Online Privacy and Accessibility Policies

Everyone who participates in CON.TXT online events is subject to our Code of Conduct.

By registering for CON.TXT events, online or in-person, you affirm that you will be 18 years old on or before the day of the event.

While vidshows will be available to watch after the fact, panels must be attended live. CON.TXT does not permit any recording of members—audio, video, or photographs—without the permission of everyone in the recording. This policy extends to online events. In addition, you may not republish another person's written comments from the CON.TXT Discord or Zoom chat without the writer's express permission. You may paraphrase discussion or share unattributed “overheard” comments, but connecting someone's written or spoken comments with their name or social media handle without their express permission will be treated as a violation of this policy.

We have tried to make the CON.TXT online spaces as secure as is practical, but we cannot guarantee privacy to the degree we can in an offline space. We ask attendees to be especially respectful of each other’s names, pseudonyms, and personal information. Use one consistent badge name as your Zoom and Discord handle; use badge names when introducing yourself or referring to other congoers in Discord or Zoom chat or in Zoom meetings.

If during the convention you have concerns about your privacy, or about any other behaviour that contravenes the Code of Conduct—or that you’re concerned about for some other reason—you can get in touch with the Safety team. There will be a Safety volunteer on duty in the Discord server during all hours of scheduled programming during the convention. You can find them in the #safety channel. You can also ping all on-duty members of the safety team by typing @mods in any channel on Discord. You can also send an email to safety@contxt.club.

CON.TXT strives to provide an accessible environment for all attendees, online as well as in person. We ask all attendees to help create this environment by following these guidelines for panel participation: Keep your microphone muted when you are not speaking.

If you have a question or comment, use the chat to raise your hand and wait to unmute until you are called on.

Moderators taking a high volume of questions and comments—for example, prompts for a game—may ask audience members to use the chat exclusively, and read selected comments aloud. If you are planning to use screen-sharing as a moderator, consider making any slides or handouts available for download before the panel starts.

Panels using screen-sharing are strongly encouraged to audibly describe the materials being shown, and all panels are encouraged to audibly describe any aspects of the panel that would not be apparent to someone participating via audio only.

(Adapted from the WisCONline Privacy and Safety policies.)