Facebook Page Moderation Policy
The Prime Minister's Office of Japan Facebook Moderation Policy
January 24, 2014
1. Administration
(1) This Facebook Page is managed by:
Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Cabinet Secretariat
(2) Content of posts
The Prime Minister's Office of Japan Facebook Page posts include the Prime Minister's idea, the policies the Cabinet is working on, and daily activities at the Prime Minister's Office, and some photographs.
2. Management of comments
(1) Responding to comments
In principle, the Cabinet Public Affairs Office will not respond to any comments or messages posted on the Facebook Page.
(2) Deleting comments
We reserve the right to exercise our copyright over our facebook pages, and for that purpose to use facebook functions, to hide, in part or in full, delete or decline comments which are deemed to fall under any of the following conditions without notifying the users.
-Comments infringe a law, ordinance, or other regulations;
-Comments violate public order and morals;
-Comments promote criminal acts;
-Comments slanders or defames a particular individual, company, group, or other entities, or damages their reputation or trustworthiness;
-Comments breach privacy, including disclosing and leaking personal information without the authorization of its owner;
-Comments breach third-party rights, including patents, design rights, copyrights, trademarks, and portrait rights;
-Comments' purpose is to generate profit;
-Comments include false information or significantly deviate from the truth;
-Comments violate the Facebook policy;
-Comments are designed to cause nuisance to the Page administrator;
-Comments include abusive, obscene, indecent, offensive words, hate speech or link to websites with such contents;
-Comments intend to take viewers to other websites, without expressing any views or opinions;
-Comments with the same or similar contents are posted repeatedly by the same user.
(3) Banning users
We also reserve the right to ban users who post comments listed above. Those users who violate the moderation policy may be banned permanently.
3. URL of the Prime Minister's Office of Japan Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/Japan.PMO
4. Modification of the Moderation Policy
We may at any time, without notice, revise these policies and other information contained in this Page.
5. Intellectual property rights
Intellectual property rights over the photographs, illustrations, audio, video, and text, etc., posted on the Page belong to the Cabinet Public Affairs Office or those with valid rights.
People are free to use "Likeand "Sharefunctions for the posts on the Facebook Page. All the information on the Page, may be reused with attribution. However, this does not apply to information marked "All Rights Reserved.
6. Disclaimer
-The office is taking every possible care to ensure the accuracy of the information posted on the Page. However, the Cabinet Public Affairs Office cannot accept responsibility for any consequences whatsoever that may result from decisions or actions taken by users based on the information on the Page.
-Please note that the Cabinet Public Affairs Office is not responsible for any inter-user trouble caused by the Page or damages suffered as a result, or for any user-third party trouble caused by the Page or damages suffered as a result.
-The copyright and other rights of the posts, including comments, belong to the users who made the post. However, by posting content, it is deemed that the user licensed the right to utilize the content globally at no charge and on a non-exclusive basis to the Cabinet Public Affairs Office, and it is deemed that the user has consented to not exercising its copyright or other rights against the Cabinet Public Affairs Office.
-The Cabinet Public Affairs Office bears no responsibility for any other damages caused by the Page.