Social Media Policy
Garland County Habitat for Humanity, Inc. (“Habitat” / “Habitat for Humanity” / “GCHFH”) is active on social media to further our mission, provide community awareness, connect with individuals and families in need, connect to and/or recognize donors, community members or organizations, and promote affordable housing initiatives.
We have set some community guidelines, Policies, and Terms. By using any Garland County Habitat for Humanity social media site, you accept and agree to this Policy, together with GCHFH’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
GCHFH’s social media properties, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, are public, which means that anyone can see your posts to our social channels, and your posts may even show up in search engine results like on Google, Yahoo!, or Bing.
While we encourage open discussion, we may occasionally remove posts that don't fit our community guidelines. Please remember, though, that this forum contains the opinions and views of other users. Although we are moderating our channels to help ensure that users’ posts comply with these Guidelines, we cannot be responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any comments or materials posted by users.
We ask that all comments remain on topic. This means that comments should relate to the topic that is being discussed within that page, post, photo, video, and/or Tweet. While we welcome reasonable critiques, we may delete negative comments about Garland County Habitat for Humanity, Habitat for Humanity International and/or its Affiliates, and/or our community partners and/or affiliated organizations that aren't relevant, accurate, or do not contribute to the overall online social media experience.
General Guidelines
Media Inquiries
If you are a member of the media, please contact our PR Department at 501–623-5600 or by email at [email protected]
ONLINE & SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNITY POLICIES
I. Monitoring And Moderation Policies
Garland County Habitat for Humanity has no obligation to accept, display, review, monitor, or maintain any content posted to any Social Media Site, but does reserve the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue access to any Social Media Site, at any time, without notice and for any reason, in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts that we deem are abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise inappropriate. Broader community guidelines include:
Courtesy And Relevance
Please treat the community and your fellow participants with respect – even if you disagree with a post or comment. Do not post any content or comments that may be inappropriate, offensive, profane, culturally, racially, gender, or socially insensitive, disruptive, harassing or defamatory.
For the benefit of healthy discussion, we ask that comments remain on topic and relevant to the conversation. This means that comments should relate to the topic that is being discussed within that wall post. Off-topic posts may be hidden, moved, or removed.
Removal Of Posts / Banning Of Users
We will try our best to review every comment or post, and thus we reserve the right to remove any that violate these Guidelines or that, in our sole discretion, we otherwise consider objectionable. We may ban offenders from our communities. As such, we may delete comments or posts that we deem to be:
Suspension/Termination/Reporting To Authority
We take responsibility for our online community with the utmost priority. Therefore, any comment(s) posted which we deem to be criminal in nature, or instigates or implies violence toward oneself or another may be reported to the proper authorities.
In certain instances, we may also suspend, terminate or ban certain repeat offenders and/or those committing significant violations of these Guidelines. When appropriate, we may also, on our own or as required by the rules or law of the platform, be required to refer and/or work with the applicable platform and/or the appropriate authorities to review and or pursue certain violations.
If you wish to report or flag a user post/comment as inappropriate yourself, please follow the then-current published procedures of the platform where the post originated.
II. Comment And Posting Policies
Community participants are responsible for their comments or posts. The opinions, statements and viewpoints expressed by community participants (including GCHFH employees/volunteers/partner families/homeowners/contractors/etc.) do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Habitat for Humanity or constitute an official position of GCHFH.
Garland County Habitat for Humanity is not responsible for and does not validate any opinions, assertions, or forward-looking statements expressed in any user comments.
We expect conversations to follow the rules of polite discourse and we ask that participants treat each other, as well as our staff, volunteers, community partners, and other organizations/affiliations, with respect.
[Updated May 26. 2022]
We have set some community guidelines, Policies, and Terms. By using any Garland County Habitat for Humanity social media site, you accept and agree to this Policy, together with GCHFH’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
GCHFH’s social media properties, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, are public, which means that anyone can see your posts to our social channels, and your posts may even show up in search engine results like on Google, Yahoo!, or Bing.
While we encourage open discussion, we may occasionally remove posts that don't fit our community guidelines. Please remember, though, that this forum contains the opinions and views of other users. Although we are moderating our channels to help ensure that users’ posts comply with these Guidelines, we cannot be responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any comments or materials posted by users.
We ask that all comments remain on topic. This means that comments should relate to the topic that is being discussed within that page, post, photo, video, and/or Tweet. While we welcome reasonable critiques, we may delete negative comments about Garland County Habitat for Humanity, Habitat for Humanity International and/or its Affiliates, and/or our community partners and/or affiliated organizations that aren't relevant, accurate, or do not contribute to the overall online social media experience.
