TERMS OF USE
The City of Fredericton is committed to making our social media channels a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
The City recognizes that social media are important tools for communicating and engaging with the public. In order to provide online spaces that are fair, open and engaging, we ask that all users of City of Fredericton social media sites abide by the following Terms of Use.
By posting or contributing to a City of Fredericton social media account, you agree to:
- Be respectful of other users of the site;
- Stay on topic and not upload content or post a comment that is unrelated to the purpose of the site;
- Not engage in harassment, personal attacks, or abuse toward individuals or organizations;
- Not use offensive, profane, discriminatory, hateful, racist, insulting, rude, abusive, aggressive, violent, obscene, explicit, pornographic or sexual words or images;
- Not to promote or incite discriminatory, hateful or violent speech toward identifiable groups or incite others to discriminate, practice hate or violence;
- Not to make defamatory statements;
- Not post unproven, unsupported or inaccurate accusations and/or misinformation;
- Not post advertising/marketing messages, commercially promote or endorse a service or product;
- Not post spam or messages by anonymous or robot accounts;
- Not encourage or incite criminal activity;
- Respect federal and provincial laws;
- Not to impersonate or falsely claim to represent a person or organization;
- Not post message that are unintelligible;
- Not post personal information (such as, but not limited to, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses or other online contact details).
- Not post information that could compromise public safety operations.
The City of Fredericton reserves the right to monitor and remove comments, contributions and messages and/or to block users that do not follow these Terms of Use. Further, violating these Terms of Use may result in removal your access to City of Fredericton’s social media page, platform or site. The City of Fredericton also reserves the right to report users and /or their comments, contribution or message to third party social media service providers to prevent or remove the posting of content that is contrary to these Terms of Use or to the terms of service/use of the third party social media platform.
Users should be aware that, unless otherwise stated, all posts or comments made by the public on a City of Fredericton social media site will be part of a record as defined by the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (RTIPPA), including any information attached or included in a post (ie- username). The privacy provisions under part 3 of RTIPPA would not apply to any information posted by a user.