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.