The City of Burlington welcomes your comments and encourages open and engaging discussion and dialogue on our social media sites.
In order to create safe and fair participation online, the City of Burlington has established guidelines for those who wish to engage on our social media channels.
Violating these social media commenting guidelines could result in removal of your comment(s) and/or block access to our social channels. Comments will be addressed Monday to Friday between regular business hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., holidays excepted.
By interacting with the City of Burlington online, you agree to:
- Be respectful towards all users of the site.
- Not post or upload content that is unrelated to the page or post.
- Not post or upload content that is offensive, inflammatory or provocative, including swearing, obscene or vulgar comments.
- Not use language that is discriminatory, hateful, or violent towards identifiable groups or that incites others to discriminate, practice hate or violence.
- Not post or upload content that breaks the law or encourage others to do so. This includes defamation, breaching privacy, breaching another person’s intellectual property rights such as copyright, condoning illegal activity and contempt of court.
- Not post personal information such as addresses, phone numbers, email addresses or other online contact details relating either to you or other individuals.
- Not impersonate or falsely claim to represent a person or an organization.
- Not register more than one user account per person.
- Not make any commercial endorsement or promotion of any product, service or publication.
- If you are aged 16 or under, you will obtain your parent’s/guardian’s permission before participating. Users without this consent are not allowed to participate or provide us with personal information.
- Abide by the Terms of Use for the company hosting the site