Social media house rules
By using or accessing our social media pages, we request you to comply with our social media house rules detailed below.
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Dinnington Town Football Club's Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram pages provide a place to discuss our club, results, showcase achievement and provides updates and any relevant news. The following guidelines are designed to help provide a quality environment for our fans and followers. Please take a minute to read them and keep them in mind whenever you participate.
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By using or accessing our social media pages, you agree to comply with Facebook’s, YouTube's, Instagram’s and Twitter’s terms and conditions.
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While we are grateful to hear from everyone, it is important to note that postings by fans to our page do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Dinnington Town Football Club, nor does Dinnington Town Football Club confirm their accuracy. We understand that football is a subject many of you are passionate about – a passion we share.
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We welcome all questions, commentary, supportive comments for players, feedback, including constructive feedback on our club too. We don’t take decisions on moderating posts lightly. But we do expect that participants post content and commentary that is both relevant and respectful to this community as a whole, members of the club, and to the people moderating the page. Dinnington Town Football Club reserves the right to remove any posts that don’t adhere to our guidelines and to block anyone who violates them repeatedly.
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Specifically, we do not tolerate these kinds of posts:
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Abusive, harassing, stalking, threatening or attacking others
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Defamatory, offensive, obscene, vulgar or depicting violence
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Hateful in language targeting race/ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality or political beliefs
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Fraudulent, deceptive, misleading or unlawful
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Trolling or deliberate disruption of discussion
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Violations of any intellectual property rights
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Spamming
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Uploading files that contain viruses or programs that could damage the operation of other people’s computers
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Commercial solicitation or solicitation of donations
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Link baiting (embedding a link in your post to draw traffic to your own site)
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Posts that contain personal data
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Dinnington Town Football Club is committed to delivering a high standard of service for its fans, players and coaches, but also takes the health, safety and welfare of all of these groups very seriously. We will therefore protect where possible these groups from any form of unacceptable behaviour online from fans, followers, supporters or the general public, especially trolling and any form of online bullying. This includes, but is not limited to, naming them, posting their addresses on public forums or posting their pictures online etc. Dinnington Town Football Club reserves the right to delete any such comments, or any comments it wishes, from its social media pages and permanently ban users.
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Moderating content
We moderate our social media pages, generally between the following times:
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Monday – Friday, 8am – 8pm
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Saturday – Sunday, 8am – 6pm
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Please let us know if you see any content that you feel breaks any of our house rules, and we will act as quickly as possible.
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We do have a zero-tolerance policy and we will delete posts immediately if you break any of our house rules. In some circumstances, if you continue to break our house rules we will issue an immediate suspension or ban.
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Get in touch
If you have any questions or comments about our social media channels, then please contact us using the contact here.
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We love to hear your feedback and can use this to make the page an even better place for news, support and advice.
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Thank you for taking the time to read our house rules, and we hope you enjoy using our social media channels.
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