ST. MARY’S COUNTY GOVERNMENT
WEBSITE POLICIES:
PRIVACY, DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY AND COPYRIGHT
St. Mary’s
County Government is committed to protecting the rights of all our visitors. We
recognize our obligation to keep sensitive information secure and have created
this privacy statement to share our information gathering and dissemination
practices for this website.
PRIVACY POLICY
If you do nothing during
your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information,
we will gather and store statistical information about your visit.
Our web server automatically collects this
information when you visit our site. We use this information to help diagnose
problems with our server and to compile statistics on site usage.
To provide
better service and a more effective website, sections of this site may use
"cookies" as part of our interaction with your browser. A cookie is a small text
file (typically only a few bytes) that we place on your hard drive to allow our
server to identify your computer. Our cookies will not attempt to read any
information on your hard drive, and we do not combine information collected
through cookies with other personal information to determine your identity or
your email address.
When you visit certain
areas of this site, you may be asked to provide personally identifiable
information (such as name, address, e-mail address, gender, and/or credit card
number) that we need to process your request. We use the information to improve
our service to you or to respond to your request. Sometimes we will forward your
personal information to other government employees who may be better able to
fulfill your request. In the event that you decline to provide such information,
you limit our ability to serve you. Still, we invite you to continue to visit
the site and take advantage of the wealth of information it offers.
This site has security measures in place to protect
the information you provide us. We encrypt information that is deemed sensitive
(such as credit card numbers) or data that must remain secure to meet legal
requirements.
Users requesting e-mail notifications of web postings and\or announcements
should not rely on the e-mail notification as their only information source.
Accounts will automatically be removed from the system if attempts to deliver
notices are repeatedly unsuccessful.
GIS data are provided on an 'as is' basis. The maps and data provided are
provided for illustration purposes only, and are not suitable for site-specific
decision making. St. Mary’s County specifically disclaims any warranty, either
expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular use. By Posting a Submission that
contain images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise graphical in whole
or in part ("Pictures"), you warrant and represent that (a) you are the
copyright owner of such Picture, or that the copyright owner of such Picture has
granted you permission to use such Picture or any content and/or images
contained in such Picture consistent with the manner and purpose, (b) you have
the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in this
policy, and (c) that each person depicted in such Picture, if any, has provided
consent to the use of the Picture as set forth in these Terms of Use, including,
by way of example, and not as a limitation, the distribution, public display and
reproduction of such Picture. By Posting a Picture, you are granting to the St.
Mary's County Government and the general public (for each such Picture available
anywhere on the County Web Site), permission to use your Picture, (including, by
way of example, and not as a limitation, downloading, printing and making prints
and gift items which include such Picture), and including, without limitation, a
non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free license to: copy, distribute, transmit,
publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your
Picture without having your name attached to such Picture, and the right to
sublicense such rights to a St. Mary's County Government. The licenses granted
in the preceding sentences for a Picture will terminate at the time a request
to completely remove such Picture from the St. Mary's County Website has been
processed, provided that, such termination shall not affect any licenses granted
in connection with such Picture prior to the time the Picture has completely
been removed. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your
Picture."
The entire risk as to quality and performance of the County Website is with the
user of the data. In no event will St. Mary’s County or its staff be liable for
any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or other damages,
including loss of profit, arising out of the use of these data even if St.
Mary’s County has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Our website has many links to the websites of private organizations and non
County entities. Please see
our Disclaimer of Liability relating to the content of those websites. When you
link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the
privacy policy of the new site.
DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
The St. Mary’s County
Government is not responsible for any offers, products, services, statements,
information, content expressed made available by third parties and provided by
any off-site page referenced on this Web site by hypertext link. The user
specifically acknowledges that the St. Mary’s
County
Government shall not be liable for the conduct of other users, links, or third
parties referenced in links on this Web site, and that the risk of injury from
use of such links rests entirely with the user. Further, the presence of links
to third parties on this Web site does not constitute an endorsement by the St.
Mary’s County
Government of the content of the linked sites, or of services or products which may
be offered on those sites. These links are provided as an information service
only, and it is the sole responsibility of the user to investigate and evaluate
any and all offers, services, products, statements, information, and overall
content of the linked page.
Neither St. Mary’s County
Government, nor any County employee, officer, or agent make any warranty,
express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for
a particular purpose, or assume any liability or responsibility for the
accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product,
service or process depicted or contained herein, or represent that its use would
not infringe privately owned rights.
COPYRIGHT POLICY
The contents of this website are
proprietary to the Board of County Commissioners for St. Mary’s County, Inc. and
third parties and are subject to the copyrights, trademarks and other
intellectual property rights of the Board of County Commissioners for St. Mary’s
County, Inc. and third parties. You may use this website only for your personal,
non-commercial use. Other than making limited copies of this website's content,
which you may also share with and transmit to your friends and colleagues, you
may not reproduce, retransmit, redistribute, upload or post any part of this
website, including the contents thereof, in any form or by any means, or store
it in any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written
permission from the Board of County Commissioners for St. Mary’s County, Inc.
If you are interested in obtaining
permission to reproduce or retransmit any part of this website beyond that which
you may use for personal use, as defined above, please contact: County
Administrator, St. Mary’s County Government, 23115 Leonard Hall Drive, P.O. Box
653, Leonardtown, Maryland 20650. |