MyFylde - Your FREE Community Website
Before Fylde Borough Council can provide you with a free website you must first read and accept the following terms and conditions.
Website Use Policy
This Web Site Use Policy defines the purposes for which Community Groups cannot use the Community Master web site and must be agreed.
The web site cannot be used for the following:
- the introduction of content that may result in actions for libel, defamation or other claims for damages
- processing personal data other than for the purpose stated at the time of capture
- the promotion of personal financial interests or commercial ventures
- personal campaigns that can have a negative impact on other individuals or organisations
- using the site in an abusive or hateful manner
Any breach of the above will result in the web site being 'taken down' by the council. Further details of each prohibited use are included below.
Defamation
A defamatory statement is one that causes an adverse effect on a person's reputation. It must be published to a third person and refer to the defamed individual.
Libel, which is a form of defamation, is the publication of a statement which exposes a person to hatred, ridicule or contempt, or which causes them to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure them in their office, trade or profession in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally.
Community Groups have been provided with the facility to create their own web site by the council and are responsible for the content of their own site. Fylde Borough Council is not responsible for approving content put on the Community Groups websites. To avoid any doubt the council does not authorise or in any way sanction the publication of statements that might be construed as defamatory.
Data Protection
In managing a website Community Groups may publish or refer to material from a wide range of sources. Through the website email correspondence may be generated and Community Groups may receive comments, enquiries or complaints from members of the public and visitors to the site may register to receive occasional mailings.
Published material and emails may contain personal data. Fylde Borough Council is committed to full compliance with the law and to the welfare of individuals and therefore all such personal data should be treated with care and respect for relevant data protection law.
Published Material
Material published on the website is accessible to anyone in the world. It is essential to restrict the publication of personal data, which includes facts and opinions about individuals, to that data for which explicit consent for publication has been obtained unless this information is clearly already, and properly, in the public domain or it is otherwise wholly reasonable to publish. Given the purpose of Community Groups websites it will often be more appropriate to anonymise any narrative to avoid the identification of individuals.
Community Groups will be required to confirm that they have read the Authority's guidance on data protection and accept the provisions of it.
Political Publicity
The web site produced by the Community Group is detached from the councils own web site and is a separate facility altogether and therefore can be used by the Community Group to promote their personal image, local area and other interests provided that this does not in any way bring the council into disrepute.
Community Groups must adhere to the following compulsory terms:
- Community Groups cannot use the council logo or attribute any comments to the council on their web site.
- The site must not be used in a way that will bring Individuals or their Local Authority into disrepute
- The site must promote equality by not discriminating unlawfully against any person, treating others with respect and not to do anything that compromises the impartiality of those who work for or on behalf of the authority.
- Community Groups must not disclose information given to them in confidence or information acquired, which they believe, is of a confidential nature without the consent of a person authorised to give it unless in accordance with the data protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.
- Community Groups must not use the web site to secure personal advantage or secure use for themselves or others the resources of the authority (for instance, by advertising a commercial service or by using the site to encourage the Local Authority to purchase a particular item or service).
- Community Grous cannot make reference to any individual officer or identifiable post within the authority on the web site and/or attribute any information to them.
Other Statutory Issues
The Freedom to Information Act may also apply - and require Community Groups to disclose information if it is included in a request.
Disclaimer
All community groups must agree to this disclaimer prior to having access to the Community Master web site facility.
- In this document:
- "The council", "we" and "us" means Fylde Borough Council and "our" will be construed accordingly.
- "You" and "your" means the community group to whom we have allocated a web site.
- "Your web site" means the Community Master site that we have provided for your use.
- We have provided your web site to help you to do engage your community.
- We want you to feel free to use your web site to keep in touch with your customers and group members and keep them in touch with your work for them. But there are some restrictions that we have to impose on how you use your web site.
- We will monitor your web site from time to time. If we think that any content on it breaches any of the restrictions in this document we will ask you to remove it. If you do not remove such content within three days of us asking you to do so, we will remove it.
- If we think any of the content on your website might put the council at risk of legal proceedings we will remove such content immediately, without warning you.
- There are restrictions on how you can use your website that are outlined in paragraphs 8 to 17 below.
- You must not place any content on the website that might reasonably be considered to be defamatory.
- You must not use your website to promote any commercial interest, whether your own or anyone else's.
- You must not place any indecent content on your web site.
- You must not place any content on your website that insults, ridicules or incites hatred or contempt of any person or group on the basis of their race or ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion or any other factor.
- You must not use your website for any purpose that may breach any part of the Code of Practice on Local Authority Publicity. This particularly restricts use of your website for party political purposes.
- You may not (except as allowed under paragraph 15) provide links from your website to any other web site that you know or ought to know contains material that would not be allowed on your web site.
- You must not allow your web site to give the impression that it our official site.
- You must not place any content on your website that would otherwise be unlawful.