AjaxPickering.ca Community Standards
Our site is a community friendly portal. We ask everyone to treat other members with dignity and respect. We expect that you use socially acceptable language within your posts on AjaxPickering.ca and any of the social media channels that we manage under our brand. Remember, you are conversing with your neighbours. Failing to maintain this simple standard could result in your posts being deleted or you being removed from the platform.
We are in the process of developing a comprehensive Community Standards Policy to reflect the values we would like to see in all online communities. Our policy will reflect on topics that are effected the most. We are 100% against censorship and censoring the content placed on the pages of our platform, however, there is a unique balance that needs to occur to ensure the following:
- Safety for those who use our platform.
- Privacy for our users that wish to protect themselves online.
- Authenticity within our users.
- Dignity and respect for all users of our platform.
- Equality of voices.
- Minimalizing and removing objectionable content.
- Respecting Intellectual Property and the people/companies that may own it.
- Protecting minors and other vulnerable members of our platform.
- Events posted on AjaxPickering.ca are open to the public (NO PRIVATE EVENTS)
- Events are held in Ajax, Pickering, or Durham Region. Any other areas will be subject to approval and may be removed.
- Events are posted at least 10 days prior to the event date. This lead time allows for users to be aware of the event.
- Events must be neighbourly and friendly in nature. Read this to be FUN, and ENJOYABLE for attendees.
- Events organized by groups fueled with hate or malice towards another group, will be removed. If your event is contraversal in nature, please rethink posting on this platform. If your event may be preceived as divisive in the community, it really does not go along with our desire to bring all of our community together, equally.
- Event listing must be posted in English. Any events not written in English, will be removed. Cultural events may be written in the preferred language for the event, however an English version must be presented first, and the translation needs to be verbatim (or close to the translation).
- Event fraud is a thing. Events requiring tickets must be sold through an electronic platform and have a ticket/reciept provided to the purchaser. Any event soliciting e-transfers as a form of payment, or the only means of payment, will be removed. AjaxPickering.ca and our affiliated companies are not responsible for tickets purchased, or sold fraudulently on our platform. Event planners/organizers are encouraged to have tickets sales at the event, or use an electronic transaction provider that offers patrons a means to 'chargeback' or 'dispute' payments in the event of a cancellation, or postponed event. Refunds should be offered to patrons who fall within the right to request one.
- Events posted on AjaxPickering.ca need to be up to date, especially if details change for any portion of the event, or the event is cancelled or postponed.
- Most of all, have fun and enjoy our vibrant local events.
Event Listings
We have recently upgraded our events area to allow for members of the community to post their events on AjaxPickering.ca. Before this update, each event was posted by a member of our team, and event organizers would submit their event through email. This process was labour intensive and consumed valuable team time. We have upgraded and improved the process of adding events to better streamline communications, and place more control in the hands of those running events in our community.
Our Expectations:
As you can appreciate, these types of topics are difficult to devise. We will be looking towards other platforms and seeking out best practices. We aim to ensure that whatever policies we pledge to maintain, will benefit the majority and punish only the few that may have ill intent while on our platform.
With this said, we have some incredible developments to unveil in the future. We look forward to the connections to be made using our platform by our neighbours, our friends and family, our local businesses and dining establishments, and our local politicians.
Thank you and we look forward to serving our users for many more years to come,
AjaxPickering.ca Community Managers
Last Updated: October 2, 2024
