Social Media User Agreement

Thank you for visiting an Official Senator Durbin social media web page. We’re glad that you chose to participate in a shared space that allows you to see how Senator Durbin is working for Illinoisans. These pages also give you the opportunity to participate in discussions with fellow members and share your questions, suggestions, praises, and concerns with the senator.

And as a reminder, because this page is sponsored by the U.S. Senate, federal law prohibits any comments that are obscene or related to elections (either of Senator Durbin or other candidates). Any discussion of this kind will be deleted.

Thank you again and we look forward to hearing your comments!

USER AGREEMENT

The following User Agreement (”Agreement”) governs the use of official United States Senator Dick Durbin social media sites and pages to include social networking pages, web blogs and file sharing sites. Please read the rules contained in this Agreement carefully. You can access this Agreement any time. Your use of any aspect of the Web sites will constitute your agreement to comply with these rules. If you cannot agree with these rules, please do not use the web sites.

The Agreement may be modified from time to time. Continued access of the Web site by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Agreement.

Your failure to follow these rules, whether listed below or in bulletins posted at official social media Web pages, may result in suspension or termination of your access to all of Senator Durbin's official Web sites, without notice.

COMMENTS BY OTHERS ARE NOT ENDORSED

Senator Durbin does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions, or statements posted on the Web site. Any information or material placed online, including advice and opinions, are the views and responsibility of those making the comments and do not necessarily represent the views of Senator Durbin, Senator Durbin's office, the United States Senate, the United States Congress, the United States Government or its third party service providers. By submitting a comment for posting, you agree that Senator Durbin, Senator Durbin's office, the United States Senate, the United States Congress, the United States Government and its third party service providers are not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to any information or materials posted by others, including defamatory, offensive or illicit material, even material that violates this Agreement.

EDITING AND DELETIONS

Senator Durbin and his office reserve the right, but undertake no duty, to review, edit, move or delete any material submitted as a comment to the information provided for display or placed on the social media web sites in its sole discretion, without notice. Comments submitted to these sites will be reviewed and inappropriate comments may be deleted at the sole discretion of Senator Durbin's office. We hope to receive submissions from all viewpoints, but we ask that all participants agree to the following Terms of Participation:

• To ensure constructive questions, please post only questions directly related and relevant to Senator Durbin.
• Refrain from posting questions that contain threats, obscenity, material that would violate the law if published here, abusive, defamatory or sexually explicit material.
• Submissions containing the following will be deleted:
  
  
  • 1) Contains obscene or threatening language or discrimination (hate speech) based on race, sex, gender, religion, national origin, age, or disability.
  • 2) Promotes services or products (not including non-commercial links that are relevant to the topic)
  • 3) Includes any personal or sensitive information (phone numbers, email or postal addresses)

External Links (including Advertising Links): The appearance of external hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by Senator Durbin of the linked web sites, or the information, products, or services contained therein. Senator Durbin and his office do not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. 

DISCLAIMER: Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Senator Durbin, Senator Durbin's office, the United States Senate, the United States Congress, or the United States Government. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of Senator Durbin, Senator Durbin's office, the United States Senate, the United States Congress, or the United States Government, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. With respect to documents available from this server, neither Senator Durbin, Senator Durbin's office, the United States Senate, the United States Congress, the United States Government nor any of its service members or employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.

Please let us know about existing external links which you believe are inappropriate and about specific additional external links which you believe ought to be included.