Social Media Disclaimer
Social Media Disclaimer
The following describes the Social Media Disclosure for our Perfect Domains
website.
Social Media Issue
We live in an interesting time when privacy rights are championed alongside
an unprecedented voluntary willingness of people to share their most intimate
and superfluous life details with the world, even in places such as our Perfect
Domains website. While apparently benign on the surface, the dangers of
unrestrained public disclosure of sensitive information is beginning to
surface.
Key social media players are being sued for unauthorized or abusive
use/misuse of personal information. Failure to protect and warn are likely
going to be focal factors. Lawsuits are filed seeking damages for statements
held to be responsible for people’s death or suicide. Bloggers presuming to
operate under an unfettered freedom of speech or greater latitude offered to
members of the press are losing civil cases for defamation, slander, libel, and
so on.
As social media rapidly advances to allow more technologically
sophisticated and easy dissemination, the simultaneous fallout of revelation
without boundaries is mounting. Thus, a sober approach to the benefits of
social media, while sidestepping the perils of imprudent disclosure, can
facilitate an enjoyable online experience, without the consequences of excess,
in settings such as our own Perfect Domains website.
Presence/Scope of Social Media
You should assume that social media is in use on our Perfect Domains
website. A simple click of a button to endorse a person, product, or service is
building a cumulative profile about you, which you should always assume can be
discovered by others. Attempting to share a website with someone, whether by
direct press of a button or else by email forwarding facilitated on a website,
you should assume that this may not stop with the intended recipient, and that
this can generate information about you that could be seen by a veritable
infinite number of people. Such a domino effect could initiate right here on
our Perfect Domains website.
Something as simple as a blog comment provides the opportunity for
knee-jerk reactions that can become public and may not truly represent a
position (at least in strength or severity) that you might hold after a period
of more reasoned contemplation. You should also note that the ease of accessing
one site through the login credentials of another, or the use of a global login
for access to multiple sites can accumulate a dossier on you and your online
behavior that may reveal more information to unintended parties than you might
realize or want. Any or all of these features could exist on our Perfect
Domains website at one time or another.
These few examples illustrate some possible ways that social media can
exist, though it is not an exhaustive list and new technologies will render
this list outdated quickly. The objective is to realize the reach of social
media, its widespread presence on websites in various forms (including this
website), and develop a responsible approach to using it.
Protecting Others
You should recognize the fact that divulgences made in and on social media
platforms on this website and others are rarely constrained just to you.
Disclosures are commonly made about group matters that necessarily affect and
impact other people. Other disclosures are expressly about third parties,
sometimes with little discretion. What can appear funny in one moment can be
tragic in the next. And a subtle “public” retaliation can have lifetime
repercussions.
Ideal use of social media on our website would confine your disclosures
primarily to matters pertaining to you, not others. If in doubt, it’s best to
err on the side of non-disclosure. It’s doubtful the disclosure is so
meaningful that it cannot be offset by the precaution of acting to protect the
best interests of someone who is involuntarily being exposed by your decision
to disclose something on our Perfect Domains website (or another).
Protecting Yourself
You should likewise pause to consider the long-term effects of a
split-second decision to publicly share private information about yourself on
our Perfect Domains website. Opinions, likes, dislikes, preferences, and
otherwise can change. Openly divulging perspectives that you hold today, may
conflict with your developing views into the futures. Yet, the “new you” will
always stand juxtaposed against the prior declarations you made that are now
concretized as part of your public profile. While the contents of your
breakfast may hold little long-term impact, other data likewise readily shared
can have consequences that could conceivably impact your ability to obtain
certain employment or hinder other life experiences and ambitions.
As with sharing information about other people, extreme caution should be
used before revealing information about yourself. If in doubt, it’s likely best
not to do it. The short term gain, if any, could readily be outweighed by later
consequences. Finally, you should note that we are not responsible for removing
content once shared, and we may not be able to do so.
Restrictions on Use of Social Media Data
You, as a visitor to our Perfect Domains website, are not permitted to
“mine” social media or other platforms contained herein for personal
information related to others. Even where people have publicly displayed data,
you should not construe that as though you have the liberty to capture,
reproduce, or reuse that information. Any use of social media or related
platforms on our website are for interactive use only, relevant only during the
website visit.
Accuracy of Social Media Data
As any social media platform is built on user-generated content, you should
consider this fact in seeking to determine the authenticity of anything you
read. We are not responsible for verifying any user-generated content for
accuracy. A best practices policy would be to view all such content as strictly
opinion, not fact.
Potential Issues of Liability
You should also be mindful of the fact that your words could trigger
liability for harm caused to others. While you have the right to free speech,
you do not have the right to damage other people. Under basic principles of
tort law, you are always responsible, personally, for situations where either:
1. you were required to act, but did not (i.e. – some “duty of care”)
2. your were required to refrain from acting, but did not (i.e. – slander,
defamation, etc.)
These “sins of omission and commission” could cause problems for you,
irrespective of whether you assert you are conducting business under the guise
of one or more business entities. Illegal and unethical conduct, when done in
the name of a corporation or LLC, is still illegal and unethical conduct. As it
is rarely part of a business plan to engage in illegal and unethical conduct,
you are doubtfully operating in any official capacity, but rather, perhaps,
leveraging that capacity to effectuate personal wrongdoing. You should consult
a licensed attorney if you wish legal advice as to the (potential) ramification
of your situation or legal problems stemming from this website or another.
CHANGE NOTICE: As with any of our administrative and legal notice pages,
the contents of this page can and will change over time. Accordingly, this page
could read differently as of your very next visit. These changes are
necessitated, and carried out by Perfect Domains, in order to protect you and
our Perfect Domains website. If this page is important to you, you should check
back frequently as no other notice of changed content will be provided either
before or after the change takes effect.
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