Code of Ethics

Your participation in the Long Beach Time Exchange indicates that you have read and agree to abide by the LBTE Code of Ethics. In all LBTE activities, you agree: 

  • To clarify all details of my time transaction before meeting with my exchange partner. 
  • To respect my exchange partner’s privacy and confidentiality. 
  • To recognize that my service is voluntary. 
  • To respect my exchange partner’s home, property, and valuables. 
  • To refrain from smoking in, or bringing pets to, my exchange partner’s home unless invited to do so. 
  • To use the hOurworld database (our time banking software) to log my time exchanges, or to arrange to have another member or LBTE coordinator log my time exchanges for me.
  • To seek out, via the hOurworkd database, offers from other members that appeal to me. 
  • To refrain from any conduct that would violate any local, state, or federal laws or ordinances. 
  • That transactions involving any kind of sexual conduct are strictly prohibited. 
  • To refrain from any offensive, fraudulent, dishonest, harassing, or inappropriate conduct.