Nillumbik Shire Council - Rules of Engagement
We welcome and encourage our community to participate in Council’s social media channels. We also expect those participating in discussion to behave in a respectful manner both towards other participants, and Council, to ensure our pages are a safe place for people to express their views, ask questions or seek out information. Nillumbik Shire Council reserves the right to moderate and delete comments that are:
• knowingly false, factually inaccurate, or mischievous complaints/statements
• misleading, obscene, off-topic, sexist, racist, discriminatory in nature or spam
• overly promotional or commercial in nature
• unlawful or incite others to break the law
• posts that include links to closed groups or communities
• defamatory comments or harassing of our employees, volunteers or the participants in our channels
• information that may compromise the safety or security of the public –
• repetitive posts copied and pasted or duplicated by single or multiple users
• any other inappropriate content or comments as determined by Nillumbik Shire Council.
• Account suspensions are at the sole discretion of Nillumbik Shire Council.
• Any person actively using these sites is implicitly agreeing to these rules regardless of whether they have been read or not. We also reserve the right to block users who repeatedly breach the above guidelines. If the breach is considered to be serious, Nillumbik Shire Council may choose to blocks users immediately. For more information, please refer to Nillumbik Shire Council’s social media guidelines.
