The Minnesota Environmental Partnership (MEP) encourages a free and open exchange of ideas in a climate of mutual respect on all of our online outlets, including our websites, Facebook Page, Loon Commons blog, Flickr photostream, and Twitter feed. MEP reserves the right to monitor online conduct on these outlets and to enforce certain guidelines. MEP reserves the right to remove posted comments that fail to meet any of the guidelines. MEP will attempt to contact the person who posted a comment that does not meet the guidelines and offer a chance to change the comment so it does meet the guidelines. If you have questions about MEP’s online conduct policy, please contact Erin Jordahl Redlin at erinjredlin@mepartnership.org

1. Comment posters and Loon Commons blog authors shall not provide any information that is false, misleading or inaccurate.
2. Comment posters and Loon Commons blog authors shall not use any portion of MEP’s online outlets for posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available content that is harassing, harmful, threatening, abusive, vulgar, obscene, defamatory, libelous, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or harmful to minors in any way.
3. Comment posters and Loon Commons blog authors shall not use any portion of MEP’s online outlets for posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available junk mail, commercial advertisements, or any other form of commercial solicitation.
4. Quoted material must be limited and include attribution and any associated copyright notice, while complying with “fair use” principles of copyright law.
5. As a nonprofit public policy 501(c)(3) organization, MEP does not endorse political candidates or participate in political campaigns. Therefore, MEP reserves the right to remove posted content that endorses or ranks candidates or is otherwise connected to political campaigns.