Social Media Policy
1. All Henry County Hospital employees must adhere to the Henry County
Hospital Social Media Policy posted on the Henry County Hospital Intranet site.
2. All users are prohibited from posting any content that is personal health
information, including patient images, on any Henry County Hospital Social
Media Site. Users are also prohibited from using the Social Media Site
to provide medical advice or medical commentary by non-Henry County Hospital
physicians or to use the Social Media Site to make, recommend or increase
referrals to physicians who are not employed by Henry County Hospital.
3. As a guest posting content to any Social Media Site on the internet,
you, the user will agree that the following will not occur:
a. Violate any local, state, federal and international laws and regulations,
including but not limited to copyright and intellectual property rights
laws regarding any content that you send or receive via this Policy;
b. Transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that
is unlawful, disruptive, threatening, profane, abusive, harassing, embarrassing,
tortuous, defamatory, obscene, libelous, or is an invasion of another's
privacy, is hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable
as solely determined in Henry County Hospital's discretion;
c. Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent
your affiliation with a person or entity;
d. Transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that
you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual
or fiduciary relationships;
e. Transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that
infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary
rights of any party;
f. Transmit (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) any unsolicited
or unauthorized advertising (including advertising of non Henry County
Hospital services or products), promotional materials, "junk mail,"
"spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes"
or any other form of solicitation;
g. Transmit (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) any material or
link to any sites or political candidate or party pages that contain product
or service endorsements, political content or campaign endorsements, or
for taking a position on any legislation or law.or any content that may
be construed as political lobbying, lobbying for solicitations or contributions,
h. Transmit any material (by uploading, posting, email or otherwise) that
contains software viruses, worms, disabling code, or any other computer
code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality
of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; or
i. Collect or store, or attempt to collect or store, personal data about
third parties without their knowledge or consent; or to share confidential
pricing information of any party.
4. Henry County Hospital reserves the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict,
block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue the user's access
to any Social Media Site, at any time, without notice and for any reason
and in its sole discretion. Henry County Hospital may remove, delete,
block, filter or restrict by any other means any materials in Henry County
Hospital's sole discretion.
5. You, the user, understands and agrees that Henry County Hospital may
disclose communications and activities with Henry County Hospital in response
to lawful requests by governmental authorities, including Patriot Act
requests, judicial orders, warrants or subpoenas, or for the protection
of Henry County Hospital rights. The user will agree that in the event
that Henry County Hospital exercises any of its rights hereunder for any
reason, Henry County Hospital will have no liability to you, the user.
6. By posting any content on any Social Media Site the user grants to Henry
County Hospital the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish,
display such content and the right to create derivative works from your
content, edit or modify such content and use such content for any Henry
County Hospital purpose.
7. All shall defend, indemnify, and hold Henry County Hospital and its
corporate affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees,
contractors, agents, successors and assigns harmless from and against,
and shall promptly reimburse them for, any and all losses, claims, damages,
settlements, costs, and liabilities of any nature whatsoever (including
reasonable attorneys' fees) to which any of them may become subject
arising out of, based upon, as a result of, or in any way connected with,
you, the user's posting of any content to a Social Media Site, any
third party claims of infringement or any breach of this Policy.
8. All expressly acknowledge that you, the user, assumes all responsibility
related to the security, privacy, and confidentiality risks inherent in
sending any content over the internet. By its very nature, a website and
the internet cannot be absolutely protected against intentional or malicious
intrusion attempts. Henry County Hospital does not control the third party
sites or the internet over which the user, may choose to send confidential
personal or health information or other content and, therefore, Henry
County Hospital does not warrant any safeguard against any such interceptions
or compromises to the user's information. When posting any content
on an internet site, you, the user should think carefully about your own
privacy in disclosing detailed or private information about yourself and
your family. Furthermore, Henry County Hospital does not endorse any product,
service, views, or content displayed on the social media site.
9. You, the user, agrees that any claim or dispute relating to your posting,
as the user, of any content on a Social Media Site on the internet shall
be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio without
regard to its conflict of laws provisions and the user agrees to be bound
and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local, state
or federal courts governing Henry County, Ohio.
10. This policy may be updated at any time without notice, and each time
you, the user, accesses a social networking site the new policy will govern
usage that will be effective upon posting. To remain in compliance, Henry
County Hospital suggests that you, the user, review the Policy, as well
as the other website policies, at regular intervals. By continuing to
post any content after such new terms are posted, you, the user, accept
and agree to any and all such modifications to this Policy.
POINT OF EMPHASIS:
1. By posting on any Henry County Hospital Social Media Site all agree
to these terms. Henry County Hospital has opened publicly facing pages
on social media sites for viewing content and/or videos and posting comments
about Henry County Hospital. These social media sites include but are
not limited to networks, multi-media and news media sites or other user-generated
content sites ("Social Media Sites"). By accessing, viewing
and/or posting any content related directly or indirectly to Henry County
Hospital on any Social Media Site on the internet the user accepts, without
limitation or qualification, the following terms of use. If you the user
do not agree to the terms of this Policy, you may not view or post any
content to any Social Media Site on the internet. You, the user's,
use of Social Media Sites is acceptance of this Policy and has the same
effect as if thee signer had actually physically signed an agreement.