Comments containing any of the following inappropriate forms
of content shall not be permitted on the Borough's social media
sites or public outreach tools and are subject to removal and/or restriction
by the Borough Administrator or Chief of Police or their designees.
A. Profane, obscene, violent, or pornographic content and/or language,
or sexually suggestive or explicit content links to such materials.
Any image or link containing minors or suspected minors in sexual
and/or provocative situations will be reported to law enforcement;
B. Content that promotes, fosters or perpetuates discrimination on the
basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, or national origin,
marital status, status with regard to public assistance, physical
or mental disability or sexual orientation;
C. Reference to any political party or activity of a political party;
D. Reference to any religious belief;
E. Reference to any private interests group or activity of a private
interests group
G. Threats to any person or organization;
H. Solicitation of commence, including but not limited to advertising
of any business or product for sale;
I. Conduct in violation of any federal, state or local law;
J. Encouragement of illegal activity or illegal activity;
K. Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of
the public or public systems;
L. Content that violates a legal ownership interest, such as copyright,
of any party the Borough does not permit or allow copyright infringing
activities and/or infringement of intellectual property rights on
is website or social media sites and will remove any and all content
and submissions if properly notified that such content and/or submission
infringes on another's intellectual property rights;
M. Private contact information such as names, addresses and phone numbers
no matter how easily obtained elsewhere, unless given approval by
the organization; personal information of a person other than the
poster;
N. Spamming or repetitive content;
O. Comments from children under 13 cannot be posted in order to comply
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. By posting
on a Borough Media site, users acknowledge that they are at least
13 years old. Parents are responsible for any minor child's posting
or comments;
P. Content that incites violation;
Q. Comments unrelated to the particular post being commented upon;
R. Comments containing vulgar, offensive, threatening or harassing language,
personal attacks or accusations; and
S. Persons posting prohibited content are subject to being blocked and
barred from posting comments on Borough social media.
To be posted on all Borough social media sites.
A. Information disclaimer. By visiting this site, you understand and
agree that the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus site is provided "as is." The
Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus makes every effort to provide accurate and complete
information on this website. The information contained herein is not
official nor in any way shall it be deemed to constitute legal notice
where such legal notice is required by law. The information contained
in this site is provided as a service and convenience to people needing
information about the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus. Portions of the information
on this site may be incorrect or not current. The Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus,
its officers, employees or agents shall not be liable for damages
or losses of any kind arising out of or in connection with the use
or performance of information, including but not limited to, damages
or losses caused by reliance upon the accuracy or timeliness of any
such information, or damages incurred from the viewing, distributing,
or copying of those materials.
B. Linking policy; links to external sites.
(1) The Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus site contains links to outside websites.
These websites are not owned, operated, controlled or reviewed by
the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus. These links are provided solely as a courtesy
and convenience to you, the visitor.
(2) The Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, its officers or employees, exercise no
control over the organizations, views, accuracy, copyright or trademark,
compliance or the legality of the material contained in these outside
websites. The Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, its officers or employees, do
not sponsor, endorse, or approve the information, content, proceeds,
materials, opinions or services contained on such outside websites.
The visitor proceeds to these outside websites at his/her own risk.
The Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus specifically disclaims any and all liability
from damages, which may result from the accessing of a third-party
site, which is linked to the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus website or from
reliance upon only such information.
C. Endorsement disclaimer. Reference in this website to any specific
commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade
firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of
the public, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or
favoring by the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus or its officers, employees or
agents.
D. Copyright and trademark limitations. The Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus makes
no warranty that materials contained herein are free of copyright
or trademark claims or other restrictions or limitations on free use
or display. Making a copy of such material may be subject to copyright
or trademark laws.
E. Use of material from this site.
(1) The Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus has made the content of these pages available
to the public and anyone may view, copy or distribute Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus
information found here without obligations to the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus
for noncommercial, personal use only, unless otherwise stated on particular
material or information to which a restriction on free use may apply.
(2) The design of this site, original graphics, and original content
are all copyrighted by the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus and may not be reengineered,
distributed, modified, transmitted, reused, reposted or duplicated
without the express written permission of the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus
in each instance. All requests to use any part of the original design,
code, graphics or content of this site should be made via e-mail to
the Borough Administrator.
F. Unauthorized modifications. Unauthorized attempts to modify or otherwise
alter any information or image stored on any Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus
website may result in criminal prosecution.
This procedure sets forth the guidelines to having information
posted on the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus' social media sites by an
organization other than the Borough.
A. Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus information, Borough events and meetings announcements,
and emergency notifications take precedent over any other announcements.
B. Requests, including the text of the proposed messages, must be e-mailed
to the Borough Administrator and/or his/her designee at least 10 days
prior to posting the information. The request must contain the following
information: full name of organization, time, date and place of the
event, contact name, e-mail address and telephone number.
C. Information shall be e-mailed as a Microsoft Word document in paragraph
form (Times New Roman, 12 Font), no PDF or fliers will be accepted.
D. Organization shall include a maximum of two dates of when to post
the information.
E. Information will be disseminated for two weeks prior to the event.
F. Only Ho-Ho-Kus-sponsored clubs or organizations and organizations
hosting an event for a nonprofit organization in Ho-Ho-Kus shall be
permitted to seek approval to post information of Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus'
social media sites and public outreach tools.
G. Every effort will be made to accommodate all requests. If many requests
are received for the same period of time, the posting will be determined
on a first come, first serve basis. The dates of postings, their duration,
and content are the final decision of the Borough Administrator and/or
his/her designee.
All other ordinances or parts of ordinances of the Borough which
are inconsistent with this chapter are hereby repealed but only to
the extent of such inconsistencies.
If any portion of this chapter is adjudged unconstitutional
or invalid by the Court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall
not affect or invalidate the remainder of this chapter but shall be
confined in its effect to the provision directly involved in the controversy
in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
This chapter shall take effect upon passage and publication
as required by law.