Using Digital Communities Responsibly

Spirit of Atlanta's digital and social media communities include people from a wide variety of experiences, backgrounds, and mindsets. These Guidelines apply to your use of Spirit of Atlanta's online communities and will help you and the rest of the community have an enjoyable experience.

As a community member, you play an important part in keeping our communities vibrant and safe for all our users. We greatly appreciate your help in ensuring that our online communities remain the positive, diverse, and welcoming communities that we work so hard to foster.

Our Guidelines.

Be a good citizen. Interact, connect, and treat others with respect. Don’t engage in name-calling, insults or gratuitous attacks on others. Refrain from posting content that stereotypes people in an insulting, harmful or abusive way.

Stay on topic. Keep your content relevant and moderate it correctly.

Threats of Violence. Threats of violence directed at individuals or groups, including public figures, are prohibited and, when warranted, will be reported to law enforcement. Content that promotes, incites or supports violent or otherwise criminal behavior is also prohibited (e.g. encouraging others to commit violence against an individual or group, or expressing support for acts of violence).

Hate Speech and Activity. We prohibit content of any type that incites hatred or advocates violence against a person or group based on their actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, health condition, disease, or political views or affiliation.

Adult Content. Do not post content that features nudity, including male or female genitals or the exposed female breast including the nipple. We recognize exceptions to this rule for posts with artistic, educational, political, or scientific value, and in other cases where the content was not intended to trigger sexual arousal (e.g, breastfeeding, childbirth, and protest nudity). Content that depicts sexual acts, or bodily fluids or functions for the purpose of sexual arousal, is not allowed.

Harassment and Bullying. Personal attacks on others, especially other Spirit of Atlanta community members, are prohibited on our platforms. This prohibition includes content designed to intimidate, shame, degrade, sexually harass, or otherwise harm, as well as content that has the effect of suppressing discussion or driving users away from our platforms (e.g., using language to bully people with whom you disagree through repetitive or off-topic posts). We recognize that bullying directed at minors can be particularly harmful and apply heightened scrutiny to disparaging content directed to those under the age of 18.

Illegal Activity. Content that promotes or facilitates illegal activity is prohibited. This includes the distribution, purchase, and sale of illegal items.

Protecting User Privacy - PII and Doxing. Do not publicly post sensitive personal information pertaining to yourself or others. This prohibition includes passwords, identification numbers, bank account information, birthdates, home or work addresses, and other commonly recognized personally identifiable information (PII). Please visit our help page for additional information on securing your account.  

Privacy Invasions. Do not post content that promotes, facilitates, or documents the invasion of another person’s legitimate expectation of privacy. This prohibition includes voyeur-style media, intimate images and videos posted without consent, and threats to publicly post images for the purpose of embarrassing or harassing another. Please visit our help page for additional information on removing search results.

Respecting Intellectual Property.  Copyright and Intellectual Property. Do not post content that violates a copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property right held by someone else. We will remove such content if we discover it, or upon the request of the rights holder. To learn more, please review our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy.

 If you see content that violates these Community Guidelines, please report it to the community team at spirit@spiritddrumcorps.org.

 We do our best to ensure fair outcomes, but in all cases, we reserve the right to suspend accounts or remove content, without notice, for any reason, but particularly to protect our services, users, and community. While these Guidelines don't create a contractual obligation for us to act in any particular manner, we will try our best to enforce these Guidelines consistent with our principles and values.