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Telecare Aware Policies

Privacy Policy

Other than to our email newsletter delivery provider (Your Mailing List Provider) which has a strict anti-spam policy and privacy controls, we never expose to any third parties the names and email addresses of people who give us their details in order to receive information from Telecare Aware.

Commenting Policy

Readers are encouraged to add comments to items that further debate or elaborate them. All comments are moderated. That is, before they appear on the site they will have been read by one of the editors who may make small unacknowledged edits for matters of grammar but who will indicate with an italicised comment within square brackets [like this] if part of a comment is omitted or substantially altered for any reason.

We approach the task of moderation impartially and subsequent publication should not be interpreted as our implied agreement with the originator of the comment.

Anonymity Policy

The gist is...if you have a serious comment to make anonymously...email it, don't just post it.

Truly anonymous comments - where the writer is unknown - are not published unless they are unexceptional.

Comments or articles where the authorship is known but are offered for publication anonymously are considered on their merits. (Email editors This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it in confidence.) There are some circumstances where it is necessary to be close to a particular situation to be able to throw light on it but to write about it publicly would jeopardise the author's position. In that case, the decision to publish an item anonymously hinges on the question of whether or not it is informed opinion that will add insight to, or might start, a debate on a particular topic.

Unsubstantiated allegations of illegal behaviour or substandard products, for example, would not be posted unless they could be independently verified, in which case we would probably publish them ourselves.

Just because a post, article or comment, etc. is published on Telecare Aware, readers cannot and should not infer that the editors agree with the author, anonymous or not.

Press Release Policy

Unlike some other websites, we do not publish press releases per se - we publish news and may link to a press release that explains that news. Therefore, while we are pleased to receive press releases directly, and will link to them on your website, we are unlikely to report on information that we believe is not 'news' of interest to our readers. This generally means we will not be reporting on press releases containing 'announcement' material such as:

You have routinely acquired a new customer or distributor/reseller
You have redesigned your website
You are going to present, or have presented, at a conference

Please also note that press releases with 'news' that we have to unhype first, or 'studies' and 'research' which lack basic objectivity and methodology are unlikely to gain a place on the site - unless we use them as bad examples, which we have been known to do from time to time.

Conference Publicity Policy

On request, conferences and events will get a free listing on the Events page.

We select a very few conferences per year for 'Media Partnership' arrangements whereby both parties provide mutual publicity. Therefore do not be offended or surprised if we turn down your media partnership request - paid adverts for other conferences are welcome, at normal advertising rates - see the Promote page.