Gold Shovel Association (the “Association”) manages a variety of social media channels and strives to create informative, engaging, supportive communities where we can share information and have conversations. We are not always able to respond to everyone, but we will do our best to answer questions and listen to your feedback. We thank you for getting to know more about us and helping us spread i
mportant safety messages. If you post to one of our social media channels, or otherwise respond or comment on one of our posts, you are agreeing to abide by these Community Guidelines, which apply in addition to the Terms and Conditions or other legal notices that are provided by us and/or the owner of the social media platform. Please bear in mind that the comments and responses that you read on our channels that are not posted by us come from members of the public. The content of these comments (including opinions and statements) posted on our channels do not necessarily reflect the views of the social media site or its owner, and are the responsibility of the individuals posting them. As we encourage open conversation, we ask that you engage respectfully. Please ensure that everything you post is truthful, accurate, not misleading, and offered in good faith, and that you have the right to post such content/material. We reserve the right to delete or hide any posted content, including:
• Hate speech,
• Inflammatory speech,
• Profanity, obscenity or vulgarity,
• Comments with links to objectionable content,
• Defamation to a person, people, or company
• Unfounded content,
• Harassing or threatening speech,
• Comments intended to sell a product,
• Content or photos that depict unsafe behavior,
• Illegal statements,
• Comments that infringe on copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights,
• Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile or comments that are solely promotional, link to a malicious website, or are clearly irrelevant to the post. If you continue to post comments that violate this policy, the Association reserves the right to remove you from the Association social media sites or remove your ability to comment. We reserve the right to pre-moderate any comments at any time. We will report the most severe cases to relevant platform owners and/or authorities. We gratefully acknowledge the permission granted to reproduce copyright material on this site. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. We apologize for any errors or omissions and would be grateful if notified of any corrections.
