News Of The Area (we, us, our) are publishers of many social media pages whereby news, opinion, photos, information and other content is published.

We encourage community engagement and respectful interaction through the stories and content we publish.

We do not endorse any of the opinions and comments expressed on our social media pages.

We do not warrant the accuracy of any comment made and are not responsible for any user content on this site.

We will do our best to ensure conduct is appropriate and whilst we are unable to monitor every post or comment made, we will ensure unlawful conduct is dealt with swiftly as soon as we are made aware of an issue.

We reserve the right to remove comments for any reason without notice.

Complaints can be made to us for unacceptable content.

It’s important to understand that by simply making a complaint it does not guarantee removal of a comment or user.  You may not like a comment made by someone and you may feel it has even ‘crossed the line’, however we will determine if a serious breach has been made or not after your complaint to us. In most cases, comments are not removed after a complaint to us by an unhappy user.

 

Conduct that may result in your removal from our page and/or removal of comments are;

– Swearing, abuse and threatening comments.

– Defamatory, obscene comments and unlawful material.

– Comment which discriminates against a person based on sex, race, sexuality, religion or other.

– Advertise for any products, business or services on our Page.

 

Comments and any other material or photos posted on our pages by you may be published in any print edition of our newspapers.