
  • Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you.”
  • Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
  • Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the project team may take any action we deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all event spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other community members or the general public.

Reporting and Enforcement

If you are being harassed by a member of the community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the Project Director immediately via email at swyoung@montana.edu or either of the co-Project Directors, Sara Mannheimer at sara.mannheimer@montana.edu or Jason Clark at jaclark@montana.edu. 

If the person who is harassing you is a member of our project team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident.

All reports will be handled in the strictest confidence. We will respond as promptly as we can. 

Acknowledgements

This Code of Conduct was adapted from XOXO, which was based on resources provided by Geek Feminism, and borrows heavily from similar open source policies authored by JSConf AU and Django.

This Code of Conduct is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. We encourage other events to adopt (and enforce) similar policies.

 

 

Project Sponsors

  

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This project is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, through grant # LG-73-18-0100-18.The IMLS is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s libraries and museums. They advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development. Their vision is a nation where museums and libraries work together to transform the lives of individuals and communities. To learn more, visit www.imls.gov.

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