Social media house rules
House rules
Marlborough District Council reserves the right to remove contributions and followers on its social media pages that break the rules or guidelines of the relevant communities and the guidelines listed below.
Messages and images on the Council's social media pages must always be polite, appropriate and relevant.
Inappropriate messages include but are not limited to:
- Advertising of products or services
- Publication of content subject to third party copyright
- Photos or videos of people without their prior consent
- The same, or similar message published multiple times (spamming)
- Profane, obscene, threatening, abusive, offensive or defamatory messages or images
- Personal information or contact details
Comments will be deleted where they don't make sense, are inappropriate, or have no relevance to the post (for example, a link to advertising or spam).
Information that may compromise the safety or security of the public, staff or elected members will be removed.
Inappropriate, offensive, abusive or illegal content will be deleted and reported to the social media platform in question. This includes comments which are discriminatory on the basis of ethnicity, age, religion, gender, disability or sexual orientation.
