Policies
Sexual Harassment
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, physical, or inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexualharassment when the conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment and shall not be tolerated and is a violation of applicable state and federal laws.
TMAD Social Media Terms & Conditions of Use
Each social media platform utilized and maintained by the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District (TMAD) serves as a limited public forum, and all published social media content is subject to monitoring.
TMAD recognizes and embraces the right of all members of our online audience to free speech and freedom of expression. However, all social media platforms maintained by TMAD are official accounts of TMAD, and as such, inappropriate conduct by users of TMAD social media platforms will not be tolerated.
User-generated posts and/or comments are considered unacceptable when the content:
- contains profanity, sexually explicit language, obscenity or material that appeals to the prurient interest;
- contains personal identifying information or sensitive personal information;
- contains offensive terms that target protected classes;
- is threatening, harassing, or discriminatory;
- incites, advocates, or promotes violence or illegal activities;
- contains information that reasonably could compromise individual or public safety;
- advertises or promotes a commercial product or service, or any entity or individual; or
- promotes or endorses political campaigns or candidates.
All material posted to any TMAD social media platform will be reviewed by the administrators of that platform for appropriateness.
TMAD reserves the right to remove any material which violates these terms of use in order to continue civil discourse with the citizens of Tangipahoa Parish. TMAD also reserves the right to exclude, block, or ban any individual who posts in violation of these terms of use.
- All postings on this page are voluntary and made at your own risk. By using or accessing Facebook and this page, you are, in addition to accepting the terms and conditions for use established by Facebook and the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District, also accepting the practices described in the Facebook Data Use Policy. For more information on Facebook’s Data Use Policy, go to http://www.facebook.com/terms.php#/policy.php
TMAD Facebook Terms & Conditions
This is the official Facebook page of the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District. The purpose of the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District’s Facebook page is to permit authorized employees of the district to provide the public with information concerning the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District’s mission, goals, programs, activities, events, news, stories, photographs, and videos and to disseminate other information and material intended to increase public awareness of and enhance respect for the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District and its members and employees. Please note that this is a purposefully controlled online site established for this limited purpose, NOT A PUBLIC FORUM. All postings/comments are, in addition to being governed by the terms and conditions established by Facebook, subject to the following terms and conditions established by the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District:
- BEFORE SUBMITTING/POSTING A COMMENT ON THIS PAGE, YOU MUST REVIEW AND AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF FACEBOOK AND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ESTABLISHED BY THE TANGIPAHOA MOSQUITO ABATEMENT DISTRICT.
- A submission/posting on this page shall constitute acknowledgement and acceptance of these terms and conditions.
- DO NOT USE THIS PAGE TO REPORT A CRIME OR SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY OR TO SEEK ANY EMERGENCY PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES.
- Messages will be answered as quickly as possible, but are NOT monitored 24/7.
ALL COMMENTS submitted/posted to this page are actively monitored and reviewed by the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District. The Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District reserves the right to restrict, remove, or delete any posting/comment that is contrary to and/or inconsistent with the purpose of the page or in violation of the applicable terms and conditions. The Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District’s Facebook page is not appropriate for and is not intended to accommodate comments unrelated to the purpose of the page or particular postings authorized by the district. Consistent with the purpose of this page, prohibited content includes but is not limited to the following:
- Comments not topically related to a particular posting authorized by the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District
- Comments in support of or in opposition to candidates seeking election to office, political parties or organizations, political campaigns, and/ or ballot measures;
- Comments that include or constitute abusive, profane, threatening, insulting, false, defamatory, slanderous, libelous, hateful, harassing or stalking, racist, sexist, misogynistic, bigoted, homophobic, vulgar, obscene, violent, pornographic or sexual, inappropriate or offensive, and/or criminal or unlawful language or content;
- Comments that constitute, include, promote, foster, or perpetuate disparagement or discrimination of persons on the basis of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry or ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, handicap or disability, and/or age;
- Comments that constitute or include solicitation of commerce or promotion and/or advertisement of/for a business or commercial transaction, including but not limited to “spam” and other commercial content submitted/posted by individuals, groups, entities, or automatic software programs;
- Comments that constitute, conduct, solicit, promote, encourage or incite criminal or illegal activity or comments that otherwise incite imminent lawless action;
- Comments that constitute or include a threat to public safety or security and/or that may compromise or tend to compromise public safety or security;
- Comments that constitute or include an inappropriate and/or unauthorized disclosure of personal data or private/personal information about any individual; and
- Comments that constitute or include copyrighted or trademarked material and/or content that violates the legal ownership interest of another party, submitted or posted without proper authorization/consent.
- ONLY COMMENTS consistent with these terms and conditions, as determined by the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District and those terms and conditions established by Facebook are welcome.
- The Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District DOES NOT ALLOW THE POSTING OF PHOTOGRAPHS, VIDEOS, AUDIO RECORDINGS (and/or similar media) OR LINKS TO OTHER PAGES OR WEBSITES by anyone other than an authorized employee of the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District. The posting of such content/material/information/media is, except when posted by an authorized employee of the district, STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If posted/submitted, such content/material/information/media shall be restricted, removed, and/or deleted.
- IF YOU HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH, VIDEO, OR AUDIO RECORDING (and/or similar media) you want to share with the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District or think the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District would like to share on this page, please submit the content in a private Facebook message or contact our office at (985) 543-0454 to get better direction on the appropriate district that should be handling the content.
- ONLY INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND ENTITIES accepting and complying with the applicable terms and conditions established by Facebook and the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District are welcome. While this page is open for public inspection, only authorized users of Facebook are permitted to submit/post a comment. The Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District reserves the right to restrict, remove, and/or block any person, group, or entity submitting and/or repeatedly submitting comment(s)/posting(s) contrary to or inconsistent with the purpose of the page, not topically related to particular postings authorized by the district, and/or that are in violation of the applicable terms and conditions.
ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- This page and its content are actively monitored and managed by the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District.
- If you are looking for more information about the mosquito abatement district, please visit www.tangimosquito.org.
- “Friending,” “liking,” and/or similar exchanges/actions between Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District employees and a Facebook user do not indicate endorsement of that user’s actions or comments.
- Comments posted on this page by visitors on the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District’s Facebook page DO NOT reflect the opinion(s) of the district. The Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District neither endorses nor opposes, by its actions or inactions related to restriction, removal, or deletion of submissions/postings, the comments/content submitted/posted by others. Commenters alone are responsible for their comments, usernames, and/or any information or content they place or attempt to place on this page.
- All postings on this page are voluntary, and made at your own risk. By using or accessing Facebook and this page, you are, in addition to accepting the terms and conditions for use established by Facebook and the Tangipahoa Mosquito Abatement District, also accepting the practices described in the Facebook Data Use Policy. For more information on Facebook’s Data Use Policy, go to http://www.facebook.com/terms.php#/policy.php.