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Social Media Guidelines

Social Media Guidelines

Guidelines for Engagement

Humane Society for Southwest Washington and ReTails Thrift Store (together, HSSW) social media is a place for people to share our love of pets. The guidelines below outline appropriate and acceptable interaction by users on HSSW social media. 

HSSW will post a variety of news, events, advocacy information, adoptable pets, and adoption updates. We encourage adopters to post your own updates, and to interact with our posts by sharing, commenting, and more. We welcome your engagement, feedback, and constructive criticism. 

Users are welcome to share comments, videos, and photos to the HSSW social media pages. Administrators reserve the right to remove content that we deem inappropriate or offensive or otherwise violate the HSSW and/or Facebook Terms of Use. Repeat offenders may be removed from our social media content.

Social Media Terms of Use

Social media pages, accounts and applications created or administered by HSSW are for you to enjoy. We welcome your comments, pictures, videos and other content (“User Content”) so long as your User Content complies with these terms of use:

You agree that:

  • You read all content - including the content from other users - at your own risk.
  • Your User Content will be accurate and does not violate any law, regulation, guideline, or the rights of any third party (including, copyright, trademark, or privacy), and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
  • Your User Content will be free of any obscene, profane, or threatening content.
  • Your User Content will be free of software viruses, solicitation, or any form of “spam.”
  • When discussing or challenging the views or opinions of another user, you will do so respectfully.
  • When engaging on Facebook or Instagram, you agree to abide by and understand Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (www.facebook.com/legal/terms).

HSSW reserves the right to remove posts or comments that contain:

  • Profane, offensive, or violent language
  • Trolling, deliberately disruptive or misleading content, or otherwise unrelated to the content of any given post or comment
  • Misinformation, conspiracy theories, or other false and exclamatory content
  • Comments or posts intended to demean or insult the services, programs, staff, volunteers of HSSW or the products and programs presented on our social media
  • Attacks or threats directed at specific groups or individuals
  • Discriminatory comments regarding race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
  • Spam or any content linking to viruses
  • Acknowledgement of intent to disclose personal information (doxing), or collect private information without disclosure
  • Commercial solicitations or promotion
  • Violations of copyright or intellectual property rights
  • Content that relates to confidential or proprietary business information
  • Promoting competing products, services, brands, or fundraisers for other organizations or causes
  • Personal promotion

You are solely responsible for the User Content you submit, and HSSW assumes no liability for any User Content.

You understand and agree that HSSW reserves the right to review and delete any User Content, including User Content that we determine in our sole discretion violates these Terms, Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, or is otherwise inappropriate or offensive, harmful to us, other users or any third party.

You understand and agree that HSSW may ban any user from engaging with our social media content for a pattern of inappropriate postings or as otherwise deemed necessary.

HSSW reserves the right to update or modify these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice. Your use of social media administered by HSSW following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Terms. We encourage you to review these Terms whenever you use Facebook pages and applications created or administered by HSSW.