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Social Media Commenting Policy

Thank you for visiting the Willow Tree Educo social media accounts and channels. To help us maintain an open, helpful, and engaging community experience, please read the guidelines below and abide by them during your visits. Willow Tree Educo reserves the right to modify these guidelines at any time.

Willow Tree Educo adheres to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and expects all Facebook users to do the same. This also includes interactions on any social media channel where Willow Tree Educo has a presence. In addition, Willow Tree Educo reserves the right to remove comments that:

  • Contain personal identifying information about anyone, including, but not limited to, current, prospective, or former students, or school faculty and staff.
  • Contain grossly unsubstantiated claims/baseless accusations, or are factually erroneous, libelous, or defamatory
  • Are violent, obscene, graphic, threatening, or containing hate speech
    Hate speech is defined as any comment that attacks or uses pejorative or discriminatory language with reference to a person or a group on the basis of who they are, in other words, based on their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, colour, descent, gender or other identity factors.
  • Are personal attacks, bullying, or harassment
  • Are profane
  • Are spam
  • Are off-topic, including, but not limited to political or religious comments unrelated to schooling, education, or the school experience
  • Contain solicitations
  • Cannot be translated into English by Google Translate or other free online translation software
  • Direct users to an unofficial Willow Tree Educo social media or group otherwise related to Willow Tree Educo, violate Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities or Willow Tree Educo Terms Of Use

Willow Tree Educo encourages all users to utilise the report links made available by Facebook or Instagram when finding inappropriate or abusive content.

To protect the privacy and safety of our students, time-sensitive issues and pupil-specific communications should be delivered via email to info@willowtreeeduco.co.za or by calling Willow Tree Educo at +27 72 330 0217. Users who choose to engage in conversation with Willow Tree Educo in posts, comments, and/or private messages acknowledge that Willow Tree Educo does not control and cannot protect information posted on this page.

Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented in the user-contributed content on the Willow Tree Educo social media accounts are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Willow Tree Educo.