New Castle County Emergency Medical Services Social Media Terms
The New Castle County Emergency Medical Services Division maintains this page for purposes of: engaging and interacting with our community; promoting the division’s activities, events and programs; providing relevant and timely community news, information and events; distribution of health and public safety tips; urgent notification of critical incidents which may affect county residents, business owners and visitors; and interacting with those people having an interest in the New Castle County Emergency Medical Services Division. If you are looking for the official source of information from the New Castle County Emergency Medical Services Division, please visit our website at www.nccde.org/ems
We value the opportunity for dialogue that social media provides and while this is an open forum, it is also a family friendly one and we ask that you follow our posting guidelines. New Castle County EMS requires that all posts to this page adhere to established community standards which can be located here https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/ We reserve the right to report any standards violations to the appropriate media outlet with the intent of that outlet taking appropriate and reasonable responsive action. We use platform-provided content moderation/filtering options to limit foul or obscene content. When possible, agency social media sites will utilize profanity filters so that no comment from the public containing profanity will pass through the spam filter and be posted without prior notice, and as soon as possible. We do not discriminate against any views but will remove any posts of inappropriate material as determined by us in our sole and complete discretion. This material may include, but is not limited to a post that:
• Is slanderous or defamatory
• Contains obscene language or sexual content
• Promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination based on race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, status regarding public assistance, national origin, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation
• Promotes commercial services or products other than significant sponsors, affiliations, or business partnerships
• Promotes a political candidate
• Promotes illegal activity
• Provides information that may compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems
• Contains personal content that does not have the consent of the third party
• Contains content that violates a legal interest of another party
We do not allow posts that are solicitations or advertisements for commercial entities, political organizations, or candidates. We reserve the right to delete comments that are spam or include links to other sites. This policy is in addition to and complements all existing or future policies regarding the use of social media and the interest of the New Castle County Emergency Medical Services. The current approved social media sites for New Castle County EMS are:
• Facebook
• Instagram
You agree to participate at your own risk, taking personal responsibility for your own comments, your username and any information provided. Our media relations team monitors our social media profile and pages but is not responsible for content generated by users. Most comments are accepted, but we are not obligated to respond to comments. Repeated violations of our comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from the New Castle County EMS social media accounts at any time and without prior notice. If you wish to contest the removal or hiding of your content, or your denial of access t our social media accounts, you may do so by contacting our Public Information Officer. By “LIKING” and/or “INTERACTING” with our page, you agree to the above terms. Please contact our media relations team at [email protected] with any questions.
02/25/2021
