Social Media Commenting Rules

County Stage is committed to providing an open forum to discuss and debate issues. You are encouraged to engage with us on our social media platforms listed below. The purpose of online communication at County Stage is to build connections with our communities through conversations. Conversations enabled by social media help to achieve many important goals including:

• Building connections with our community by fostering direct, timely, and responsive dialogue

• Enhancing our public profile by increasing awareness and understanding of County Stage and our work as theatre artists

County Stage welcomes your comments and encourages all of our users to express their opinions freely and enter into informed debate. Please note that you are individually responsible for the content of your comments. Our community is diverse and all ages. Opinions expressed in posts not administered by County Stage are not necessarily those of County Stage and its staff. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of these posts.

We reserve the right to edit or refuse comments that meet any of the following conditions:

• contrary to the principles of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

• racist, hateful, sexist, homophobic, slanderous, insulting, or life-threatening messages, links or images

• serious, unproven or inaccurate accusations against individuals or organizations

• aggressive, coarse, violent, obscene, or pornographic comments

• comments that suggest or encourage illegal activity

• messages where the sender is not the author

• messages for advertising purposes

• announcements from labour or political organizations

• unintelligible or irrelevant messages

• multiple successive off-topic posts by a single user

• repetitive posts copied and pasted or duplicated by single or multiple users

• any other message that the forum moderators feel will not add to the normal flow of debate.

 Submissions meeting any of the above conditions will be deleted.

To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, please do not include phone numbers or email addresses in the body of your comment. Information you provide will be monitored for inappropriate or unnecessary personal information or images about the submitter or a third party, and we will take reasonable steps to protect your privacy and that of a third party.