Mossley AFC recognises the responsibility to both safeguard and protect the integrity of the game exists both on and off the field of play.
The club will:
- Refrain from publishing controversial or potentially inflammatory comments about other clubs, players, referees or subjects of a sensitive nature
- Avoid hostile or harassing communications in any posts or other online communications in line with The Equality Act 2010
- Identify all copyrighted or borrowed material with citations and links and give credit to the original publisher or author
Club Officials should not:
- Use text or emails for personal conversations including sending pictures or other items of a personal nature or comments with or about children at the club
- Use internet or web based mobile phones or other form of communications to send personal messages of a non-football nature to a child or young person
- Respond to emails or texts from young people other than those directly related to club matters
- Use language that is directly or could be misinterpreted as being racist, sexist, derogatory, threatening, abusive or sexualised in tone
- Accept as a friend, young players or any person volunteering at the club who is under 18 on social networking sites
- Share their own personal social networking sites with children or young people involved at the football club or ask them to be your ‘friend’
- Make contact with children or young people known through football outside of the football context on social networking sites
- Post personal comments in relation to the management or operation of the club, club officials. match officials, children, parent/guardian or opposition teams or any family members of those groups
- Delete any inappropriate text or email messages sent to you as they may form part of any subsequent investigation.
Players must not:
- Post, host, text or email things that are hurtful, insulting, offensive, abusive, threatening, or racist
- Post personal comments in relation to the management or operation of the club, club officials, match officials, players, opposition team members or any family members of those above.
- Engage in any personal communications, ‘banter’ or comments with staff, volunteers or opposition teams.
- Give out personal details online including mobile numbers, email addresses or social networking account access to people you don’t know well offline
- Use internet, web-based, phone or any other form of communication to send personal messages of a non-football nature to any member of staff/volunteer at the club
- Delete inappropriate text or email messages sent to you as they may form part of any subsequent investigation
- Use inappropriate language
- Reveal information about training, fixtures and contractual agreements etc. using social media posts