USAID Social Media Comment Policy

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Thank you for visiting the social media pages of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). If you are looking for the official source of information about USAID please visit http://www.usaid.gov.

Communications made through third-party social media pages in no way constitute a legal or official notice or comment to the U.S. Agency for International Development or any official or employee of USAID for any purpose.

To contact us directly, please visit http://www.usaid.gov/contact-us

Commenting on our pages: While our social media pages are an open forum, they are also family friendly ones, so please keep your comments and wall posts clean. In addition to keeping our pages family friendly, we ask that you follow our posting guidelines here. If you don't comply, your message will be removed and your account may be blocked from further postings:

  • The use of vulgar, offensive, threatening, or harassing language is prohibited
  • We do not allow solicitations or advertisements
  • We do not allow comments that suggest or encourage illegal activity

Records & Privacy: While USAID will not be collecting or retaining these comments in our records, this is a public forum and any information provided in comments will be publicly available on the social media site used. As such, please do not post personal details such as your telephone number, email address, or any other personally identifiable information you do not want available to the general public.

Be aware that the privacy protection provided on the USAID.gov domain may not be available on this site. For the complete USAID privacy policy please visit: http://www.usaid.gov/privacy-policy

Non-Endorsement: USAID use of third-party social media sites does not constitute an endorsement of these sites by USAID of the sponsors of the site or the information or products presented on the site.

Further, the inclusion of links to other websites does not constitute and endorsement of any views expressed, or commercial products or services offered on these outside sites, or the organizations sponsoring the sites. For complete details please visit:http://www.usaid.gov/privacy-policy