1. Purpose
FCC Connect exists to support collaboration, initiative development, member exchange, and joint conservation work within the Frankfurt Conservation Center context. Users are expected to act in a manner that strengthens trust, cooperation, and institutional integrity.
2. Professional and respectful conduct
Users must engage with other participants respectfully, professionally, and in good faith. Harassment, discrimination, intimidation, misuse of authority, and inappropriate communication are not permitted.
3. Responsible use of information
Users may access information about members, project concepts, initiative ideas, collaboration interests, and platform activity. This information is made available only to support FCC related work and collaboration.
Users must not use knowledge, insights, contacts, or materials obtained through FCC Connect for unrelated personal benefit, external commercial gain, or the development of parallel competing activities outside FCC processes.
In particular, users must not use information gained through the platform to replicate, appropriate, undermine, or compete against FCC initiatives, concepts, or collaborative opportunities outside the FCC context.
4. Proper use of member and initiative data
Member profiles, initiative descriptions, collaboration interests, and related documents may only be used for assessing fit, building teams, strengthening initiatives, and supporting FCC related collaboration. Users must not harvest, copy, extract, or reuse such information to build external databases, networks, or competing offers.
5. Accuracy and honesty
Users must provide truthful and accurate information about themselves, their expertise, and their role. They must not misrepresent affiliations, intentions, or permissions.
6. Confidentiality and discretion
Some information shared through FCC Connect may be sensitive, preliminary, or intended only for internal collaborative purposes. Users must handle such information with discretion and must not share it outside authorized FCC related contexts without permission.
7. Intellectual integrity and fair collaboration
Users must respect the contributions, ideas, and work of others. Concepts and opportunities encountered through FCC Connect should be treated as part of a collaborative process, not as material for unilateral appropriation or external competitive positioning.
8. Compliance
Users must comply with applicable laws, institutional obligations, confidentiality expectations, and platform rules. FCC may suspend or remove access where misuse, misconduct, or breach of this Code of Conduct is identified.
9. Acceptance
By registering for and using FCC Connect, users confirm that they have read, understood, and accepted this Code of Conduct and agree to use the platform only in a way that supports legitimate FCC related collaboration.