General Provisions and Usage Rules
The Boyle County Public Library welcomes the comments, posts, and messages of the community and recognizes and respects differences in opinion. However, all comments, posts, and messages will be periodically reviewed and the BCPL reserves the right to, but is not required to, remove any comment, post, or message that it deems inappropriate or off-topic.
BCPL is not responsible for or liable for any content posted by any participant in a Library social media forum who is not a member of the Library’s staff.
Users should have no expectation of privacy in postings on Library sponsored social media sites; by using such sites, you consent to the Library’s right to access, monitor, and read any postings on those sites. Users must understand that social media is permanent, retrievable, and public. Messages can potentially be read by anyone once posted. The Library recommends that users do not post their personal information or contact information on social media sites.
The Library reserves the right to reproduce comments, posts and messages in other public venues; such reproduction may be edited for space or content while retaining the original intent of the post.
- User feedback posted on a Library social networking site is welcomed. Such postings will be monitored regularly by Library staff for content and relevancy. Any postings containing inappropriate or inflammatory content will be removed. Examples of inappropriate content include:
- Comments containing hate language, vulgar, obscene, or libelous language
- Personal attacks, insults or threatening, or defamatory language
- Sexual content or links to sexual content
- Attacks on any ethnic, racial, economic, or religious groups
- Content that reveals private, personal information without permission (doxing)
- Conduct or encouragement of illegal activity
- Plagiarized material
- Commercial advertisements, comments, endorsements, or links not related to the discussion or spam
- Off topic comments
- Political advertisements or endorsements
- Duplicated posts from the same individual
- Copyright violations
- Content that is positive or negative and in context to the conversation will not be removed by the Library staff, whether the content is favorable or unfavorable to BCPL.
- BCPL assumes no liability regarding any event or interaction which may arise out of posted content.
- Users should be aware that third party websites have their own policies, including privacy policies, and should proceed accordingly.
- Any post, comment, etc. that expresses a threat to the safety of oneself or others will be reported to the appropriate authorities.