Welcome to the Innovation Connect Operate Portal! We are pleased to have a facility in place which allows our Innovation Connect community to network and communicate easily with each other.

In order to foster a thriving community, we would like everyone to keep the following guidelines in mind:

We expect conversations to be professional and ask that participants treat each other, as well as our team, with respect. We may delete comments or posts that we deem to be:

• Profane, obscene, inappropriate, disruptive or unrelated.
• Indecent, sexually explicit or pornographic material of any kind—including masked profanity where symbols, initials, intentional misspellings or other characters are used to suggest profane language.
• Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization.
• Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
• False, inaccurate, libellous or otherwise misleading in any way.
• Spam, or containing or linking to any kind of virus, malware, spyware, or similar program that could cause harm to a user's computer

Stay on topic, use common courtesy and be respectful of others

Submit your own original content, and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent

Do not post someone else's copyrighted work unless you have permission

Never post personal, identifying or confidential information

If you have any other questions or feedback when using our portal, please don't hesitate to contact the centre teams on innovationconnect@port.ac.uk

We encourage your feedback and aim to respond to your comments as soon as possible. While we do moderate this community, we welcome open discussion.

Moderation Policies

Our portal is moderated by Innovation Connect employees. All comments and posts will be reviewed to ensure that they comply with our policies. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts that we deem are abusive, inflammatory or otherwise inappropriate. Please note:

• Do not post or transmit material you do not have the right to post or transmit under law (such as copyright, trade secrets or securities) or due to your personal contractual or fiduciary relationships.
• Our Portal may not be used for the submission of any claim, demand, informal or formal complaint, or any other form of legal and/or administrative notice or process, or for the exhaustion of any legal and/or administrative remedy.
• Innovation Connect reserves the right to ban any user from our page without prior written notice or consent for violations of community policies. Any comment(s) posted which we deem to be criminal in nature, or instigates or implies violence toward oneself or another may be reported to the proper authorities
• We may delete comments that we deem to be off topic, including solicitations. In addition, we may remove identical posts by the same user or multiple users (a group of people sending identical messages or one person submitting under different aliases). In the case of identical posts, we will leave the first submission and delete the duplicates.