The AthletesBoard team gives personal safety top priority and we urge you to do the same.
We provide our athletes with several features and methods for increasing the level of safety within the community and for having the ability to make wise, comfortable and educated choices when communicating with other athletes.
Verification
The Verification process is a paid service that allows the AthletesBoard team to verify some personal information regarding an athlete. Verification is a very powerful service by which you can send a message to all the other members in the community that you are trustworthy.
This process includes three steps:
Phone Verification – The AthletesBoard team will call the phone number provided by the athlete (he may not have provided it yet) and will ask a personal question expecting a specific answer. At the same time we will also verify the address that was provided which will be used for the address verification step.
Address Verification – Once the phone verification step is completed successfuly a sealed envelope will be sent to the address provided with a unique code in it. In order to complete this step of the verification process this code needs to be entered in the athlete’s verification page at AthletesBoard.
Exclusion from Sex Offenders List – this last step includes a process in which we verify that the athlete does not appear in any records of the national sex offenders list.
Once all 3 steps are concluded successfully an athlete becomes a ‘Verified Athlete’. Verification is valid for one year.
Feedback
One of the most important and powerful tools in AthletesBoard is the feedback list. Every athlete in AthletesBoard has a section in his profile that allows other athletes in the community to give him feedback. The feedback can be either positive or negative and the ground for writing it can be very diverse and range from a joint workout, help from someone getting to a race, information about an amazing hidden biking trail and also feedback about a complete hosting experience. You can check out the percentage of positive feedback an athlete has, go over the negative ones (if any) and read carefully to understand the reasons for the unfavorable opinion. Review the positive feedback as well to form a complete opinion about this athlete.
Profile
Every athlete needs to create a profile in order to sign up for AthletesBoard. This profile includes some mandatory information in addition to some optional properties that provide the ‘bigger picture’ regarding the athlete being viewed. The more information one shares with the community athletes the better they can get to know him through his profile.
Friends
“Tell me who are your friends are and I will tell you who you are”. When viewing an athlete’s profile it is also possible to view his friends list. As the above phrase proclaims, a list of friends can say a lot about a person. We also encourage sending a message to a few of the athlete’s friends to get more educated and help you form your opinion.
Verification
Feedback
Profile
Friends