EDC Social Media Community Guidelines
At Export Development Canada (EDC), we’re committed to providing Canadian companies, like yours, with the expert advice, resources and solutions you need to take your business global. This goal is reflected in our social media channels, where we strive to provide useful content and encourage constructive dialogue and mutual respect among our community members. Our online community is a place where lively discussion meets up-to-the-minute export advice and insights—and we want your voice to be heard. We invite you to engage with us, post relevant questions and comments on our channels and reach out to us for support.
These guidelines will help us ensure that our social media channels are a safe and inclusive space for community engagement, where you can connect with like-minded individuals from around the world and stay informed about our initiatives, programs and resources.
How EDC supports our community
We're committed to helping Canadian businesses grow on the world stage. Content published on our social media channels includes information about our products and services, but may also include relevant opinions, stories, and experiences from Canada and around the world.
The content we post is believed to be reliable at the time it's made public, however, we can't guarantee any information is complete or accurate at all times. No content posted by EDC, an employee or agent, or any other user should be interpreted as financial, legal or tax advice.
EDC aims to respond to comments and messages within one business day. We'll moderate our community according to our guidelines between the approximate hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday to Friday, except on holidays. Note: to protect the privacy of your business and personal information, we're unable to address certain questions on social media.
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Safety and security in our community
We welcome questions and comments from all users. To make sure every user feels safe and free to express themselves, the following behaviours will not be permitted:
- Expressions of hatred or intolerance for people on the basis of physical appearance, race, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability, or the promotion of organizations with such views
- Content consisting of advertising, promotion, or solicitation
- Content that is disrespectful, libellous, defamatory, harassing, threatening, inflammatory, stalking, or depicting violence, or explicit content that contains obscenities or profanity
- Content containing personal information, including phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, financial information, or other. Privacy will be respected in accordance with our Privacy Notice
- Links to malware or phishing sites, or sharing spam
- Content that violates intellectual property rights and does not have proper permission from the rightful owner
- References to criminal or illegal activity
- Content that is otherwise deemed unacceptable by EDC
While we welcome the opinions shared in our communities, we are not responsible for views other than our own. EDC doesn't endorse views or comments posted by users and in no way, verifies or confirms the accuracy of user comments. EDC reserves the right to remove off-topic comments, posts or content that doesn't adhere to the community guidelines, and to block anyone who violates them repeatedly.
EDC isn't responsible for and doesn't endorse third-party websites or content that may be linked from our social networking properties. Third-party websites and content aren't bound to the Official Languages Act and may not be available in both official languages. Likes, shares and retweets by EDC don't constitute endorsements.
EDC reserves the right to change, remove, or deny access to the content on our social media channels and isn't responsible for any consequences users may experience as a result.
We reserve the right to evolve these guidelines at any time to better serve our community. The rules and regulations for each specific social media platform must also be respected, and those supersede any of these guidelines.