National Historic Ships UK (NHS-UK): Social Media Code of Conduct

Our social media channels encourage historic vessel custodians and other stakeholders to engage in conversations about maritime heritage, share expertise and knowledge, and build connections.  As part of our remit to raise the profile of historic ships, we regularly share news, jobs, and events from across the sector, as well as our own activities.

We welcome comments and discussion about the stories we post, but ask that our followers respond constructively, treat others with respect and acknowledge differing points of view. We reserve the right to edit or delete any comments or content that may be deemed inappropriate.

To keep our social media channels a positive place for all, the following guidelines should be adhered to: 
 

  • Protect privacy  
    Avoid posting personal information.  Posts that include an email address, phone number, address or other personal information may be removed.
     
  • Stay on topic  
    Ensure comments are relevant to the original post.  Off-topic comments are likely to be removed, as are duplicate message across multiple unrelated posts. 
     
  • Be respectful  
    Avoid posting any personal attacks, hateful, defamatory, obscene, discriminatory, or harassing comments, images or videos, or anything that could be deemed offensive or negative to others.  Such comments and posts will be removed and will most likely result in you being banned or blocked. 
     
  • Don’t infringe intellectual property  
    Avoid posting anything that is not your original creative content or that you do not have a lawful right to post.  Infringed branded logos, graphics, copyrighted text, images or videos that come to our attention will be removed, and you risk being banned or blocked. 


Please note: 

We monitor our social media channels regularly but do not respond to every enquiry or comment that is made.  If you require further information or have a query that needs a response, please email: info@nationalhistoricships.org.uk.

All links to other websites from our social media sites are provided as a service to readers, but such linking does not constitute endorsement of those sites by NHS-UK, and as such we are not responsible for the content of external websites.

Any serious or repeated breaches of the above guidelines may result in comments being deleted and a user being blocked without warning from our channels. 

Where to find us: 

We are active across Facebook, X and Instagram, with our Awards premiering annually on YouTube.