Code of Conduct

Thank you for being part of our community. To ensure the best possible experience for all members, we have established some basic guidelines for participation.

By joining and using this community, you agree that you have read and will follow these rules and guidelines. You also agree to reserve discussions, shared files, and content that is best suited to this medium. myAACE is a great forum to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, and participate in discussions. AACE International reserves the right to promote the association's products, programs, and services and may post association sponsored content or surveys. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership in this community for anyone who violate these rules. Please contact us if you have any questions.

AACE is dedicated to maintaining a respectful and inclusive community. Please abide by the following guidelines when participating:

Be Kind
Please be polite to all members, even if you disagree with them. Focus on the content of posts and not on the people making them. Don’t post anything that is hateful, discriminatory, or invalidates experiences. Keep in mind that real people read your posts and comments.

Respect the Space 
This is a space to practice diversity, equity, and inclusion and to create a community that is welcoming, uplifting, and informative.

Be Authentic 
Be yourself when creating your profile. Respect intellectual property. Share original content in your discussions, comments, and private messages and be sure to give credit to the author when sharing someone else’s work. Adding links that are not relevant to the community or ads for the sale of products or services will be removed.

Be a Contributor 
Help establish myAACE as a powerful tool in the field by sharing success stories, challenges, constructive feedback, thoughtful answers, resources, and liking content.

Be Safe 
Protect your personal information. Any contact information you share in comments and discussions will be visible to everyone. If you want to share private information with another member, you are encouraged to use the private messaging feature within the community. Visit your privacy settings to choose what others see on your profile.


Moderation Guidelines 
To provide a safe space for this community, any discussions or comments may be removed at any time if an AACE International moderator feels community guidelines have been violated. Posts, comments, direct messaging, profile bios, or any media including photos, videos, and files that are defamatory, threatening, contain explicit content, advertise the sale of products or services, contain political statements, share survey links, campaign, or are considered spam will be removed. Additional action may be taken to limit a violator’s access to myAACE. Job postings or resumes may not be shared on the community. Please post jobs through the AACE Career Center. Surveys for market research or commercial benefit are not allowed.
Surveys for academic research are permissible if the topic is relevant to the field, the data is collected outside of the community platform, and the results are shared with the community at the conclusion of the survey.

The intention of myAACE is to provide a space for the exchange of thoughts and ideas through posting questions and discussing topics. The community is meant to be a networking platform and to encourage member engagement. We are a community committed to quality outcomes through meaningful collaboration. Any unrelated items that detract from the conversation may be removed at the discretion of AACE International. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership in this community for anyone who violates these rules.

Help cultivate a safe and inclusive community on myAACE by reporting discussions, replies, and members that you feel abuse or violate these guidelines. Community users may mark a post as inappropriate for the moderator to review.

Your Content 
You are responsible for any content you submit on myAACE. By submitting content, you do not lose any ownership rights you may have to this content, but you understand that the content will be publicly available for others to view, share, and use at their own discretion.

Legal Compliance
This site is provided as a service for the members of AACE International. AACE International is not responsible for the opinions and information posted on this site by others. We disclaim all warranties with regard to information posted on this site, whether posted by AACE International or any third party; this disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall AACE International be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of any information posted on this site.

D
o not post any defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials.  Do not post any information or other material protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright owner. By posting material, the posting party warrants and represents that he or she owns the copyright with respect to such material or has received permission from the copyright owner. In addition, the posting party grants AACE International and users of this site the nonexclusive right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material.

Messages should not be posted if they encourage or facilitate members to arrive at any agreement that either expressly or impliedly leads to price fixing, a boycott of another business, or other conduct intended to illegally restrict free trade. Messages that encourage or facilitate an agreement about the following subjects are inappropriate: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of sale; salaries; profits, profit margins, or cost data; market shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or suppliers.

AACE International reserves the right to terminate access to any user who does not abide by these guidelines.

Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, & Social Media Policy
The use of myAACE is subject to AACE's privacy policy, terms of use, and social media policy.