Social Media Terms of Use
These Social Media Terms of Use apply to you when you communicate with Kemptville Health and Wellness Centre through our Facebook account—please read them carefully. Posting guidelines:
The following posting guidelines apply to the KHWC page, where users have the ability to directly post, comment or send messages.
1. We do not allow comments that are disrespectful, abusive, or intended to defame anyone or any organization, nor do we allow obscene, explicit content. We reserve the right to edit or remove comments that are not appropriate, including:
* Unproven, unsupported, or inaccurate accusations against individuals or organizations
* General Misinformation about health related topics - The spread of inaccurate information can be dangerous and makes it challenging to determine verifiable facts from credible sources.
* Messages that attempt to defame or defraud any financial, commercial, or non-governmental agency
* Announcements from or endorsements of labour or political organizations or non-governmental associations.
* Comments not sent by the author, or which are posted by anonymous or robot accounts
* Repetitive posts copied and pasted by multiple users
* Spam
* Comments that are clearly off-topic, disruptive or unintelligible
• Advocacy of illegal activity
• Personal information, including personal health information
• Racist, hateful, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, slanderous, insulting, intolerant, or life-threatening messages
• Offensive comments to an individual or an organization, rude in tone, or otherwise abusive
• Promotion of commercial services or products.
• Anything that may infringe on copyrights or trademarks
• Comments that violate any Kemptville Health and Wellness Centre policies
2. You participate at your own risk, taking personal responsibility for your comments, your username, and any information you share.
3. Comments and posts expressed by fans or followers of our social media accounts do not reflect the opinions and position of Kemptville Health and Wellness Centre or its employees. Availability
Although comments and replies are welcome on our facebook account at any time, Kemptville Health and Wellness Centre does not monitor the page on a daily basis. The intent of the page is for general information purposes only. Any questions that require responses should be directed to Kemptville Health and Wellness Centre by telephone during regular business hours. Response time
Kemptville Health and Wellness Centre will do its best to respond to comments that do not violate these Terms of Use, however we cannot guarantee a response to comments or moderation of discussions. Things to consider
• Comments that do not follow our Posting Guidelines may be removed, and users that ignore these guidelines may be sanctioned further (for example, being banned or blocked from posting content).
• For any matter that is confidential or too complicated for posting on social media, please contact our office at 613-319-9988.
• The servers of social media network providers are managed by third parties. Our social media accounts may be subject to downtime that is out of our control. Kemptville Health and Wellness Centre accepts no responsibility for platforms becoming unresponsive or unavailable.
• Each social media platform has Terms of Use.
• We will try our best to help you, but we cannot guarantee that we will fully understand your question or that we will be able to answer it. By contacting us through a social media site, you acknowledge that any response we provide to you through the same site:
• is intended to provide helpful information or resources
• is not considered to be definitive advice or guaranteed to solve your concerns. Privacy
To protect the privacy of all individuals, please DO NOT include personal names, photographs, phone numbers, identifying information or email addresses in the body of your comment or message, or identifiable information about your own or someone else’s health care or health status. Kemptville Health and Wellness Centre social media accounts is a public space, and comments and photographs on this page are available for all to see. Posts that include personal information may be deleted at our sole discretion. Comments may also be used and disclosed by Kemptville Health and Wellness Centre as required or permitted by applicable law, including the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004.
