Social Media Policy

Thank you for being a fan of Southern Seven Health Department & Head Start (S7HD/HS) social media channels.  S7HD/HS participates in social media in order to engage viewers in informative dialogue related to public health, education and safety information.  S7HD/HS provides content on social media to encourage participation with science-based messages, discussion of health and safety information, and advancements in education.

If you have any questions, please contact Southern Seven Health Department & Head Start.  Our team of health, safety and educational professionals are available to answer your questions.

Call: Southern Seven Health Department & Head Start (618-634-2297)
Contact via email at www.southern7.org
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Disclaimer
Please be mindful that any information provided on S7HD/HS social media is openly accessible to the general public.  Posted comments and images do not necessarily represent the views of S7HD/HS, nor does the agency endorse every comment or external, non-S7HD/HS links that individuals post on its social media platforms.  For official S7HD/HS information go to www.southern7.org.  

Our goal is to share ideas and information with as many individuals as possible and our policy is to accept the majority of comments made to our profiles. However, S7HD/HS reserves the right to remove any post on its social media that is not relevant or that may be offensive in any way. 

Therefore, a comment will be deleted if it contains:

• Hate speech,
• Profanity, obscenity or vulgarity,
• Nudity in profile pictures,
• Defamation to a person or people,
• Name calling and/or personal attacks,
• Comments whose main purpose are to sell a product,
• Comments that infringe on copyrights,
• Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile,
• Other comments that the S7HD/HS deems inappropriate.

Repeated violations of the S7HD/HS comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from the S7HD/HS social media profiles.

S7HD/HS acknowledges that social media is a 24/7 medium; however, our abilities to monitor every comment is not.   We are relying in the maturity of our viewers to ignore personal attacks and negative speech and to respond politely.
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Please contact our office at www.southern7.org or call 618-634-2297 if you have any questions.  We thank you for your cooperation and invite you to visit us soon.