Social Media Guidelines

This account is intended to be a limited forum for communication and discussion between California State Parks and members of the public about specific park-related topics. Comments should be respectful and courteous for other users and California State Parks staff to facilitate connecting people with meaningful memories and experiences.

California State Parks reserves the right to remove inappropriate comments, including those comments that are not topically related or that include profane or obscene language, sexual content, threats, defamatory statements, the encouragement of illegal activity, violations of the legal ownership interests of another party, solicitations of commerce, statements in support or opposition to political candidates or ballot propositions, content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination or information that may compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems.

Any content posted may be subject to public disclosure upon request. Activity on this account is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations and policies. As a reminder, California State Parks does not necessarily agree with or endorse comments that individuals post and reserves the right to determine what is respectful and courteous.

Comments may be removed, at California State Park’s sole discretion, if they contain:

• Graphic, obscene, explicit or hate speech, including disparaging language based on race, color, national origin, gender, religion, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation or age.
• Abusive language or comments that can be interpreted as intending to defame anyone or any organization.
• Personal attacks, insults or threatening language toward individuals, groups or institutions.
• Private, personal information published without consent.
• Material that infringes on the rights of any third party, including intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights.
• Statements in support of or opposition to a political campaign, candidate or ballot measure.
• Unauthorized solicitations or advertisements, including spam such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile.
• False information or that which is unrelated to the mission of California State Parks.
• Comments that suggest or encourage illegal activity.
• Comments and/or hyperlinks to materials totally unrelated to the content of the forum.
• Information that may tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems.
• Photos that fall into any of the above categories.

br Participate at your own risk, taking personal responsibility for your comments, your username and any information provided. All links posted as comments on California State Parks posts will be reviewed and may be deleted. Repeated violations of our comment policy may cause the user to be blocked from social media platforms. Additionally, we reserve the right to enforce this acceptable use policy at our discretion. California State Parks may remove any posted messages that it considers to be in breach of this policy.