Social media community guidelines
Social media community guidelines
Social media community guidelines
Community guidelines
What's covered
These guidelines cover all our social media channels.
Guidelines
We want to foster an informed and engaged online community, where everyone can be part of constructive conversations about integrity in New Zealand sport and recreation.
To ensure that our social media platforms are used appropriately, we ask that people follow our community guidelines:
Be respectful. Please use common courtesy and do not make comments that contain offensive, profane, defamatory, threatening language or which are otherwise inappropriate in a public forum. These comments will be removed in accordance with the Harmful Digital Communications Act.
Stay on topic. Only make comments that are relevant to the topic or theme of the post. If you disagree with our view on something and decide to make that point every time we post, your comments will be considered spam and you may be banned from the page.
Protect your own and others' privacy. Never post comments containing personal, identifying, or confidential information such as account details or other personal information including address, telephone number, email, passwords, etc.
Content management
We reserve the right to:
Determine what constitutes inappropriate content
Edit or remove inappropriate content
Ban users from our social media communities
We may delete posts which contain;
language or content that is harmful, defamatory, racist, sexist or discriminatory, insulting or offensive
confidential information (including contact details and personal or health information)
misinformation or spam
commercial activity, including advertising
unapproved use of the Sport Integrity Commission Te Kahu Raunui brand
off-topic or irrelevant information to the thread of conversation
nudity, pornography or child abuse
excessive violence
content that is illegal, gives instructions for illegal activity or advocates illegal activities.
When active on our social media pages, you are expected to comply with the terms of service for each platform.
Monitoring
Our social media accounts are monitored between 8.30am and 4.30pm on business days. We try to reply to direct messages within 48 business hours.
Political neutrality
We are politically neutral. We do not advocate for a particular political party and our social media channels will not be used to promote any party’s political messages or other content.
We reserve the right to remove any comments that may compromise our obligation to maintain political neutrality.
Endorsement
We do not implicitly or explicitly endorse any individual or organisation merely by creating a social media connection, regardless of the terms used by social media providers such as 'follow' or 'like'.
We will maintain social media connections with individuals and organisations that are critical and/or have opposing views. We do not hold any responsibility for the content of such profiles.
Disclaimer
The content of our social media channels is intended for informational purposes only. We will not accept any liability for loss or damage suffered by any person or body due to information provided on this site or linked sites.
We do not necessarily endorse a particular person or organisation when we follow, share, retweet, or ‘like’ content from them.
The information on our social media channels are provided on the basis that persons accessing the website undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content.
Contact us
If you wish to report an integrity issue or make a complaint, call us on 0800 378 437 or raise an issue using our online complaints form.
If you would like to report doping concerns, please use our Speak Out programme.
If you find content on one of our official pages which you feel breaches these guidelines, please let us know by emailing [email protected].
What's covered
These guidelines cover all our social media channels.
Guidelines
We want to foster an informed and engaged online community, where everyone can be part of constructive conversations about integrity in New Zealand sport and recreation.
To ensure that our social media platforms are used appropriately, we ask that people follow our community guidelines:
Be respectful. Please use common courtesy and do not make comments that contain offensive, profane, defamatory, threatening language or which are otherwise inappropriate in a public forum. These comments will be removed in accordance with the Harmful Digital Communications Act.
Stay on topic. Only make comments that are relevant to the topic or theme of the post. If you disagree with our view on something and decide to make that point every time we post, your comments will be considered spam and you may be banned from the page.
Protect your own and others' privacy. Never post comments containing personal, identifying, or confidential information such as account details or other personal information including address, telephone number, email, passwords, etc.
Content management
We reserve the right to:
Determine what constitutes inappropriate content
Edit or remove inappropriate content
Ban users from our social media communities
We may delete posts which contain;
language or content that is harmful, defamatory, racist, sexist or discriminatory, insulting or offensive
confidential information (including contact details and personal or health information)
misinformation or spam
commercial activity, including advertising
unapproved use of the Sport Integrity Commission Te Kahu Raunui brand
off-topic or irrelevant information to the thread of conversation
nudity, pornography or child abuse
excessive violence
content that is illegal, gives instructions for illegal activity or advocates illegal activities.
When active on our social media pages, you are expected to comply with the terms of service for each platform.
Monitoring
Our social media accounts are monitored between 8.30am and 4.30pm on business days. We try to reply to direct messages within 48 business hours.
Political neutrality
We are politically neutral. We do not advocate for a particular political party and our social media channels will not be used to promote any party’s political messages or other content.
We reserve the right to remove any comments that may compromise our obligation to maintain political neutrality.
Endorsement
We do not implicitly or explicitly endorse any individual or organisation merely by creating a social media connection, regardless of the terms used by social media providers such as 'follow' or 'like'.
We will maintain social media connections with individuals and organisations that are critical and/or have opposing views. We do not hold any responsibility for the content of such profiles.
Disclaimer
The content of our social media channels is intended for informational purposes only. We will not accept any liability for loss or damage suffered by any person or body due to information provided on this site or linked sites.
We do not necessarily endorse a particular person or organisation when we follow, share, retweet, or ‘like’ content from them.
The information on our social media channels are provided on the basis that persons accessing the website undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content.
Contact us
If you wish to report an integrity issue or make a complaint, call us on 0800 378 437 or raise an issue using our online complaints form.
If you would like to report doping concerns, please use our Speak Out programme.
If you find content on one of our official pages which you feel breaches these guidelines, please let us know by emailing [email protected].