Our page exists as a place for us to engage with our local community, and provide you with a safe and open place to gain information, make enquiries, and enjoy positive discussions. While we do endeavour to respond to your enquiries wherever possible, we encourage you to contact our Customer Service team on (02) 4995 7777 for any specific or urgent enquiries. For council-related emergencies outside of business hours, including those related to roads, bridges and council facilities, please call 0407 721 224. We actively monitor our social media channels during business hours, and may also keep you informed of events, news and activities after hours and on weekends via scheduled posts. Dungog Shire Council supports Facebook’s Terms of Use, and encourages all users and visitors to our page to support them too. The terms can be found here: www.facebook.com/legal/terms
To ensure that everyone who interacts on our page has a fair go, and that their opinions are respected in a positive, supportive environment, we ask all participants on our page to follow our 'House Rules':
• Show respect for other people, and encourage them to share their ideas and thoughts.
• Keep it clean - do not use obscene, aggressive or offensive language.
• Do not post comments that are likely to offend others, particularly in reference to an individual’s race, age, physical appearance, gender, sexuality, political leaning, religion or disability.
• Do not repeat comments continuously.
• Do not promote commercial interests, solicitations, advertisements or endorsements of any non-governmental agency.
• Do not use this page as a platform through which to campaign for election.
• Do not refer to council staff members by name, or tag them within your comments or posts.
• Always protect your privacy, and the privacy of others, by not including email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses or unauthorised photos on our page. Because we want this to be a positive environment for everyone - please be aware that, if you do not adhere to these guidelines, we may moderate and remove your comments or permanently block your access to this page at the discretion of the Page Manager. We may also remove comments if we believe that the content is personal in nature, likely to offend others, contravenes the guidelines listed above, or is affecting the enjoyment of the page for other participants. Dungog Shire Council does not accept responsibility for non-council comments on this page or make any warranty to their accuracy. Any advertisement that may appear when viewing our page is not endorsed by Dungog Shire Council, nor are we directly affiliated with the advertisement, unless stated otherwise. The act of Dungog Shire Council “liking” or “following” an organisation, business, group, individual person, location or event through social media platforms does not indicate that Dungog Shire Council endorses the products, views, activities or services relating to the “liked” or “followed” entity, business or group.
