Communications with this Site

Any communication or other content that you transmit to this Site, whether by e-mail, posting, uploading, or otherwise, will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. By transmitting content to this Site, you automatically grant to Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform and display that content alone and as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known or hereafter developed, and to sublicense such rights. You agree that Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers and its affiliates are free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any content that you transmit to this Site for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products, and that Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers need not provide any compensation or acknowledgment to you in exchange for any such use.

You agree not to transmit to this Site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, pornographic, or profane content, or any other content that could constitute or encourage conduct that would violate any law. Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers and its affiliates will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers and its affiliates to disclose the identity of, help identify, or locate anyone transmitting any such content.

Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers and its affiliates may pre-screen or monitor content transmitted to this Site by third parties. If notified, Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers and its affiliates may investigate an allegation that content transmitted to this Site is in violation of the Terms and Conditions and determine whether to have the communication removed from this Site. However, Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers and its affiliates are under no obligation to remove content transmitted by third parties from this Site and assume no responsibility or liability arising from or relating to any such content, including but not limited to any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained therein. Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers and its affiliates assume no responsibility or liability for any actions or content transmitted by or between you or any third party within or outside of this Site.

The Information We Collect

At our site, you may now or in the future be able to order products, enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.

You may also be able to submit information about other people. For example, you might submit a person's name and e-mail address to send an electronic greeting card and, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient's name and address. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.

At certain parts of our site, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings.

We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).

How We Use the Information

We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, advertisements, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us.

We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services to them.

The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.

If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., questions for an online chat guest), we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us (e.g. transcript of the chat, including your question).

We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.

We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.

Agents and contractors of Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that is collected will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.

We may also disclose personally identifiable information to companies whose practices are not covered by this privacy notice (e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases, and non-profit organizations) that want to market products or services to you. If our site shares personally identifiable information, it will provide you with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses. For more information, please see the "Opt-Out" provision listed below.

We may on occasion combine information we receive online with other information and outside records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services that may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive marketing information from this site, you may follow the "unsubscribe" instructions provided on any marketing e-mail you receive from this site.

Finally, urbanleaguecc.org will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors

Our site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we may not have control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

Personal Information

You are under no obligation to provide us with any personal information requested by our Site, but without it we may not be able to fulfill some types of requests. If you do not want your personal information collected, simply do not submit it through the Site. In areas of the site where you are registering for premium content we will ask you for personal information for authentication and verification purposes.

We may share anonymous aggregated data with other companies that we do business with for market research purposes. For example, we may report to an affiliate that a certain percentage of our Site's users are between the ages of 21-25.

Data Collected Automatically

When you visit our Site, your Internet browser will automatically send us your Internet Protocol ("IP") address and information such as the type of browser you use, the date and time you accessed our Site, and the IP address of the Web site from which you linked to our Site. We may use this information to give you access to the Site, to tailor your experience on our Site, to display content customized to your preferences, and to otherwise administer the Site.

Like many companies, we may store information on your computer in the form of a "cookie". A cookie may tell us whether you have visited our Site before and what pages on our Site you have viewed. The cookies we use do not collect any personal information about you, provide us with any way to contact you, or extract any information from your computer. With most Internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. Please refer to your Internet browser's instructions or Help Screen to learn more about these options.

No Collection of Personal Data from Children

Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers will not knowingly: (i) collect any information from minors without their parent's or guardian's consent, or (ii) provide any personal information collected from children to any third party.

Opt-Out

Charlotte Mecklenburg Senior Centers may send you information that you request or respond to your e-mails to us. If you would prefer not to receive direct communications from us, you can opt out of this at the time of information collection.

Review and Correction of Your Information

If you have any questions about our Terms and Conditions of Use / Privacy Statement, and/or the practices of this Site, please contact us at by e-mail at cmsc@cmseniorcenters.org