Social media and online communities

Online communities are websites that enable people who share a common interest to interact with each other. Cornwall Housing actively uses some online communities such as Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo to communicate with customers, partners and businesses.

X

X (formally Twitter) is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users profiles(known as tweets), these are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Cornwall Housing 'tweets' about news and events. You can follow us at:

https://twitter.com/cornwallhousing

Facebook

Facebook has a huge following and we are using Facebook at Cornwall Housing to raise awareness of campaigns, open discussions about issues that affect Cornwall.

https://www.facebook.com/cornwallhousing1

Vimeo

Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make.

Cornwall Housing uses Vimeo to display videos on our own website and to also make them available to users to share on their own sites.

• Cornwall Housing Vimeo: profile page
• Cornwall Council Vimeo: Profile page

Safety

Please exercise safe surfing guidelines when using the Internet.

• How to use Facebook's privacy settings
• The rules of Twitter
• Vimeo guidelines

Any advertisement on online communities is not endorsed by Cornwall Housing and the authenticity or quality of the goods, services or website.  Cornwall Housing will not be held responsible for any claims arising in that respect.

Rules and guidelines

Please be aware that social networking sites have their own useage policies but we do reserve the right to remove any contributions that break the rules or guidelines of the relevant community, or any of the following:

• Please be polite to others
• Do not post messages that are unlawful, libellous, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented or racially offensive.
• Do not use obscene language
• Do not copy content from other sites that you don't own 
• Do not post the same message, or very similar messages, more than once (also called "spamming").
• Never publicise other people's details online
• Advertising of products and services are not permitted
• Do not impersonate someone else.

Please take care when posting information that could be considered as libellous.  This is statements that brings a person or organisation into disrepute or has potential to damage their reputation.  We will remove any comments that we feel fall within the boundaries of inappropriate.