Social Media Guidelines

Thank you for following the National Association of Secondary School Principals (“NASSP”) through our social media platforms. While visiting our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other social media platform sites, please keep the following guidelines in mind.

By participating in NASSP’s social media platforms, you agree that you have read and will follow these guidelines. In order to preserve a climate that encourages both civil and fruitful dialogue, NASSP reserves the right to delete posts from participants who violate these guidelines and to suspend or terminate the right of any participation for any reason without notice.  If you have questions about these guidelines, please contact NASSP at [email protected]

NASSP SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDELINES:

The creation of NASSP-labeled social media channels on third party social media websites, and any postings and comments therein, shall not contain or link to language or illustrations that:

Are libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening, offensive, demeaning, derogatory, abusive, ad hominem, or off-topic
Are solely for commercial purposes
Endorse any candidate or office holder or partisan political position
Include spam or chain letters
Violate third party’s privacy rights, proprietary rights, or any other applicable local, state, national, or international law
Degrade others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, disability, or other classification
Keep in mind that information posted on these social media channels is available for all to see, and comments are subject to defamation, antitrust, and other laws. NASSP will not be held liable for any injury or damage resulting from statements posted on NASSP-labeled social media channels.

THE LEGAL STUFF

By posting material to NASSP-labeled social media, or mentioning NASSP and NASSP activities on social media with hashtags/tags, you grant to NASSP and the members of this community the nonexclusive, world-wide, transferable right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material in any way and in any medium, including but not limited to print or electronic form.

NASSP is not responsible for the content of third party social media websites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on them.  Before posting on NASSP-labeled social media channels, please review and abide by the terms of use and privacy policy of the specific social media website.

The opinions of NASSP social media channel creators, moderators, posters, and commentators, are their own, and not necessarily that of NASSP.

With these rules and guidelines in mind, happy posting!

NASSP Moderator

Updated: March 2018