Bingley Town Council

General information

Bingley Town Council servest Bingley and its neighbouring communities of Crossflatts, Cottingley, Eldwick, Gilstead and Micklethwaite.

You are very welcome to post to this page but any post which are offensive, or contain inappropriate language, will be deleted.

The complete policy for Bingley Town Council is as follows:

The Bingley Town Council Facebook pages intends to:

Provide information and updates regarding activities and opportunities within Bingley Parish and promote positive comments from residents within the parish.

In order to ensure that all discussions on the Bingley Town Council page are productive, respectful and consistent with the Council’s goals, we ask you to follow these guidelines:

• Be considerate and respectful of others. Vulgarity, threats or abuse of language will not be tolerated.
• Differing opinions and discussion of diverse ideas are encouraged, but personal attacks on anyone, including Bingley Town Councillors or staff, are not.
• Share freely and be generous, but be aware of copyright laws; be accurate and give credit where credit is due.
• Stay on topic.
• Refrain from using the Facebook page for commercial purposes or to market products.

The site is not monitored 24/7 and we will not always be able to reply individually to all messages or comments received. However, we will endeavor to ensure that any emerging themes or helpful suggestions are passed to the relevant people.

Sending a message/post via Facebook will not be considered as contacting the Council for official purposes and we will not be obliged to monitor or respond to requests for information through the Facebook channel. Instead, please contact the council through the clerk townclerk@bingleytowncouncil.gov.uk.

We retain the right to remove comments or content that includes:

• Obscene or racist content
• Personal attacks, insults, or threatening language
• Potentially libelous statements
• Plagiarized material; any material in violation of any laws, including copyright
• Private, personal information published without consent
• Information or links unrelated to the content of the forum
• Commercial promotions or spam

Non-compliance will not be tolerated and may result in a ban.

Bingley Town Council is not responsible for the accuracy of content posted by any subscriber in any forum; opinions expressed in comments on Bingley Town Council social media forums do not necessarily represent those of Bingley Town Council.

All comments, once posted, become the property of Bingley Town Council and we reserve the right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display or edit. Derivative work can also be created from such postings or content, and used for any purpose, in any form and on any other media.

Bingley Town Council is not responsible, liable for and does not endorse the privacy practices of Facebook or any linked websites. Your use of Facebook and any linked websites is at your own risk.

Bingley Town Council assumes no responsibility or liability for any injury, loss or damage incurred as a result of any use or reliance upon the information and material contained within or downloaded from these websites.

Facebook may occasionally be unavailable and we accept no responsibility for this lack of service.

The presence of any advertisement on Facebook is not an endorsement of the authenticity or quality of the goods, services or website and Bingley Town Council will not be held responsible for any claims arising in that respect.

We will not engage in/with, and we discourage posts or comments on, issues of a party political nature.

This comment policy may be revised at any time.

By choosing to comment and/or utilise any Bingley Town Council social media site, users are deemed to agree to this policy.