Privacy Practices

Neighborhood Net has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Neighborhood Net Web site.

It is Neighborhood Net's intention to give you as much control as possible over your personal information. In general, you can visit the Neighborhood Net Web site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. However, there are places on our Web site when we may need information from you, such as your name, email address, city/state, and zip code. It is our intent to let you know before we collect personal information from you.

We will never distribute, share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law or to apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Neighborhood Net, our users, or others. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of posting pertinent data to our web site and contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information and to contracted service providers for purposes of providing services relating to our communications with you.

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. We also may use the IP address to verify the identity of perpetrators of illegal postings.

We do keep track of the domains from which people visit us. Your domain address is used to gather broad demographic data. We analyze this data for trends and statistics, and then we discard it.

The Neighborhood Net Web site's submit information and registration forms (only found in certain areas of our site) require users to give us contact information (name and email address). We use the contact information from registration forms to verify that the submitters are residents of First Colony and to send information about Neighborhood Net and to insure that our programming is used for legitimate purposes (see our Terms of Use). The contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Visitors may opt-out of receiving future communications (see below).

The Neighborhood Net Web site makes chat rooms, forums, and message boards available to its visitors. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, please exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Neighborhood Net may post the transcript of a chat session on a Web site or other media for informational, example, or demonstration purposes.

The Neighborhood Net Web site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We back up the entire Neighborhood Net Web site on a daily basis, and have password protected access levels which insure legitimate site administration.

The Neighborhood Net Web site contains links to other Web sites. Neighborhood Net is not responsible for the security practices of the Web sites that are linked from our site. We highly recommend that visitors check the privacy statements at these linked sites.

There is a technology called "cookies" which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Some Neighborhood Net pages may use cookies so that we can better serve you when you visit and then return to our site. We use cookies to deliver information specific to your interests and to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit certain areas of our Web site.

The Neighborhood Net Web site provides visitors with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us. If you would not like to receive any communication from Neighborhood Net, please email: opt-out@1stcolony.com.

The Neighborhood Net Web site provides visitors with the opportunity to change or modify information previously provided. If you would like to change or modify your information, please email: info@1stcolony.com.

If we make any material changes to our privacy practices or if we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated in our privacy policy at the time of collection, we will notify you via email regardless of your privacy settings. We will also post a revised privacy page 30 days prior to any change. 

If you have any questions or comments about this privacy statement, the practices of this Web site, or your dealings with Neighborhood Net, you can contact the Neighborhood Net staff at: privacy@1stcolony.com

This is a community "web site". We invite the opinions and views of the residents of First Colony. All submissions to the web site are considered for posting based on the relevance to the community and the adherence to the Use Agreement of Neighborhood Net.  All views and opinions expressed on this page, as on the other pages are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Neighborhood Net, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees. To submit your letters to the editor for consideration, click here.

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