Social Media Policy

This policy applies to all staff, including volunteers or anyone working on behalf of Zico Football Coaching.

The purpose of this policy is:

To ensure children, young people, coaches and adults in a position of trust are not subjected to improper online behavior or improper allegations
To provide anyone working on behalf of Zico Football Coaching with guidance and appropriate approach to social media.

Zico Football Coaching’s responsibility is for:

Ensuring all the privacy settings are locked so that that the page(s) are used explicitly for coaching and football matters and are not used as a place to meet, share personal details or have private conversations
Monitoring Zico Football Coaching’s social networking page regularly and removing access for anyone behaving inappropriately
Making sure everyone within Zico Football Coaching knows who is responsible for monitoring the content of the social networking areas and how to contact them
Gaining written parent/carer permission before access is given to U18s • Informing Zico Football Coaching’s Welfare Officer if you have received inappropriate communications online, keeping a record of any inappropriate, threatening or offensive material as this may be needed as evidence.

We will not:

Accept as a friend, players U18 on social networking sites they are members of or share their own personal social networking sites with children or young people involved in youth football
Make contact with children or young people known through football outside of the football context on social networking sites
Use internet or web based communications to send personal messages of a non-football nature to a child or young person
Engage in any personal communications, ‘banter’ or comments.