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Service and User Agreement
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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