NTV | NTV Social Media Community Guidelines

The No to Violence Community Guidelines outline acceptable behaviour across all our social media channels and communities.

These guidelines will assist in ensuring a safe and respectful environment on our social media channels for all the various communities that wish to engage with our work and our content.

No to Violence is Australia’s national peak body for organisations and individuals who work with men to end family violence. Our team works for members and our community through Advocacy, Training, Workforce and Sector Development and the men’s family violence telephone counselling service, Men’s Referral Service (MRS).

Our goal is to end men’s use of family violence.

Our social media communities can play a vital role in raising awareness across Australia about NTV’s work and the support we provide to men who choose to use violence in their relationships. By promoting our services, research, training and advocacy work, as well as other information about domestic and family violence, together we strengthen the family violence sector and empower men to access the resources they need to understand the impact of their actions and take responsibility for their behaviour.

NTV shares information on our social media channels about the services we offer, including what to expect when men contact us, and information related to domestic, family and sexual violence.

We encourage you to join the discussion respectfully; to leave comments and links that support men to take that step to reach out for help. At all times we welcome your constructive and respectful feedback.

No to Violence has accounts on Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

The Men’s Referral Service has accounts on Facebook and Instagram.

Protect yourself and others

For your protection, please don’t include personal or sensitive information (such as case numbers, birth date, home address, phone number, driver’s licence number or tax file number) in your posts or comments. This includes your own personal or sensitive information or the information of others. We will never request your personal information via a public facing online channel. NTV will remove any posts that we believe disclose or expose any personal or sensitive information.

Any information or comment you post must be an expression of your own views. You must not impersonate or falsely represent any other person, organisation or entity. This includes not making statements that are likely to damage the rights, privacy or reputation of another person or organisation.

When and how we moderate our page

NTV staff review and moderate the behaviour of our online communities between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays). Third party posts or comments on any of our online communities do not necessarily reflect the opinions of No to Violence.

Please note that our social media channels are not monitored by counsellors. If you wish to speak to a counsellor, please call the Men’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491, or visit our website for online chat. Learn more here.

We insist you are always respectful of our broad and diverse community.

We actively moderate our page across the hours described above and will remove any posts or comments that don’t adhere to these endorsed NTV Social Media Community Guidelines.

We reserve the right to amend or modify these guidelines at our discretion without notice.

We reserve the right to ignore, hide or delete posts or ban users for any reason (might not be specified in this document)

We reserve the right to block anyone who does not adhere to and is wilfully non-compliant with these guidelines. In addition, there may be times when NTV chooses to block a user when we believe that person or entity may have views or ethos that are in direct opposition to the aims, vision and values of NTV.

Posts and messages that include abusive and disrespectful language will not be responded to.

The following content will be removed:

Abusive and harmful language and messaging that discourages men to access support
Unreasonable or inappropriate disclosure of personal or sensitive information
Deliberately misleading or factually inaccurate comments
Hateful or discriminatory comments regarding race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation or political beliefs
Disruptive statements that may hijack comment threads or throw discussions off track
Comments that NTV deems deliberately harass, threaten or abuse an individual, including No to Violence staff
Trolling and spamming comments
Posting off-topic comments
Graphic or detailed descriptions of sexual assault, family and domestic violence that may trigger or upset those who are experiencing or have experienced violence and abuse
Links or comments containing sexually explicit content material
Discussion of illegal activity
Link baiting or files containing viruses that could damage the operation of other people’s computers or mobile devices
Comments that NTV believes show intent to stalk an individual
Any information that indicated intent to collect private or sensitive information without disclosure
Commercial solicitations, personal premotion or touting, or promotion of a competitor
Violations of copyright or intellectual property rights.

Users who choose to post content of this nature will be banned or blocked from No to Violence and MRS social media communities at any time at our discretion.

Help us keep our online communities respectful and suitable for all audiences. If you think that a post or comment has broken any of our NTV Social Media Community Guidelines, please contact us.

Disclaimer and Indemnity

NTV accepts no responsibility whether express or implied for the accuracy, currency and completeness of any information posted on our account or pages or its relevance and suitability for any purpose. Material on our accounts or pages has been posted by members of the public who are users of the platform.

NTV does not endorse or otherwise support any view and opinion posted by a user or a contributor to our accounts page.

We do not accept responsibility for any loss or damage however caused, which you may directly or indirectly suffer in connection with your use of our accounts or pages or to any linked site. We do not accept any responsibility for any loss arising out of your use, or reliance on, information accessed using our accounts or pages.

When posting or otherwise communicating content on our accounts or pages, you agree to indemnify us and our employees against any claim but a third party arising out of any breach of these guidelines by you.