The Center for Independent Living Serving Carroll and Frederick Counties

Privacy Policy

Authorization of Use

The Freedom Center hereby authorizes any person to access this Website for informational purposes only. The Freedom Center reserves the right to terminate access to this Website at any time without notice. The data, information and material included in this Website is copyrighted by The Freedom Center All rights are reserved under the copyright laws of the United States of America. No part of this Website can be redistributed, copied or reproduced without the prior written consent of The Freedom Center

No Warranties

The user of this Website assumes all responsibility and risk for the use of this Website and the Internet generally. The Freedom Center, and its affiliated companies disclaim all warranties, representations or endorsements, expressed or implied, with regard to the data, information and material included in, or accessible from, this Website or the Internet, including, but not limited to, all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or noninfringement. The Freedom Center and its affiliated companies have the right to discontinue, change or update any data, information or material included in the Website without prior notice, and they do not assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any data, information or material included in, or accessible from, this Website. No advice or information given by The Freedom Center or its affiliated companies shall create any warranty. Neither The Freedom Center nor its affiliated companies warrants that the data, information and material included in the Website or on the Internet will be uninterruptible or error free or that any data, information, software or other material accessible from this Website is free of viruses or other harmful components. If you are interested in the terms and conditions of a specific product, please contact us for additional information.

Disclaimer of Liability

In no event shall The Freedom Center or its affiliated companies be liable for any compensatory, special, direct, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages, exemplary damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, information or profits arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of the data, information or material included in this Website or on the Internet generally or on any other basis.

Disclaimer for Links

Although this site includes links providing direct access to other Internet sites, The Freedom Center and its affiliated companies take no responsibility for the content or information contained on those other sites, and does not exert any editorial or other control over those other sites.

Electronic Communications

The Freedom Center will not be deemed to have accepted any electronic communication unless The Freedom Center provides the sender of the electronic communication with an acknowledgment verifying receipt of the communication. If The Freedom Center sends any electronic communication, The Freedom Center will assume the communication was received intact by the intended recipient. The recipient of such message must notify The Freedom Center if the transmission was not received or was not received in a readable format.

Security

Despite the security measures taken by The Freedom Center, there is an inherent risk in disclosing personal information over the Internet. Anyone electronically transmitting personal information assumes the risk that such information may be disclosed or intercepted by unintended third parties and The Freedom Center disclaims all liability resulting from such interception or disclosure.

Privacy Statement

The Freedom Center is committed to protecting your privacy as a visitor to this Website and as our customer. To our visitors and to our customers, we offer this pledge:

The Freedom Center is the owner of the information, which is collected on this Website. We will not sell, disseminate, disclose, trade, transmit, transfer, share, lease or rent any personally identifiable information to any third party not specifically authorized by you to receive your information except as we have disclosed to you in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection

When you send us e-mail from this Website or complete forms on this Website, you will provide us with certain personally identifiable information including your e-mail address. We may share this information with third parties who provide us services in the normal course of business and their affiliates.

Cookies

We transmit non-personally identifiable information to third party service providers (e.g. Google) that collect website statistics. We may also transmit non-personally identifiable information to third party service providers that may use such information during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you.

One method of collecting such information is through the use of cookies. A cookie is a piece of data that is stored on a visitor’s hard drive while they are visiting this Website. We may utilize a short-lived form of cookie when you visit this site. At The Freedom Center, a cookie is only used to identify one unique visitor from another visitor during a particular session. A session is the period of active site-use while that unique visitor is linked to our server.

Use of cookies helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to: estimate our audience size and usage patterns; store information about your preferences allowing us to customize our Site according to your individual interests; speed up your searches; and recognize you when you return to our Website. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you activate such a setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

The cookie expires and is deleted from the visitor’s computer as soon as they close their browser or if they are not actively browsing our Website for more than 20 minutes. Should a previous visitor to our Website return for a new session, they will be issued a new cookie and in no way will they be recognized as a visitor from a previous visit or session.

Third-Party Links

This Website may contain links to third-party Websites that are not controlled by The Freedom Center These third-party links are made available to you as a convenience and you agree to use these links at your own risk.

Please be aware that The Freedom Center is not responsible for the content of third-party Websites linked to The Freedom Center nor are we responsible for the privacy policy or practices of third-party Websites linked to The Freedom Center Our Privacy Policy only applies to information we collect from you while you are actively in a connection with The Freedom Center If you should link to a third-party Website from The Freedom Center, we strongly encourage you to review and become familiar with that Website’s privacy policy.

Changes In Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy without providing you with advance notice of our intent to make the changes. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.

Copyright

The The Freedom Center logo, and other marks, including the names of various products and services described within and offered by companies represented by The Freedom Center and its subsidiaries are service marks of these companies.

Permission to use, copy and distribute these materials without fee is hereby granted, for non-commercial purposes, provided that the material is unaltered and The Freedom Center copyright notice appears in all copies.

Use of this site shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of our state of business, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. Any dispute concerning this site shall be subject to the exclusive venue of a court of competent jurisdiction in our state of business.

Should any provision of our terms and conditions be held invalid, unlawful or for any reason unenforceable, then the invalid, unlawful or unenforceable provision shall be severable from the remaining provisions. Such invalid, unlawful or unenforceable provision shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions.