Municipality of the County of Colchester: Serving you through Social Media
We welcome your participation on this Facebook. This page is monitored regularly during business hours 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Comments outside business hours will be reviewed the following business day. This page is intended to enhance our communication – not to replace normal Municipal business processes. If you would like to request a Municipal service, please contact our Helpline at 902-895-4777 for personal assistance. We also encourage you to visit our website at www.colchester.ca where you can access email addresses to request a Municipal service. Rules of Participation
You are welcome to post respectful comments on our wall. The Municipality reserves the right to remove any posts or content that:
• Provides the personal information of individuals;
• Promotes, perpetuates or fosters discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, nationality, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation;
• Is a personal attack on an individual or specific group;
• Is profane or abusive;
• Is sexually explicit or links to content that is sexually explicit;
• Conducts or encourages illegal activity;
• Is commercial in nature and is attempting to advertise, promote, or sell products or services of an individual or an individual business;
• Is for the purpose of promoting a candidate for municipal, provincial, or federal election;
• May tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems;
• Violates a legal ownership interest of another party;
• Violating privacy legislation, including discussion of items in close session meetings;
• Does not comply with municipal, provincial, or federal legislation;
• Promotes and individual religion or religious services. The overall goal is to ensure that all parties participate online in a respectful, relevant way. Notwithstanding the criteria listed above, the Municipality reserves the right to post, refuse to post or remove, any content from its page at any time, without notice and to block repeat offenders. Community Events
Members of the public are welcome to post event information on the Municipality’s page if that event is open to the general public and meets one of the following criteria:
• Organized or funded by another level of government;
• Organized by a Government funded agency or board;
• Organized by a Municipality of Colchester affiliated group;
• An organization identified as eligible for a Municipality of Colchester community grant;
• Funded in full or in part or sponsored by the Municipality of Colchester;
• Organized by a charitable organization with a registered charitable number and operating within the Municipality of Colchester
You are responsible to protect your privacy
When you registered for your Facebook account, you provided personal information to Facebook and since then, you may have added even more information and photos to your profile. The Municipality would like to remind you that if you don’t have your privacy settings restricted, then anyone who “likes” our page could potentially view your personal information. Be sure to get to know the security settings with in the social media you are using. About your personal information
Personal information, which includes your internet protocol (IP) address, is being collected, managed, processed and or stored by a third party service provider and therefore, not in the sold domain, custody and control of the Municipality of Colchester. Additionally, your personal information may cross the border to a foreign jurisdiction and will therefore, be subject to the governing laws of that jurisdiction. The Municipality will post topics and updates on municipal activities and, from time to time, will ask for your feedback. This information will be monitored, reported back to staff and sometimes council.
