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Introduction
Welcome to the City of Karratha’s official Facebook page. We are now using social media platforms such as Facebook to share news events and information with our community. Our aim is to engage with our residents and to deliver relevant information in a fast and cost effective way.


Respecting Other Users

These Guidelines are to help foster a community dialogue that is respectful and that everyone visiting our pages can share and express their opinions in a constructive way. Posts or comments, which do not comply with these Guidelines and Facebook’s Terms, will be deleted and the instigator may also be banned from further posts on our page.

The City of Karratha and the Administrators of our pages, reserve the right to remove without notice or justification any posts which are deemed:
• Discriminatory in any way
• Obscene or offensive
• Defamatory
• Overtly sexual or explicit
• Threatening or describing violent events or behaviours
• Refers to or encourages the use of illegal drugs
• Illegal or encouraging of illegal behaviours (including the violation of current Australian copyright laws)
• Harassing or hateful to an organisation or person, including the City of Karratha, our employees, stakeholders, associates and suppliers.
• Discusses Local Government Elections and candidates
• Spam, repetitive and non-relevant
• Selling or advertising by commercial enterprises.

Responding to You

The City’s Admins regulate our pages. However, at the City’s discretion not every individual post will be responded to and we reserve the right to respond within one working day. Comments will be responded to during normal business hours between 8am and 4:30pm Monday to Friday.

If you are posting queries or information that requires a formal response or action from the council, please either use our email or postal address.


Disclaimer

The City of Karratha, our staff and contractors are not liable for the accuracy or authenticity of the content of our Facebook page.

The information provided is for information purposes only and visitors to the page are responsible for assessing the relevance and accuracy of our site as well as any external linked sites.

The City of Karratha, its staff and its contractors are not liable for any financial or other consequences arising from the inappropriate, improper or fraudulent use of the information or data on this page.

Modifying the material on this page in any way by unauthorised persons is strictly prohibited. Authorised persons include current City-appointed Admins.

Under Australian copyright legislation, apart from the purposes of study and research, no material on page may be reused or redistributed without acknowledgement, without first obtaining the written permission of the City.

The act of the City of Karratha ‘following’ or ‘liking’ an individual person, group, organisation, business, event or location through the social media platforms does not indicate the Council or the City of Karratha endorses the views, products, services or activities pertaining to the ‘followed’ or ‘liked’ group, business or entity. We are not necessarily directly affiliated with and do not endorse any advertisement that may appear when viewing our page, unless stated otherwise.

For more information about these guidelines and posting on our page, please telephone the City’s Public Affairs Team on 08 9186 8555 or email publicaffairs@karratha.wa.gov.au.