Policies

We encourage citizens to participate in various areas on the Electronic Commons/Agora Électronique site. However, we believe that dialogue between people is most effective when conducted in a civil manner, so we have a small number of rules which we expect visitors to the site to follow. On the other hand, users of the Web have a number of legitimate concerns about how their personal information is used by eCommons/Agora personnel; we also have policies about how we use this information.

Civil Rules

How we expect our visitors to act in discussion and other public areas on the site.

Ethical Guidelines

How we gather and use information on our users in our research efforts.

Privacy

How we treat information gathered in other ways for other purposes

Intellectual Property

How we answer the question, "Who owns that -- or who owns *my* -- information?"