Offering a safe and supportive environment within Galvanize Tech Community (GTC) is our top priority. We aim to cultivate an environment for authentic interactions by keeping deceptive content and accounts off our platform.

Specific Policy

While we hope to build a community of learners through our platforms, we will be forced to remove violators of these guidelines from the Galvanize Tech Community as soon as we’re aware of it.

Harassment, bullying, and abusive behavior

Our community should feel safe to express themselves without fear of being shamed, humiliated, bullied, or harassed. We deeply understand the psychological distress that abusive content can have on individuals, and we do not tolerate abusive content or behavior on our platform. We review all expressions of abuse, including but not limited to violent threats, sexual harassment, disparaging statements regarding appearance, intellect, personality traits, and hygiene. Do not post:

• Content that threatens an individual with violence

• Content that wishes death, serious disease, physical, or other harm on an individual

• Content that incites violence or coordinated harassment

• Content that sexually harasses a user by disparaging their sexual activities or attempting to make unwanted sexual contact

• Content that disparages a private individual on the basis of attributes such as intellect,

  appearance, personality traits, or hygiene

• Content that praises violent tragedies and disparages their victims

Infringement of others’ privacy

Revealing or threatening to reveal personally identifiable information can cause emotional distress and lead to harm. We consider it a form of abuse and do not allow it in our community. Do not post:

• Content that reveals or threatens to reveal personally identifiable information, including but not limited to residential address, private email address, private phone number, bank statement, social security number, or passport number
• Threats to reveal sexual imagery or non-consensual intimate imagery

Misleading information

We do not permit misinformation that could cause harm to our community or the larger public. While we encourage users to have respectful conversations about subjects that matter to them, we review and address all misinformation that could cause harm to an individual's health or wider public safety.

Do not post:

• Misinformation meant to incite fear, hate, or prejudice
• Misinformation that may cause harm to an individual's health
• Hoaxes, phishing attempts, or manipulated content meant to cause harm
• Content that misleads community members about elections or other civic processes

If you’re unsure whether your post is appropriate, consider whether you would post it at work.