- Our group is called Fuchs' Friends, with members in all of the United States of America and over 40 other countries.
- We are a private group, not listed in the YahooGroups directory.
- Fuchs' Friends founded their first message board in 1999. Fuchs’ Friends is the original support group for Fuchs'.
We began at Ecircles and through mergers and acquisitions of various Internet companies, we ended up at Yahoo.
- We are connected to these groups only: Fuchsorama (private sister group), FuchsFriendsUK, fuchs_corneal_dystrophy@yahoogroups.com, www.corneatransplant.org and The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation.
- Fuchs' Friends leaders founded
The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation which is an IRS 501 (c) (3) approved Tax Exempt Charitable organization.
You can list any deductions to this organization on your Federal Income Tax Schedule A under Charitable Contributions
- When you join Fuchs' Friends, nobody asks you for your telephone number or street address. We encourage, but don't require, that you have a Yahoo ID
linked to your email address so that you may more easily manage your Yahoo Groups logon, password, profile and message settings. We discourage members from sharing phone numbers with strangers. We take
privacy seriously.
- We do not ask members for money for paid advertisements on search engines. Members join free. If members wish to contribute, they may claim a
taxable deduction (see 5. above) by donating to The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation which supports us.
- FF does not preach religion nor argue politics. Members must refrain from discussing religion or politics on our Sites and Message board because they
are subjects that most people disagree about. Our mission is eye information and support.
- We require members to agree to a privacy statement before joining. You must promise that you will not use member's private email addresses without
permission of the emailee. If you are spammed, receive unwanted & unsolicited email from members or are harassed, let a Moderator or Owner know. We report abusers to their ISP and Yahoo.
- The FF message board is private, for the personal use of Fuchs' Friends members and not available to the public under any circumstances. Our
public and private web sites are and always have been copyrighted under law and may not be copied in whole or in part without prior written permission from The Corneal Dystrophy Foundation.
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