
Community Guidelines
Our Social Media Guidelines
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and You Can in Michigan (YCIM) maintain social media accounts to provide updates on YCIM, its programs and activities, and to promote the state of Michigan as the ideal location to live, work, visit, start a business and build a future.
MEDC and YCIM welcome comments and discussion on content shared via official MEDC and YCIM social media accounts but encourage civil, respectful engagement that adheres with these Community Guidelines.
To promote civil discourse, comments and content posted to official MEDC and YCIM social media accounts are monitored and reviewed by MEDC and YCIM. MEDC and YCIM reserve the right to remove or hide user-generated content or comments if they violate the below criteria:
- The use of any profanity, obscene, threatening, discriminatory or harassing language
- Personal attacks on individuals or groups, including language which targets racial, ethnic, or religious groups, gender, sexual orientation, or disability status
- Disclosure of information which is confidential by law or regulation
- Comments advocating for illegal activity or conduct
- Posts violating copyrights or trademarks
- Advertisement or promotion of commercial products, services, entities or individuals
- Endorsement or opposition of any person campaigning for election to a political office or promoting or opposing any ballot proposition.
- “Spam” or other off-topic comments that are generated or appear to have been generated by “social bots” (i.e., content posted by automated software or “bots”)
- “Trolling”, or deliberately posting inflammatory, or inappropriate comments or content for the purpose of upsetting other users and provoking an emotional response or disrupting on-topic discussion.
- Information that may compromise the safety or security of the public, including public systems, and infrastructure.
- Information that may compromise the safety or security of the state, including state employees.
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Contact UsUser-Generated Content: Terms & Conditions
You, the “User”, may provide content to the MEDC and YCIM (“User-Generated Content”). By providing User-Generated Content to the MEDC and YCIM, which may include agreeing to allow MEDC or YCIM to share the User-Generated Content with and for the brands of You Can in Michigan, Michigan Business, and Pure Michigan, you warrant that (a) you are the owner of such User-Generated Content or have been granted all the rights necessary from the owner to submit such User-Generated Content to the MEDC and YCIM for use and sharing by the MEDC and YCIM, and (b) the use and sharing of such User-Generated Content by the MEDC and YCIM will not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of or otherwise violate the rights of any third party. By submitting User-Generated Content you expressly grant to the MEDC and YCIM (or warrant that the owner of the User-Generated Content has granted to the MEDC and YCIM) a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to: use, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, create derivative works of, transfer, or sell such User-Generated Content to or on any other MEDC-related or YCIM-related website or online service without your prior written consent. Further, you agree that you will not use, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, create derivative works of, transfer or sell the same or substantially similar User-Generated Content without the MEDC’s or YCIM’s prior written consent.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
All content posted on MEDC, YCIM and official state of Michigan social media pages is public record.
- MEDC and YCIM social media posts may include content or hypertext links to information created and maintained by other public or private sources. When viewing content or a link outside of YCIM’s domain, users are subject to security and privacy policies of the host website.
- MEDC and YCIM are not responsible for, nor can it control, content on, or the design of, third-party sites.
- Comments and content posted by the public on YCIM or MEDC social media sites do not reflect the opinions or position of MEDC or YCIM.
- MEDC and YCIM is not responsible for loss of sensitive personal identifying information that is voluntarily provided and posted by the public on MEDC’s or YCIM’s social media.
Questions about the MEDC’s and YCIM’s Community Guidelines and Customer Use Policy should be submitted via our contact form.