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Privacy Policy
Web Site Permissions, Disclaimers, Privacy, Information to Bulk E-mailers, Security,
And Legal Information
This page contains the terms and conditions concerning your use of the Violet Township
website. By accessing this site, you agree to be bound by the following terms and
conditions:
You may view, copy or print pages from this site solely for personal, noncommercial
purposes. You may not otherwise use, modify, copy, print, display, reproduce, distribute
or publish any information from this site without the express written permission
from Violet Township. At any time, Violet Township may, without notice, make changes
to this site.
Violet Township welcomes the submission of comments, information or feedback through
this site; however, Violet Township does not want to receive confidential or proprietary
information from you. By submitting information through this site, you agree that
the information shall not be considered confidential and shall become the property
of Violet Township. Violet Township shall have the unrestricted right to use such
information for any purpose and without compensation to the submitter/author.
The Violet Township web site may include hyperlinks to websites maintained or controlled
by others. Violet Township is not responsible for and does not endorse the contents
of, or use of, any products, services, opinions, views or content offered on these
sites.
Products or services referenced in this site are the trademarks or service marks
of their respective owners. If you have any questions concerning the usage or licensing
of these trademarks, contact Violet Township (please ask for our Webmaster, Ms.
Kristi Huskey).
INFORMATION IN THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. VIOLET TOWNSHIP SHALL NOT
BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES
FOR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR OTHER HYPER-LINKED WEBSITES.
This site is owned and operated by Violet Township for your information. This site
may contain information and press releases about Violet Township, or township/village/city/county
government in general which were believed to be accurate as of the date prepared.
Violet Township does not undertake any obligation to update such information.
Violet Township provides online versions of documents such as meeting minutes, forms
and codes as a service and courtesy to the users of the Township’s website. Documents
or forms obtained from this website are for informational purposes only and may
not reflect the most current documents adopted by the Township. Additionally, the
formatting and pagination of the posted documents may vary from the formatting and
pagination of the official copies maintained by the Township. The official copy
of any document should be consulted prior to any action being taken, as the accuracy
or reliability of documents obtained from this website cannot be guaranteed by the
Township. Official copies of documents can be obtained by contacting the Violet
Township offices.
Violet Township may provide links to internet sites maintained by others ("third
party sites"). Violet Township has not reviewed all of the third party sites linked
to the Violet Township website, and is not responsible for the contents of or any
products or services offered in such third party sites. As with our site, once you
enter a third part site, you are subject to their terms and conditions of use, as
well as their own privacy policies and copyrights.
ALL of the Violet Township web site design, text, graphics and the selection and
arrangement thereof, are used with the expressed intent of complying with the applicable
copyright laws pertaining to ownership and use.
How we handle the information we gather when you visit our web site
Thank you for visiting the Violet Township Website and reviewing our privacy policy.
Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when
you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.
We collect and store only the following information about you:
The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (i.e., erols.com, if you
are connecting from an Erols account, or harvard.edu if you are connecting from
Harvard University's domain); the date and time you access our site; the item you
requested from the server; and the Internet address of the web site from which you
linked directly to our site. When we examine this data, it is always presented in
an aggregate form. Except as outlined in the Security section at the bottom of this
document, we do not track or look at individuals' usage behavior. The logs are periodically
summarized and analyzed in order to study site usage over time and to perform other
studies to help us improve the site's organization, performance, and usefulness
Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages,
or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your
visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically
collect and store only the following information about your visit:
The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access
account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address
(an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever
you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
The date and time you access our site;
The pages you visit; and
If you linked to the Violet Township website from another website, the address of
that website.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn
about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors
use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.
When you send us personally-identifying information, (e.g., in an electronic mail
message containing a question or comment), or by filling out a form that E-mails
us this information, we use this information to respond to your request. We may
also forward your E-mail to other government employees, who are better able to answer
your questions. Information collected via e-mail will be retained at our discretion
in a directly readable form for as long as necessary to complete our response. The
e-mail itself may be retained in an archival form as required by Federal and State
laws and regulations governing the retention of historical records of government
agencies.
We want to make it clear that we will not obtain personally-identifying information
about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information
to us. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, or as otherwise required
by law, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties.
Any information that we collect via a questionnaire or a guestbook may be subject
to disclosure, but will be handled in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy
Act and the Freedom of Information Act to ensure the greatest protection of personal
privacy in the face of any required disclosure.
If you choose to provide us with personal information -- as in an e-mail to the
Township, or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting
it to us through our website -- we use that information to respond to your message
and to help us get you the information you have requested. We treat emails the same
way we treat letters sent to the Township. We are required to maintain many documents
under the Ohio Public Records Act and Open Meetings Act (O.R.C. 149.43 and O.R.C.
121.22), the Privacy Act, and the Freedom of Information Act for historical purposes,
but we do not collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond
to you. We only share the information you give us with another government agency
if your inquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law. Moreover,
we do not create individual profiles with the information you provide or to give
it to any private organizations. Violet Township does not collect information for
commercial marketing. We would never use unsolicited email (Spam), nor provide your
contact information to others for advertising or marketing purposes.