General Guidelines
- Stay on topic, use common courtesy, and be respectful of others;
- Submit your own original content, and avoid posting content that you know or suspect to be false;
- Do not post someone else's copyrighted work unless you have legal and ethical permission to do so;
- Anything posted to any of Garland County Habitat for Humanity’s Social Media Sites, including its ReStores, can and may be used for any purpose we deem, including commercial interests (see Terms of Service);
- Never post anything you wish to be kept confidential or expect to be compensated;
- Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information such as yours or anyone else’s account number, address, phone number, email address, or social security number;
- Garland County Habitat for Humanity is not responsible for views expressed other than our own;
- GCHFH Social Media Sites, including its ReStores, are moderated by GCHFH staff and/or designated volunteers. We will make every effort to respond in a timely manner during business hours; however, we cannot guarantee that we'll reply to every comment.
Media Inquiries
If you are a member of the media, please contact our PR Department at 501–623-5600 or by email at [email protected]
ONLINE & SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNITY POLICIES
I. Monitoring And Moderation Policies
Garland County Habitat for Humanity has no obligation to accept, display, review, monitor, or maintain any content posted to any Social Media Site, but does reserve the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue access to any Social Media Site, at any time, without notice and for any reason, in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts that we deem are abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise inappropriate. Broader community guidelines include:
- Do not post or transmit material you do not have the right to post or transmit under law (such as copyright, trade secrets, or securities).
- Our Social Media Sites may not be used for the submission of any claim, demand, informal or formal complaint, or any other form of legal and/or administrative notice or process, or for the exhaustion of any legal and/or administrative remedy.
- Garland County Habitat for Humanity reserves the right to ban any user from our page without prior written notice or consent for violations of community policies. Any comment(s) posted which we deem to be criminal in nature, or instigates or implies violence toward oneself or another may be reported to the proper authorities.
Courtesy And Relevance
Please treat the community and your fellow participants with respect – even if you disagree with a post or comment. Do not post any content or comments that may be inappropriate, offensive, profane, culturally, racially, gender, or socially insensitive, disruptive, harassing or defamatory.
For the benefit of healthy discussion, we ask that comments remain on topic and relevant to the conversation. This means that comments should relate to the topic that is being discussed within that wall post. Off-topic posts may be hidden, moved, or removed.
Removal Of Posts / Banning Of Users
We will try our best to review every comment or post, and thus we reserve the right to remove any that violate these Guidelines or that, in our sole discretion, we otherwise consider objectionable. We may ban offenders from our communities. As such, we may delete comments or posts that we deem to be:
- Profane, obscene, inappropriate, disruptive, or unrelated to the topic and conversation.
- Indecent, sexually explicit, or pornographic material of any kind — including masked profanity where symbols, initials, intentional misspellings, or other characters are used to suggest profane language.
- Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, ad hominem attacks, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity, or organization.
- Impersonating any person or entity or falsely stating or otherwise misrepresenting any affiliation with a person or entity.
- Discriminatory or containing hateful speech of any kind regarding age, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, political affiliations, disability, or other characteristics.
- False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.
- Spam, or content containing or linking to any kind of virus, malware, spyware, or similar program that could cause harm to a user's computer.
- Repeated or identical posts
- Solicitations or content that promote commercial interests, campaigns, causes or political views.
- Any posts which might constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violate local, national, or international laws or regulations
- Any posts which might identify matters that are currently the subject of legal proceedings or would break a court’s non-publication order
Suspension/Termination/Reporting To Authority
We take responsibility for our online community with the utmost priority. Therefore, any comment(s) posted which we deem to be criminal in nature, or instigates or implies violence toward oneself or another may be reported to the proper authorities.
In certain instances, we may also suspend, terminate or ban certain repeat offenders and/or those committing significant violations of these Guidelines. When appropriate, we may also, on our own or as required by the rules or law of the platform, be required to refer and/or work with the applicable platform and/or the appropriate authorities to review and or pursue certain violations.
If you wish to report or flag a user post/comment as inappropriate yourself, please follow the then-current published procedures of the platform where the post originated.
II. Comment And Posting Policies
Community participants are responsible for their comments or posts. The opinions, statements and viewpoints expressed by community participants (including GCHFH employees/volunteers/partner families/homeowners/contractors/etc.) do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Habitat for Humanity or constitute an official position of GCHFH.
Garland County Habitat for Humanity is not responsible for and does not validate any opinions, assertions, or forward-looking statements expressed in any user comments.
We expect conversations to follow the rules of polite discourse and we ask that participants treat each other, as well as our staff, volunteers, community partners, and other organizations/affiliations, with respect.
[Updated May 26. 2022]
