Providing assistance for bushfires, house and factory fires, motor vehicle accidents, grass and scrub fires and Fire Medical Response. EMERGENCY CALLS 000
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The page is managed by volunteers of the Whittlesea Fire Brigade. Availability
The Whittlesea Fire Brigade page will provide emergency awareness messages and information when possible. The page will be checked for comments/inquiries and new content will be posted as regularly as possible. Your use of the Whittlesea Fire Brigade page and its content is at your own risk. The Whittlesea Fire Brigade does not represent or warrant that the page and/or Facebook site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected or that this website is free of viruses or other harmful code, nor does The Whittlesea Fire Brigade represent or warrant the correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or appropriateness of the content contained on this page or that the content is free of viruses or other harmful code. Following
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To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, The Whittlesea Fire Brigade recommends that you do not include personal or company/employer names, phone numbers or email addresses in the body of your comment or post. Posts that include personal information, or identify a particular company, employer or person will be removed (unless suplied by Brigade members on organising events). Any personal information received through The Whittlesea Fire Brigade page will be treated as a communication by you. The Whittlesea Fire Brigade page is publicly accessible. Your comments may be publicly visible, depending on your privacy settings. Your privacy, and the retention of information on this site is also governed by the terms and conditions set out by Facebook's Privacy Policy (www.facebook.com/policy.php). Comments and Inquiries
We will endeavour to read all comments and inquiries sent to us and, will respond to them as soon as possible. It is our goal to respond to every comment/inquiry within three business days however, major events including emergencies and training exercises may result in an extended response time. Should we receive a large volume of comments/inquiries or your comment/inquiry requires a more complex reply or consultation with an outside source of information, which may also result in an extended response time. Rules of Conduct
Disagreements and constructive arguments are welcome as part of the discussions; however, inappropriate, abusive, discriminatory, offensive or unlawful comments are prohibited. The Whittlesea Fire Brigade Requires a valid Facebook account for every comment. Will review posted comments, but cannot commit to replying to all comments and/or moderating all discussion on this page. Expects posted comments to be relevant to the section they are posted to. The Whittlesea Fire Brigade reserves the right to edit or remove comments, in whole or in part, for any reason, including comments that:
- Are abusive, hateful, racist, sexist, harassing, threatening, inflammatory, defamatory, slanderous, knowingly false, obscene, sexually explicit, profane or otherwise objectionable or otherwise in violation of any law, rule or regulation in the sole opinion of the Whittlesea Fire Brigade are aggressive, coarse, violent, obscene, or pornographic in tone.
- Are offensive to an individual or an organization, rude in tone, or otherwise abusive, falsely claim to represent a person, organization or entity Violate or infringe the rights of another person or entity
- Contain personal information about yourself or a third party
- Are repetitive or spamming of threads
- Are unintelligible, or otherwise inconsistent with the purposes of this page
The Whittlesea Fire Brigade reserve the right to remove any comments or to temporarily/ permanently exclude users from our Facebook wall deemed to be in violation of the above rules of conduct. The Whittlesea Fire Brigade and its Volunteers, agents and independent contractors shall not be responsible or liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of arising out of or in any way arising out of or in connection with this page, including its content. Any feedback and ideas you provide to us remains yours. However, by providing feedback and ideas to us, you are granting your permission to collect, use, copy, modify, publish and transmit your feedback and permit others (whether within or outside the Whittlesea Fire Brigade to do so, without the need to seek further permission from you and without any compensation to you. You also agree to waive any moral rights for the benefit of the Whittlesea Fire Brigade in any copyright you hold in and your feedback or ideas. We are not responsible for any content on any third-party website that we may refer you to in any of our communications through Facebook. This document may be updated from time to time. Please check back regularly to see if there have been any updates. Thank You again for visiting our page.
