Service and User Agreement

Service Agreement:

This website operated by WhoseFlorida.com Inc., a Florida non-profit corporation, and is not affiliated with any government agency. Please remember that the comments posted express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of WhoseFlorida.com Inc or any entity associated with WhoseFlorida.com Inc.

We encourage open participation in our forums to anyone who visits our site. The purpose of this site is to facilitate communication between state workers and citizens of Florida.  Our goal is better government with a more informed electorate. Anonymous postings are allowed because many workers have reported that they fear retribution if their name were to be used. Therefore, we cannot, and do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message posted on the WhoseFlorida.com Inc site. 

Readers are encouraged to research the information found on this site and validate and expand upon it for themselves.  Readers are encouraged to question anything they read on whoseflorida (or anywhere else for that matter) and to seek out the truth for themselves.

Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary.

 

FAIR USE NOTICE. This website contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. WhoseFlorida.com Inc is making this material available in our efforts to advance understanding of social justice issues. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. If you are the copyright owner of any of these articles, and do not wish your material re-distributed here, contact us and we will seek to remedy the situation.

 

User Agreement:

You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use WhoseFlorida to post any material which is knowingly false and/or inaccurate, vulgar, hateful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of any law.

You agree not to post any copyrighted material on these forums unless the copyright is owned by you.

Although WhoseFlorida.com Inc is not responsible for the content of any of these messages, we at WhoseFlorida.com Inc reserve the right to delete any message for any or no reason whatsoever. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless WhoseFlorida.com Inc and their agents with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s). Please note that advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations will not be tolerated on whoseflorida Forums.

 

Privacy Policy Statement

Whoseflorida.com Inc, its advertisers and affiliates, respect and are committed to protecting your online privacy. The following privacy statement explains our information gathering process and our use of this information.


This is the web site of Whoseflorida.com Operated by Whoseflorida.com Inc

Our postal address is:

Whoseflorida.com Inc
PO Box 6155
Tallahassee FL 32314

We can be reached via e-mail at info@whoseflorida.com


With respect to the information we collect:
For each visitor to our Web pages, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, (IP address- the number assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider.) but not the e-mail address (where possible). You are given the option to provide us your personal information, such as your name or email address. We do not collect any personally identifying information, such as survey information and/or site registrations, unless specifically and knowingly volunteered by you

Involuntary nonidentifying information such as your IP address, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit, is collected to help diagnose problems with our server and to help administer our Web site.

What we do with the information:
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web pages and to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your information is also used to help identify whether you are a unique or repeat visitor to our site, to help us track the overall usage of WhoseFlorida, and provide us with unique visitor statistics, such as date and time of your visit, length of visit, or pages viewed.

We do not collect any personally identifying information unless specifically and knowingly provided by you from feedback, guestbook, email, online order forms or other forms that require keyboard input from the user.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address

We do not disclose or sell any of your specific information, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, or email addresses to any third party. The information you provide is used internally by WhoseFlorida..


If you supply us with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line. Also, persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding new products and services or upcoming events.

If you do not wish to receive such telephone calls, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address.

With respect to Cookies:

WhoseFlorida, as well as most sites on the Internet, use cookies as a means to enhance your experience on the Web. We cannot use these cookies to personally identify you in any way. Cookies are essentially small units of information (unique identifiers) that are stored in a cookie file on your hard drive. They are used to help track what pages you have visited and what you have done on a particular Website. Some sites use cookies to help store your registration information, such as name and password, if required. Most browsers allow you to modify your preferences to accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set, or reject all cookies.

WhoseFlorida uses cookies to help track the number of visitors to our site. Our server and we maintain log files that record the actual usage of our site. A cookie is used to determine your unique IP address. Individual addresses are not recorded, only the number of visits, the type of browser you are using, and the most common operating systems (e.g. Macintosh or Windows) used. These statistics are then analyzed at the end of each month.


With respect to Advertising:

To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we may have relationships with other companies that we allow placing ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to their site (by clicking on a banner ad, or link within our site), ad server companies may collect non-personally identifiable information (Cookies) such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. We do not have access to this information. For further information, please consult the privacy policies of the individual companies involved.

With respect to external links:

Our website and directory contains hundreds of external links. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any external Web site. Please remember that when you leave WhoseFlorida via a link to an external site, we have no control over the information you may provide. Also, if you participate in message boards, chat rooms or via email, you may be voluntarily disclosing your personal information online. As a result of publicly posting your personal information online, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.

With respect to Children under 13

In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, WhoseFlorida does not specifically offer any content or features aimed at children under 13. We do not knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. In the event that we received any personal information from a child under the age of 13, without verification or parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practical. If you have any concerns about your child's use of WhoseFlorida.com, please contact us info@whoseflorida.com .

With respect to changes in our privacy statement:
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

With respect to security:

When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site. Also, please look for the secure "lock" symbol at the bottom of your window.


With respect to additional questions or concerns:
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the following address or phone number. In addition to this privacy statement, you may review our disclaimer notice that applies to all visitors using our Web site.


Our postal address is:

Whoseflorida.com Inc
PO Box 6155
Tallahassee FL 32314


We can be reached via e-mail at info@whoseflorida.com


 

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