Common use of USE OF SOCIAL Clause in Contracts

USE OF SOCIAL. MEDIA What this means for you: 1. Team members and AOC servants or agents must, without limitation, comply with the IOC’s Social Media, Blogging and Internet Guidelines when released. 2. During pre-competition and competition periods, athletes are recommended not to use personal phones, tablets or other devices in training or competition venues. 3. Team members are strongly encouraged to have a plan on managing their access to personal phones, tablets or other such devices during the Games, and to implement the plan at competitions in the lead up to the Games. 4. A comment made in social media should be a factual account of your own personal experience. It must not be offensive, inappropriate, defamatory, misleading, deceptive or illegal. 5. Team members or AOC servants or agents who permit comments by the public to be made on any post, blog or website controlled by them, agree to take reasonable steps (including working with the AOC), to ensure that such comments are courteous, respectful and not abusive, offensive, inappropriate, defamatory, misleading, deceptive or otherwise illegal. 6. All Team members, officials, AOC servants or agents must ensure that they comply with the AOC Rule 40.3 Policy attached at schedule 7 of the Team Membership Agreement. 7. Any Team member or AOC servant or agent wishing to link their personal blog to the AOC website must do so pursuant to the Guidelines for Linking to the AOC Website which are available on the AOC website. 8. The use of any third party content on any post, blog, tweet, website or otherwise in any social media platform, must not infringe the rights of any third party. 9. The AOC reserves the right to issue a ‘take down notice’ requiring a Team member or AOC servant or agent to take down a post, blog, tweet or comment on any social media platform, in whole or part, within a specified time. A failure to comply with a ‘take down notice’ is a breach of the Team Membership Agreement. If you have any queries concerning these Guidelines, please contact the Director, Media and Communications, Xxxx Xxxxxxx. ADOPTED 23 August 2013 AMENDED 28 August 2015 SCHEDULE 6 Rule 40, Bye-law paragraph 3 of the Olympic Charter states that “Except as permitted by the IOC Executive Board, no competitor, coach, trainer or official who participates in the Olympic Games may allow his person, name, picture or sports performances to be used for advertising purposes during the Olympic Games”. These guidelines apply to the use of the person, name, picture or sports performance of a competitor, coach, trainer or official (hereinafter jointly referred to as “Participants”) participating in the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 (hereinafter the “Olympic Games”), during the period of such Olympic Games. For these purposes, the relevant period begins nine days prior to the Opening Ceremony and concludes at the end of the third day after the Closing Ceremony, i.e. 27 July 2016 until 24 August 2016 (hereinafter the “Period of the Olympic Games”).