Municipality of McDougall

McDougall Social Media Policy

Social media will provide the municipality with a tool to share information and communications with residents, visitors, partners, and other stakeholders. A social media policy provides the necessary guidelines to help achieve these goals while maintaining a safe, inclusive, and respectful online environment.

Comments and private messages including any of the following are considered a violation of our Social Media Guidelines and may be hidden, deleted or not responded to:

•    Profane language and/or content and/or defamatory statements;

•    Personal attacks on individuals, groups, events or ideas;

•    Content that infringes on another’s intellectual property rights (i.e. copyright, trademarks, design and patents);

•    Content of a religious nature that might be deemed prejudicial;

•    Content that can be considered a commercial endorsement, advertisement or solicitation of an individual or an individual business;

•    Content that promotes, fosters or perpetuates discrimination or harassment under the Ontario Human Rights Code;

•    Content with the intent to inflict harm; 

•    Sexual content, dangerous and/or illegal activity of any kind;

•    Content of a confidential nature pertaining to the Municipality;

•    Personal information about an identifiable individual other than the person posting the comment;

•    Content that promotes any candidate and/or materials for federal, provincial or municipal elections or for Council appointments;

•    Derogatory comments about members of Council and/or Town employees and/or Town services and/or other levels of government;

•    Any content that is determined to be inappropriate in the opinion of the Director of Corporate Services/Clerk and/or CAO.

The Municipality of McDougall Social Media Policy is available here (PDF)

Municipality of McDougall Official Social Media Sites

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