Action Network
The Action Network site is designed to offer people who have not participated in political activity the chance to participate more fully in British political life by providing information and a place to meet up and campaign on specific issues.
To protect the BBC's impartiality:
- individual visitors should be aware throughout of the distinction between content created by the BBC and content created by users
- individual visitors should be aware throughout that content created by users has not been endorsed by the BBC
- the site should not be used as a platform to promote commercial campaigns or for fundraising
- any broadcast coverage of campaigns featured on the site should treat Action Network campaigns in exactly the same way as any other campaigns
- users should not use Action Network to campaign explicitly for or against political parties or candidates. Elected representatives such as MPs and councillors are encouraged to participate on Action Network by signing up as users, contributing articles and lending people their support, but they are not allowed to become organisers of Action Network campaigns
- in the interests of fairness, in the election period (usually 25 working days) before an election we do not allow any new activity on the site which is expressly related to political parties or political campaigning, or which might have a bearing on the election or which explicitly mentions the forthcoming elections or candidates. In addition, candidates in a forthcoming election must not contribute to Action Network.