Social Media Policy
BY POSTING ON ANY HARMONY HEIGHTS SOCIAL MEDIA SITE YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. HARMONY HEIGHTS (HARMONY) has opened public pages on the Internet, including on social media sites, to allow users to view and post information about HARMONY HEIGHTS. By accessing, viewing, and/or posting any content related directly or indirectly to HARMONY HEIGHTS on any Social Media Site, you accept the following terms of use. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, you may not post any content to any HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Site. Your use of HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Sites is acceptance of this Policy and has the same effect as if you had actually physically signed an agreement.
1. Client/Student privacy is extremely important to the HARMONY’s daily operation. Posting any personal health information, including student images, is prohibited on any HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Sites.
2. The information provided on HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Sites is for informational purposes only.
3. When using HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Sites, you agree that you will NOT:
Violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including but not limited to copyright and intellectual property rights laws;
Transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that is unlawful, disruptive, threatening, profane, abusive, harassing, embarrassing, defamatory, obscene, libelous, or is an invasion of another’s privacy, is hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable as solely determined in HARMONY’s discretion;
Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
Transmit any material that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
Transmit any material that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
Transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising (including advertising of non-HARMONY HEIGHTS services or products), promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation;
Transmit any material that contains software viruses, worms, disabling code, or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment; or
Collect or store, or attempt to collect or store, personal data about third parties without their knowledge or consent. Any posts or comments that are considered by HARMONY HEIGHTS – in its sole discretion - to violate any of the above-listed prohibitions or any of these terms will be deleted.
4. HARMONY HEIGHTS reserves the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue your access to, or posts on, any HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Site, at any time, without notice and for any reason and in its sole discretion. You understand and agree that HARMONY HEIGHTS may disclose your communications and activities on HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Sites in response to lawful requests by governmental authorities, including Patriot Act requests, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection of HARMONY HEIGHTS rights. You agree that in the event that HARMONY HEIGHTS exercises any of its rights hereunder for any reason, HARMONY HEIGHTS will have no liability to you.
5. You may not provide any content to a HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Site that contains any product or service endorsements or any content that may be construed as political lobbying, solicitations, or contributions or use the HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Sites to link to any such sites or political candidates or parties or use the HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Sites to discuss political campaigns, issues or for taking a position on any legislation or law.
6. By posting content on any HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Site, you grant to HARMONY HEIGHTS the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish and display such content and the right to create derivative works from your content, edit or modify such content and use such content for any HARMONY HEIGHTS purpose.
7. You shall defend, indemnify, and hold HARMONY HEIGHTS and its respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, successors, and assigns harmless from and against, and shall promptly reimburse them for, any and all losses, claims, damages, settlements, costs, and liabilities of any nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) to which any of them may become subject arising out of, based upon, as a result of, or in any way connected with, your posting of any content to a HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Site, any third party claims of infringement or any breach of this Policy.
8. YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY RELATED TO THE SECURITY, PRIVACY, AND CONFIDENTIALITY RISKS INHERENT IN SENDING ANY CONTENT OVER THE INTERNET. By its very nature, a website AND THE INTERNET cannot be absolutely protected against intentional or malicious intrusion attempts. HARMONY HEIGHTS does not control the THIRD-PARTY SITES OR THE INTERNET over which you may choose to send confidential personal or health information OR OTHER CONTENT and, therefore, HARMONY HEIGHTS DOES NOT WARRANT ANY SAFEGUARD AGAINST ANY such interceptions or compromises to your information. When posting content on an internet site, you should consider your privacy carefully especially when disclosing detailed or private information about yourself and your family. FURTHERMORE, HARMONY HEIGHTS DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY PRODUCT, SERVICE, VIEWS OR CONTENT DISPLAYED ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA SITE.
9. You agree that any claim or dispute relating to your posting of any content on a HARMONY HEIGHTS Social Media Site on the internet shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to any conflict of law principles and you are to be subject to exclusive jurisdiction of local, state or federal courts in Nassau County, New York.
10. THIS POLICY MAY BE UPDATED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE. THE NEW POLICY WILL GOVERN, EFFECTIVE UPON POSTING. To remain in compliance, please regularly review all HARMONY HEIGHTS policies