Terms and Conditions

Social media community guidelines 

We use social media to provide information and resources for women in Dorset, and to keep you, our community, up-to-date with our work streams and opportunities for you to get involved.

It’s also a place for people to share their own experiences should they wish, and to start wider conversations about issues relevant to local women. It’s important to us that our social media channels are a safe place for respectful debate and conversation. 

To make this possible, we ask people to appreciate the nuances of the discussions and to follow these guidelines while interacting on our social media channels: 

• Be respectful of other people and their opinions. 
• Do not make personal attacks in your comments. 
• Do not post content that is discriminatory, obscene, inflammatory, harassing, hateful, threatening, profane or personally abusive. 
• Do not post anything that could be libellous or defamatory. If an accusation is made against a named person, for example at a member of staff or volunteer, we will hide it. 
• Do not post content with explicit content. 
• Do not post adverts for commercial products or services. 
• Do not post repeatedly about issues that are not releated to our cause, for example spam.

On Facebook we use filters to automatically hide obscenities and will use our own discretion to hide comments that go against these guidelines. If we do so, we will comment to let you know this is the case, unless your comments have repeatedly contravened the policy and we have explained this to you previously. Your comment may still be visible to you but won’t be visible to others using the site.

On rare occasions, we may block users from our channels if the nature of their comments does not change, but we will always warn you of this and highlight our commenting guidelines before doing so. Meta’s general community guidelines should also be followed when using their site. 

If anyone makes our staff or volunteers – online or in person – we reserve the discretion to block them from our pages. This includes directly naming them, or making indirect attacks that clearly identifies them.

Our LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram channels are moderated daily, with reduced hours on weekends and bank holidays. If you have questions, need support, or guidance we always aim to respond within reasonable time – but this might be within the next two working days, depending on our capacity.

If you see something that doesn’t seem right, or that makes you feel uncomfortable, do try and make us aware if you feel able to do so. You can directly email us via this link. 

If you have any suggestions for how we can better moderate our channels, please email us here.