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Copyright 2008 Florida Services & Information LLC
All Rights Reserved
Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of any of the contents
of this service without the express written consent of Florida
Services & Information LLC is expressly prohibited.
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: February 5th 2008.
Florida Services & Information LLC has a firm commitment to privacy.
We take your privacy concerns seriously and want to make every
effort to address them as we strive to offer our site visitors a
high quality, interactive and personalized experience. That is why
we have adopted the following policy, which explains our position on
information gathering and how we intend to use and share any
information we collect. It is important to note that this policy
applies only to information collected by Florida Services &
Information LLC.
When does Florida Services & Information LLC collect my personally
identifiable information?
When you register on Florida Services & Information LLC, we collect
personally identifying information from you. During registration you
are asked to provide your email address and some demographic
information including such items as your gender, year of birth, and
address. The more information you provide, the better we are able to
customize our services and your experience to suit your needs and
preferences. In addition to registration, we may collect personally
identifiable information from you when you enter contests and
sweepstakes (which may be done in conjunction with site
registration), participate in promotions and special programs,
register for premium or customized services, make a purchase at one
of our merchants or partners, subscribe to one of our print
publications, or download a software product or plug-in.
If you are making a purchase or enrolling in a premium service for
which there is a fee, we, or a 3rd party working in partnership with
us, will collect your credit card, billing address, and other
verifying information. In addition, we may collect personally
identifiable information from you when you provide content to us for
display or use on Florida Services & Information LLC, including but
not limited to, when you participate in user surveys, post messages
to bulletin boards or chat areas, submit personals or other
classified listings, build a home page, report a problem with one of
our sites or services, or submit a letter.
If you use our referral service ("Email and Article to a Friend") to
tell a friend about our site, we will ask for your email address and
theirs. We automatically send a one-time email to the address you
provided. Neither your email address nor the email address you
provide is stored or used for any other purpose.
How is my personally identifiable information used?
Our main goal is to provide you with a customized and more relevant
experience on Florida Services & Information LLC We review our
users' preferences, demographics, traffic patterns, and other
information in aggregate so that we can better understand who our
audience is, and what it is you want. Tracking user preferences also
helps us serve you more relevant advertising. Please note that we do
not share your personally identifying information with the ad
advertisers.
We use a third party to serve ads when you visit our site. This
third party ad server may use certain information about your visit
to our site in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services that may be of interest to you, but they are not allowed to
collect or use personally identifiable information about you for
their own purposes.
All credit card information is transmitted in an encrypted form,
using SSL (secure socket layer) encryption, the industry standard.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the
personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and
once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or
method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore,
while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your
personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Florida Services & Information LLC assumes no liability for
disclosure of data due to errors in transmission or unauthorized
third parties. If you have any questions about security on Florida
Services & Information LLC, you can contact us at: Florida Services
& Information LLC Feedback
The email address provided by you at registration, or as updated,
may be used by Florida Services & Information LLC and its affiliated
entities, to contact you for any reason, including: (1) Your account
status (including an email confirmation of registration), (2) Major
changes to the Web site, the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, (3)
Participation in user surveys, asking for feedback on the Web site
and (4) notifying you of existing or prospective products and
services offered by us or our advertisers and partners. This
information helps us to improve our Web site. The information
provided by you at registration may be used by Florida Services &
Information LLC and its affiliated entities, to contact you with
special offers and promotions.
To update your personal information such as name, or mailing
address, you can sign into your account and visit the Update Account
page. To update your newsletter subscriptions you either a) visit
your newsletter subscription page in your account, or b) unsubscribe
by following the instructions within the email newsletter.
If you opt-in to a third party offer on this site then your
relationship with the third party will be governed by their
respective Privacy Policies. If you no longer wish to receive
communication from the third party, then you will need to contact
them directly to opt-out. When you sign up for some third-party
services on this site, such as free coupons or look up Yellow Pages,
you will be taken to a co-branded site which may appear to be ,
however if the third party is collecting information from you, the
use of this information is governed by the co-branded partner's
privacy policy.
