Social Media and Anti-Harassment Policy
Applies but not restricted to North Florida Bicycle Club (NFBC) website including forums and blogs, NFBC Facebook page, NFBC Durbin Crossing Facebook page, Yahoo Sriders group, One Road Campaign website and Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram and other photo-sharing sites, Club emails and any other site or application used for Club-related communication.
Responsible/appropriate use
All references in this Policy to "We", "Us" or "Our" are North Florida Bicycle Club.
By contributing any material to any of these sites or applications, you agree to abide by this Policy, which supplements our Privacy Policy.
Any message posted on any of these sites or applications expresses only the views of the author of that message and does not necessarily reflect our views or the views of any other person on the site or application.
Content Standards
When posting contributions to any of these sites or applications, you must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. These standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
While contributions to any of these sites or applications may not be moderated, they are monitored. Users not willing to follow simple rules of etiquette will not be allowed to participate. Participants should treat each other with respect, recognizing their right to freedom of opinion and expression.
Contributions to any of these sites or forums must not:
• be defamatory (a defamatory comment is one that may damage the reputation of a person or organization);
• be political in nature or discuss politics as these can inflame and create tensions;
• be threatening, abusive, harassing or invasive of a person's privacy;
• be sexist, racist, profane, blasphemous, homophobic or otherwise discriminatory and/or offensive;
• promote violence or advocate, condone or assist any unlawful act;
• describe violent intentions towards other people or organizations;
• be pornographic , sexually explicit, obscene or lewd;
• be used to impersonate any person or to misrepresent your identity;
• infringe any copyright, database right, trade mark or any other intellectual property, confidentiality or privacy rights of any person or organization; or
• otherwise violate any law.
In addition, your contribution must not post a link to a website that contains, or directly links to, material that contravenes any of these standards. In particular, you must not post a link to:
• offensive material (pornographic, discriminatory or gratuitously violent); or
• unlawful material (such as material that condones or encourages unlawful acts, breaches intellectual property law or encourages others to do so, hacks or causes technical disruption to online services or describes how to conduct an unlawful act).
By submitting your contribution any of these sites or applications you warrant that such contribution fulfills the above Content Standards. You also agree to indemnify us against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be named by us as a result of your breach of this warranty.
Advertising, promotion and commerce
Advertisements (except as accepted by NFBC for publication), chain letters, pyramid schemes and solicitations are unacceptable entries on any of these sites or applications.
You may not use any of these sites or applications for commercial purposes or for making a profit or for a profitable venture other than listing a private item for sale.
Copyright and ownership of user generated media content
Do not submit or include in your submission any copyright material without the express permission of the copyright holder. We do not accept liability for copyright breaches you commit, and will remove any offending entries at the request of the rights holder.
If you are the owner of any content you believe has been submitted any of these sites or applications without your authorization, please contact us at webmaster@nfbc.us and we will investigate your complaint.
Our liability
We accept no liability for any material submitted by users to any of these sites or applications and we are not responsible for its content or accuracy.
You, the member, agree that you are solely responsible for the content of your messages, videos, sound-bites and images and that you will not hold us responsible for any claim based upon the appearance and/or transmission of your submission.
Any message posted on any of these sites or applications expresses only the views of the author of that message and does not necessarily reflect our views or the views of any other person on any of these sites or applications.
Any failure to remove particular material from any of these sites or applications does not constitute an endorsement or acceptance of it by us.
External links
We will not be held responsible for the availability or content of any external websites or material you access through our site.
If you decide to visit any linked site, you do so at your own risk and it is your responsibility to take all protective measures to guard against viruses or other destructive elements.
We do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, services or information on or available from third party websites or material.
Personal details/identity/privacy
When using any of these sites or applications, do not provide personal details, either your own or those of someone else.
Impersonation or adopting an inappropriate or offensive user name will not be accepted on the site.
Be aware at all times that this is a public site and anybody can read your entries.
Assume that what you publish on the Web is permanent. Anyone on the internet can easily print out a submission or save it to a computer.
Breach of this Policy
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this Policy. When a breach of this Policy has occurred we may take such action as we deem appropriate, which includes the immediate removal of any objectionable material, even in the absence of a complaint, without prior contact with you.
Habitual breaching of this Policy will cause your ability to post to any of these sites or applications to be suspended.
If you believe that a posted message is objectionable or in breach of this Policy, then please contact us at webmaster@nfbc.us immediately.
The responses described in this Policy are not limited and we may take other action we reasonably deem appropriate and reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access at any time.
Changes to this Policy
We may revise this Policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this Policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our website.
Policy adopted 11-4-2014