Social Media Moderation and Online Comments Policy
As the meaningful exchange of different ideas is at the core of our liberal arts mission, we welcome social media as a tool and space for thoughtful engagements. At times, this may prompt disagreement. When commenting or posting to this page/account, please remain respectful of one another and behave online as you would in person as a conscious, thoughtful member of the Skidmore community.
Be aware that interactions on this page/account may be monitored by Skidmore Administration and this page/account is managed by the College’s Office of Communications and Marketing. As such, appointed staff reserve the right to interpret the College’s values of respectful dialogue and may choose to delete, move, or edit comments for violations, and/or block or ban individual users for repeat trolling or egregious offenses.
Skidmore does not and cannot review every submission and is not responsible for the content of/your actions on this page/account. You are solely responsible for the content of your submissions.
You cannot knowingly post content that violates the copyright, trademark, patent or intellectual property right of any third party, and you must remove the same should you discover that you have violated this provision. Likewise, you cannot post content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, that violates a third party’s right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or that is otherwise inappropriate.
You indemnify Skidmore, its Board, officers, employees and agents, from any and all claims and/or damages (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to the content you have posted.
All actions on this page/account are also subject to platform's user policies and violations may be reported. Subsequent actions will be handled by the platform (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Google) and are not associated with Skidmore.