Terms of Use: Australian Services Union Social Media

Australian Services Union Online Communities

Thanks for being part of the Australian Services Union SA + NT Branch online community.

This ASU’s social media space on a third-party platform provides an opportunity to share opinions and engage with others through social media channels. All users are required to treat each other with respect and courtesy.

As unionists, we stand for safety, we respect each other, and we will always fight for equality and fairness 

Terms of Use – Australian Services Union Social Media
In engaging with the ASU on social media, you understand and agree that the union has ultimate editorial control over all its social media channels. The ASU may edit, remove, or exercise its discretion not to accept or publish your contribution. This includes decisions that we take for legal, editorial, or operational reasons including if we consider it to be:

1. defamatory, or otherwise unlawful or that it violates laws regarding harassment, discrimination, racial vilification, privacy, or contempt. The ASU reserves the right to close comments on posts that may elicit harmful, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful user contributions 
2. intentionally false or misleading
3. an infringement of intellectual property rights including copyright
4. abusive, offensive, or obscene
5. racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic
6. inappropriate, off topic, repetitive or vexatious. For example, the ASU reserves the right to reject contributions that have been widely canvassed in the forum. It also reserves the right to reject contributions from participants who seek to dominate the discussion  
7. compromising the privacy of any person or containing inappropriate personal information
8. seeking to endorse commercial products or services
9. seeking to directly solicit donations
10. deliberate provocation of other community members, or
11. impersonating someone else and/or posting on behalf of a suspended member

If you breach these Terms of Use, the ASU may block your account or contributions.

To assist in ensuring that this space continues to reflect the values of the union movement and the terms of use the union moderates content.

Outside of moderator business hours, or where a moderator resource is not available, comments on posts may be turned off to allow us to uphold and enforce the Terms of Use.