We welcome conversation and debate on our social media pages. However, we expect social media users to be tolerant and respectful of all people. We will remove any posts which contain abusive, offensive, defamatory, discriminatory or unlawful text, images or videos from our social media. We retain the right to hide or remove such offensive comments and block accounts that post them. Waitaki Whitestone Geopark reserves the right to hide comments on its social media pages if they:
• are offensive or obscene;
• contain objectionable or profane language;
• include personal attacks of any kind or constitute ongoing harassment of staff or elected members;
• are discriminatory or express prejudice on the basis of race, ethnicity, country of origin, gender, sexuality, religion, or disability;
• contain spam or include unrelated links to other sites;
• are clearly off topic;
• are deliberate lies or attempts to mislead. While we cannot review all comments for accuracy, we reserve the right to reject comments we consider, on the balance of probability, inadvertent or deliberate falsehood;
• impersonate an individual or organization, are fraudulent, defamatory of any person, threatening or invasive of another’s privacy or otherwise illegal;
• are trolling or threatening or represent an on-going negative dialogue offering little value to the conversation;
• advocate or endorse violence, vigilantism or law breaking;
violate the law or breach court-ordered suppressions or have the potential to breach future suppressions; or
• constitute a contempt of court or that contain details of cases and individuals before the courts;
• breach the Human Rights Act, 1993 or the Harmful Digital Communications Act, 2015. We reserve the right to ban people from our pages who make such comments at any time.
