Copyright, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer

• Purpose and Policy
• City of Terrell Title VI Compliance Program
• External Links
• Content Disclaimer
• Copyright Notice
• Privacy Policy
• Privacy of Personal E-Mail Addresses
• Use of Cookies
• Disclosure
• About Web Server Logs

Purpose and Policy

The purpose of the City of Terrell website is to provide easy access to useful information about the City of Terrell’s procedures and services. In providing this information, the City of Terrell website may contain links to other web or computer sites that are not owned, regularly reviewed or controlled by the City. The City's policy regarding such external links is described below.

External Links

The City Terrell links to external web sites to provide information on community-related subjects. The external links on the website are intended to help Terrell citizens and visitors find information about topics of general interest.

The City of Terrell does not endorse or recommend any business or private enterprise. For this reason, the City of Terrell website does not link to websites of a private or commercial nature.

While we recognize our primary service is to our own citizens, property owners, and businesses, the City of Terrell is also used by visitors to the city and companies exploring business opportunities in Terrell. Some external links on this website are included to provide visitor information and economic development data and for their use.

The City of Terrell’s website is designed to be an information source, not a public forum. The inclusion of external links should not be considered an endorsement or sponsorship of these external websites, their content, viewpoints, products, services, or their hosts.

The City of Terrell shall not be liable for any losses caused by reliance on the information provided by these links. The City specifically denies legal responsibility for content on an external link’s site or for the personal opinions posted on these sites. The views and opinions of the authors of documents published on or linked to the City of Terrell’s website do not necessarily state or reflect the opinion, policy, or position of the City of Terrell.

By using the City of Terrell website, the user acknowledges and accepts that the City is not responsible for any materials stored on other Web sites, and that the City of Terrell is not liable for any inaccurate, defamatory, offensive, or illegal materials found on other Web sites, and that the risk of injury or damage from viewing, hearing, downloading or storing such materials rests entirely with the user.

When you use a link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.

Content Disclaimer:

All information provided in the City of Terrell website is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute a legal contract between the City of Terrell and any person or entity. Information on the City of Terrell Web site is subject to change without prior notice. Although every reasonable effort is made to present accurate information, the City of Terrell makes no guarantees of any kind.

The City of Terrell web site may contain links to information that is created and maintained by a variety of sources both internal and external to the city. These sites are un-moderated forums and may contain opinions and other expressions of the persons who created the information. The City of Terrell does not control, monitor or guarantee the information contained in links to external web sites, and does not endorse any views expressed or products or services offered therein. In no event shall the City of Terrell be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services available on or through any such site or resource.

Any links to external Web sites should not be construed as an endorsement by the City of Terrell of the content or views of the linked materials.

Copyright Notice

Information on the City of Terrell website is available to everyone. However, the City of Terrell retains the copyright on all text, graphic images, and other content. You may not distribute the text, graphics, photos, or other content to others; “mirror” this information on another website or server; and/or modify or re-use the text, graphics and images on this website without the express written permission of the City of Terrell. You may print copies of the information for your own personal use. Any other use of the materials is prohibited without the prior written permission of the City of Terrell. The City of Terrell reserves all other rights not specifically mentioned here.

Privacy Policy

We collect no personal identifying information about you other than information automatically collected and stored by our Web server when you visit our Web site, unless you choose to provide that information to us.

Privacy of Personal E-Mail Addresses

Personal email addresses are generally confidential by law and cannot be disclosed.
If an email address is requested under the Public Information Act without a clear exception to this requirement, the City of Terrell will deny that request and ask for a Texas Attorney General opinion on whether the e-mail address may be released.
The City of Terrell does not sell email addresses.

Please note: Emails sent to the City of Terrell are not encryption protected via Secure Sockets Layers by our server. Emails could be subject to interception by common third-party Internet tools. For that reason it is inadvisable to include personal or confidential information in emails to the City of Terrell.

Use of Cookies

Some City of Terrell web applications require users to log on with a user name and password. These applications may use "cookies" to keep track of log-on information. A cookie is a small piece of information that a Web server stores in your Web browser or on your hard drive. Cookies are used to prevent third parties from hijacking Web sessions after users have logged in. The City of Terrell uses only "session" cookies – cookies that are not retained after you have logged off the Web application and ended your session with us.

Disclosure

All information collected, including server log information and information submitted on electronic forms, may be subject to disclosure to others upon request in accordance with the requirements of the Texas Public Information Act.

About Web Server Logs

For site management functions, our Web server collects information for our own analysis purposes. This information is not reported or used in any manner that would reveal personal identifying information, and will not be released to any outside parties unless the City of Terrell is legally required to do so in connection with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings.

We use these Web log analysis tools to create summary statistics. The summaries are used to assess what information has the highest interest to our website visitors, to determine technical design specifications, and to identify system performance or problem areas.

The following information is collected for this analysis:

User Client domain name - The domain name (or IP address if DNS is disabled) of the user/client requesting access.

 

HTTP header, "user-agent" - The user-agent information includes the type and version of browser and the operating system.

 

HTTP header, "referrer" - The referrer specifies the page from which the client accessed the current page (i.e. a search engine page or a link from another website).

 

System date - The date and time of the user/client access.

Full request - The exact request the user/client made to the website (which pages were visited).

 

Status - The status code the server returned to the user/client.

Content length - The content length, in bytes, of the document sent to the user/client.

 

Method - The request method used.

 

Universal Resource Identifier (URI) - The location of a resource on the server.

 

Protocol - The transport protocol and version used.