This notice has been written to explain how the partner organizations who maintain ClimateData.ca interact with the public online, including on social media platforms, online forums and comment sections.
ClimateData.ca is a collaboration between Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)’s Canadian Centre for Climate Services (CCCS), the Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM), Ouranos, the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), the Prairie Climate Centre (PCC), ClimateWest, CLIMAtlantic, ORCCA and Evolving Web.
Blog and social media posts may be developed by any of the above partners. The CCCS’s Support Desk is responsible for replying to questions and comments received online.
We use social media as an alternative method of sharing the content posted on ClimateData.ca and interacting with our users. We aim to provide regular, timely, and topical content. We welcome your comments and questions. Comments submitted after hours or on weekends will be read and responded to as soon as possible.
Because the servers of social media platforms are managed by a third party, our social media accounts are subject to downtime that may be out of our control. As such, we accept no responsibility for platforms becoming unresponsive or unavailable.
Our social media accounts may post or display links or ads for websites that are not under our control. These links are provided solely for the convenience of users. We are not responsible for the information found through these links or ads, nor do we endorse the sites or their content.
Our decision to “follow,” “favourite” or “subscribe” to another social media account does not imply an endorsement of that account, channel, page or site, and neither does sharing (re-tweeting, reposting or linking to) content from another user.
We will read comments and participate in discussions when appropriate. We ask that your comments be relevant and respectful. We reserve the right to delete comments that violate this notice, and the user may be blocked and reported to prevent further inappropriate comments.
We cannot engage in issues of party politics or answer questions that break the rules of this notice.
We reserve the right to edit or remove comments that:
In short, please be respectful and make sure that your comments are relevant to where they are posted. The views of users commenting on our social media accounts do not necessarily represent the views of Climatedata.ca’s partner organizations.
Information that we post is subject to the Copyright Act.
Our social media accounts represent only our presence on third-party service providers.
For more information on privacy considerations on ClimateData.ca, please refer to our Privacy Policy further down on this page.
Many social media platforms have multiple language options and provide instructions on how to set your preferences. ClimateData.ca is committed to ensuring that our information is available in both English and French and that both versions are of equal quality.
We reply to comments in the official language in which they are posted. If we think the response is a question of general public interest, we may respond in both official languages.
We may share links that direct users to sites of organizations or other entities that may be available only in the language(s) in which they are written. When content is available in only one language, we make an effort to provide similar content in the other official language.
Please contact us if you have any feedback or questions.
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