Secure Area/Authentication for Groups

American Mensa offers secure space and authentication to Local Groups and Special Interest Groups, based on the following criteria:

1. The hosted group must be a recognized, active Local Group or Special Interest Group of American Mensa.

2. A Web Contact or SIG Coordinator must be listed with American Mensa's National Office to serve as the official contact for Web activity on behalf of the group. The Web Contact may or may not be the Webmaster for the site, but he or she must be a currently active member of American Mensa and approved by the group's LocSec or the AMC SIGs Officer. The National Office will verify the membership and approval of the Web Contact or SIG Coordinator prior to activating DNS service. If there is a vacancy in the office of Web Contact or SIG Coordinator, the Local Group or the AMC SIGs Officer will be notified so that another member can be approved.

3. Requests for Web services must be made by the Web Contact, Local Secretary or the national SIG Coordinator.

4. The group must host through American Mensa for Web hosting, DNS or site redirection.

5. American Mensa will provide for a secure area under an existing directory tree in a directory called 'secure' or 'members.' The secure area will be hosted on American Mensa's Web server under the Web address (URL) in the form group.us.mensa.org that will point to the group's Web hosting site, where group is the official name or accepted nickname for that group.

6. Due to the configuration of this service, absolute paths must be used when referencing images or links outside of the specified secure directory.

7. The group's site must conform to all Internet Service policies put forth by American Mensa and International Mensa, including concerning the proper use of the Mensa logo and Mensa trade name.

8. Abuse of American Mensa's Web services may result in a discontinuation of services.   Reports of abuse should be made to onlineabuse@americanmensa.org.