Municipalité Rapides-Des-Joachims

RESOLUTION # 20220106-06

NETIQUETTE POLICY

WHEREAS resolution 20211216-05 was adopted at the regular council sitting held on December 16, 2021 approving the creation of a municipal page;

WHEREAS a policy should be put in place in order to manage the page and its posts and comments;

THEREFORE, it is moved by Stephany Rauche and unanimously resolved and ruled by the municipal council of Rapides-des-Joachims to adopt the Netiquette Policy as follows:

The municipality of Rapides-des-Joachims wants only harmonious exchanges on social media. It encourages exchanges between all, nevertheless some behaviours are expected:

• No personal information about another user, other person or employee;
• No attack or insult;
• No discriminatory, defamatory or sexist statements;
• No political comments or comments offensive to the mayor, councillors, the municipality of Rapides-des-Joachims or employees;
• No comments inciting racial, religious, ethnic or other hatred;
• No foul language;
• No promotion or act to discredit a political party or its representatives;
• The comments must be relevant and relate to the content of the published topics;
• No repeated comments, spam or advertising in any form;
• The municipality of Rapides-des-Joachims is not responsible for the comments and opinions of users. It is understood that the municipality of Rapides-des-Joachims is not responsible for the content of these external sites. The municipality of Rapides-des-Joachims reserves the right to remove any comments that it deems inappropriate or that do not comply with this policy or the terms of use of social media. The municipality of Rapides-des-Joachims may also ban a subscriber if they find that the subscriber does not follow the established rules. Normally, the municipality or Rapides-des-Joachims makes sure to follow up on the exchanges made on its page. A constant watch of social media is thus carried out. Although the use of social media implies the notion of speed and immediacy, checks must be made with the various services. A delay is expected when required.