Purpose
The purpose of the National Teen Lock-In is to engage and connect teens all over North America annually with an event hosted in and/or by their local public libraries. The National Teen Lock-In seeks to encourage teens to become life-long readers and provide them the opportunity to connect with their peers.
To that end, the National Teen Lock-In (NTL) uses online engagement tools including social media. The primary goal of this policy is to clearly state the expected appropriate conduct of the public when engaging with these tools, especially at the annual NTL event, and also explain how NTL uses information gained through these online engagement tools. For the purposes of this policy, the public will be referred to as “patrons.”
Patron Code of Conduct for Online Engagement
The National Teen Lock-In social media accounts and online engagement tools are an extension of the National Teen Lock-In. As such, patrons engaging on any NTL online account may be banned from engaging in NTL online accounts should they do any of the following:
Engage in any activity which is in violation of Federal, State, Local or other applicable law or library policy.
Verbally threaten or harass other patrons or NTL staff, including posting defamatory or personal attacks.
Post profane, obscene, violent, or pornographic language or content.
Post content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, sex, gender, marital or family status, military status, status with regard to source of income, national origin, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation.
Encourage, conduct, or promote any illegal activity.
Post advertisements or attempt to sell something.
Post any other content the NTL deems inappropriate.
Patrons in violation of the above may be banned from NTL online accounts for a period of time determined by National Teen Lock-In Staff.
All online interaction is public record; however, virtual programs will never record participants and patrons may always delete their own comments from NTL social media accounts.
Virtual Event
The Following are Prohibited:
Interfering with another person’s use and enjoyment of the virtual event.
Being in the virtual event without appropriate clothing (offensive or lack thereof).
Playing of personal audio equipment such that it interferes with another attendee’s enjoyment of the event.
Posting any of the following:
Profane, obscene, violent, or pornographic language or content;
Content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, sex, gender, marital or family status, military status, status with regard to source of income, national origin, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation;
Defamatory or personal attacks;
Threats to any person or organization;
Content in support of, or opposition to, any political campaigns or ballot measures;
Solicitations of commerce, including but not limited to the advertising for any business or of any product or service for sale not specifically related to any agreement for sponsorship between that business and the Turner Free Library;
Conduct in violation of any federal, state or local law, rule or regulation;
Conduct or encouragement of illegal activity;
Information that may compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems;
Content that violates a legal ownership interest of any other party (such as, but not limited to, copyright);
Content not related to the original topic or to the business of the town, including random or unintelligible comments;
Links to any of the above prohibited content; or
Any other content deemed inappropriate by National Teen Lock-In Staff.
Patrons in violation of the above may be banned from NTL online accounts for a period of time determined by National Teen Lock-In Staff.
Collection of Personal Information
The National Teen Lock-In only collects information for the purposes of keeping in contact with interested parties, prize winners, and for the re-evaluation of its programs. The National Teen Lock-In works diligently to keep library information private and does not share any information received with anyone outside of NTL staff. To ensure patron privacy, the NTL requires that each library handle registration for their teens and only requires a library staff member’s contact information.
At no time will the National Teen Lock-In be filming the faces of teen participants. No teen attendees will appear on the streamed live events of the National Teen Lock-In.