What other information does Florida Services & Information LLC
collect and how is it used?
Cookies, Florida Services & Information LLC uses cookies to store
and track your preferences to provide you with a more personalized
user experience. A cookie is a message that is sent to your browser
from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Most
Internet sites use cookies. You can set your browser preferences to
reject all cookies but then you will not be able to participate in
most customized services, and you may be required to repeatedly log
in to participate in various services, promotions, or product
offerings. Cookies make your experience easier by saving your
preferences and passwords.
We also use cookies that contain no personal information at all.
These cookies, help us estimate our audience size, determine which
areas of Florida Services & Information LLC are the most popular,
and serve targeted advertising. Third party advertisers and our ad
server may set and access their cookies on your computer in
accordance with their own privacy policies.
Some parts of the Florida Services & Information LLC Web site use
cookies to collect information about visitors' use of the site and
to facilitate return visits. Information collected about user
activity may be done in partnership using a 3rd party tracking tool.
The information collected from cookies is tracked to enhance
security and to improve the functionality of the Florida Services &
Information LLC Web site by avoiding duplicate data entry,
facilitating navigation, and increasing the relevance of content.
Cookies on the site may collect the following information: a unique
identifier, user preferences and profile information used to
personalize the content that is shown, and membership information to
access Florida Services & Information LLC’s services. Some cookies
used by Florida Services & Information LLC may remain on the user's
computer after they leave the Web site
Most browsers can be configured to reject cookies or alert you when
cookies are being sent. Keep in mind that if you refuse cookies, it
is possible that some portions of Florida Services & Information LLC
may not function exactly as intended.
IP Address. Florida Services & Information LLC may also collect IP
addresses for the purposes of systems administration or to report
information in aggregate form to our advertisers (e.g. how many
visitors logged in to Florida Services & Information LLC). An IP
address is a number that is assigned to your computer automatically
when you use the Internet. When you visit Florida Services &
Information LLC, our servers log your IP address. Your IP address is
not linked to anything personally identifiable.
Who does Florida Services & Information LLC share information with?
User information may be shared by Florida Services & Information LLC
with its affiliated entities in order to provide you with a more
integrated and customized user experience. We will not disclose your
personally identifiable information to third parties except (1) to
the extent necessary to provide you with a requested product or
service, or (2) in order to provide targeted promotional offers
during the registration process. If you do not accept any of the
offers, your information will not be retained by our registration
offers partner.
To the extent you are notified of uses of your personal information
which are different from those described in this Policy Statement
during your enrollment in any particular service, sweepstakes,
contest or promotion, the uses of which you are specifically
notified will govern that service, sweepstakes, contest or
promotion. We may co-sponsor some contests on our site with other
companies. If you enter one of these contests, our co-sponsor may
receive the information collected. In such cases, we will tell you
who the co-sponsor is and notify you the use of this information is
governed by the co-sponsor's privacy policy.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable
information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure
is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial
proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
What else should I know about my privacy?
You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal
information online in a public area, that information may be
collected and used by others. We do not control the actions of our
visitors and registered users. If you disclose personal information
in a chat room, forum, on your home page, or any other publicly
accessible place on the Florida Services & Information LLC Web site,
you do so at your own risk and you understand that your submitted
information may be collected and used by others to send you
unsolicited messages, advertisements, or for other purposes.
Please remember that protection of your privacy begins with you. You
are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any password
you use to register, and you should always be careful and
responsible whenever disclosing information online.
The Florida Services & Information LLC Web site contains links to
other sites that are not owned or controlled by Florida Services &
Information LLC. Please be aware that we, Florida Services &
Information LLC and its affiliated entities, are not responsible for
the privacy practices of such other sites
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects
personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this
Web site.
