Social media disclaimer

The opinions and/or views expressed on the Queensland Government (Department of Justice and Attorney-General) social media platforms, including, but not limited to, our blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages, represent the thoughts of individual bloggers and online communities, and not those necessarily of the Queensland Government.

While the Queensland Government (Department of Justice and Attorney-General) makes reasonable efforts to monitor and/or moderate content posted on its social media platforms, we cannot always respond in a timely manner to online requests for information. The Queensland Government (Department of Justice and Attorney-General) will only respond to comments during standard business hours. The department’s social media sites are only monitored during standard business hours.

The Queensland Government (Department of Justice and Attorney-General) makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this site, and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this site. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including, but not limited to, the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, is given with respect to the contents of social media or its links to other online resources.

The Queensland Government (Department of Justice and Attorney-General) reserves the sole right to review, edit and/or delete any comments it deems are inappropriate. Comments including, but not limited to, the following may be deleted or edited by the moderators:

• abusive or hurtful comments about a blogger, another participant or the Queensland Government, which may include:
  • inappropriate language (e.g. profanity, racial, ethnic or gender-based language
  • personal attacks or defamatory statements or comments (e.g. negative personal or untrue comments about a participant), instead of just criticising his/her posting, opinion or comments
• irrelevant and redundant comments (e.g. promotion of events, groups, pages, websites, organisations and programs not related to or affiliated with the Department )
• comments that violate the privacy of the Department’s staff, clients or stakeholders.

Any comments that contradict these guidelines will be removed, and people with repeated violations may be blocked from all of our social media channels.

Links to other websites which are linked from The Queensland Government (Department of Justice and Attorney-General) social media sites are provided as a guide only and such linkage does not constitute endorsement of those sites by the Queensland Government (Department of Justice and Attorney-General and as such we are not responsible for the content of external websites.

By submitting content to any of The Queensland Government (Department of Justice and Attorney-General) social media sites, you understand and acknowledge that this information is available to the public and as such, is considered a public record.

During elections, when the Queensland Government is in care-taker mode, the Department of Justice and Attorney-General cannot host or respond to political content.