Heyworth Public Library District uses various social media platforms to communicate information to its community about the Library’s services, resources, upcoming events, and other information about library-related and community-related subjects.
Comment Policy
The Library recognizes and respects differences in opinion and encourages comments and interactions that conform to this Social Media Policy. However, please be aware that our social media sites will be moderated by the Library for compliance with this policy and are also subject to the third party host’s terms of use (ex. Facebook, Instagram, etc.). The posts and comments expressed on these sites do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Heyworth Public Library District.
The Library reserves the right to remove any comments, photographs, links, or posts that contain the following:
- Pornographic, obscene, or sexual content
- Threats of violence
- Content that promotes discrimination against specific individuals or groups on the basis of race, age, religion, national origin, gender, or any other protected class
- Conduct or encouragement of illegal or harmful activity
- Defamatory statements
- Plagiarized or copyrighted material
- Private, personal information published without consent
- Content totally unrelated to the content of the forum
- Hyperlinks to additional material
- Repetitive content that disrupts normal operation of the forum
- Solicitation of commerce or commercial activity or promotion
- Content that promotes or opposes a political party, person campaigning for elective office, or any ballot proposition
- Spam, malware, or viruses
Users who enter private or personal information on Heyworth Public Library District social media sites do so at their own risk, and the Library is not responsible for any damages resulting from the public display of, or failure to remove, private or personal information.
Please be advised that content or posts on Heyworth Public Library District social media sites that relate to Library business may be a public record subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.