PRIVACY PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN. In compliance with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly provide
access to Florida Services & Information LLC to persons under the
age of thirteen (13). If Florida Services & Information LLC later
learns that any registered user is under the age of thirteen (13),
we will take appropriate steps to remove the member's information
from the database and we will restrict this individual from future
access to Florida Services & Information LLC. We feel strongly about
protecting the privacy of children. We encourage kids to involve
their parents in any interactive activity they participate in
online. Except where otherwise disclosed, we will not collect or use
any personal information from children we know to be under the age
of thirteen without obtaining express parental consent. All general
information collected from users under the age of thirteen is used
only for aggregate statistical analysis.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy. By using the Florida Services &
Information LLC site and its services, you signify your acceptance
of this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree or are not
comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy Statement,
your only remedy is to discontinue use of Florida Services &
Information LLC. We reserve the right, to modify this Privacy
Statement at any time. If we materially change how we use your
personal information we will notify you either by email or through a
prominent notice on this Web site. Your continued use of any portion
of the Florida Services & Information LLC Web site following
notification or posting of such changes, will constitute your accept
of those changes. If you have questions or concerns about our
specific policies, please contact us through our feedback form at:
Florida Services & Information LLC Feedback.
Terms of Use
We welcome you to our site. We ask that you review these Terms of
Use, which are intended to constitute a binding license agreement
that conditions your use of this site ("Agreement"). We have tried
to avoid unnecessary legal verbiage. Our goal is to protect our
rights in order to provide you with access to the free content
available at this site. If you do not wish to be bound by this
Agreement after you have read it, please leave the site. If you
remain on this site, or return thereafter, you agree to be bound by
this Agreement.
1. Responsible conduct. You agree to act responsibly at this site
and to treat other visitors with respect.
2. Limited License/ Copyright and Intellectual Property Law
Restrictions. Except for public domain material, the content on this
site is protected by intellectual property laws, including U.S.
copyright laws. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive license to
use the material at this site ("Content") while connected to this
site (including, where available, to email individual stories to
friends directly from this site). All rights are reserved. Among
other things, electronic reproduction, adaptation, distribution,
performance or display is prohibited. Private copying and
distribution is prohibited. Changes to or deletion of author
attribution or copyright notices are prohibited. Commercial use of
any of the Content is strictly prohibited. Use of any of our
trademarks as metatags on other web sites also is strictly
prohibited. You may not display this Web site in frames (or any of
the Content via in-line links) without our express written
permission, which may be requested by contacting us through our
feedback form. You may, however, establish ordinary links to our
site without our written permission.
3. Links. We may provide links from our site to other sites as a
convenience to our visitors. We have no control over linked sites
and make no representations about any content or material available
at these locations. Links are not intended to imply sponsorship,
affiliation or endorsement.
4. Discussion Boards and other self-publishing 3rd party products.
Although we do not have any obligation to monitor these services, or
this self-published content, we reserve the right at all times to
remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening,
abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic,
profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole
discretion and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the
law, regulation, or government request. We also reserve the right to
permanently block any user who violates these terms and conditions.
5. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. You expressly agree that use of this
web site is at your sole risk. There is no warranty that your access
to or use of this site will be uninterrupted or error free; or that
any particular results may be obtained by use of this site. This
site is made available on an "AS IS" basis and “AS IS AVAILABLE”
without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied,
including but not limited to warranties of title or implied
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
non-infringement or otherwise, other than those which are implied by
and incapable of exclusion, restriction, or modification under the
laws applicable to this agreement. Neither we nor any other person
or entity providing content via this site shall be liable to you for
any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages.
6. Modifications/ Termination. The terms of this agreement will not
be modified on an individual basis. You agree that we may modify the
terms of this Agreement (or discontinue this site) in our sole
discretion, without advance notice, and that your right to access
this site is conditioned on an ongoing basis with your compliance
with the then-current version of these Terms and Conditions. You
should therefore visit this page frequently.
7. Jurisdiction. Florida Services & Information LLC is a US
enterprise and is listed in the State of Florida. In the event of
any dispute arising out of or relating to this site, you agree that
the exclusive venue for litigating disputes shall be in state or
federal court in Miami, Florida.
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