Social Media Community Guidelines

On all Geoffrey Bawa Trust and Lunuganga Trust social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, we endeavour to build an intergenerational community to engage with the Trusts’ mandates and activities. We seek to highlight conservation, educational, and ecological efforts maintained by the Trusts while also interacting with and building a wider audience across our social media pages

We encourage discourse and engagement on social media. In order to foster a safe, comfortable, and collaborative online environment, we have established a set of guidelines for our community.

A. Comments must directly relate to the original post and be respectful in tone, language, and content;

B. The Geoffrey Bawa Trust regularly reviews and moderates comments across platforms and reserves the right to remove any content from community members that includes any of the following, decided at the discretion of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust:

  1. Harmful language including threats, harassment, violence, racism, bullying, profanity, attacks, or intimidation;

  2. Hateful speech of any kind, including that which references gender identity, sexual orientation, sexism, religion, age, ethnicity or race, appearance, illegal or harmful activities;

  3. Fraudulent, false, or misleading information of any kind including impersonation, identity falsification, spam, or phishing links;

  4. Advertisements or solicitations of any kind, including endorsements, promotions, contests, sweepstakes, or other related activities;

  5. Sharing of personal information about oneself or others including, but not limited to phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, and financial information;

  6. Repetitive posts copied and pasted or duplicated and/or multiple successive off-topic posts by single or multiple users;

  7. Third-party intellectual property, such as any copyright-protected material, trademarks or logos and/or any violations of rights of publicity or privacy;

  8. Impersonation of staff member of The Geoffrey Bawa Trust, or community member.

C. The Geoffrey Bawa Trust occasionally works with youths and minors through our programming and follows an internal policy regarding the use of faces, imagery, and likenesses on social media. Any online behaviour perceived as potentially harmful or threatening towards youths or minors  will be reported and escalated to the appropriate degree at the discretion of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust with a strict no-tolerance policy;

D. By interacting with our social media platforms—through posting/reposting/sharing, commenting, or replying, you consent to these guidelines and those of the platform itself. The Geoffrey Bawa Trust may, at any time, restrict or block any social media user from accessing its platforms based on violations of the above as decided by any member of the team.

If you have questions, comments, or concerns, please contact info@geoffreybawa.org.