PRIVACY
The Village of Winthrop Harbor recognizes the importance of your privacy on the Internet. The following explains what types of information are collected when you visit this web site. The Village of Winthrop Harbor does not collect personally-identifying information from its web site unless you decide to provide such information.
Visitors under the age of 18 must obtain permission from their parents or guardians before sending any personally-identifying information to the Village of Winthrop Harbor.
All information collected by the Village of Winthrop Harbor is used for internal purposes and is not distributed to outside parties unless otherwise stated.
Like all web servers, the Village of Winthrop Harbor web servers automatically create log files for each visitor who accesses the site. The "access logs" allow the Village of Winthrop Harbor to make the site more useful to you. The logs do not record your names, address, phone number, billing or financial information or any other personally-identifying information. The access logs do contain some or all of the following items:
- The Internet protocol Address (IP Address) of the machine accessing the web site
- The date of the visit
- The time of the visit
- The path taken through the site
- The browser software and platform used
- The files accessed
Most Internet Service Providers(ISP) assign IP addresses dynamically. In such a situation, your IP address would be different each time you access the site. Your privacy is further enhanced when your ISP uses a "proxy" server which then assigns the same IP address to everyone accessing the Internet via that ISP.
The Village of Winthrop Harbor reserves the right to change this policy without notice. Any changes to this policy will be posted as soon as reasonably possible, so please check this page periodically. Use of the Village of Winthrop Harbor web site constitutes consent to any policy then in effect.
TERMS OF USE
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
WinthropHarbor.com is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance, without modification, of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s) constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
SITE LICENSE AND ACCESS
The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois grants you a limited license to access and make personal and business use of this site but not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with the express written consent of The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois. Business use includes use of the services necessary to carry out your propriety legitimate business purpose but does not include any derivative use of this site or its contents or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois without express written consent of The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing the name of The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois or trademarks without the express written consent of The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois.
You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois (www.winthropharbor.com) so long as the link does not portray The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, its affiliates, or their content, products, or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission of The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois.
NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
As a condition of your use of WinthropHarbor.com, you will not use WinthropHarbor.com for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use WinthropHarbor.com in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s) (or the network(s) connected to the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s)) or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s). You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s), other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s), through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s).
MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE
The Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s) are offered, including but not limited to the charges, where applicable, associated with the use of the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s). You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms and conditions and Additional Terms posted on other sections of WinthropHarbor.com. Your continued use of the WinthropHarbor.com site/service(s) constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
CONTENT
Neither the Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois nor any agency, officer, or employee of the Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois nor the copyright holder(s) warrants the accuracy, reliability, or timeliness of any information in these World Wide Web Pages and shall not be liable for any losses caused by such reliance on the accuracy, reliability, or timeliness of such information. This publication is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
Many of the World Wide Web pages maintained by the Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois contain links to sites that are not under the control of the Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, or any agency, officer, or employee of the Village of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, or the copyright holder(s) (hereafter, the "Village"). Accordingly, the Village can make no representation concerning the content of these sites to you, nor can the fact that the Village has given you these links serve as an endorsement of any of these sites. The Village is providing these links only as a convenience to you. This is to inform you that the Village has not examined or approved any of these sites. Therefore the Village cannot make any representations regarding the material found there.