The documents posted on this Website may contain hypertext links or pointers to
information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These
links and pointers are provided for visitors' convenience. Violet Township does
not control or guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any linked
information from non-Violet Township sites. As with our own site, you may encounter
a "cookie" as that particular site may also track what web site you were referred
to them by. As an example, if you were to reach the Violet Township website from
the Fairfield County Web Site, we would be able to compile a report showing how
many times the Fairfield County web site referred visitors to our site, but not
WHICH visitors were referred. Other sites that we give you links to may do the same,
however, should you have any questions about their policies and technology, you
should refer your questions to that particular site. Once you link to another site,
you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
The inclusion of links or pointers to Web sites is not intended to assign importance
to those sites or the information contained therein, nor is it intended to endorse
or recommend any views expressed, or products or services offered on these sites.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to
all users, Violet Township web servers employ industry-standard methods to monitor
network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information,
or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change
information on Violet Township servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable
by law, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act.
In the specific context of this security monitoring, there is no expectation of
privacy. However, only in the case of actual law enforcement investigations will
we attempt to identify individual users or their usage habits. We want to make it
clear that we will not obtain personal identifying information about you when you
visit our web sites, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Except
in the course of officially authorized law enforcement investigations, or in the
event of a suspected attempt to deliberately circumvent our system's security with
the intent to gain unauthorized access or to do physical damage (for example, an
attack by hackers), we do not attempt to identify individual users or share any
information we receive with any parties outside of Violet Township. In the latter
case, collected information associated with a suspected intruder might be shared
with local law enforcement agencies.
We would like to tell you that your information is as safe with us as it is in your
head, but, as hackers have proved worldwide, no computer security system is entirely
foolproof. The most any Web site can do is make reasonable efforts, which is what
we do at Violet Township, to protect your information from theft, misuse and alteration.
Any personal information you give us is kept securely. Access is limited to the
few employees who have a need to know. If you are ever asked for personal information,
you will always be provided the opportunity to opt out, or say no thanks. However,
you must remember, official law enforcement investigations may require us to turn
over any personal information you provide to us during the course of that investigation.
Violet Township also falls under guidance of any applicable public records laws
or acts, and would be subject to such laws.
Sometimes we want personal information from you so that we can send you some material
we think might be of interest to you, or to answer a direct question from you. We
promise never to be sneaky about getting this information from you. We always tell
you up front what we’re going to do with the information, and we always give you
a chance to say “no thanks.”
Any attempt to alter, impair, damage or destroy this site by unauthorized individuals
will be reported to the proper local authorities, and all records pertaining to
such activity made available to them for investigation purposes. Violet Township
will actively and vigorously prosecute any individual or group of individuals whom,
knowingly or through deliberate efforts, infect or attempt to infect any component
or system resource on Township computers with a virus, or form of virus such as
a Trojan, stealth, macro or worm virus. Spammers who are caught spoofing any email
address using violet.oh.us domain email addresses will, if identified and apprehended,
be prosecuted vigorously and to the fullest extent of the law by Violet Township
and/or their representatives.
Sometimes Violet Township may post optional surveys. At this time, we do not plan
to ask you any questions that require answers that would personally identify you.
Should Violet Township ever post a survey that asks for this type of information,
the choice is yours – you do not have to answer surveys. If you choose to answer
the survey, we will always tell you on the survey form how we will use the Personally
Identifiable Information. If we are asking for optional information, we will mark
it with an asterisk (*) so you know you can skip it if you want.
We at Violet Township are especially concerned about protecting children's privacy.
We hope parents, caregivers and teachers are involved in children's Internet explorations.
It is particularly important for adults to guide children when children are asked
to provide personal information on line. Violet Township encourages children to
send email messages to Violet Township if they have any questions. We want children
to get their parents' or legal caregiver's permission before providing any information
on line -- at our site or any other site -- and hope parents and caregivers will
always be involved in those decisions. Most importantly, when children do provide
information through the Violet Township website, it is only used to enable us to
respond to the writer, and not to create profiles of children.
Violet Township provides up to the minute information via this web site in order
to keep our community abreast of current events. Violet Township is not required
to archive contents of this web site, and any items chosen to archive are at the
discretion of Violet Township. Violet Township may edit, add, delete or remove information
on this web site at any time, without archiving the information and without notice.
Violet Township reserves the right to alter the entire content, design or location
of this web site at any time.
Violet Township may, in the event of an attempt, successful or not, from any unauthorized
party to change, alter or destroy the content of this web site, shut down the site
to outside viewing until such time as Violet Township or local law enforcement officials,
as part of their investigation into unauthorized access to this web site, deem it
appropriate to resume normal operations of this web site. Violet Township will aggressively
prosecute, to the fullest extent of the law, any such unauthorized individual(s)
should they be identified or apprehended.
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Violet Township provides online versions of documents such as meeting minutes, forms
and codes as a service and courtesy to the users of the Township’s website. Documents
or forms obtained from this website are for informational purposes only and may
not reflect the most current documents adopted by the Township. Additionally, the
formatting and pagination of the posted documents may vary from the formatting and
pagination of the official copies maintained by the Township. The official copy
of any document should be consulted prior to any action being taken, as the accuracy
or reliability of documents obtained from this website cannot be guaranteed by the
Township. Official copies of documents can be obtained by contacting the Violet
Township offices.
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