Social media and netiquette

Do you want to stay up to date? On various social networks, the BfS provides information about current developments in radiation protection, research results, and basic principles as well as events and news of the BfS and the BfS management. The social media team consists of staff from the Public Relations Unit.

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Instagram

How do I protect myself from UV radiation? What has radiation protection to do with my hair dryer? On Instagram we focus on information about health and consumer issues connected to radiaton protection.

Radiation protection on Instagram

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Twitter

The most important information on radiation protection in 280 characters or less. Follow @strahlenschutz and stay up to date.

@strahlenschutz on Twitter

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YouTube

Explanatory films as well as insights into our work and events. On the YouTube channel of the BfS, complicated concepts are explained in an understandable way.

Federal Office for Radiation Protection on YouTube

Mastodon

Compliant with data protection and open source: As an alternative to Twitter we publish our content on Mastodon as well.

Radiation protection on Mastodon

Netiquette

We look forward to a lively and engaging dialogue in which many users participate with comments and posts. However, we ask that you observe the following rules:

• A constructive dialogue is based on mutual respect. Please treat other users as you would like to be treated. Insults, abuse, defamation, slander, and the like have no place here. We reserve the right to delete such posts.
• We also ask that you comply with the terms of use and guidelines of the respective social media channel. Posts that are discriminatory, racist, violent, and/or sexist or which convey an unconstitutional opinion do not belong on these pages. We reserve the right to delete such posts.
• If criminal offences are committed through posts, we request that they cease and desist and reserve the right to file charges.
• Our social media channels provide information on BfS topics and dates. Comments and discussions should therefore also relate to the topic of the respective post. If this is not the case, we reserve the right to remove posts.
• Content that violates personal rights, rights of third parties, or copyrights as well as contributions that are to be classified as advertising or spam will be removed.
• Please respect your privacy and do not publish any personal data on the time line or in the comments. Please refrain from disclosing addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, private details, and other data that could be used to draw conclusions about your identity. On Twitter there is no obligation to use your real name.

We assume no responsibility for the posts of other users. All users are responsible for their posts.

By leaving a post, the authors give BfS the right to make the post permanently available on the respective social media channel and to quote it if necessary.

Users who repeatedly violate these conditions will be excluded from the further use of the pages.

We thank you for your understanding. We look forward to an exciting discussion and a constructive exchange with you.

The social media team of the BfS

Contests

The following apply to participation in contests on the BfS social media channels

Conditions for participation:

1. Participation in the contest is open to all users of the relevant network who reside in Germany
2. Employees of the BfS are excluded
3. Also excluded are accounts that do not belong to individuals but rather to institutions
4. No new (or fake) accounts may be created for the purpose of participation.

Framework conditions:

1. The duration of the contests is three days
2. The winners will be drawn at random from all retweets and comments.
3. We will contact the winners by direct message and request the address for sending the prize.
4. All data collected will be deleted after the end of the contest