AGCO's X Account: External Terms of Use

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If you have questions about a specific situation, licensee or registrant, please contact us by calling 1-800-522-2876 (Toll-free in Ontario) during regular business hours, or through any of the other methods listed on our website.

AGCO will monitor its X, formerly known as Twitter, account regularly during business hours. The views of other X users who choose to engage with our messages or whose feeds we choose to follow do not necessarily represent the opinions of the AGCO or any of its employees.

Disagreements and constructive arguments are welcome as part of the discussions; however, inappropriate, abusive, discriminatory, offensive or unlawful comments are prohibited.

The AGCO will:

  1. Review posts and messages, but cannot commit to replying to and/or moderating all
    discussion on its X feed and/or message inbox.
  2. Reserve the right to block or mute users or report “spam” messages to X when messages:
    • Express racist, hateful, sexist, homophobic, slanderous, insulting, or life-threatening messages
    • Are aggressive, coarse, violent, obscene, or pornographic in tone
    • Are offensive to an individual or an organization, rude in tone, or otherwise abusive
    • Are not sent by the author; put forward for advertising purposes and/or are written in a language other than English or French
    • Are unintelligible, or otherwise inconsistent with the purposes of this X account
    • Are repetitive or spamming of threads
    • Infringe on third party intellectual property rights.

Any use or reliance on any content or materials posted via the AGCO’s X account or obtained by you through AGCO’s X account is at your own risk. AGCO does not represent or warrant that its X feed and/or the X site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected or that this website is free of viruses or other harmful code, nor does the AGCO represent or warrant the correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or appropriateness of the content contained in its X feed or that the content is free of viruses or other harmful code. Please review X’s terms of service carefully before using the X platform.

The AGCO and its employees, agents and independent contractors shall not be responsible or liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other in any way arising out of or in connection with its X account, including its content.

Where @Ont_AGCO follows another X account or includes another account in a list, this is not taken to be an endorsement of that account. Further, any message that @Ont_AGCO shares on engages with is not to be taken as an endorsement of that message or of that X account.

Accredited members of the media can direct any inquiries to Media Relations personnel by calling the number listed on our contact page.

Privacy

By posting or sending messages to the AGCO’s X account, you are consenting to the collection of your personal information by the AGCO. This information may be collected for the purpose of obtaining feedback on the AGCO’s programs and policies and will be used to assess public views on the AGCO’s regulated sectors. The AGCO will not disclose this information without your consent, unless required by law.

Posts or messages that relate to possible criminal activity will be forwarded to law enforcement authorities.

The AGCO’s X feed is publicly accessible. Your posts may be publicly visible, depending on your privacy settings. Your privacy, and the retention of information on this site is also governed by the terms and conditions set out by X’s Privacy Policy.

To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, the AGCO recommends that you do not include personal or company/employer names, phone numbers or email addresses in the body of your tweets or messages. Posts that include personal information, or identify a particular company, employer or person may be reported to X.