Social media netiquette of Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch

Hello and welcome to Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch, the large Swiss education platform. We are delighted that you would like to enter into dialog with us via our presence on the social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Linkedin and discuss topics relating to the Swiss education sector and training and further education.

Your comments, opinions and input are important and welcome. We want a constructive, open, polite, fair, considered, respectful and legal exchange and interaction, where other opinions are also tolerated.

By interacting with Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch on social media, you agree to our netiquette. These are rules of conduct for appropriate and respectful communication on the World Wide Web and on social media. Our netiquette supplements the terms of use of the respective social media platform.

In the event of an infringement, Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch reserves the right to hide or delete content at any time with or without prior warning and without giving reasons. Furthermore, in the event of repeated or serious violations, the corresponding user profile will be blocked for our channels and reported to the respective platform operators.

Contributions, content and comments that wenottolerate:

• Insults and swear words
• Personal attacks of any kind
• Provocations (verbal and/or also with emojis)
• Discrimination of any kind (e.g. based on gender, age, skin color, religion, nationality, political views or sexual orientation)
• Pornographic and sexist content
• Content glorifying violence
• Racist content
• Offensive and obscene content
• Misleading content
• Posts that only contain links
• Posts with external links that do not comply with our netiquette
• Content that has no relation to the topic
• Direct or indirect advertising for third-party products or services
• Spam
• Political advertising
• Illegal contents
• Content that violates data protection
• Content with insinuations or assertions that cannot be verified
• Posts with untruths and/or conspiracy theory content

Other important points for communication via our presence on social media platforms:

Responsibility:You alone are responsible for your published content and comments. Make sure that they do not violate the copyrights and personal rights of third parties and adhere to the data protection regulations. Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch accepts no liability whatsoever for published contributions and comments by users.

Further use of content:Remember that your posts, content and comments on social media are public. If you comment on posts from Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch, you agree that we may use your information (comments, username, images, videos).

Communication language:The corporate and communication language of Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch is German. As we value Switzerland's multilingualism, we are also happy to receive comments in Italian, French, Romansh or English - as long as they comply with our social media netiquette.

Salutation on social mediaAusbildung-Weiterbildung.ch communicates on its social media sites per du.

Logo of Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch:You may not use the logo of Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch without the written consent of the management of Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch (Stefan Schmidlin and Christoph Strahm). An exception applies to media professionals for editorial purposes.

Adjustments and changes to our social media netiquette:Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch reserves the right to adapt and change the rules and guidelines set out in this netiquette at any time without explicitly informing you.

Finally, something fundamental: remember that behind every user profile on social media there is (usually) a person. So communicate on social media in the same way you would in a face-to-face conversation and treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. So read through what you've written again before you hit "post".

Thank you for taking the time to read our social media netiquette and we thank you in advance for taking it into account.

We are now looking forward to a lively and committed exchange with you.

The team of Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch

Publication date: 22.8.2022